For most of the history of the human race, mankind could only dream what it would be like to fly above the clouds or have the contents of the world's libraries available to be read to us by artificial intelligence on instantaneous demand. Those achievements have changed the course of civilization. However, one thing we still cannot do is predict the outcome of a basketball tournament.

We are now in the second week of the annual NCAA "March Madness" basketball tournament, and already all of this year's 34 million brackets, 1 for every 10 people in the United States, tracked by NCAA, ESPN, CBS, Yahoo, USA Today, or X.com now have errors in their predictions. That's a lot of bad guesses.

You may have heard reporting that the odds of flipping a coin to determine all winners in the field of 64 basketball teams would result in a perfectly selected bracket 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 tries. Assuming that 34 million distinct brackets are submitted each year, that should produce a winner approximately once every 271,275,648,143 years. That's 20 times longer than the universe is old.

Of course, the outcome of NCAA tournament games is not truly random, and NCAA.com reports that the real odds of picking a perfect bracket are the much more feasible 1 in 120,200,000,000. (That's 3 fewer commas!) They then go on to calculate that if every American knew enough about college basketball to complete a competent bracket that was completely unlike everyone else's bracket, we should expect to get one perfect bracket in 366 years. By comparison, that seems almost reasonable.

It's incredibly unlikely anyone reading this will live to the year 2385, so we'll likely never know what it is like to live in a post-perfect bracket world. However, Michael Jon "Booster" Carter won't even be born until 2442, fifty-seven years after the perfect NCAA March Madness bracket. For a smart, athletic, good-looking kid living in a world like that, the sky's the limit. Even time travel will be possible!

As for the rest of us, like the cavemen of yesteryear, we can only look at the stars and imagine.

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On first glance, I was certain that someone had just gotten the color separations wrong on this officially licensed, sponsor-laden jersey for the Connacht Rugby team. Green might be the color of money, but sponsorship patches belong only on the uniform of Booster Gold!

However, I can't be too disappointed. Connacht is an Irish team, and green is their primary color. If Green Lantern wants to sell out for cash, Connacht seems like a fine place to do it.

If you like what you see, the jersey is for sale at LifeStyleSports.com.

(Other teams have a couple of Batman jerseys. You can see them at ComicBook.com.)

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I'm always particularly tickled when I see Booster Gold referenced outside the world of comic books. So you can imagine my amusement when I saw that Kissing Suzy Kolber, an Uproxx.com satellite site devoted to NFL football, had referenced Booster Gold (and Skeets!) in an article on superhero predictions for Super Bowl XLIX.

BOOSTER GOLD: I really gotta hand it to the Seahawks— their brand integration is top notch. I don't want to know how much the Mars company pays them for all that Skittles stuff. Gotta be boatloads of money. Plus, as a glory boy myself, I really, really dislike Pats fans. Skeets and I think the Hawks take it by 3.

Hard to doubt a pick made by a time-travelling quarterback. To read the predictions of other heroes, visit out kissingsuzykolber.com.

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No one voted "team player." Is it any wonder that the New 52 Justice League International disbanded under his leadership?

Last week's poll question: Which soccer position would Booster Gold play? (36 votes)

I said yesterday that I'd be willing to buy two copies of each issue of a Booster Gold series if only DC would make one. I wasn't kidding. Am I alone?

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Futures End seems to be selling very well for DC. If 40% of their audience is buying it, the company must be very happy, indeed. How long untill all their titles are weekly?

Last week's poll question: Do you plan on buying the rest of FUTURES END? (55 votes)

The World Cup quarterfinals start tomorrow. While the international version of football — what we American call "soccer" — isn't my preferred type of football, I can appreciate that it might be someone else's. Which brings us to today's poll:

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