Per HackerNews' guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html): "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." There's plenty of news on HN that's not directly related to the tech industry.

I thought the article fairly interesting in expounding some of the themes in 'Prometheus', and at least for me, garnered some interesting discussions with friends

It's like rhizome said, "Here, on Reddit".