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That has already been said Scifi. I hope your not a clone of Ben Ingram.

God/ess/gods/nature/universal presence/the Force/etc, forbid!

Hey guys, I just joined! I am a veteran debater and I am ready to kick some Trekkie ass! First of all I would like to present some points that you may have not talked about here. The Aiing-Ti Monks, they have ships that do not run with hyperspace and are capable of travelling to anywhere in the Gal...

When I started this thread, I was thinking of Spock as shown in the novels. He is much more competent than the Spock of the films and tv show. Since Thrawn is extra-canonical, I assumed that novel showing Spock's abilites would be fine too. :oops: :oops: But in retrospect, I guess there really is no...

But if the Borg can **RESIST** projectile weapons using force field, it is not necessarily ADAPTATION. If the Borg can resist CERTAIN AMOUNT OF KE using force field, it doesn't automaticaly mean that the Borg can ADAPT to projectiles like they adapt to frequency-dependent weapons like phasers. A Bo...

Good philosophers, like good mathematicians assume as little as necessary.

Ok, apparantly you don't understand what an axiom is. From Webster 1 : a maxim widely accepted on its intrinsic merit 2 : a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : POSTULATE 1 3 : an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth It is an axiom that existence is po...

Thanks for the cool pic...i may use it as my avatar, but there a point other than the one made by neoolong?

Funny how in FC, Worf was able to kill one with a blade, and Picard did the same with a Tommy Gun. Thanks, I didn't remember those. But how long did those examples last. From what I remember (and it's been a long time since I've seen FC), Picard killed a few in the holodeck before they could adapt....

Your extending uncertaintity from certain axioms to all possible axioms. If I define the underlying principles for a given something those underlying principles are by defination certain. The fact that the concepts do not exist until I create them is irrlevant. The relationship between the concepts...

The Vong are shooting rocks and plasma. How can they adapt to that? Vong weapons arent phase based like trek weapons. The Borg cant adapt to that stuff. I don't know that the borg ever faced something like a projectile weapon (rock), but adapting to it shouldn't be difficult. As soon as the weapon ...

Thrawn is always shown to be THE master strategist. In the "Hand of Thrawn" duology, the NR constantly makes the statement that Thrawn knows what his oppenent will do before they know. If not for Vader's ruthlessness, Thrawn couldn't have been defeated. Spock is also superintelligent when ...

As paradoxal as it may seem, the relationship between the concepts Pi, circle, and radius remains valid and unalterable even if the the concepts of Pi, circle and radius do not exist. In other words, what I'm arguing is that relationships among certain concepts are and always will be constant and v...

Xain, your new here so I'm just going to politly point out that your just using the appeal to authority with substanciating your case. Well just so you know, this site doesn't have a monopoly on logic. (and please don't call me a Xian). First of all, appeals to authority are only invalid if the app...

Basically, you are saying that absolute certainty exist within formal systems. Mathematics, systems of logic, etc. The problem is that within any formal system, there are basic assumptions that cannot not be proven but are assumed. Kurt Godel's famous incompleteness theorem demonstrated this. With a...

So poking is to be dreaded because it sidetracks the thread, or is poking a fearsome concept in and of itself?

I know that Utsanomiko's reaction would be that both you and Kant are uneducated, anti-science idiots who shouldn't open your mouths.

Well, I'm neither uneducated nor anti-science, and I don't think I'm an idoit, but I'd be interested in why someone would think that.

Well, I won't try to highjack this thread and try to turn it into a philosophy debate. But I will say that no matter your ontology, your perceptions are only perceptions. And yes, most people here are opposed to philosophy. There's a good reason for it - a lot of philosophy (and philosophers) is a w...

Ah, serious philosophical discussion. I thought everyone here had a kneejerk reaction against philosophers. I actually am pretty convinced by Kant's argument that we cannot know objects "in and of themselves." That's why I think that scientific knowledge is necessarily underdetermined and,...

1. Games are NOT canon, except in terms of story when they are the lowest kind of official. Nice try. 2. Stormtroopers on the original Death Star did not exhibit poor aim, but EXCEPTIONAL discipline. The ability to draw hostile fire while under orders to allow an enemy to escape is extraordinary, a...

At the risk of being flamed (I'm wearing my flame retardant jammies!), I'm going to state that, on the whole, scientists make bad philosophers of science. One of the greatest out there, Hawking, describes himself as a positivist, a philosophy that has been abandoned by most philosophers. With the ex...

Ok, so a poke is when someone describes a type of poke and then writes "POKE" is a large colored font?

So, does anyone have the complete thesis of Einstein's Theory of Relativity online

Just really want to know the effects of GR on time. I understnad the SR part.

Oh yeah, you call me a sycophant yet you are obviously only trying to bash me to further your own popularity. Actually I wasn't trying to increase my popularity at all. I was just making fun of you. SW computer games are neither canon nor official. So what constitutes canon. I thought all games wer...

Hello all. Newbie here, so feel free to flame away if I say something stupid. :D Anyway, I've read the thread about the abilities of stormtroopers by the sycophant guy (Ben something, I think). Anyway, I've perused the main st vs. sw sight and not seen this subject yet. My point is, Stormtroopers se...

Thanks for the welcome...btw, who/what are the "pokes."

This is in response to Ugh, I didn't want to use numbers. The ships are travelling head-on, the slower ship could shoot a missile in the path of the faster ship*, and the faster ship would run into it. Ok, if you're going a little faster than the movement of the Earth, and the other ship is high rel...