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- 2006-01-30 09:16pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: A thought - Tabletop RPGs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2462
Hello all. Haven't been around for a while, but the otehr webforum I frequent now is down due to a hacker so I got bored and decided to return to the old haunt for a bit. For anyone thinking about these issues, I'd really recomend you go over to The Forge and look at some of the articles, particular...
- 2005-05-07 09:39pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The Big One
- Replies: 1159
- Views: 252598
This may be a bit off topic, but I don't think it goes any farther afield than discussions of the fiery demises of our home towns so here goes. I was recently following some discussion whether the US should develop those new small burrowing nukes. In thinking of how they could be employed, what real...
- 2005-04-23 09:35pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: How many volts does it take to stun vs. kill?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 5317
- 2005-04-17 06:23pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Feasability of Cryonics
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2336
Cryonics is a pretty much flawed idea. You have the problem with the body's water expanding because they form ice crystals. However, you could suspend a person in a vat of liquid, with nanomachines repairing the body from age, wear and tear. I think the idea is that you freeze them now, since we do...
- 2005-04-06 02:40pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: McCarthy-ism Question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1661
- 2005-04-06 02:34pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Multiple Habitable Worlds in A Single Star System
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2189
I remember a rather poor sci-fi movie in which there is another planet essentially the same as earth, in the same orbit exactly, on the other side on the sun, but I assume that is so close to impossible as to be a pointless consideration... Unsuprisingly, the Wikipedia has an article on just this t...
- 2005-01-20 02:41am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Black Company RPG
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3207
- 2005-01-17 03:45am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Best theistic argument?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1928
- 2005-01-17 03:26am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Religious beliefs tested to see if they can relieve pain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1302
- 2005-01-15 10:50pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: DrakaFic: The Early Propaganda War 1938-1941
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4932
- 2005-01-15 07:49pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Religious beliefs tested to see if they can relieve pain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1302
Wouldn't surprise me if it works, the way I used to control pain was sorta similar to what I did in my head when I prayed back when I was a Christian. Since then, though, I've found that sexual fantasies often work better whenever the effects on your concentration aren't unacceptable. Try pinching y...
- 2005-01-15 07:42pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: The Chronicles of Narnia
- Replies: 73
- Views: 6063
Any of you yanks seen the BBC version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe? Yeah, and that one with the green witch too. I really don't see why they're doing another movie, I think its more probable than not that it won't be quite as good as the BBC version, though it would have to have better sp...
- 2005-01-15 02:25am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Your favorite game trailer
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2804
- 2005-01-15 02:15am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Nitpicker's Guide to LOTR
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3816
- 2005-01-15 02:04am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Dark Horse to Release Vampire Hunter D Novels...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3451
- 2005-01-15 02:00am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Relativistic Problems
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1926
Problem is that since the X ray laser operate at the speed of light, it would never detect it firing until the beam has already hit. Thats assuming that there is no way to tell that an X ray laser is going to fire soon. Even a microsecond chargeup time is long enough for a culture mind to react, un...
- 2005-01-15 01:49am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Marijuana - God's gift. [WTF]
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2739
Background on how it became illegal here.
- 2005-01-11 12:27am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: War and piracy in scifi; a brainbug?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2974
Puff peice or what? Puff? What I'm asking is does it actually cover him and his work reasonably accurately or does it clean up the less pleasant aspects of his life? It does clean up a lot, and attributes a few things to him that other people did, but on the whole it was a lot better than we should...
Re: Kinsey
Well, I saw it last night, and i have to say it was probably the best non-scifi movie I have ever seen. It was well filmed, acting and dialogue were great and it didnt whitwash the actual susbstance of dr. Kinsey's research. ANd it includes full frontal nudity, and probably should have actually had...
- 2005-01-10 07:22pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: human wanking syndrome - another sci fi brain bug?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4958
Re: human wanking syndrome - another sci fi brain bug?
I assumed they meant that we evolved in the Lamarkian (technological) sense rather than the Darwinian one.Stofsk wrote: Why is it assumed that humans 'evolve' into ANGELS (er, energy beings), and not actually caused it themselves?
- 2005-01-09 01:11am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: human wanking syndrome - another sci fi brain bug?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4958
Another side of this same situation is you never see a series where humans are the villains either. Just once i'd love to see some aliens fighting the facist Terran Empire or something, just to mix things up. Thats pretty much how B5 and StarWars worked. In B5 humans were the young race most closel...
- 2005-01-09 12:52am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Diplomacy Game: Very sorry...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 819
- 2005-01-09 12:35am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: universe a simulation
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3694
No, the basic premise that our world may be a simulation is an old fashioned piece of bullshit. The existance of a fusion reactor is not precluded by parsimony, it's just using the existing variables to do something...adding in an OUTSIDE to our universe is adding in an untestable, unverifiable, un...
- 2005-01-08 05:03pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: challenge: make the draka world realistic
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1234