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One of the possible Ends of the Universe involves gravity ultimately overcoming the outward expansion of space/time/matter/energy since the Big Bang and EVERYTHING contracts to a geometric point.

Doesn't that violate "the universe as a whole decays from higher order to entropy"?

I always wondered about that scene in 2001 where Dr. Poole was jogging within the centrifuge module onboard the Discovery...was he jogging spinward, thus increasing the G force and increase the effectiveness of his workout, or anti-spinward and enjoying low-G on demand?

I was wondering about going the other way - shrouding venus with orbital mirrors. With less energy going in, the atmospheric heat will drop until a new equilibrium is struck. let the C02 freeze out of the atmosphere, box it up (lol) and remove the mirrors. slowly add CO2 back as the plants grow. If...

Ozy has a ace up his sleeve... He built some kind of tachyon generator to cloak his plans from Dr. Manhattan's prescience. Could he not do the same against Paul's ability to see the future? Furthermore, Ozy's fighting skills against Comedian, Rorsharch, and Nite Owl (and Silk Spectre?) is ample evid...

HERES the spirited thread from another board.
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Enola Straight wrote:A rather spirited thread from another board:
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shit...linked to the wrong thread

A rather spirited thread from another board:
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Paul Atreides...Kwizatz-Haderach...Muad'Dib to the masses and Usul to the inner circle. Has metaphysical abilities on par with a Jedi Master. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Atreides Ozymandias...Adrian Veidt...member of the Watchmen and "Smartest Man in the World". Can knock around fell...

Does it matter? At the time of his death, Eddie was still 225 and built like a linebacker. Also, in the 40s, Eddie was much younger and had the shit beaten out of him at the hands of Hooded Justice when found in the middle of raping the original Silk Spectre. For the sake of argument, lets put both ...

Frank Castle http://projectsday.hci.edu.sg/2010/15-FinalsWeb/Cat-06/6-26/punisher.html vs Eddie Blake http://watchmen.wikia.com/wiki/Eddie_Blake Both are Non-Superpowered humans skilled in both hand-to-hand combat and various weaponry. One is obsessed with vengeance, the other is a sociopath. Which ...

Parallel discussion on Straight Dope.
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Is there a solution for X^e+Y^e=Z^e, where X,Y,and Z are whole numbers and e is the base of the natural log? I know, due to Fermat, that no whole number solutions exist for whole number exponents greater than 2, but e isn't a whole number (2.71828182856...). I also know that certain rational fractio...

I always figured it was ultimately a matter of...theoretical metaphysics...regarding how the future unfolds: Does each point in the present give rise to an immeasurable number of possible future timelines? Or is there only ONE timeline, with a future as set in stone as the past is? Quantum Mechanics...

The Feds have a super-missle called a Quantum Torpedo which, essentially, creates a mini-BigBang explosion...a rapid, 11-d expansion.

How well can Fed engineering turn the physics of the bomb into an engine?

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Like Carrie Fisher?

Inspired by this fanfic. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5914015/1/Measure_of_a_Droid A freighter from the GFFA transverses the ubiquitous wormhole/spatial anomaly and encounters a mostly-human government...one which has created artificial intelligences with legal rights, usually bestowed to only organi...

How does Darwin Station exist then?
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darwin_ ... ch_Station

In the mid to late 1800s the Periodic Table of Elements http://library.thinkquest.org/12909/media/periodic1.gif was assembled to arrange the known chemical elements by their physical and chemical properties. A century later, the Standard Model http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00...

Hmmm...like some super-celebrity and fan mail.

Or me and spam

There must be some way to sender-encode and/or receiver-filter the incoming glut of pshychic info...perhaps there is a telepathic analog of frequency or phase?

That is only true if, for every point in the present, there is only one future, instead of a (possibly infinite) multitude of futures.

Suppose a Jedi or Sith had a random moment of introspection and said to him/herself, "Man, I wish I could've done that differently." Maybe he can? Is it possible for a Force User to send a telepathic message from their present-self to their past-self, saying, "Hey, this is what's goin...

Is it possible for a planet to have a figure 8 orbit between two stars of a binary system?

Apparently, the currently accepted value for this parameter is 70.8km/sec/Mparsec.

What is this value in terms of Planck Units? yknow, planck length and plank interval?
http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/PHYS/planckunits.html

A fundi Calvinist co-worker of mine says they are sins and they are bad, but there is nothing inherently special about them...in other words, sin is sin, period.