StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Unlike me, these people are lawyers and state the situation for UK law.

This doesn't sound much different to the situation with other large scifi franchises. Other related examples I can think of include the shutting down of stargate fan mods, the use of SW fan designs for warships by LucasArts and contractors, the occasional action taken by Paramount against some start...

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:

ClaysGhost wrote:Brazil, it's too good at depressing me.

That happens to be my third favourite film.

I love it, I just can't watch it.

Brazil, it's too good at depressing me.

[quote="metavac"]I'd guess debates over relatively uncontroversial cosmology are fruitless exercises in Google-fu.[/url]

I don't know, some of the websites they come out with have their own comedy charm.

The plasma universe folk get involved in regular debates on the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forums. There is not much point in debating them, since as they see it the facts are quite clear, but still, many people continue to make the attempt.

No love for The Horns of Nimon (4th doctor)? It was atrocious in every possible way; I don't like Tom Baker eps when he seemingly had too much control, but the death of the comedy villain is brilliant.

"My DREAMS of CONQUEST!"

I thought so, I'm pretty sure Hitler said somewhere (maybe in the infamous table talk) that Norse revivalists were essentially worskshy stinky hippies that were afraid of actual war. I think Speer had Hitler saying something to the effect that if the old gods had been any good, Christianity would n...

The webpage itself is comedy gold.

Im no scientist and I don't quite follow all the developments in the scientific world, so could somebody explain, is there such research undergoing and can it be called "science" or is it just pure bullcrap? I don't remember the details but there was a team in Australia doing work with li...

And as for the "possibility" of FELs being made to use higher energy frequencies, that's purely blue-sky in engineering terms. It can be discussed, but the likelihood of such a design being put into practise is a whole different matter. Here . But FELs wouldn't make a good laser weapon in...

I thought the initial article had some truth in it for certain fields; I recognised the complaints, and I understand how a grad student in astronomy would definitely recognise most of them. I think it was meant somewhat tongue-in-cheek though, going by the comments on the blog page.

We may not have reached the absolute limit in heat dissipation, but we have certainly reached a definite practicallity limit with current transistor size and power requirements: Why else would intel have abandoned all hope of pushing netburst to 10GHZ and instead have moved to shoehorning two cores...

On the thermal limit: our present computing technology is many orders of magnitude (8 or more, IIRC) away from the best possible thermodynamic performance. The minimum energy use in flipping a bit is k*T*ln 2, so since k ~ 10^-23 and T ~ 10^2, the minimum waste heat produced per bit-flip is ~ 10^-21...

How does a stellar body composed of chargeless particles produce a magnetic field? Neutron stars are not just composed of neutrons. Unfortunately they're extremely complicated objects and our observational window is narrow, so there remain many unanswered questions about them. It's thought that not...

NecronLord wrote:

Nyrath wrote: Your mission is to come up with a rational that will prevent this from happening.

It's called fuel.

I don't see how that would work, given the OP:

Crossroads Inc. wrote: Drives of .45 speed of light.

Stark wrote:In what way is this 'organic'?

"Is a product of organic chemistry", I'd imagine - so the polymer is an organic compound.

Hahah yes, I've just pointed out to them that eliminating civilian use of nuclear power because the military uses nuclear tech is like banning civilian petrochemical technology because the military has access to napalm. I went back to that place to see, and I wish I hadn't because it annoyed me all...

Vendetta wrote: Outside of CP, I think Against a Dark Background would probably work pretty well as well.

"...starring Will Smith as Sharrow."

You KNOW what they'd do. Better Hollywood never thinks of it.

I read somewhere that S:AAB was intentionaly non-Newtonian by the scriptwriters but that the SFX people tried to give it Newtonian characteristics whenever they could. Hence the Newtonian-style thruster burns while flying around like an airplane... It is a strange mix; especially clear in the fight...

The entire forum is a joke, it was started by some guy who got banned off another left wing forum I frequent, as an "alternative" to the "dictatorial" administration of RevLeft and it's "commie club". I scent a suggestion of superstitious, primitive beliefs concerning ...

NoXion wrote:I'm debating this anti-nuclear power person (Read: loonie) on another forum [...]

I read some of the posts. Surely...surely that place is some sort of satire. I thought you did well not to get called a capitalist running dog lackey.

spongyblue wrote:Mysterious Cities of Gold. Giant flying golden Aztec condor airplane, and HUGE floating Olmec Head battle stations set in the 1500's. Whats more awsome than that?

It was awesome, but Ulysses 31 was even more awesome!

Cartoonist killing used to be a popular sport for some parts of the Middle East. Mind you, the discerning psychopath would probably go after Rushdie, who apparently has a bounty of $2.8 million on his head.

The UN also acts as a centre for a lot of international organisations, many of which don't do anything too spectacular but are better off having the authority of the UN behind them. The UN may not be popular in the US, but here a UN report carries a certain amount of weight. Come back polio, all is...