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And with that, I'm going to say this: Show's over, folks. Actor is retiring from the stage. I will say I'm sorry that I didn't try the polite approach, but I always overact. It's why I never got far in theater. That, and my low tolerance for dishonesty, which is the only reason why I have made such ...

Okay, now that's just stupid. These are engineers we're talking about here, not plumbers. At my alma mater they take some of the same courses as the pure math and physics students. Okay, so they don't take courses in general relativity or higher quantum mechanics, but really, is that so important t...

Engineers are very good at math you dumbass. At least as good as majors, given there is considerable overlap in courses. Which is why I've taken close to three times the math that a bachelor's mechanical engineer does? Engineers don't take courses in quantum. They don't address relativity. They don...

Replied: The admission rate means nothing. The failure rate, and the admissions controls do. Am I to believe that a university is utter shit based solely on the number of people they do or don't let in? You claimed a selective population of elite students. High rates of acceptance and low rates of ...

Reply to most of the misguided souls speaking in this thread since my last. Click the link to see what's being replied to what. Evidently Ossus missed where I replied to him earlier. A last good nail in the coffin for the SDN crowd. I responded to your uninformed assertion. You neither understood w...

If it's difficult to get in and difficult to survive the program, then it's a difficult program. If, on the other hand, almost no one ever actually flunks out of this program, then how hard can it be? UW engineering is well-known for flunking a lot of students; more than half in the first year alon...

How is a philosophy degree at all applicable to discussions of scientific mechanics? Replied: How is a philosophy degree at all applicable to discussions of scientific mechanics? Well, Chewie, philosophy programs teach about things like this: Critical thinking. Consistency and the big picture. Logi...

P.S. You're just gonna get flamed for not posting. Put the text here, but link to the thread. That way anyone who wants to see it can click, but it makes it easier for folks here to read. Because then when it gets edited here, lazy ass mofos like yourself (or the stupid ones like Ossus, who can't f...

Another choice quote from the initial post, bringing up a truly objective measure that Wong has completely ignored and not mentioned in spite of the fact that I've pointed it out to him: He also chooses to completely ignore the firmest and most final measure of a bachelor physics program's effective...

Replied. Choice quote: Anyone can go to Appstate's website and see that you lied about the size of the core by omitting the line about 6-8 physics "electives" included within it, and lied about the number of courses needed to meet the 18 hour minimum for the field of concentration (6, not...

Hey, you're not banned! Told ya! This should probably go in a different forum, btw. Not anymore. I was definitely banned immediately after posting, or I would've replied publicly to the garbage posted then instead of fuming to NecronLord and Wong through e-mail. As my posting here now should pretty...

As Wong has demonstrated he doesn't even have the honesty to cut and paste a checksheet from appstate.edu without editing it, my reply to him is offsite where he cannot edit it or obscure it from public view. Here for a quick summary of Wong's lies. And your failure as a community to either critical...

Hi. This is TJHairball, aka the guy you shit yourselves worrying about whenever you remember my thrashing you in debate in the summer of 2004 - using the analysis of Stardestroyer.net at that - and again in the summer of 2005. Some of you may remember when I demonstrated that the community is collec...

I'm having no trouble reading it just fine on default settings.

And in all that it's amazing you don't take into account the movies wherein they showed in ST6 that honestly that 90 torpedo bit is just a tad exagerrated unless of course Kang was shooting 90 torpedos...in what volleys of 40 per single torpedo flare? Actually, I address that point over there. Fran...

(i.e., click here and then add the note that the Enterprise E and Lancer Frigates aren't nearly so disparate in size as ISDs and Constitutions.)

You can't explain your reasons? It doesn't take long to type 'blah blah weapon output, blah blah shielding, blah blah tactical advantages'. Further, your sanctimonious crap is just that: crap. If your posts consist of 'I have my reasons', then it shouldn't take long to catch up on your posting on y...

Vympel wrote:tjhairball, I'm glad to see that you've come back to SDN after Darkstar seems to have closed his board in a fit of pique. You seem like a stand-up guy, irrespective of whether I agree with you.

I'll take that at face value for a compliment and say thanks.

Hm. The website looks like it is referring to general magnitudes of relativistic mass/energy, but at the same time, he seems like he may be aware of the secondary systems issues that I mentioned in discussion with somebody over here... he just seems to consider them a factor easily neglected. The we...

(Much smaller, btw; objects approaching the speed of light lose mass, not gain. Past the speed of light, they theoretically become negative imaginary masses, increasing in magnitude thereon.) Are you disputing the formula I posted earlier? Because that formula produces an extremely large mass as ve...

No, it's you. The E2ICS never says that the relativistically dilated complex mass is held equal; only that the complex mass is held equal. If you accelerate a 1 kg object to very close to the speed of light, you still describe it as a 1 kg object, albeit one whose dilated mass is much larger. (Much...

It comes from ASVS, from which this website and board sprung. Basically, the longstanding rule from ASVS (and set out on the main stardestroyer.net website before this board was created) is that there is "canon" for Star Trek, ie- the TV shows and the movies. And there is "canon"...

(Although, as mentioned, the entire transition effect is based on a mass dilation - it's just a 1:1 dilation. Perhaps I should say the E2ICS bans non-1:1 dilations in transiting into hyperdrive, that's the real rub of it.)

OK, so let's accelerate it to 10c. Its dilated complex mass would now be roughly 10kg. This is not 100kg, so you say it's impossible. Hence, you are essentially arguing that mass dilation is IMPOSSIBLE in a hyperdrive system. Do you get it now? Actually, the complex mass of the system at 10 c has a...

That's the only intelligent thing you've said so far in this thread. Unfortunately, it is also irrelevant to your absurd claim that Darkstar was not being a hypocrite for pointedly ignoring our canon policy here and then insisting that visitors to his board accept his canon policy as a rule. Accept...