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So, I'm vacationing with my folks in Cabo. We're pretty shrewd people, so we go to those timeshare presentations, say no, and then pocket the money / free deals and walk away :) I figured most of them are bad deals or rip offs, but I was pretty damned pissed off to run into a legit scam. Luxxury Lei...

Ah that's beautiful.

Gotta love the fact that not only are we on a pale blue dot - but we can actually only survive on the thin blue shell around that dot.

I fear he has abandoned us again

Hope you don't leave us hanging on such an amazing story!

Thanks for uploading it here.

What do you guys think about this new movie Apollo 18 that's coming out tomorrow apparently? http://www.apollo18movie.net/ Funny I haven't heard much about it, guess I haven't been watching enough TV recently :lol: Anyway, I really liked Apollo 13 - stories about space exploration are always kind of...

Thanks to FTL that let's you traverse the galaxy in a few months at most and the relatively small timeframe, you'd likely get a replay of the great age of Colonization. Colonies close to their starting power (the Earth) will remain relatively closely tied (essentially farming resources and sending ...

You know, I'm not really sure I agree. What kind of timescale are we really talking about here. If it's less than a thousand years, then I really can't see that Earth has lost it's significance. Comparing it to how we would consider Africa doesn't really apply. It's been millions of years since huma...

lord Martiya wrote: Sulibans and Tholians had warp-capable fighter-sized ships

Oh, and those Suliban fighters all had cloaking devices too. Back in the 22nd century.

My theory as to why they don't use fighters: Klingons like to use cloaking devices, and they can't be fit onto a fighter. No, I have no solid evidence for this. Its pure speculation. Remember that episode when Quark and Rom were carrying a cloaked cloaking device through the hallways of DS9? :lol: ...

I don't know if that necessarily disproves it Fanboy.

It's possible that the BoP has subspace technology that it can use to lower it's mass signature or scramble it in some way. In ST4, the crew likely didn't have these jamming features activated as it was not necessary.

I dunno - this whole area with mass becomes kind of fuzzy in Star Trek once you bring in fictional concepts like "subspace" and "mass-lightening fields". It's really hard to gauge what capacities Star Trek races may have in terms of throwing off gravitational sensors...

Also, if they wanted a war, why frame Kirk? He was one of their best officers, and had plenty of experience fighting Klingons. Unless of course they wanted to get rid of Spock instead (as he was advocating peace), but Kirk fucked things over by going aboard Kronos 1 himself. I'd guess that it would...

I don't understand how this is a plot hole. Wasn't the idea of the conspiracy to derail the peace talks in the first place? From how I understood this, those involved in this conspiracy wanted the conflict between the Federation and Klingon Empire to continue. It would seem that once the peace talks...

Might coupling the governments ability to spend unlimited money to infrastructural development programs only (through some kind of regulations) address this issue? I think that was the ideal the producer presented.

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I'd say its reasonable to assume that phasers can at least do more damage than just stunning someone even in a wide beam mode AT LEAST FOR ONE SHOT

Maybe there's no proof that phasers can't be consistently used on wide-beam kill mode - possibly because of power cell limitations like Enigma said. However, I'd say there's a good chance dialog from VOY Cathexis might indicate that phasers can at least fire one shot on wide beam kill. OK... I thoug...

Because it will be a fuckton more difficult for them to lay low before succeeding in the mission ; they've already roused the 'immune system' of the n=1 level, and have been perceived as outsiders to be destroyed by that immune system. If they succeed, this is resolved and they will not be actively...

All right, let me restate what I'm saying. Here's what we've got. - There is no way to move from n=1 to n=0 from level n=1 - There is no way to communicate from n=1 to n=0 - Due to time dilation, they are in level n=1 for around a week. Here are their options: They go through with the mission The te...

Once they completed the inception and returned to the rainy city dream level, Fischer's projections were no longer attacking them. Presumably, this is because they were no longer trying to make any changes, and so were not treated as a threat. All right. So why didn't they just stop trying to make ...

Evading an army of commandos (or their subconscious dreamscape equivalent) for a week is probably pretty tough. That might influence their choice not to pick (b). Right, but once they finish their mission what will they have to do? Evade an army of commandos for a week. This is based on the idea th...

The best explanation I've heard is that people dreaming within his dream keeps him anchored to his dream in the hotel, since otherwise the dream will collapse, leading to a paradox of sorts. That's what I thought too, makes the most sense. I guess the movie really didn't have time to spell out all ...

Thanks for the quick responses guys! :D I guess this is more of a fun intellectual thought experiment than anything with potential practical use. @Kuroneko - I hadn't thought of using the black hole as a rotating magnet for electric generation. You'll need to help me out though, I can understand how...

------THE SCENARIO------- Ever since I heard of Hawking radiation, I've long held a fantasy of harnessing the power emanated from a black hole into useful energy. It's like direct matter to energy conversion! So, to explore whether this is at all possible - I propose this scenario: Let's just say th...

Dang, that's pretty interesting. I wish I could find an e-book version of the SW novelizations.

I think your estimation of the destructive power of the Fat Man bomb (explosive equivalent 21 kilotonnes of TNT) is quite exaggerated. I'm not an expert on this, but based on a quick internet search it seems that only 30% of Nagasaki, a relatively (compared to modern cities) small seaport constructe...

Considering your username "Justloginin", I doubt you'll even be around to read this or have even looked over the SD.net site much yet. I'd actually recommend reading a few of Mike's articles, they are really quite interesting. Anyway, your point seems to boil down to the long repeated argu...