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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...

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...

and make the Self defense Akido, Judo, or Wing Chung/Deet Kwon Do Those are all good, but I personally I'd recomend Hupkido. Its a "soft" style like Akido or Judo in that it realies primarily on precision and knowledge of pressure points and leverage rather than power to achieve its affec...

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...

McCarthy also drove away a lot of people in the state deparment who might have helped us, for instance, keep China out of or only loosly tied to the Soviet block.

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...

Well timed, I just won the book on ebay, and I'll post again when it gets here. Looks really great from what you've said, and from what I've seen on review sites.

"God will forgive you your sins"

Also just curious about the "torture" bit. While the torture bit doesn't seem that bad, I wonder how they sold it to the ethics committee. :twisted: I'd imagine by making the pain not too bad, by letting the subject stop at any time, by making sure they know they can stop at any time, and...

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Maybe I'm a bit dense, but I don't see differences between the two.

Sorry. It seems pretty good.

There's some added material, mostly near the end.

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...

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...

Chrono Cross: Loved the trailer, which had the same music as the intro.

When I and most of my dorm went to see the movies, some of us spent some time classifying the errors as:

1: Laudable - Leaving out Tom Bombadill

2: Forgivable - Leaving the fireworks out of Bilbo's disapearing act.

3: Unforgivable - The vile slanders against Faramir.

First Slayers, now D. I only hope that they translate Seikai no Monshou some day

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...

Background on how it became illegal here.

I bet they'd have sorfware piracy in space, and the corresponding Copyright Eforcement WarsTM

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...

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...

Stofsk wrote: Why is it assumed that humans 'evolve' into ANGELS (er, energy beings), and not actually caused it themselves?

I assumed they meant that we evolved in the Lamarkian (technological) sense rather than the Darwinian one.

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...

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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...

Aya wrote:Draka is that alt history verse where South Africa ends up ruling the world, right?

Yeah, there supposed to be sort of a dark reflection of the US, with just as much innovation despite being a slaveholding society.