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ah but you know that the copy becomes self aware a...

2012-05-26T03:24:30.210-05:00

ah but you know that the copy becomes self aware and learns the true purpose of it's existence, plots your untimely demise and takes over your life and gets in on with the wife you created earlier with his/your own cells but swapped the dominant chromosome, and now you find out that she/you are pregnant......dum dum dum!

Come on! you have seen all the movies and read all the

Not fair Jon, I was drinking coffee when I read th...

2012-05-25T12:43:38.848-05:00

Not fair Jon, I was drinking coffee when I read that. But I wonder...does the sweater now become easier to put on, or just faster?

I think they should se the Casimir force to power ...

2012-05-25T08:22:52.447-05:00

I think they should se the Casimir force to power a loom... then they could manufacture Casimir Sweaters...

Maybe we are all looking at the alternative drives...

2012-05-24T16:44:12.598-05:00

Maybe we are all looking at the alternative drives in the wrong way here. Maybe we should be looking at how to incorporate them into one unit. Minus any type of fuel or propellant systems for quick maneuvering, landing etc.
It would seem that if the systems were linked together, it would aid in the drive immensely, and still create excess energy for the ship itself, as would solar.

I am just amazed that a possible application has c...

2012-05-24T16:25:27.295-05:00

I am just amazed that a possible application has come out of a pretty obscure piece of research that I reported on last year. For me, I can see the gains in speed, such will be and has be demonstrated with satellites using ION engines. The exhaust gases are so fast and the engines can be run for long periods of time that the craft gains speeds unheard of with "chemical" conventional

Amazing how far we sometimes get. I know however t...

2012-05-24T15:40:31.736-05:00

Amazing how far we sometimes get. I know however that they are still not getting the attempt at meat correct.
My thoughts here though go in a different way. If they get this technology really going, and really working, I may live a lot longer yet.
Get a lab, grow my own parts. Get good enough, reconstruct a young body as a total copy. Then all we need is a way to download the

Without going to massive scale with this, satellit...

2012-05-24T15:29:03.894-05:00

Without going to massive scale with this, satellite maneuvering is about the best that can be hoped for. And that would be slow.
For long distance craft to stay under power and just keep flying it might be good, but it would still take forever to get anywhere. For speed you need an entirely different type of drive or power source. At least at our understanding at the moment.
I am

Excuse me, I am not a megalomaniac. Not exactly an...

2012-05-22T17:58:32.912-05:00

Excuse me, I am not a megalomaniac. Not exactly anyway.

fly like an egyptian...had to see where sohag univ...

2012-05-22T08:45:24.324-05:00

fly like an egyptian...had to see where sohag univ is....cairo egypt

Wait, ah... Doesn't this mean she's found ...

2012-05-21T19:48:29.481-05:00

Wait, ah... Doesn't this mean she's found a way to harness vacuum energy in a practical way? If this pans out, wouldn't the implications be infinitely greater than just making satellite manoeuvring a bit cheaper, or what have you?..

Interesting. They want to go mine an asteroid, yet...

2012-05-21T10:06:32.867-05:00

Interesting. They want to go mine an asteroid, yet the moon right here with us is loaded with H3. The laws about not mining etc on the moon that we signed should simply be forgotten, and thrown out. If we would learn to do things right, and not indulge in a new powerful energy source like we have done with oil, then mining the moon would never pose a threat or problem. Cheap energy, period.

anytime you try to serve to many venues, you wind ...

2012-05-20T14:12:40.503-05:00

anytime you try to serve to many venues, you wind up not serving any all that well. Dave did a credible job of trying to write a YA novel that would not alienate adult readers. I am not sure if that was his ultimate goal or not - I can only go by what I observed and I myself had a lot of fun reading it and the younger folk that I lent it to were positive about the read as well. I really don&

Well done, another great science fiction novel

2012-05-20T02:31:01.744-05:00

Well done, another great science fiction novel

omg BMH just think of that scenario! I feels like...

2012-05-18T23:30:40.054-05:00

omg BMH just think of that scenario! I feels like I have shifted to some alternate reality, because in my world view such bizarre occurrences are relegated to cheap late night sci-fi flics where megalomaniacs are bent on world domination, not sitting in some film processor's upstate basement!

Still more proof that Rochester is even stranger t...

2012-05-18T22:57:32.305-05:00

Still more proof that Rochester is even stranger than my old home town (Syracuse). Who knows, if they hadn't been forced to dismantle it, they might have used it to coerce the world to still use film instead of going to digital!

You are on the same track as I am when I read that...

2012-05-16T17:20:06.819-05:00

You are on the same track as I am when I read that...of course you know the 800lb gorilla is still setting in the middle of the room. The question does bare asking however. If Kodak could convince someone that they needed this equipment and the radioactive material, who ELSE ran the same dog and pony act? If I can be so crass, there is always a turd at the other end of the stink and an a$$

Umm, okay, what? Is it just me, or does this seem ...

2012-05-16T10:32:53.598-05:00

Umm, okay, what? Is it just me, or does this seem very disturbing. As in, what else were they really doing or testing. And why kept so secret if it was really being used for what they said. Not to mention where they were doing it at.

I was really worried when I heard it was on the ch...

2012-05-15T13:21:38.725-05:00

I was really worried when I heard it was on the chopping block. It really is about all we have left after Eureka ends. I really liked the idea of the transdimentional tunnel, but if its that or the show...Bishop surely is unique. I can't help but be drawn to William Bell (aka Nemoy)

I am so excited that Fringe is continuing for anot...

2012-05-15T11:22:18.007-05:00

I am so excited that Fringe is continuing for another season.I was worried that it would be discontinued because of the ratings. All the characters are great but I do have a special place in my heart for Walter.

I am so excited that Fringe is continuing for anot...

2012-05-15T11:21:36.838-05:00

Nice visualization K.! Oh it MUST be raising all ...

2012-05-14T12:28:04.497-05:00

Nice visualization K.! Oh it MUST be raising all kinds of hell light centuries out! If a galaxy can pull on another a more than 10% of the known universe then this thing would have to have the same kind of influences. Mind bending stuff for sure!

I've always had a slightly different theory ab...

2012-05-13T11:13:22.685-05:00

I've always had a slightly different theory about the universe, and the rest of them. Not talking alternate universes here, just different universes. Here's how I envision it, and also use it in my game to mass confusion a lot. (I refer to alternate universes in the game and life usually as alternate dimensions, even though my game is titled Alternate Realms.
We know we are still

Oh, I could put blame lots of places, believe me. ...

2012-05-11T15:49:44.904-05:00

Oh, I could put blame lots of places, believe me. Nasa is a very high area for me, and it isn't surprising the area is now failing. So lets just leave all politics out, and put it the way they would on Red Dwarf.
We smegged it good folks.

I posted on here a year or so ago my theory... The...

2012-05-10T20:09:44.449-05:00

I posted on here a year or so ago my theory... The Inverse Sphere Theory... I suggested that our universe takes on the characteristics of an onion (as does basically every other object in our universe with multiple layers)... A thin outer layer which simply preserves condensed matter/information through wormholes/white holes created by black holes within our own known universe. Then, the second

Considering that even micro black holes cause comp...

2012-05-10T15:08:29.425-05:00

Considering that even micro black holes cause complete havoc with everything we know, from light to gravity, space and time, can you imagine the chaos around this thing before you ever even get close to the event horizon. This monster has to be causing considerable damage for thousands of light years out from the event horizon just by the influence of it's gravity alone. This thing is a