This is the impression I get of virtually all quantium mechanics, as explained by xkcd:
I'm sure it makes more sense than that to other people, but it never has to me.
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- Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:27 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I'm confused
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4584
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:58 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What does Ender look like?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10909
- Mon May 31, 2010 3:37 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: What does Ender look like?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10909
What does Ender look like?
There was some discussion of this before, so I decided to look around and see various artists' interpretations. The internet tends to have the same few pictures repeated a hundred times, so I'm just posting the closest, highest-res versions of what I find. http://www.foxaxe.com/obrazky/enderova-hra-...
- Wed May 26, 2010 2:19 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Would the FPE work in real life?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17358
United how? If you looking for a weak central government, we already have it. The UN, WTO, WHO, and Red Cross unite virtually the whole world under a loose set of international rules. They allow for a lot of international chaos, even multiple wars between multiple combatant nations at once. But they...
- Tue May 25, 2010 12:17 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Best Trailer Lines from Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3030
- Mon May 24, 2010 7:52 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Game Re-Reaction
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4107
I don't much like xkcd's depiction of Locke's chances, either. Locke and Demosthenes establish credibility on existing blogsites first until they're asked to write columns for them. It's plausible that someone could do that, perhaps Demosthenes writing for Hot Air and Locke being asked to write a re...
- Sat May 22, 2010 6:20 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5794
- Wed May 19, 2010 7:36 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean and the Movie
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8632
It occurs to me that Gilmore Girls is far from the only TV show to refuse to dumb things down for the masses. Fraiser prattled on and on about art, fine dining, and opera since his days on Cheers. The Big Bang Theory actually employs a physicist to keep their obscure science references accurate. The...
- Tue May 18, 2010 8:59 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender or Shadow?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8457
The Ender Quartet is my favorite franchise period. Any medium, any creator, anything. It is simply awe in print. I can only name a handful of things (two books, a movie... that's all off the top of my head) that even compare, and none of them come in series. Come, lets not be silly here. You've cle...
- Mon May 17, 2010 7:39 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender or Shadow?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8457
The Ender Quartet is my favorite franchise period. Any medium, any creator, anything. It is simply awe in print. I can only name a handful of things (two books, a movie... that's all off the top of my head) that even compare, and none of them come in series. I suppose that won't be true anymore once...
- Sun May 16, 2010 9:41 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Shadows in Flight
- Replies: 56
- Views: 29077
- Sat May 15, 2010 7:32 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Game Re-Reaction
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4107
Re: Ender's Game Re-Reaction
The influence gained by a pair of what would be considered today as online forum trolls was hard to swallow. The comparison to bloggers is more often made, and some bloggers are quite influential -- though not "rule the world" influential. Valentine actually mentions that in EG when Peter...
- Fri May 14, 2010 9:34 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Game plot question...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7777
I had in mind that the only use of the Little Doctor was in the final battle when it was used on and around the Bugger home world itself. They were using it all along? :shock: Here is the text of their first real battle. Then the simulator field went blank, the ships disappeared, and everything cha...
- Fri May 14, 2010 9:12 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: should Bean have abandoned Petra?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19322
- Thu May 13, 2010 5:30 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Game plot question...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7777
- Thu May 13, 2010 2:38 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Best Trailer Lines from Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3030
Best Trailer Lines from Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow
I'm vaguely planning on perhaps someday making an animated Ender's Game trailer to 1) practice making homemade animation, and 2) raise interest in getting the movie made. Because I don't know any kids who can voice act, and I can't do voices, I was thinking the script would stick mostly to quotes be...
- Thu May 13, 2010 2:19 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: New Ender's Game Cover
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9072
Overall, I like it. The suit is awesome in design with or without the wires. It's tighter and sleeker than I imagined, and thus it's better than I imagined. It should be color-coded by team, though, shouldn't it? If not, how can you tell allies from enemies? Nothing in the book suggests that telling...
- Thu May 13, 2010 2:02 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender's Game plot question...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7777
The Hive Queen speaks at one point (in Speaker?) of her absolute certainty of the inevitability of her own defeat after coming to know Ender. I don't think she let Ender destroy all the queens (but one) so much as she could see no way to prevent it, and thus planned as though it were inevitable. Why...
- Thu May 13, 2010 1:57 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: The Hundred Worlds and Cultural Stagnation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5946
- Thu May 13, 2010 1:55 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: should Bean have abandoned Petra?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19322
He denied her the right of self-determination. That's a right awash with exceptions. You have a right to self-determination until it conflicts with absolutely any other right. That includes his own self-determined choice to protect her. If she forced him to take her, would you say she denied his ri...
- Wed May 12, 2010 5:01 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: The Hundred Worlds and Cultural Stagnation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5946
I like OSC's cultural-diversity-by-worlds scheme much better than, say, Larry Niven's global uniform Earth culture in Ringworld. I agreed with Louis Wu when he was board of it and wanted to go looking for something else, anything else, just for contrast. That, however, is an aesthetic preference tha...
- Wed May 12, 2010 4:33 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: should Bean have abandoned Petra?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19322
Having the Descoladores (Google says that's the correct spelling.) turn out to be the product of something else from the Enderverse's past (Bean, his engineer, or anything else) makes no sense. Were the piggies the product of something from humanity's past? Were the Buggers? No. They're all alien sp...
- Wed May 12, 2010 4:21 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Ender in Exile: The review of a prodigal
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5387
10,000 repetitions by Edison gave us the incandescent lightbulb because eventually he did get a different result. :) Those were variations on a theme rather than identical repetitions. Edison tried 10,000 different filament materials before he found one that lit well and lasted. Even so, we use dif...
- Mon May 10, 2010 9:24 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean and the Movie
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8632
- Mon May 10, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Bean and the Movie
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8632