Philotic Web

Slim, I recognize the whole "original sin" thing from the Old Testament, but where are you getting this "we asked to be created" stuff? "But because being sinful is mankind's natural state" We have no natural state. We were (or so you claim) created by another being (Go...

Burke's Law: Who killed 711?

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0533831/

(what's funny is that I've been obsessed with the number 17 since high school...and there it is, in *the* answer to *the* question...)

The first link works for me.

The second link worked for ONLY me. It was to my letters page (sorry). It's fixed, now.

It's from 1964!!!!

Someone on IMDB may have found the source of the now infamous quote: That's the beauty of it...it doesn't do anything It's here: http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l269/hosmackah/beauty/?action=view&current=img002.flv The link to the IMDB discussion is here: http://imdb.com/board/bd0000001/nest/7...

I didn't think thay allowed for references to Larry Niven stories in science class...

e^(i*pi), eh?

Why not magnetic monopoles, while we're at it?

Or...DARK MATTER!

Because Coriolis forces are position independent and velocity dependent, I predict that there is NO solution to the problem that involves only static masses.

I'm in for $5, on PayPal.

Both of us need to stop...before it's too late!

OK, so I'll put 100,000 tons over here, and another 100,000 tons here, and over there I'll put 25,000 tons, and then another 15,000 tons on a rope spinning around the pole, and over there...

Cheater.

Jota,

I do, in fact, challenge you to find such a mass.

I believe that Einstein was speaking of linear systems, as opposed to rotational (and also, as opposed to non-linear, but that's a different matter entirely)

In a linear acceleration field, maybe. But a rotational acceleration field (centripetal acceleration), you've got all sorts of secondary effects, such as Coriolis, gradients, odd behaviors (ball dropping, to name just one), other vestibular effects...so it's unfortunately not the same.

Jota, That's why the set-ups in 2001's "Discovery" and in "Mission to Mars" wouldn't work. There'd be vomiting all over the place. Not to mention Coriolis effects on your vestibular canals (inner ear)! It's why I've made the habitation rings for the Battle School a reasonable 162...

Neo-D, You are correct. Air friction, however, would be (as they say) a bitch. BTW, trajectorries of objects within the centripetal "field" (the artificial gravity) aren't quite the same as under a normal gravitational field. If you release a ball, or toss it up (or if you jump up), you do...

OK, my oops re. fingerprint recognition.

But that still doesn't do you any good if you're observing a crowd.

Well, until and unless we get rapid retina recognition, or rapid fingerprint recognition, or non-invasive rapid DNA recognition...what else do you suggest? And, with regard to the general suggestion, what if I should create a new religion where murder is OK? Or even necessary? Do the state and feder...

Well, if you put it that way...

I'm still bothered by it...

I thought that Dark Matter was dark because it cannot be detected (directly, at least), not becasue it doesn't "shine."

jota,

That's OK. I hate dark matter (and energy), too.

There, there.

EL,

That's the beauty of dark matter--you can't find it!

I wonder how long before this is used to try and explain Dark matter and Dark Energy...?

Your example 2: Take off the head covering for a proper photo. Be prepared to remove the head cvovering again for proper identification. Period. Your example 3: You can't force a church to perform a gay marriage if they don't want to. Big Deal. Find yourself a church that will, or get married by a J...

Local, staet and federal laws trump religious laws. Obviously you can't force a Jewish person, for instance, to eat pork, or to turn on a light on a Saturday. If the POTUS should, one day, be an orthodox Jew, then if something's "going down" on a Saturday, he damn well better well be there...

Question: Has anybody actually read the agreement to DeviantART? It seems like you give them the right to do whatever they want with your art (give it away, it seems) for no monetary reward. If (and only if) they try to profit by it, do they then have to negotiate a deal with you. I haven't thought ...

E_L,

I hate to say this, but I totally get your joke.

That's, like, really bad in so many ways.

Those are all so amazing!
I had totally forgotten about DeviantArt!

Well, apparently it's not quite the epilogue, either.

Couldn't tell you if he's incorporated something from Poe...

But still, if it's an exploration of that first Bugger world, I'll enjoy it.

Well, there's "Don't Give Up" by Phil Collins: In this proud land we grew up strong we were wanted all along I was taught to fight, taught to win I never thought I could fail no fight left or so it seems I am a man whose dreams have all deserted I've changed my face, I've changed my name b...

To quote from the SciFi.COM site: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=40416&type=0 The Dabel Brothers and Marvel Comics will develop a comic with an original story by Orson Scott Card focusing on Ender Wiggin, the central character in Card's award-winning novels Ender's Ga...

No, I just wanted to drag that old chestnut out of the fire one last time! I'm so busy at work & at life that I really no longer have the time to post the way I used to here (or on any other forums I hang out on!). Plus, the fact that "EG the movie" appears to be grinding along so slow...

So, EL, except for the difference of your one God, you're an atheist, just like me.

Interesting.

I read EG roughly 10 years ago. One of my co-workers lent me his copy to read...and he never got it back. It's still sitting on my dresser, with the cover all mutilated and torn. It's a veteran, now. I did buy him a new copy, though, at one of the OSC book-signings, and asked Scott to write, "J...

Jota, "My point is that, once understood how it works, and after developing devices to do it , it should be easy." Sure....after all the tough work is done, the rest is easy! But...willed evolution? I think I'll will all my subsequent children to have wings and gills! Fish-T "Yes it's...

Fish-T I read the British article. What a load of cr@p. It alleges: * Humans carry a gene (a "protective gene signature") that supposedly protects us against prions. * Prions are "proteins that can be transmitted in infected meat", and "Prions can be acquired from eating inf...

The baby comes with a $400 Million dowry.

Pope Clementine?

I thought it was suposed to be Pope Tangello.

Or, perhaps, Pope Lemonjello

So, after you have transferred your intelligence to a hard drive sometime in 2085...what happens when someone writes a virus that infects the hard drive, turning all the memories involving bicycles into memories where you continuously smack yourself in the head with a trout? And then the spindle bea...

Search found 822 matches

That's the beauty of it...FOUND!

Ender's Game Comic from Dabel Brothers...