Posted on 12/23/2006 11:31:23 AM PST by BibleBabe1
The programming of the spherical elevator cars is very smooth. It gradually rotates the car as you move from one Habitat to the other.
For the distances involved, it also permits fairly rapid movement, dispelling the higher forces toward the floor of the car.
I find the doors a little disconcerting still. They remind me of eyes.
Well, I'm thinking long term.
Real, real long term...
Good Night, Folks!
Same to you Bob. Time to retire...
*yawning*
Good morning! Don't forget it's Girl Scout cookie time!
Could be why they added in the Spock comment. How many times did he almost get them killed from them relying on his logic and running into his "blind spots"?
There is more to IQ than just logic.
About seven. They used Spock's logic to get them into trouble.
Kirk's "logic" or intuition was infallible. He was the one who always outsmarted the "mastermind" computer.
We did manage to make a rather neat matter-transmitter-discombobulator once. You zap it, it pops up over there--->, then promptly goes through some weird matter/anti-matter annihilation process.
We have however modified this NASA proposal for a subluminal ZPE engine into a power supply for something a bit more ambitious and along the lines of a Droscher/Hauser/Heim warp engine. Hawking had some curious ideas on the subject, but missed a fundamental point. You don't violate causality with FTL travel. No matter how fast you go beyond light speed using warp, you cannot return to your destination before the time coordinates from which you left.
Consider, set up a warp bubble and FTL to Cirus. This takes you maybe three days ship time. You then return to Earth. No matter how much faster than light you go, you still return to Earth 3+ days after you left. Time for you is relative to your baseline time-space coordinates.
How so many smart folk keep missing this is beyond me. FTL isn't hard, it's Time travel that is impossible.
Correction, Kirk's script writers made him infallible. If he tried that logic loop with one of our robots, he'd end up a thin pink paste on the walls. Could be that "irritating jerk" filter we installed.
Except for money. Money can time travel. Forward or back.
My physics doesn't go much beyond the sub-atomic particle stage. I haven't a good grasp on how FTL can be done.
Fortunately, star-travel does not depend on FTL, just patience and persistence, like most problems.
Have you ordered your Girl Scout cookies yet?
Some of the newer field theories in pursuit of a GUT are pretty interesting. Some of them are real brain twisters to work your way through, but a couple are starting to put together a rather intriguing picture of how things are.
If they adopt a self recycling universe model and just dump the Big Bang/Big Crunch nonsense, things oughta drop into place quickly.
They have a new sugar-free item, and all the products are "No Trans-fats." However, there is no "Soylent Green" in this year's offerings.
They took away the lemon coolers with the powdered sugar, too. I guess no one liked them but me.
You selling?
Three daughters are. But we're not allowed to sell over the Internet, so support your local Scout!
If you don't like cookies, you can order them to be sent to the troops overseas (or at sea). That's what I plan to do this year, rather than having a couple dozen boxes around the house when we're trying to train for a race!
I don't know. You can find your local Girl Scout Council office in your telephone book, and call them to find out. I'll bet they'd be happy to take an order by phone/credit card, or send a Scout to your door.
Seems almost cruel to start selling 'em just as many of us are trying to ditch weight gained over the holidays...
Mmmm...Thin Mints...*drool*
The timing is rather suspect...
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