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Which is a very much unappreciated thing to hear if one actually is gay. May I suggest finding a new metaphor?

The Secret Life of Bees: Insects are caught using blobs of honey to play Conway's game on a hexagonal grid.

I hate to reply to posts with nothing more to add than "I agree", but I agree. Heath Ledger's Joker is the only draw for me.

I would agree that both extremes are extraordinary. A claim that life must exist elsewhere is extraordinary because so far we have seen no...

Do you expect it to also be hit by a CME (what the wikipedia article says happened)?

This is not really an answer to the question you pose at the end of your first post, but a suggestion. If the energy required to make a jump is...

On the other hand, maybe they would use rail secretly, in underground or isolated and protected areas for the movement of freight. Then they could...

You see feedback mechanism of control between atom nucleus and vacuum from one side and the feedback mechanism of excitation of electron versus...

So.... later this afternoon? :) Has someone been watching Logan's Run again? I think AI might help medical facilities but I'm less sure...

I have been thankful all thread for mod forbearance, as we are playing on the edge here. I hope that the attempt to scientifically delineate or...

Why? What fictional physics requires that they have to arrive at the opposite side of the star? Or is it merely convention that someone could ignore?...

I don't know, Glom. We don't know that he just took Harrison's word for it that he could save his daughter's life, we just didn't see how Harrison...

Over land actually: 1602: Wollaton Waggonway.

Looks like one will need to claim ET is a feline belonging to some Schroedinger dude.... Oops, I did it again, I posted here again.:wall: Well,...

Others have given reasons rails would be invented. So, why the late development of rails? Perhaps a world of numerous small land masses, where long...

Been, what, 30 years since I though about this. I thought you could not chain independent events to get a cumulative probability. A spaceship, for...

Which, I think, was as close to "realism" as Christopher Nolan got. It was still a world wherein a billionaire dressed up as a giant bat to fight...

The Buoy in the Plastic Bubble: The Coast Guard's shipment of new equipment arrives.

Okay, to be clear--I would love it if they found a way to remove the symptoms of menopause. But menopause itself? Not a huge deal so far as I'm...

OK, sorry. If that's so, perhaps a mod might move this thread to a different section? Your questions would seem to have to do with something...

It's the same situation with miles per gallon. The difference between 50 mpg and 60 mpg is negligible compared with the difference between 10 mpg and...

Shakespeare won't help you very much. It was a reference to Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. See the summary of Act 1...

Several members here can vouch for that fact that except for the ears and the eyebrows I actually look like that.

It might be worth adding that if you claim life doesn't exist off Earth, you're going to get moved to ATM for that, too. We're not picking sides here.

Crackerjack: Sauron starts putting on weight as he desperately searches for a replacement ring.