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Today, 03:20 AM

Gillianren replied to a thread Redeveloping ovaries from stem cells? Can it end menopause as we know it？ in Science and Technology

I'd much rather only ovulate when I want to than never go through menopause, I can promise you.

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Today, 12:03 AM

Gillianren replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

I have to agree. Jack Nicholson's Joker, in my opinion, was considerably closer to Cesar Romero's. I don't know if I think the best Joker is Heath...

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Yesterday, 07:38 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

There are piles of unproduced screenplays all the time. It isn't the bad ones that don't make the cuts, or anyway it isn't just the bad ones. Look...

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Yesterday, 07:33 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread My Frustration with the Life In Space forum in Forum Introductions and Feedback

Right--Stephen King says all of his books (or anyway most of them) start with "What if?" It's a way to start a conversation, certainly. It's only...

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Yesterday, 07:24 PM

caveman1917 replied to a thread What Does Physics Say About Agents And Causality? in Science and Technology

Not necessarily, it's certainly possible that the higher behaviour isn't deducible, what i meant was that the specific argument you linked to isn't...

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Yesterday, 03:26 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

No, it isn't, and I never said it was. But depending on the author, I might read that, too. I have several books that are retellings, usually of...

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Yesterday, 03:24 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread Films of 2013 in Small Media at Large

I maintain a mental list of "people who can act but don't." But he isn't on that list, because the only think I personally have seen where I think...

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Yesterday, 03:04 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

My sister's surprise birthday party (I think it was her sixteenth) was spoiled because our voices sound exactly alike over the phone. However, I'm...

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Yesterday, 12:02 PM

caveman1917 replied to a thread Does the amount of dark energy increase as the universe expands? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

The FLRW metric doesn't conserve energy because it doesn't have a timelike killing vector field, ie it isn't a static spacetime. That is an invariant...

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Yesterday, 07:33 AM

Gillianren replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

They may. Or they may go through a stretch where not only are they rereading books they've read many times but are rereading books they read many...

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Yesterday, 07:29 AM

Gillianren replied to a thread Redeveloping ovaries from stem cells? Can it end menopause as we know it？ in Science and Technology

What does "the end results of evolution" mean and why don't you have respect for them? And personally, I don't have a problem with eventually...

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Yesterday, 03:58 AM

grapes started a thread SPF ratings for sunscreens in Small Media at Large

From USA Today today: http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2325341 OK I might believe that SPF ratings are gimmicks, as the article says, but I'm...

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Yesterday, 03:00 AM

grapes replied to a thread Looking for a solid pair of binoculars in Astronomical Observing, Equipment and Accessories

The last two links are the same.

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Yesterday, 02:49 AM

caveman1917 replied to a thread Decompression of Neutronium in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

How did you get them up to half the speed of light?

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Yesterday, 02:20 AM

caveman1917 replied to a thread What Does Physics Say About Agents And Causality? in Science and Technology

The important qualifier there is "in the limit of infinite systems", and i'd say that the qualifier is somewhat misleading. The decidability of the...

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Yesterday, 01:34 AM

caveman1917 replied to a thread Dark energy question. in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Exactly by the quote you introduce, that the pressure is the same all over the universe. In Ken's notation that is that the scale over which the...

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Yesterday, 12:50 AM

caveman1917 replied to a thread Dark energy question. in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Whether it starts as expanding or not is an initial condition that is free for you to decide upon, it doesn't follow from anything else.

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Yesterday, 12:04 AM

caveman1917 replied to a thread Does the amount of dark energy increase as the universe expands? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

True, but when we're talking about using GR as a cosmological model we're talking about the FLRW metric which picks a preferred frame, namely one in...

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2013-May-19, 11:03 PM

caveman1917 replied to a thread My Frustration with the Life In Space forum in Forum Introductions and Feedback

On the other hand, you can't expect everyone to start every sentence in such a thread with "I speculate that ...", that would quickly be getting...

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2013-May-19, 08:07 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

We went for a walk around the mall today. It was amazing how some of the employees wouldn't believe that we were just looking--one guy asked us all...

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2013-May-19, 08:06 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread First signs of decline in IQ? in Science and Technology

Yes, but the point is that it is, at least, theoretically possible.

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2013-May-19, 06:48 PM

grapes replied to a thread Machines in space in Science and Technology

Nobody else may have mentioned the effect of cosmic rays on computers and digital cameras, but that sure seems like an issue. Modern machines have a...

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2013-May-19, 04:44 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

Yes, I agree with your assessment.

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2013-May-19, 03:58 PM

Gillianren replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

I think the studios are a little too interested in superhero origin stories full stop, to be honest. Every time they make a movie about a new...

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