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I agree, I believe it is remotely possible to surpass the speed of light, probably by using the universe shift or wormhole method. Saying anything is possible is just silly, but I think the speed of light rule is one of those grayer areas. Granted I doubt the Germans did it, but I think in the nest 15 or so millennia someone will find something...

You are right about the motorcycle example, but I think this is different since the universe is the thing that's moving... this is really hard to explain I guess the balloon example works. Imagine two bugs on a balloon (the universe) now blow up the balloon rapidly, the two bugs are moving apart from each other very quickly... yet technically they aren't moving themselves, the universe itself is moving them.

Hmm, going out on a random limb here, but can't you make like a timeline? Here is a one that reeks quality. Took my a few hours to make. Well at least 30 seconds... You get the idea though, would that work? You could list the page number where each event line connects to the time line, like on the above image the event "becoming king of the mountain" connects to the timeline at two points and by each connection it would say exactly where, like "page 12" and "page 82". Is that what you mean by outline... or am I way off in my own little park? :-s

Multitude of reasons. Many girls prefer "bad boys" since they are more wild and thus are usually more experienced/better at sex, and many girls often have the instinct that they can "fix" a bad guy and turn him good. Trust me, many view men like "fix 'er upper" houses, they think "I love his muscles but I hate how he dresses, well I can change that I going to get him to be more polite too..." Anyway that's one reason. They also often say they love you when they really don't but they don't want you to feel bad

Let me tie that question with the following.. Seriously? That sounds right logically, but I want to see some kind of source. :-k Nice catch, I did look it up, and it appears I was wrong... sort of. In the first few milli seconds after the big bang things were 'moving faster than the speed of light', but that's because the universe was being ripped in half and moving away from each other. It's hard to explain since there was no real reference point (what do you consider to be standing still when the universe is being ripped into pieces and flung in every direction?). But in a way things could be defined as realitivly moving faster than the speed of light. Imagine. If one piece was flying "left" at 99% the speed of light, and another piece was flying "right" at 99% the speed of light. Now stand on one of those pieces, and look at the other peice, to you it looks like it is going 198% the speed of light (99% light speed + 99% light speed). That's not exactly what happened but the whole thing is really hard to put to laymen's terms, I hope it made sense. :|

Nothing is Impossible in this universe Whats would happen if we travelled so fast, we came to the big bang period :shock: , What would we see before the big bang?? -.- Honestly now. You really believe that? Okay, not really going to go into it but just for kicks I'll list somethings that are totally and completely impossible, even if your a god. -Light striking a perfect planar mirror and having an angle of reflection that isn't equal to the angle of incidence. -A two dimensional triangle where all three angles don't add up to 180 degrees. -A Iron atom undergoing fusion with a Seaborgium atom and not only absorbing energy, but having the product be a single Lithium atom. Simply impossible. Nothing else to say really.

:| 1) The big bang, you know the thing where the entire universe exploded? Yea, well that had a bit of of energy behind it wouldn't you say? The galaxy fragments exploded outward at ~99.999% the speed of light. Let me rephrase that. The energy of the entire universe exploding... was not enough to break the speed of light. Good luck with that one Germans. 2) Please stop using E=mc^2 as the formula for light speed, it has nothing to do with it. E=mc^2 is the rest mass energy equation, more commonly knows as the equation that tells you how much energy a nuclear weapon gives off when a mass "m" is detonated. 3) The formula F=ma, and all other laws Newtonian physics are approximations, not definitions. There is some small discrepancy that is traditionally ignored. However when you go faster and the forces are greater, that "discrepancy" gets multiplied. As a general rule of thumb, most equations regarding force and momentum breakdown once you hit 1/1000 of the speed of light, or 1,080,000,000 miles per hour. Naturally, we have never built anything that goes 1.1 billion miles an hour so we just use f=ma and ignore that other part of the equation for simplicities sake.

Oddly enough, they don't censor "Hey there sweet cheeks, want to go back to my place and do something kinky?" But they do sensor "Aww man you died? That sucks" :?

You are actually quite limited. Everyone and everything is frozen in time. You can't drive a car (gas molecules are frozen in place, etc) and you couldn't even turn on any lights or use a flashlight since every subatomic particle is also frozen. All you could really do was walk around or sleep. You can't use anything that uses electricity or any complex machine. Heck you probably couldn't even move things like people if they were truly frozen in time. You would be lucky if you could even open a door :XD:

Funny isn't it? Do you know how many times I hit enter hoping my post ends up being worth the hour or so I spent writing it? Then out of the blue I post the link to Misfile and I end up with something like this. A few days ago I log on after a 12 hour absence and I had 21 PMs :ohnoes: In my entire "ten days ten thread" fiasco I only received about five, and that literally took me well over a hundred hours to put together. Not just referring to this situation, but I find that the things in our life that we do haphazardly end up affecting our lives the most.

Amoeba_009... that name sounds really familiar. Were you on Scapeboard by any chance or do I know you from somewhere? :-s

Okay, I'm going to need to see some scientific sources on that. That's a new one on me. Though, twenty two grams seems like little more than some calculation error, whether accidental or done on purpose. First off, it's 21 grams, taken from the movie of the same name. Second off, one doctor tested this on like 6 patients, so saying "EVERYONE OF ANY COLOR AND SIZE AND RACE AND FATTNESS AND ETHNICITY AND SEXUAL PREFERENCE" seems a bit extreme. Thirdly, I call shenanigans. A person dying goes through a lot of stuff, neurotransmitters are firing, muscles are converting sugars to energy, you are sweating, etc. Most notable, when you die you totally exhale. I believe a lung full of air and water moisture suddenly exhaling can toss the scale those few grams. Also I thought we all agreed the soul is just that, a soul. A soul is meta-physical, and thus should have no mass. If something has mass it is made of atoms and thus is in the realm of science and is bound by the laws of science. In other words, if the soul has mass and we put the body in a plastic bag before the person dies... then the soul would be trapped in the plastic bag I'm pretty sure mankind has come to the understanding that the soul is not made of atoms, ergo, it cannot have mass.

Heh, saw that on the news a bit ago, looks like a law suit waiting to happen. (btw, your thread title is borderline at best...)

Ha, wow didn't think anyone would fall for my siggy trap. : Hmm what else to cover, well goldphishies, I totally agree, Cyanide & Happiness is a fantastic comic, if not a bit crude. Oh and yes Reb, SG1 is pretty sweet, shame it got canceled (although it did have a great run!).

Warri0r, I already replied to your genetics post, you must have missed it ;) I suppose I should ask a question, think it's only fair that I get one answered in return. Hmm... Whenever you get something you really want, you soon loose all interest for it. For example, someone who really desires an iPod will get the feeling that their life will be so much the better once they get one. However, in most cases after a week or two the person no longer feels the same about it. Sure the iPod has it's uses but its no longer that thing that you dream about. My question: I have yet to find something that breaks this rule. My one wish is that love is an exception. Is it possible that you can love a person just as much on their 90th birthday as is it was the day you first met? I ask this with the MCAT in less than 30 hours, I have been studying since May and I am afraid I may have done so not simply to get into Med School, but to impress a girl. Was my summer spent for not?

Not quite sure what you're getting at there ca2theone, many parts of the nerves aren't used? Um, yea that's how the nerve works. You know you only use 5% of your muscle as well, the sacromeres are a tiny part of the sarcoplasm. I don't see why everyone is so eager to make the brain all magical like, its just an organ. You know our kidneys are pretty amazing too, I hear we only use 40% of those. :-$ But seriously, if you have any actual sources that put credit to this myth I would love to see them.

A question which someone will spend hours trying to figure find? Clearly you underestimate the knowledge base that is tip.it : An average brain comtains "terrabytes of infomation" as my physiology professor once put it. He never specified the actual number but I would guess between 3 and 12 terrabytes. As for the brain percentage? Argh! Why don't these freaking rumors die! Lol, but seriously, I want to punch whoever came up with the "only use 10%" crap, who probably did it so he could make a successful chain letter or 'amazing facts' that aren't really amazing facts, just stupid assumptions. No offence to any of you of course, I belived all these rumors myself for the longest time. Anyway, an average human uses 100% of his brain. Fact. Find my a credible source that says "7.2%" and I'll give you my blue party hat : Perhaps the dissillusion behind this is the fact that you never really use 100% at once. Imagine you are sitting down, day dreaming. Now imagine you are sprinting over a horribly rocky coast and as you sprint as fast as you can you also have to look down to see where a stable rock is that you can place you foot on in the next 1/10th of a second. Now imagine your sitting down, figuring out a Rubix cube in your head. Each of these 3 tasks would have used different parts of your brain.. Daydreaming uses the Cortex and about 20% of your processung power, solving the rubix cube uses the frontal lobes and about the same percentage of your processing power. Finally sprinting over rocks uses your brain stem and thalmus, and about 99% of your processing power :D Sure parts of your brain aren't active, like your memory or higher thought processes, but your conscious and subconsios are completly occupied. Try it sometime, if your running as fast as you can over truly rocky dangerous terrain you are incapable of thinking about anything. You can't understand what people are saying, and you couldn't even solve 1+1 if you tried. Pretty cool actually. Anyway, yea, you use do use 100% of your brain, just never at once.

Lol,getting impatient are we? :P It is a pretty stupid think IMO for girls to get mad when people look at their legs/breasts and they purposfully had them on display. Anyway, not to sound mean or anything speedofsound, but the reason she got mad is she was showing off her legs... but not to you -.- Girls will often dress up, do their hair, etc, to attract "this one cute guy". You know, they have a huge crush on this guy but their gender role in our culture is "you can't ask someone to date you, they have to ask you". So she dresses very revealing, probably more revealing then she feels comfortable with, to try and get the attention of this guy. She gets pissed off as the day goes on since the guy she likes doesn't notice her but all the other guys she isn't interested in are all enjoying the view. As for the bikini/underwear deal? Girls match "underwear" to "bedroom". They have been taught since they were young girls through tales of princesses and Barbie that want to marry prince charming and only he will see you in your bedroom. Sure nowadays many girls get laid every other week by different guys, but I think there is still a strong subconcsious notion of "only my prince charming can see my underwear, since married people do that" Bikinis are, well there the exact same thing as underwear, but they not "underwear" so its okay for guys the see it. ...holy crap, I just was in the mind of a girl and I think I understood it :uhh: (I blame Misfile!)

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Banks. Banks and federal mint. If the goverment needs an extra 5 million dollars it can print off 5 million dollars from the mint. This is fine if next year they destroy an extra 5 million dollars... but thats usually not the case :? That's a very, very small amount of people you're talking about. If everyone else died those people would have to reproduce, since it is such a small popualtion many deterious alles would surface. This is the same problem with inbreeding. Everyone have thousands of damaged genes but since we have 2 of each gene the good copy can usaully manage on its own. If you inbreed or have a population that specific breeding for generations chances are many of the kids will be genetically defective since people that look like you usually have the same defective genes. Like I said, one defective gene is fine, but if two people with simular defective genes mate, then the kid will probably have two defective genes and will be very bad off. You're kidding right? No one knows what that is? He's playing a violin to express the saying "Whine, whine. I'll play a sad song on the world's tinnest violin" This is said sarcastically when someone comes up to you and whines about something, even though you clearly can't help them. Tom: "Oh man, my t shirt changed colors in the pool, I hate purple" Rick: "Boo-hoo, whine wine. I'm playing the world's tinnest violin" It's a stupid saying that I think deals with the fact that a small violin would sound like a whine if it was played. 1) It depends if there's been a selective pressure for them to become taller. They don't just become taller because they need to unless there's some pressure on short women or a reproductive advantage for tall women. 2) Compared to other animals, my understanding is that our eyesight is generally poor. Something to do with a blood vessel running over the optic nerve causing a blind spot and genetic predispositions to eye problems among some people being kept in the gene pool due to the modern way of life, the ability to help our fellow man and modern medicine. Other animals, such as birds of prey who need to see small targets from long off, had and have a higher pressure for keen eyesight and thus those with keen eyesight prosper and proliferate. Going to have to stab at you here warri0r. :uhh: 1)People are becomming taller due to diet. Look at an anciant house in Egypt or even a ghost town in the Wild West. People were tiny. This is the same resaon many Asians are tiny, years of bad diet (just fish and rice, little citrus and Riboflavin) have stunted their growth. In Europe and the States people eat everything and use Multvitamins, thus, people are now taller then they were just a few decades ago. Selection pressure is a possilbe choice, I see where you were going, but that would take milenia, certainly not something you would see in one's lifetime. 2) This is a HUGE misunderstanding. Humans have the best overall eyesigt in the animal kingdom.. Wow that sounds arrogant eh? Ture though, let me explain. Sure hawks can see further, and robins can see sharper details up close, but that's because they are specialized. Extremly so. Let's give some examples. Owl: Night: 10/10 Close up things, daylight: 2/10 Far away things, daylight: 2/10 Color: no Hawk: Night: 0/10 Close up things, daylight: 3/10 Far away things, daylight: 10/10 Color: no (not 100% sure on that) Robin: Night: 0/10 Close up things, daylight: 9/10 Far away things, daylight: 2/10 Color: no Rat: Night: 9/10 Close up things, daylight: 7/10 Far away things, daylight: 0/10 Color: no Dog/Cat: Night: 6/10 Close up things, daylight: 3/10 Far away things, daylight: 4/10 Color: no Humans: Night: 9/10 Close up things, daylight: 9/10 Far away things, daylight: 9/10 Color: YES See my point? Not only can humans see a huge range of color (and thus has to split up it's photo receptors into Red, Green, and Blue. We would be able to see 3x as well if we had only b/w receptor) but humans can also change focus extremly, extremly well from close up to far away. In addition to all that we can see in the night better than almost any animal (and night photoreceptors take up more than half the eye! If we were born with only daylight receptors out vision would be frigtingly sharp). So yea, even will all that mulitasking things crammed into our eye we still can beat practically any animal at they one thing their eye was designed for. Fairly impressive, and tremendously advanced, far more so than the simple eye of a hawk Also what's that about a blood vessel going over the optic nerve which gives us a blind spot? :? , Our blind spot is our optic nerve. Everyone animal has a blind spot. The optive nerve obviously needs to connect to the eye, and obviously were it connects can't have photoreceptors. Imagine a ballon you blow up with your lungs. Ballons should be perfect spheres, but they can't bee since they need an opening so you can blow into them. That's the optic nerve. The airhole/optic nerve in a balloon/eye makes a spot on the surface that has a hole in it. :

Not to complain, heck its your sig, but I just want to point out... how is "I attempted to do alchemy" something you really like? Or is it something your just really proud of? :wink: Haha, I kid, I kid. Anyway, Reb, my only doubt that Em is going to say "I want to stay in this life" is the fact that she sorta already said that, didn't she? I think it's gotta be something a little bit bigger if she already said the aforementioned quote and the fact that she started the sentence with "Well I have been thinking..." Seems odd that she would finish that sentence with something she said 3 frames earlier. My guess is she was going to indirectly ask Ash to consider the option himself. Geez, you're not kidding. It's in practically everyone's sig o-O. I put the blame solely on you :P (by my counts were up to about nine people)

Heh, the MCAT is in less than 3 days so naturally seeing a post about Genetics caught my attention. You did a pretty good job warri0r, I found it slightly odd that you listed Mendel's second law, Indep Assort, and then went right into the formation of the chiasmata. Whatever happened to Mendel's first law of Segregation? Well I guess it wasn't really needed to explain your point, but still, that was the first time I saw the points presented in that order. It was all very counter-academic, which is a word I just made up to mean "not the way one expects it to be taught in the schools". Regardless, that doesn't really matter here and you did a good job. Sure you went overly in depth for what tip.it really needed, but hey, thats the fun part :)

Not to sound mean... but I don't even know where to start correcting you :| 1) Thats the rest mass energy equation, not the equation that says how much energy is needed to reach light speed 2) if you eliminated mass, M would equal zero not one. 3) You can't eliminate mass unless you turn it into energy which isn't something you want to do to astronauts 4) Anti-gravity makes things be weightless, but they would still has mass. 5) Being able to go faster than the speed of light does not change the value of C, C is a constant that quantifies how much energy is given off when the bonds between neutrons of mass M are broken to form more stable bonds. Yea... so, while you may have a valid point that we can maybe break the speed of light, you used the wrong equation and made quite a few false assumptions. :(

1)What? No, you can't alter your genes. Doing so causes death of the cell. Your genes just make you "aggressive" or "intelligent" it's not like they set your fate. The Soviet Union actually believed that you could alter one's genes, since they refused to believe the Genetics theories put forth by the Americans. So the leader of Russia's agriculture ordered everyone to freeze their plant's seeds before they planted them. He thought that is he showed the seeds cold weather when it was a seed, when the seed grew the new cells would have genes that helped them in frost. This was obviously false, freezing the seeds made most of them sterile. This led to the complete collapse of the USSR's wheat production which starved the country and destroyed the economy, which led to the end of the Cold War. 2) Heh, as some of you might remember, I already answered this question throughly in my final post of the series "Ten Day's Ten Threads" :P 3) New singers or rock bands don't need skill. They need to know someone in the business. An example was done to show just how easily any random person can become a popstar if she knows the right people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rHGo-EvY3Q

That's what I'm saying. If Ash changes back, the system will find his soul and fill him in on all the changes that happened, aka, Emily is a regular sophomore.