Rebdragon

No offense or anything, but I don't think that made much sense :-s . You can't "move the universe", just the matter in it, and moving the matter around you doesn't make you go any faster. Where are you getting all this moving-the-universe stuff from :-s ? That equation has nothing to do with what you just said. they always told us in Physics intro that thats what that equation ment. everything else should be right though, atleast in theory

Correct :P . That equation has nothing to do with what you just said. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about :-s . You slow down you passage through time the move you accelerate and increase your speed, if you were wondering that in the first sentence. This is the elegant universe, right? If so, do you have a page number or two so I can find what you're referring to, namely that example in your second sentence? Oh, and it took me a second to realize this... but if you meant to say muon (for some reason I thought "moon" :lol: ), the second family version of the electron, the reason that it lasts 20 millionths of a second (if i recall) is that it's hard to sustain- it's very unstable when made in the lab. Don't think that has anything to do with general relativity.

I actually phrased that badly, I believe :-k . It is of course true that one would be essentially frozen in time if they were to reach the speed of light, but the reason why one can't reach the speed of light is because it takes an infinite amount of energy to reach such a speed, not because one would be frozen if they did. Eh, bad place to use the word "because" I guess :-w . For me, there's no real talking about breaking the "time" barrier though, because essentially it really can't be done :P . But when you start talking about time, speed, distance, all that stuff when you get into general relativity, quantum mechanics, any kind of complicated physics, it gets very confusing when one mixes up the definitions for said terminology #-o .

Geez.. from my perspective I have no idea how to read that, as I could easily see myself realistically making a post like that :XD: (seeing as how I already finished the comic, and I have in the past watched 10+ episodes of subbed Bleach in one day, and I love FMA even more than Bleach :-w ). God, it feels weird having to just stop at the end of the comic... waiting for Monday :ohnoes: . I've tried to go back and outline it, I've practically read the whole thing twice right now (and the pages/sub-stories I liked much more than that :oops: ), but I can't find a way to outline it. It's just so random- one panel Ash and Em are talking about they're problems, the next they're on the mountain getting ready for a race. It just jumps around so much, and I can't find any concrete bases in the story to set up "chapters", or to at least divide the comic up. I considered dividing it up by races, as the comic does have a nice even list of multiple races and preperations for them (with many other pieces of plot in between), but that would make it difficult to outline the last big part of the comic, and a majority of the comic doesn't deal with cars and racing, considering the whole Misfile thing being the main subject of the series... So, does anyone have any ideas for outlining it? I have ideas for labeling parts of the story where certain things happen (appearance of Ash's Devil and Angel side, Vashiel and Rumisiel vs. Cassiel, blush/affection scenes between Ash and Em [including/stetching to panels like this], etc.) but I can't find a way to properly outline the entire comic. So.. uh, any ideas?

-_-'. Of course disregarding the fact that it's impossible, both realistically and philosophically, to move the universe (as it's the universe for Christ's sake, you can't move it unless there's something outside of it), if everything but you were to be moving, it still wouldn't be able to pass the speed of light. It's matter too ya know. Oh, and you meant "light barrier", not sound barrier, right :P ?

Wow, contradiction party central right here. That what I just said. Only I explained it in more detail. And fuzzy hard to understand detail at that. I can see what you're getting at, I just don't think you phrased it right- you never surpass the speed of light, you might feel like you have (which is what I believe what you're saying), but you can't actually surpass it. Well, to be perfectly clear the odds of an object of our mass passing through through something like a brick wall ever having happened any time at any place in the entire history of our universe are pathetically slim, but if every single atom in your body were to properly tunnel through the molecules of the wall in the correct path, it is possible. So, yes, we "can", but trust me, it's never going to happen to you in your lifetime, nor in the history of the human race for that matter. There's as much of a chance now as in 10-million years. I'm just speaking realistically here :P . I mean, think about it. Sure, single elementary particles sometimes gather enough energy to pass through the wall, but an entire organism? Realistically speaking, it's just not possible- every atom in your body has to get enough energy to pass through the wall, and not only that, but they all have to pass through in such a way that the entire system connecting them is retained. "Possible" but... you're going to need God's help accomplishing something like that. Um, I'm not sure what point your trying to counter here :-s . If it's the thing about photons not aging (sorry if I'm reading your post wrong), the reason they don't age is because there is a limit on their speed, and thus all movement in the time dimension is diverted to the three spacial dimensions. So, it's not "subject to time" in the fact that photons don't age, but in the same way they a person frozen in time is still able to be moved from point A to B, so do photons move at c regardless of the fact that they don't age. Me, I deem it an impossibilty for anything in this universe to surpass the speed of light, but I'm not much of an optimist anyways.

One time I took way too long to get a haircut (my hair grows fast as heck, I have to get like almost two inches off at each hair cut), and got a semi-mullet. Enough that the hair was long in the back, but not enough to call it a mullet. It looked like crap, and it wasn't even close to a full mullet. I repeat, it looks like crap, don't do it. - Coincidentally, I got a haircut today :P . Went from my hair reaching my eyebrows to it being almost short as a crew cut. Though, that's what I do every time; it'll look longish in a month or so anyways >_<".

Dang it, beat me to it.

Err... :| . I'll go from easiest to hardest: 3&4 can be linked, as has been stated. Uni just isn't for everyone, but you can learn a lot there. If you're really willing and eager to learn, and have the capability to gather and use the knowledge you use in college, then by all means, go. But far too many people nowadays go to Uni just because "it's what you're supposed to do". It just isn't for everyone, and not all children (or parents, possibly moreso) understand that. Oh well, it'd be hard to change the societal opinion on this issue I guess, so you're going to have to grin and bear it ^_^'. 2... hm. I suppose they aren't really necessary, but currently I go to a high school that has no lower level schools connected to it (a college prep Catholic high school), so I gain something from middle schools and high schools being seperated by being able to switch over to it in 9th grade. I'd also say that since the students are different ages at each level of schooling, it's important for the environments to change. Elementary school should be fun and laid back while introducing the students to learning in general in an environment of peers of a similiar age. Middle school needs to be more difficult and the teaching style is very different, meriting a seperation. High school is a large change socially and educationally, so I see no reason not to seperate it. So... ya, that's all I got. There's nothing wrong with having a school be kin-12th, and there's nothing wrong with seperating the schools, from what I can speculate anyways. Guess someone else should cover this >_>. 1) Now, that's just flat out wrong, especially for high school classes. I'll give you an example. Last year I took an AP Latin Virgil class, where we spent the whole entire year reading and translating half of Virgil (couple hundred lines from most of the books), in preperation for the Latin-Virgil AP test. It was the toughest class I've ever taken. To add even more pain to the class, while translating the Latin version, we read spent the entire year reading a 360 page flowery translation (thus making it hard to use) of the entire Aeneid, with period quizzes over each book. But the class only met for 45 minutes a day, and with that amount of time there isn't a snowballs chance in hell that anyone could survive the AP test just on going to class. The class actually turned out to be two things- review of the homework, tests, and quizzes. So, our teacher, understanding that we needed to be able to recognize any line of the Latin at sight for the AP test in may, had us translate 30 lines a night at first, and 50 a night by third quarter, with tests few hundred lines. Mind you, we had up to 500 or more lines on a test, and he could give us any couple of lines he wanted to and ask us to translate it verbatim, on top of understanding the story of the books we had just read from the English flowery translation. To survive that, you had to go over every lines, and multiple times. And for the fourth quarter, our teacher had us go over everything we had in the first three quarters (thus having us translate 150 lines of the text from quarter one-three a night), with the AP test near the end of the quarter; so we had to work at quadruple speed. By doing that I had gone over every line 5 or 6 times- once during the homework for the first three quarters, again during the class review of the lines of the homework assignment, yet again during the 5+ hour study session before each test, again during the fourth quarter homework, and again during the fourth quarter classes and/or prepping for the AP test. So, most of that learning came from outside the classroom; the class just refined any mistakes I had made during the homework. If I didn't do my homework or study, I'd go over the lines once or twice. But by doing it, I had translated every line five or more times, and thus gained a full understanding of the amazing piece of text that is the Aeneid. Without that hour and a half spent every night on the Latin I would not , and never, truly know the text. You could give me an line from the Aeneid right now, and the odds are that I could just look at it and translate it on the spot. Not to sound arrogant, but that's not what the class did- that's what the diligence and willingness to learn outside of the classroom did (of course, without the refining, teaching, and pressing of my expert Latin teacher I would have never pushed myself as hard as I did, nor understood what I made mistakes on or didn't understand). It really one of the worlds greatest pieces of epic literature (Virgil spent his entire life writing it, and he never truly was able to finish it, being the perfectionist that he was), and I'm glad I did my homework to fully understand it. I'd go into how you need to repeatedly go over lessons mathematics to get them ingrained within you, or that you need to spend extra time at home studying for your history classes to retain the information, but I hope that you understand by now that homework is necessary. Maybe in elementary school the teachers taught you everything in class, maybe in middle school homework didn't hold as much weight in your learning, but in high school and beyond, if you don't do your homework, you're screwed in life. Simple as that. In middle school and below, homework is about grades- you learn everything in class anyways. But in high school, homework isn't about grades at all. It's about learning. I hope you understand that. Oh, and if any one was wondering (and of course no one is), I scored a 5 on the AP test. Yaaaay homework.

Lol, I was actually thinking of posting that exact thought, but I felt a short and sweet post was better suited :P . Guess I called it, with no way of verifying that I actually did :-w . I was going to say something like "Was it all my anime and manga exulting that caused you to doubt my appraisal of the comic :P ?" I thought that was it, 'cause anime and manga aren't for everyone, but this comic definitely is :XD: . Oh, and was that the post where I went on that huge tangent about how Ash was androgynous?

It's how we all feel. Deep inside. :cry: Haha. But yeah, I was surprised how addicting it was. I read Reb's posts and was like.. Whatever. Then I clicked the link from Trapical.. And couldn't stop reading! Pfft, you would :P .

I was about to laugh if you were making a point that homosexuality is wrong because of that, but thank God :P . Guess all the bad arguments on this thread have reduced my expectations #-o . So, you're seriously saying the majority of people weren't outraged by it? At the least that's one twisted double standard.

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.

Muahaha! The Ori* can be nothing but envious of the cult gathering such a religion as this has! They yearn for it's power! * [Anyone here a Stargate fan =P?]

3. You just haven't practised enough. If you had stronger arms and better agility/balance, you'd be able to. You don't need strong arms to do handstands (known from personal experience :oops: ). You just need to have good balance; balancing yourself properly almost seems to make your weight cancel itself out :-k . So ya, if you want to get handstands down, get headstands/tripods down first, then have someone help you do handstands by holding your legs in place. Once you get to the point where you can do it safely on your own, it's just practice practice practice :P .

Eh, maybe :| . It appears moreso that the dog is aggressive, but understands that it can not face a full grown adult, or a teenager for that matter. But children are small enough that the dog can do some damage if the child tries to fight back, and thus it can gain a sense of power and territory over the race dominating it. A child may have abused it in the past, yes, but is putting a small child next to a dog that wants to rip it apart exactly the smartest of suggestions^? What's the history of your dog meol? I've never met it, so I can't offer anything but speculation with the information I've got. Was it ever abused, ever attacked by anyone? Or is it a calm, docile dog with nothing that would cause this behavior (to your knowedge) in the past? And as Bubsa stated, how much about dogs do you really know Sentry :-s ? I'm definitely not saying I'm right on this issue (again, it's just speculation), but I havn't seen any good responses so far.

Dunno. They'd be dead in the next thirty seconds though.

Really? For me it goes/went like this in descending order of difficulty: Junior year. Freshmen year. Senior year. Sophmore year. Freshmen year takes a lot of adjustment (going to a college prep school, it's harder. Had two tests on my first day of school), and the school seems to have a philosophy of getting the students into the level of difficulty of college early on, so the workload hits you hard for the entire first quarter. Sophmore year is only barely easier than Freshmen year, but because we're used to the school's level of difficulty, it's fairly laid back. The teachers still give you some leeway for mistakes, etc. Junior year is impossible to survive without having some schoolwork-related mental breakdown, and that's without including preping and taking the SAT's and ACT's. Senior year, schoolwork wise, is as hard as you want it to be- it's by far the most open when it comes to making your schedule. The teachers have no mercy for mistakes, and treat you like an adult 100% of the time, and of course they make all work college level or higher. But the classes are generally fun stuff that you signed up for because you were actually interested in them. My hardest classes next year are AP Physics and BC Calc, but I love math and science. My religion classes are World Religions and Meditation, both of which interest me greatly. I've already had the English teachers teaching my english electives before (one of whom is the school team's Varsity soccer coach, so I know him even better), and I'm taking a Java class for fun. Add that to the fact that I start school at 9AM since my free bell is first period, and you've got a fun year, even with all the rigor involved :) . Okay, okay, tangent over, just pointing out a difference with the quoted post :P (and being...uh, sort of on topicish).

I've thought about this myself (had the idea for years actually). Not scientifically or anything, just as a cool power that breaks every physical law I can think of. For me, I thought of it this way- I could erase a few hours of my life, in say the summer, when I get bored. I would just freeze up from noon to five, being careful to make sure no one came in contact with me at the time (or only those that did, if I mention the ability to my family). Then after saving up a couple dozen, maybe even a hundred hours of time that I didn't need in the summer, during the school year I could "cash them in" any time I needed extra time to say, study, get more sleep, make sure I'm not late to something, etc. It's kind of a fair trade- I can't freeze time for everyone else unless I've freezed myself for at least as much time. Dunno, it's completely illogical in matters of physics, but it would be a very useful ability for transfering wasted time to extra time when I need it :) .

Heh, I also loved this panel :lol: :

Because you lack an ability us gymnasts have- the capability to walk on our hands :P .

Ya, I'd also like to add that the book also admits to the skepticism about string theory. Repeatedly the author shows himself to be very humble in admitting that it's still possible that Superstring theory is wrong (and that experimental physics is a little behind them :P ), and quite often he supplies the proper counterarguments to his points, even if the reader didn't think of them in the first place (of course, he supplies responses to the counterarguments). So ya, great book, definitely recommend it.

Well, to be perfectly clear the odds of an object of our mass passing through through something like a brick wall ever having happened any time at any place in the entire history of our universe are pathetically slim, but if every single atom in your body were to properlly tunnel through the molecules of the wall in the correct path, it is possible. So, yes, we "can", but trust me, it's never going to happen to you in your lifetime, nor in the history of the human race for that matter. How is that possible? The laws of electrostatic forces deny it. Here's an excerpt from my book that explains it (quantum tunneling) much better than I can: the elegant universe, p. 115

You know that image is directly from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, right :P ?

Well, to be perfectly clear the odds of an object of our mass passing through through something like a brick wall ever having happened any time at any place in the entire history of our universe are pathetically slim, but if every single atom in your body were to properlly tunnel through the molecules of the wall in the correct path, it is possible. So, yes, we "can", but trust me, it's never going to happen to you in your lifetime, nor in the history of the human race for that matter.