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1: Do you really need to engage in childish name calling? 2: The machines are not intelligent even if they are being controlled by the electricale impulses of the brain. They cannot think for themselves and therefore are not intelligent. It is simply a machine under the mental control of its...

I think most likely they would shake their collective heads and sigh about how idiotic we are as a race in general.

I think the reason that most old sci-fi ships are aerodynamic is because they were meant to enter atmosphere but if you are just hopping around the galaxy anything would work... oooh like the big cigar tube thimgies from the Dune novels.

But think of the headlines... Instead of "hundreds die in fiery explosion as plane crashes." it becomes "hundreds shatter into millions of unidentifiable parts as liquid nitrogen plane crashes" Sorry just a cynical kind of day.

If by exceeding the gravity you mean an increase in velocity then they will slingshot out of orbit. Otherwise they will, as traveler said, fall into the planets gravity well and either burn up in the atmosphere or impact with the surface of the planet itself. However if it is a gas giant they...

Ahhh. But you run into the same risks with manned combat vehicles. The amount of computerization and communications equipment could be "hacked" or jammed. Pilots could be given false information etc. Also it is really difficult to "jam" direct pulse laser control. And while a live pilot...

Does anyone here know the story of the Foo Bird?

A guy walked up to me the other day and asked, "Have you found Jesus?" I looked at him and replied. "WHAT? Dont tell me you lost him again." George Carlin said it better but it is still a favorite of mine.

So when I train in say... Martial Arts untill specific responses to a set stimuli become an unconcious reaction, i.e. blocking an attack and then countering, Have I in essence "hacked" my CPU and altered its programing?

So what youre basically saying Nietzchefan is; Read more sci-fi? :D

Charlatan "This is done because gravity is based on cold air dragging everything down" I always thought that cold air sank and warm air rose do to the molecules in warm air being a biy more "excited" than those in cold air. Cold air has less space between the molecules, is therfore more...

Scientists currently believe that life could exist in gas giants in the form of microbes and such. Could life evolve in a more complex form? What sort of adaptations would be nescessary? I think that some sort of jellyfish-like creature could evolve using gasses to maintain bouancy in the upper...

Give Gordon R. Dickson's Dorsai books a try

I guess what this all really proves is that the SpaceBalls Win

So while the creation of a stable Einstein-Rosen bridge (E.R. Bridge for short) to another universe is not possible, what about the creation of an E.R. bridge between fixed points in our own universe. It would allow faster than light travel without violating the relativity theory. Or am I...

I was thinking something more sleek and erganomical... A choice of colors, maybe touch screen. Built into something you could wear on your arm.

Apocalypse2001; My mistake about the newest movie. I had heard that they were planning sequels and a series to "re-invent" Star Trek. As for the asteroid thing I think we can all agree that the physics in Star Wars and Star Trek just don't work. In reality I know that "dogfights" between...

I thought that a black hole was a gravitational field so strong that once the event horizon was passed nothing, not even light, could escape it. I understand they do emit radiation, but for the most part once it goes in it doesn't come out. A white hole was the theoretical counterpart to a black...

I just wanted to make a quick point about the "catch-pans" The addition of carbon rods soaks up excess neurons and speeds the cooling process by slowing the reaction even more. As long as you built well designed containment vessels it would be safer than having to pump water into a reactor to...

I knew NASA had used it for something.... Thanks.