JaKiri

It's a lack of remote connection is what it is. There's nothing significantly wrong with it.

Read the sticky on LaTex.

I think he's talking about the PA Forums, there are lots of football threads on there.

No you weren't, he said precisely the opposite to you. The fact that the justification was the same is hardly supporting your cause. Can you please define what exactly you would class as evolution, or changes to the species? Recent examples of evolution, for instance, would be growing immunity to certain forms of illnesses. Does this not count in your eyes? What about the other changes that have been mentioned?

Damn you and your derivatives.

It doesn't really mean anything in practice, all of mine are yellow and I still get the files.

By changing in traits, both internal and external?

Because he's wrong.

Depends where you are.

What in the world does this mean?

Because we're camper than a row of pink tents.

The kids don't really apply to this argument, as they've been born; neither does the implied slippery slope of the holocaust thing.

For most intents and purposes, there are 4. The three spatial dimensions, and time. However, some current postulates require the existance of other dimensions, as part of what is called a Calibi-Yau space. These are usually referred to as being 'curled up', as they're pretty damn small. As an example, consider an ant on a rope. If it goes forwards or backwards, it can (assuming an infinite rope) go on forever. If it goes left or right, it can only go a short distance before coming back on itself, as it walks around the rope. The curled up dimensions are like going round the outside of the rope. Of course, that's only speculation at the current point in time.

Brute force works very very well. From TNG on, anything they wanted to.

It is impossible to reach absolute zero using current techniques, because it will be asymptotic. As a starting investigation, I'd like you to try and inform us how you can hold an atom physically, as you've gone off into the realm of pseudoscience there.

"New Order of the Ages" It's a sort-of quote from Virgil, and possibly the most mistranslated piece of latin on the internet, usually by people who assume that the final word is related to 'secular'. Here's an explanatory link.

The American intelligence services are becoming extremely insular (breaking significant contacts with the UK and Canada, for example) as a result of Homeland Security, which cannot be a good thing. It's just representative of the US's current tendency to paranoia and regression.

Pretty damn badly. Diamond is so strong because it's a giant covalent compound, whereas C60 is molecular covalent. Nanotubes are a better diamond comparison.

Faster, yes, but infinitely more inefficient, especially as you approach the speed of light.

Why was what?

If it were possible to travel faster than lightspeed, you could travel faster than lightspeed. This is a singularly useless line of investigation. Re: this whole propulsion argument. You don't need thrust, other than directional, throughout the voyage. You only need it at the start and at the end. It'd be fairly trivial in science terms to build a vessel that could get to Alpha in, say, a decade, but the resource cost would be astronomical. Boom boom.

Not strictly speaking. It's merely representing the argument of an opponent in a form which is easier to refute. The derivation is fairly straightforward.