Crodley

Thanks for the replies! Very interesting stuff. My wife and I are enlightened. Crodley

Hi folks, Here's an elementary question my wife and I were wondering. From something I read recently, the sky looks blue and the sun appears yellow, because the atmosphere filters the blue from the white light from the sun and bounces it around. Now if that is fact, why do most stars at night appear white instead of yellow? Why does the atmosphere not filter out the blue from that smaller spectrum? Waiting for the easy answer I assume is out there. Crodley

The Giraffe gives birth standing, so the baby drops 6 feet to the ground when born. Visualize a building 20 miles wide and 20 miles long and 20 miles tall. This will represent all the space we can see with our technology. To represent all matter that we can see inside this empty space, you drop a single grain of sand. Both facts are from Isaac Asimov's "Book of Facts." (paraphrased by me and my highly fallible brain) However, it was written I believe in 1975 so the 20 mile wide building fact would, of course, be off by now.

Well, the thing I want is for my main character to explain to his apprentice about alternate universes and he can't very well do that if it wasn't known at that time...hmmm. (of course, since it's fantasy it doesn't have to be that accurate...but...) Latter part of the 20th too eh...darn can't make it a noir set in the 30's either, heh... My main problem is I need it to take place before the atom was split... Ahh well. I'll keep working on it, thanks TONS for the info Crodley

Hi folks, Got a science fiction story running through my head (they always run, they never seem to sit down on paper, heh) about other dimensions/alternate universes. But I want to set it back in time, perhaps the old west or so. My stumbling block is when did the idea of alternate universes first appear? Before the old shoot-em up days of the west or after? I'm hoping you can adjust my fantasies appropriately. Thanks in advance. Crodley

Hmmmm just curious, if getting the drink colder slows down the process what happens if it gets frozen? Does it reatin it's "fizzyness" fully when thawed? If I recall right when I've drank pop (yes, "pop" is a midwest thing, heh so "soda" if you're not from here) that was frozen once it tasted different, though that could be just my mind playing tricks on me. Crodley

Well, I know what use this time machine could be.... In a previous post, it was said that if you would go back in time, the earth would no longer be there as it would continue forward in time, and continue moving through space... Now, you need a lot of calculations, but you could figure out when to step into the machine where you are at the "leading edge" of the earth before going back in time. For a bad example, picture the earth as a baseball being thrown towards home plate. (For the sake of the example, assume it does not rotate) On this earth-sized baseball, you are facing home plate as it travels. When the machine puts you back in time, you are where you were when the ball just left the pitchers hand, but the ball is actually in the catchers mitt. Now, if you could go back in a time just a split second instead of an hour, you could leave the ball facing home plate and go back a split second in time to where the ball has moved one ball length toward home plate and you are on the side of the ball facing the PITCHER instead of home plate. So, with a whole lot of calculations, this time machine becomes a one way matter transporter, from the "front" of the Earth to the "rear" I hope I made my idea clear....Of course, I don't think this time machine will work, but if it did, this would be a nice use for it. Crodley

You're welcome. And speaking of links, here's one you may find interesting based on your sig. Load this page and look at the 5th image down. http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1251&p=3 Crodley

Quote: "Though, people only use 10% of their brain in there lifetime" A famous myth that seems not to be true. Check out this website to read more about it. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html But I DO know if you ask my wife she'll agree I only use 10% of MY brain. Crodley