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I suppose if you have two strategically placed beams going in opposite directions, they could attract each other and end up chasing each other. Being so close, though, I'm not sure if there'd be any quantum effects.

Even assuming stability, I'm not sure how one would think that the light itself would have mass. Any gravitational field strong enough to make light orbit would needless to say have a tremendous amount of mass. Since the light would have to stay with the enormously massive object in order to orbit it, the loop of light(treating the loop as an object instead of analyzing the individual photons) would have a sublight speed, but that's not due to the light itself.

They are vectors of magnitude 1 in each direction of the co-ordinate system. If you have a three dimensional co-ordinate system, there are three unit vectors; one for x, y, and z axes. Any vector can be written as a sum of the unit vectors multiplied by three constants. [math]\vec{v}=a\vec{i}+b\vec{j}+c\vec{k}[/math] where v is a vector; a, b, and c are constants; and i, j, and k are unit vectors.

Where exactly does the tree come from? It's no more a Christian holiday than a secular one.

should christians retain religious holidays/festivals just because they like them/want to and can they do so without compromising their beliefs

It's kind of funny that people get so upset about using x-mas, since it's a Christian convention that's been in use forever. X is the first letter in Christ.

Again, is it not possible that what you describe is due to cultural programming?

Is it not possible that this is cultural programming?

NASA has a good pdf on tensors.

Velocities do not add linearly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition_formula [math]S=\frac{v+u}{1+\frac{vu}{c^2}}[/math] Where S is the sum of the two velocities, v is the velocity of an object, and u is the velocity of the other.

Wasn't it the religious groups that lobbied for this law? Wasn't it Reagan who signed it into law? Would Reagan sign a PC nonsense law designed to strip people of their rights? Or is it only PC nonsense when it's an actually oppressed minority trying to exercise the rights granted to them by law?

Where, exactly does political correctness come into play? And who, exactly, has lost any rights?

Catholic schools are not public schools, so any discussion about them need not apply. Public schools do not have have the right to disallow a club based on its political, religious, or philosophical leanings. That is why they had to remove all clubs instead of just denying that one. They removed all extra-curricular clubs so that the law does not apply as one of the requirements is that the school "Already have a limited open forum, which means that at least one student-led, non-curriculum club that meets outside of class time"; if they have no extracurriculars, then they do not have to allow groups that go against their political leaning. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-straight_alliance

Maybe even a Federation of Christian Athletes.

A school in Texas decided it was better to cancel all extracurricular clubs than to allow a gay-straight alliance club.

If you've ever bent a paperclip back and forth, you'd notice it doesn't have to get terribly hot to melt enough to make an open.

So, anything over itself(aside from zero or infinity) is equal to one. We can use that to cancel out things in fractions. Let us consider a2/a. We can factor out an a in the numerator to get [imath]\frac{aa}{a}[/imath] which, given the trick learned above, reduces to [imath]\frac{a}{1}=a[/imath]. So, a2 divided by a1 is a1. It turns out that this generalizes and dividing like bases is simply a matter of subtracting the power of the base in the denominator by the power of the like base in the numerator which yields the remaining power of base after simplification. Since any number(besides zero or infinity) taken to the 0 power is 1, we can see why 1/a is the same as a-1. Since a0=1, we can do the division with a0. 0-1=-1. That means the power of the base is -1.

It sounds more feasible as a raw material source for the ship than a part of some terraforming plan.

I think cap'n's point is worth repeating:

[19:25] * Capn_Refsmmat -> food [19:26] <Sylar> ~food [19:26] <Sylar> therefore, ~Capn_Refsmmat [19:26] <Sylar> QED [19:26] <Capn_Refsmmat> indeed. [19:26] * Capn_Refsmmat has quit (Quit: ~Capn_Refsmmat)

It was odd that at first he was all "Where'd you get the silly idea that Reagan raised the social security tax?"(paraphrased) and then went on to question the guy's source as though it was incorrect information.

That's a very interesting question, imo. And it's somewhat revealing that Rush cut the guy's mic. Why would that question test Rush's ability to be polite? For those on the right side of the political spectrum who also put Reagan on a pedestal, could you answer the question?

[10:41] <Schroedingers_hat> That comes up in scifi quite a lot [10:41] <Schroedingers_hat> look up panspermia [10:42] <Sylar> never sperm in a pan [10:42] <Sylar> you cook food in pans, dude [10:43] <Schroedingers_hat> Sperm is high in protein!