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    Decelerating warp drives: How to detect them?

    I think the most plausible observation to be seen would be that there's a sudden burst of light, as the image of the ship suddenly appears with a blue-shifted after-image diverging away from it back along it's former approach path--this could have some gamma or Xray burst accompanying it...
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    FTL, avoiding time travel issues?

    I grew up with Star Trek (and the Alcubierre warp drive is a outflow of that kind of thinking to could allow such type of travel to be possible). One point that was made on Star Trek was that they also had an FTL comms system. Even so, they had constant problems with their ship's clocks--thus...
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    A fun thought experiment: the science of electric superpowers

    The two main comic companies, DC & Marvel each have a plethora of characters with similar powers, especially those with many various electrically based abilities. Some can generate and send only a DC type charge, and some with AC abilities. Either have been able to cast directed lightning...
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    Need a Little Help With Gravity--just hypothetical & theory

    Thanks for your reply, MFB. To be honest, I don't know if the changes would necessarily cause the concept of "point-mass" to no longer have validity. Certainly, the equations for Force of Gravity would have to be changed to account for the higher distance dimension in an Altered G constant...
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    How do you like the short story "They're Made Out of Meat"

    That's such a cute story! Thanks for sharing :biggrin:
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    Need a Little Help With Gravity--just hypothetical & theory

    I was helping someone with his fanfiction where a system didn't have the same gravitational constant that exists within the rest of the universe.There was a throw-away line given by Q on the Star Trek episode, "Deja Q", where Q was asked how would he fix the problem of a moon falling out of...
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    Did Arthur C Clarke invent Geostationary orbit of satellites ?

    I think you misread or maybe the title of the article is misleading. It goes on to state: "It is important to keep in mind however that the orbits themselves aren’t patented, technological solutions for providing telecommunications which utilize equipment in those orbits are patent eligible."...
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    Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, and the MCU

    I'm pretty much in awe, as ZapperZ is. Back in the 1960's, when I was growing up, the normal trend for any spinoffs was for the cast for the new and old shows would make an appearance together - once - then never see each other or be mentioned again. Archie Bunker had several spinoffs, and I...
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    What is the probability of Multi-Dimensional Entities?

    In that case, it definitely would be less than or equal to 0. Although, in a strickly mathematical and logical sense, it would be actually less than or equal to 1, which I suspect, puts either back in the same usefulness as Drakkith's answer above ;)
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    A fatal chemical Reaction for TV Series

    Yeah, the nanotech sounds like a good idea for what the OP wants it to do—doing too much yet arbitrarily limited requires something that can be programmed
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    Dr Who Fans Unite - Join the Community

    you woundn't happen to have recordings of them all, do you?--garbageloads of the episodes from Hartnell & Troughton got wiped out due to neglect on BBC's part. Now, they're trying to recover anything folks may have (illegally--back then) recorded so they can recreate the missing years. Loise...
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    Could a lightsaber cut through adamantium?

    Is the word you're looking for perhaps, "maybe"? We've seen Wolvie's claws get pretty heated with the same type of optic blast that Scott Summers uses. And lightsabers have been seen to need time to cut through blast doors, so adamantium should be at least as resistance as they are, if not...
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    Exploring Quark Stars: Facts and Mysteries

    Good article about Quark stars: http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=31543.php of course, the title instantly makes me think, "Piccard would not approve!" :biggrin:
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    Can We Identify Anti-Matter Galaxies?

    I just looked at the wiki about CP. Some of it seems problematic. The experiments involving Co60, for instance, only exists for matter, as there're no samples of antimatter Co to work from. There is evidence of Neutral Kaons & B mesons to support some sort of violation, but it's unclear if they...
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    Can We Identify Anti-Matter Galaxies?

    The problem I see with the currently accepted theory is that matter is somehow “inherently superior" to antimatter, which violates CP. And the efforts to explain how it doesn’t violate CP seem convoluted and contrived. I've often wondered about if the large scale voids, between galactic...
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