Durakken

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jagged View Post
    In the episode in question you get the perspective. It is much larger.


    You really need to see that episode.
    Saw it, forgot about it till after I posted about Time Lords human thing

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    Also the universe is currently believed to be around 13.7 billion years old with the first stars forming at around 1 billion. (Just watched Horizon ) Our solar system is only 4.5 billion years old, so plenty of time for star spanning civilisations to rise and fall.
    One would think, but not really.
    See back when stars first formed there was nothing else there... just Hydrogen and Helium. Those are called 1st generation stars. They were big and died fast and hard, lasting only millions of years, but this got things going with a few heavier elements and black holes...

    After that Second Generation stars popped up, but they still only have lighter elements to work with when forming whatever they formed. Not sure whether they have planets or not. The lived a bit longer, but ultimately there just isn't enough heavy elements around while these guys were forming to create planets and life...

    After that Third Generation stars formed, which our star and planets came about almost as soon as this stage began and it took Earth 4 billion years years roughly to cool down and get the right mixture for life to occur and as soon as it reached the point where it was possible life came about...

    Once life came about you can pretty much track brain size and intelligence and such back to the dawn of animals with brains and there is a steady growth curve between the first and the current animals on earth.

    In other word Humans came about pretty much as soon as Sentient life could come about. Since we're not sure when our drive to start advancing technologically came we only know that humans have been around for about 2 million years, in their current form 200,000, and we only really took off in a major way 10,000ish years ago.

    So at best sentient life has only been around for 2 million or less years as far as the data seems to indicate... and it is also the case that even if you would consider humans sentient for all that time more advanced civilization only occurred very recently... and our level only within the last 100.

    I would push back and say that 2000 years ago we had the ability to do those 100 years knowledge wise, but not the right environment.

    So best case scenario our data points say that if everything lined up and somehow increased how fast another race got to where we are and beyond the oldest races would be no more than a 2-2.5 million years old, but more than likely they had to face similar prehistorical paths and every sentient life is within 2000 years ahead of where we are today or behind...

    That seems like a little but it's a huge number considering exponential growth of technology.

    Also as pointed out evolution makes things smarter over time so as more stars form and such over the timeline there will be few sentient races and then exponentially more as time goes by as long as we don't kill them off or mess with their evolution.

    That's one of the reasons I think SETI is sort of a joke right now. We're likely one of the first species to get to where we are. There is no help out there. There are no super advanced aliens coming to kill us. There are just a bunch of species at beginning of the journey to explore the universe.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
    Who's on the far left?

    I'm guessing the next person is Two-Face, then Penguin, then Killer Croc, dunno the skinny redhead with glasses, but then Barbara, Bruce, dunno who's to the left of Bruce (Scarecrow?), then Selina, Joker, Harley, Poison Ivy, Bane and Mr Freeze.
    the redhead is Riddler
    The guy on the far left I believe that's Clayface
    The guy to right of Bruce is Scarecrow

    Yup I was right and here's some more images

    http://jeffandceleste.blogspot.com/2...tham-high.html
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Samoa View Post
    The same thin happened with the Guardians of Oa. In Blackest Night, we find that they originated from Earth, but moved to Oa to hide the importance of Earth. Over centuries, they all but forgot they'd come from anywhere but Oa.
    Wow... you read that wrong

    Earth is where the first LIFE originated.
    Earth is not where the Guardians come from and they never forgot where they came from. They come from Maltus.
    Maltusians are the first SENTIENT life to have evolved.

    Maltusians, when they left their home planet evolved into several offshoots...
    Guardians
    Zamarons
    Controllers
    Leprechauns
    Babylonian Deities (One of which interbred with Humans)
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
    Also, let's not forget that Gallifrey is a red, bronze and rust coloured planet that is much larger than earth.

    Moreover, earth was destroyed in the year 5 billion, with it's human inhabitants having moved off world, still as humans (although, not "pure" humans)
    Another thing to note is that the Gallifreyans evolved billions upon billions of years before life on earth even existed, and actually became Time Lords billions of years before humans existed.

    Then, of course, let's not forget that earth exists concurrently with the Time Lords (although, not from the same Time as the Doctor's Time Lord, some media states he left Gallifrey around the year 2 Billion).
    The problem with that picture is Gallifrey is closer to us and we have no point of reference so it could actually be smaller but closer...but I'm pretty sure its' not.

    Forgetting the impossibility of life starting billions of years before it did on earth for the most part if Time Lords are in the present doesn't that mean that the stasis lock at some point is removed?
  5. Durakken

    Ratings

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    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    On one hand you can rate things with a normal distribution where 0 is extraordinarily bad and 1 is extraordinarily good with 0.5 being average. This makes the most sense from a mathematical point of view.

    However most all of us were conditioned by schooling where 75 out of 100 (a C) is considered average and below 60 is considered failing.

    So while so review sites try to rate movies, games, whatever on a pure 1 to 10 or 1 to 5 scale where 5 or 3 is considered average simply too many of us won't accept, even if it's explained to us, that a 5 out of 10 or 3 out of 5 as average.

    Take Rotten Tomatoes. They report the percentage of reviews that "passed" on a pass/fail grade where 60 out of 100 or below is fail. School grading mentality.
    there are so many things wrong with that and we really shouldn't be teaching people that nor is it accurate even within the education system as it is now.


    The rating system of games and such where below 7 = unplayable was actually created by Game Publishers and Game Reviewers... Basically Publishers will stop providing Reviewers with games to review if they get low numbers so the Reviewers started rating them higher and thus anything lower than 7 is used for it's so bad we don't care if you stop giving us games to review and it would be unethical to suggest people buy it in any way.



    As far as referring to LAG... it's just a jumping off point to talk about how ratings and what is said/thought by the reviewers seem to contradict each other.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jagged View Post
    Gallifrey's civilisation pre-dates Earth's quite significantly. To quote from the first episode:

    The Doctor : "For your science, school-master. Not for ours. I tell you, before your ancestors had turned the first wheel, the people of my world had reduced movement through the farthest reaches of space to a game for children."
    The Doctor lies...
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Veritech View Post
    For two or three issues. Bob Kane deep sixed the gunslinging Batman and even brought in the 'no killing' policy a little while later. so yes, he used a gun, and then they took it away. Therefore, gunslinging Batman is bad.
    Batman was allowed to a gun from May 1939 (his first appearance) to April 1940, his first self title issue.

    How often he used a gun or if he intentionally carried one I don't know, but all the issues I've seen he didn't use guns and only know of the one issue he did use guns and it was in Batman #1 to kill giants... which lead to Whitney Ellsworth to decree that is no longer allowed to use guns or kill.

    Robin was introduced that very same month in 'tec #38 ^.^

    Also Batman did use a gun during the last 20 years. He strapped the gun that killed his parents on as a reaction to thinking he might need to go more extreme. At the end of the issue or the next issue he decided he didn't need it and would never use guns.

    btw... Guns refers to guns with regular bullets. Batman has used various other types of guns all the time.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Not likely. Gallifrey has two suns. From the episode "Gridlock".
    Ahh but a advanced race could easily move stars about ^.^
  9. Could Gallifrey be Earth in the future?

    Gallifrayans look a lot like Humans...
    Humans and Galligrayans are mixable genetically via Donna Noble
    Humans seem to be effected by the time vortex and can become Time Lords
    We've never seen another Time Lord near Earth save for rebels(of course i haven't watched all Dr. Who)
    There is a law against travelling into Gallifrayan history
    The Dalleks like to attack Earth a lot and the Dalleks hate the Time Lords...
  10. Durakken

    Ratings

    Today I was watching Last Angry Geek and he gave reviews on DCnU books...
    He gave Teen Titans a 3 out of 5 stars. He then later went through and listed "good" books and in that list he included Teen Titans.

    I'm not going to say his score was wrong, but at that the same time...wtf?

    Some of you may be wondering what I'm talking about now so I guess I have to explain. He gave the book a 3 out of 5. That is what is called "average" A book that is middle of the road, take it or leave. It's not a "good" book, but rather an average book.

    Now, I don't know about you but when I see a ratings and give ratings I give rate as such...

    1 Star = Garbage
    2 Star = Below Average (bad)
    3 Star = Average (meh)
    4 Star = Above average (good)
    5 Star = Great

    Is this just me that hasn't fallen to the crapped up system?

    That system being that the real average is like 8/10 and anything under 7/10 is unreadable/unwatchable/unplayable.

    *note that a 3 star score is really a 6/10 when you use half stars...
  11. Ironically the only thing that the Apple company has every really pioneered is the one thing that most people completely ignore and that is the App store or iTunes... everything else as been tying the app store to a product to make it stream better from developer to client...

    Of course in reality the app store is just the digitization of a mall and itune initially started off as a digital music shop that then expanded into other areas... just like a ton of other electronics shops...

    of course it's also somewhat ironic that that is the one area that makes a Mac not as good as a PC.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Olantern View Post
    Also, Batman and Nightwing Katana-woman or whatever her name is are mindless, since they have no crania. Alfred does have a cranium, but he appears to be wearing a toupee for some reason. And the villains of the show appear to be the Three Little Pigs, who presumably lair in evil hideouts made of straw, wood, and reinforced concrete.

    Oh, well. I've been surprised before. And even if this is as bad and silly as it looks, it's another thing for me to enjoy not liking about the Batman, whom I primarily appreciate in an "I love to hate him" way.
    I believe alfred is wearing what is called a Bowler? It's a type of hat. The pig faced character as far as I know was introduced when the character Scarlet was introduced, but I may be wrong. I've not seen him before so he at least wasnt in modern age cannon till Scarlet was introduced which was within the year.
  13. I'm not sure whether I'll try to read all the new DC comics and review em again this week...
  14. Well that's out of left field...
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TerraDraconis View Post
    I wonder about that question. It is implied that the question he answers is.

    Dr. Who?

    But why would that answer be so dangerous? Unless some of the wilder speculations about the true nature of The Doctor are true. But it will be interesting to see where they do go with that.
    Well considering the speech magic has been shown to be somewhat true in universe and The Doctor is responsible for creation of the current universe... if he were to give his name and then give it backwards it would destroy that universe ^.^

    Of course there is also the idea that he may know the answer to a question that could result in a cataclysm caused by other learning the answer to that question...

    That being said we have been having it driven into our heads that
    "The Doctor Lies"

    and the Silence as well as several others already know the answer/question...

    So it's not so much knowing or asking so much as who and where those questions are asked... and i doubt it has much to do with where so it must be a who that learns of the answer/question that does something rather than the doctor himself or any other thing...


    And then again I find it interesting that this all presupposes that the Silence know the future and try to alter it resulting in the future to come about that they tried to change... or is it that they know that these things needed to happen and are helping it along thus the Silence is actually good guys and not bad guys.
  16. Birds and beds... not really all that interesting
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chyll View Post
    You have referred to comic physics repeatedly as what you are talking about. If that isn't what you mean, you aren't as succinct and clear as you think.
    no i have not

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    Again, I think your perception of most people is flawed. Or certainly flawed for a geeky web community forum. And it takes no searching at all...
    As an example of fact, the Google return was within seconds to present me 5 million results. I am not going to spend the necessary time to read about them - because it really doesn't matter. If I where, there are many .edu sites included in the results so I could learn a lot, I am sure.
    So instead of reading what you found you decided to say "i got x number of results" because if you were to type strong nuclear potential energy you get all of 1 or 2 actual results that use that term... Now after rethinking it I thought what if I typed in "nuclear potential energy" with the quotes and then i used it with strong and weak... well the first search turns up very little actual results but links to 5 million-ish sites... while with the quotes you get 86,000 for the first and roughly 6 each for the other two. Considering you got the former... well. Yeah that tells a lot about what you're willing to go on.

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    No... not at all. In my world it includes politely referring to sources, discussing why 'facts' may be different and find where an opinion may be mistaken as a fact before attacking someone who may have questioned my side of things.
    You think not lying, not harassing, paying attention to the wording and the context... is not polite discussion?

    As far as posting sources. i'm not going to go look for sources again just cuz someone flagged my post with sources in it. And they did flag it the "filter" doesn't work the way someone thinks it does.


    Anyways I'm done with this. There's no point in continuing with people who have decided I'm wrong without actually paying attention.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chyll View Post
    You continue to miss that you may be talking about how you think comic physics works but Arcanaville is solidly keeping to the real world.


    Oh, and nuclear explosion and its many and varied results does not equal nuclear energy. I've never thought so, so either I'm not 'most people', or you could quit claiming to speak for me.


    Frankly, there are ways to politely discuss a difference in interpretation of facts and opinion that supports civil discourse when a disagreement arises. Then there is... well,...
    I am talking about real physics and how it actually works.

    Most people have never heard the words strong/weak nuclear potential energy and it takes quite a bit of searching to find those terms. Most people associate Nuclear energy with the energy that is produced from a nuclear reaction and most strongly with that reaction that comes from nuclear power plants.

    Yes, there are polite ways to discuss things. They start with not lying, not harassing, paying attention to the wording and the context, stuff like that. I'm not the one that is doing those things... you guys are.

    Or wait do you mean by polite someone saying something wrong while they are "correcting" you and you graciously saying that you were wrong when you're not just because the other person is more liked?
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    However, to state that nuclear energy is kinetic is like saying nuclear energy is steam energy.
    This is all i read and I'll tell you the reason I stopped.

    You still don't get that it is very clear what I was talking about considering the context and most people's use of the word nuclear energy. I've also directly stated it several times now so the rest of whatever you are going to say is irrelevant.

    I will admit I had no idea that there was such a thing as strong and weak nuclear energies and in fact there are only a very few places that I have even found that definition and here I did they used it wrongly. However, even with that what I am/was talking about is not and never has been potential and if you were better at picking up context clues or, like I said, paying attention you'd see that what i was talking about is the resultant energy of a nuclear bomb which is heat and radiation...which is what? Oh that's right Kinetic.

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    Nuclear energy - the energy in atomic nucleii - is potential energy.
    Energy IN matter, or rather that is matter, is intrinsic. And my original comment holds merit here because potential energy is strongly associated with the forces and could be more or less defined as the ability of forces to do work. ie Hold things together, cause decay, holding you to the earth, etc. The potential energy is in holding everything together and causing decay.

    When you split an atom you convert that potential energy into kinetic by adding enough kinetic energy to overcome thing bonds that hold the particles together. This only lasts a short while because the forces are strong and reconvert that kinetic energy to potential energy, but at the same time intrinsic energy is lost and converts to kinetic or the sub-types of kinetic as heat and radiation.

    In other words Nuclear energy is the energy BETWEEN particles not IN a structure. And has very little to do with what a competent, attentive reader would understand that I was talking about.

    You know it would be awfully nice of me if i wasn't pedantic about that word in and maybe you could be non-pedantic about me saying radiation was potential energy... oh wait that wasn't me that was you >.> Oh I know I'll be less pedantic about quoting properly without manipulating them to make the other party look to be in the wrong...
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starsman View Post
    I don't know about anyone else, and as I noted I'm not physisyst, but I never considered Nuclear energy to be kinetic in any way. I always just thought it was a matter of temperature and static (as in no movement) radiation. It is my guess most people see nuclear energy and nuclear explossions as two different things, but again, everyone tends to judge based on their own personal perspectives (present or past.)
    temperature and static (as in no movement) radiation

    This is what is scary...

    You don't understand that temperature is caused by energy flowing from a more energetic source to a more energetic source and is a form of EM radiation.... which in turn is Kinetic Energy

    There is no such thing as "static" radiation. Radiation is by definition not static. it's particles coming off a source.


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    Originally Posted by RemusShepherd View Post
    Saying that 'everything is kinetic energy' is not quite right, but it's a simplification I could live with if I were talking to kindergartners. The main problem with it is not in how energy is defined but in how it is transmitted.

    ...

    So there's a lot of different ways to hurt something. They're not all 'kinetic'.
    I'm pretty sure you are absolutely wrong

    Energy is the ability to do work.
    Potential energy is positional energy (ie working to hold something together)
    Kinetic energy is motion energy (ie anything that moves is kinetic energy)

    So if you remove all kinetic energy and disallow conversion of potential and intrinsic to kinetic...

    How do you propose anything interacts? And what would you need a potential energy for. nothing is moving thus nothing needs to be held together.

    if nothing moves how does something get hurt?

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    Now, when we talk about 'energy', it really only exists in combination with momentum. Photons have momentum and thus energy, but no mass. Other particles have mass and momentum, and their energy is often called kinetic energy.
    that's wrong... matter = energy. Photons do have mass thus why you can cause lensing by messing with light. ...actually nothing "has" mass but that's a whole other issue.

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    'Potential energy' isn't an energy at all, it's just a privileged position within a force field that could turn into energy in the right circumstance. Lift an object, you create gravitational potential. Pull quarks apart and you create strong force potential. It ain't energy until it moves something.
    Again potential energy is the working ability to hold things in a force. It's energy. it's doing work.


    Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure if I looked up all those terms again they'd say the same thing.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starsman View Post
    Is Arcanaville's point there a lie? Sounds logical to me.

    I will conceed that the first Strong and Weak mention came from Arcanaville, but thats irrelevant (from what i understand) since the original point was to clear that nuclear energy is not kinetic, but becomes kinetic.
    The lie comes from the omission where it is implied I don't know what I'm talking about because when i said Nuclear energy I'm talking about it LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. The way you and i and everyone else thinks of nuclear energy and power is kinetic energy.

    Further she's just straight wrong in what is considered potential and kinetic energy within the reaction. The fact is the energy that we call nuclear energy and the one that is implied is that of what would be the result from a nuclear bomb. Not between particles at the atomic and sub atomic levels. But more over the fact is the energy that I was referring to IS kinetic and comes from intrinsic energy and never is potential.

    More over the example given by Arcana for what nuclear energy is is wrong, and the statement that radiation is not kinetic shows a clear misunderstanding of the concepts.

    At worst I referred to something colloquially. That is the only error you could point out of anything that I said in reality. However, Arcana is speaking technically and missing the point to correct me on, missing the point of what i said, going on a tangent, and adding nothing to the actual conversation while taking credit for what I pointed out in the first place.

    Within that "rant" I even admitted that I found ONE and ONLY ONE source referring to strong and weak nuclear energy but obviously gave bad examples and in general wasn't a credible source and didn't match up with any other sources I could find.

    More or less this is 2 people talking past each other but one is being purposely dishonest and maliciously trying to make the other look bad in favor of trying to look like an intellect.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leo_G View Post
    So Durakken's long angry mega rant got axed? Bummer.
    I didn't know saying someone is a liar and it is readily apparent as well as they have the physics wrong with sources backing it up like so many keep saying I never do is considered a rant.

    Of course that is deleted but the Arcana and Furio and several others being harassing and insulting is still there... You know I think I'll go flag them all see what happens as they should be deleted to.

    btw this is going to be my standard response. I'm tired of this trolling so from now On you get flagged.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fanservice View Post
    Actually Flashpoint set up that this new Universe is a reboot.

    Not in a very exciting way, but it did.
    No. Flashpoint set up a universe that was changed, but largely the same meaning that most everything should be as it was with minor changes.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quasadu View Post
    I disagree with this vehemently. This is my "vehement tone" I'm using. Canon is what is printed on the page and that's it. There's a very simple reason.

    If you want to accept something that is said "officially" as canon, that's fine. You are welcome to accept that as canon. However, not everyone bothers to follow every tweet, FB post, con panel, or blog. What is the official venue for release of an official statement of canon, outside of the comics themselves? I don't know. Is there someplace in the comic that tells me? Why should I care, if it's stated outside the comics but never actually appears in the comics? How does it impact the story in any way if it isn't actually in the story?

    So, I will happily ignore such an "official statement" until it appears in the comics. Then it's canon.
    The same way that in the comics it was never specifically stated that this was a reboot/relaunched or anything else. That comes from Statements, not the comics themselves
  25. What do you mean? rely too much on?

    Do they use them more than they would irl? no
    Is it a bad thing depends on the writer and character...

    With a bad writer they will write that the solution to the problem will always be some application of their power

    with a good writer they will come up with ways to take advantage of this natural over reliance... for example... Superman never dodges because he doesn't need to... You could have a villain that creates a bullet that is made of kryptonite lined with a small amount of led that will wear off when shot. Superman wouldn't dodge it and thus be injured. Then you could play off that...