Durakken

George Lucas...Now trying to **** with your grandparents' childhood...

as you know I'm reading them from 87' on...

It's something of a challenge to actually get through them because... well... there is too much text...especially descriptive text. it's mind numbingly boring and loads the page down with mountains of text...

So will this end "soon" (i'm on 1988's issues)

Or has this continued up into the current trends?

Please be the latter... Please...

Of course it could be a nice mix of Supernatural and Smallville... and even if is good people will still complain about something so meh

Power Rangers win and they didn't even have to call in the Ultrazord which would still have been fair for them to have done ^.^

personally I'd prefer to see a show about Black Alice and Misfit. I mean, what could be more fun than watching a spunky clumsy teenaged girl with teleporting powers that is unpopular for some weird reason interacting with a popular goth teenaged girl with the ability to take any magic of other peoples.... and they hate each other...and are sisters... That is a perfect set up for an awesome series.

also they aren't well known or well developed characters so they could do a lot with them without stepping on anyones' toes.

According to an interview I saw of Stan Lee... it was Lee who put characters around peter in those types of situations because he thought they were interesting.

Earth-3...not Earth-2 show!

How did Lionell get out of the grave? They switch places, not just worlds, so dead Lionell would be in the grave...

What I got out of that... **** Nolan more.

The split happened pre-wide spread use of gates. The Ori gates are based off of Early model gates and are probably no more advanced than the early "Ancient" gates due to their out looks on life.

The seed ships were built and sent out from Earth. Also notice that the seed ships have the expressed purpose of mining for gate material, building the gates, and placing them on planets. Obviously they build hundreds/thousands at a time as naquada is supposedly a rare material. But even with thousands of gates... and using translight engines there is no way that a ship of ancient design at that stage would be able to do more than a fraction of a galaxy....and at the very minimum the ancients would likely have sent out like 4 per galaxy at minimum...

On the other hand the Destiny would be faster as it would be sent afterward and its stated mission was to reach at least 13 billion light years away. They would have realized it would have taken time to get out there and they would have needed resources... whether this was planned in advance or not... is unknown, but it is known that they would have been able to communicate with the seed ships using the gates and would have been able to reprogram them on the fly... it is likely they would have programmed the seed ships to meet up with the destiny to relay their information and possibly any other resources needed.


AS far as Eli... someone died, Gin died, his mother is depressed but that is more or less dealt with, he still can't deal with chloe, his mentor is a lieing psycho, he is continuously put in between his mentor and the one in charge, He's relied on by all the people on the ship to keep them at least honest and come up with a solution in desperate situations...and he has not been trained for any of this at all... like he said the Last Star Fighter got it wrong, games don't prepare you for having to deal with all that, no matter how immersed you get in them and how accurate they are.

I think though he should have mentioned that he played their games for hundreds of hours rather than Halo.

*sigh*

When I first responded to this I made it perfectly clear that THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMETHING EXISTING AND KNOWING WHAT THAT THING IS.

Dark Matter exists. Period. I can show you the gravitational lensing that is caused by it.

Dark Energy exists. Period. I can show you the expansion that is caused by it.

I have no clue what either Dark Matter nor Dark Energy is. There is no theory for what they are or what they might be.

Now whether it'll be renamed or subsumed into something else doesn't matter. For now, it's the name of the phenomena that is occurring.



if someone were to suddenly start floating in mid-air there is no way I could say, "I don't know what is happening so that isn't happening" No. The Floating is happening. How it's happening, why it's happening, and what is happening has nothing to do with the FACT it is happening.

Like wise there is the FACT of Gravity and there is the THEORY of Gravity. These are two very different things. Gravity exists. That is a fact. I can observe that it is happening, that it is there. Everything else is theory.


And as you said, Night-Hawk, the theories and hypothesis of science need to fit the fact. Well, The Dark Matter phenomena is a fact. Any theories or hypothesis that does not fit that this phenomena existing is not right...or at least not 100% right.

Night-Hawk it seems to me you don't understand what evidence is, considering by your own admission it is wide spread accepted, and perhaps I suck at explaining it.

Dark Matter is a phenomenon. We know that it must be there because models show that the ways stars are acting cannot occur without more gravity being there (why that is i don't exactly understand) and we can see where it is because of gravitational lensing. Which just so happens to much the models when we add enough matter to make stars in galaxies act the way they do.

Dark Matter is more or less just a place holder and while we call it matter we don't have any idea what it is, if it is actually matter, or if it is one of the types of particles we have yet to find that is predicted by quantum physics.

As far as "they claim it's all around us but I've never seen it" is just an asinine comment as you've never seen cosmic rays (another misnomer), atoms, and a number of other things. That doesn't make them not there...even more so with the idea of the atom and matter which to a certain extent could be considered non-existent in the practical sense of the word.

Dark Energy, again, is not energy. It is the phenomenon we call the thing that is responsible for the expansion of the universe at ever increasing rates.

Now if you are going to argue that just because we can only see it's effect and not it in itself so there for it doesn't exist well you've just thrown out gravity, black holes, electromagnetic spectrum and a number of other things and I presume you believe your toaster works on magic.

No...just no.

At this moment I wonder how peoples' brains works and then my nice brain goes, "Now Durakken, not everyone, despite having taken several science classes that should have taught this, has heard that there is a difference between a thing and a model of how a thing works and what it is."

Dark Matter and Dark Energy exists. It is a matter of fact. Same as Gravity and Evolution. They exist as a matter of fact.

The model of WHAT that stuff is and HOW it works is a whole different story. Those are the realm of theory and models.

It's like if I said "There is a person in the other room." You can hear them. You can smell them. It is a matter of fact that there is something there that I am calling a "person." When I open the door and show you the person I am showing you WHAT a person is, giving you the theory of a person. Now if I cut up that person and show you how the person works then I am giving you the model of how a person works.

Same thing with Gravity. There is something that is attracting something to the ground that we are going to call Gravity. When you look at Newtonian physics... that's the theory of gravity. Then we we have Einstein and that is how gravity works.

we can go on with many things... the thing exists... now we need to figure out what that thing is and how it works.

Ummm dark matter, dark energy, and warp all exist...

Dark Energy is the energy that exists everywhere that drives the expansion of the universe

Dark Matter is the matter that we have thus far not "seen" but have seen the gavitational effects of it and can map where it is on the galactic scale.

Warp has been done to a very small degree... I don't have the source of where I heard this but it has already been done on a very small scale.

It is not Arsenic-Based life.

Arsenic-based means that arsenic is the primary building block.

What was revealed is that 1 one the 6 basic building blocks can be replaced with a different element. Which means that there are now 7 basic building blocks of life that we know of. 5 of them shared by every creature we know of.

In some ways it means very little, in others it is a very important thing. For example, we could say it's not very important because it's not the primary building block and when we're searching for life we not looking for either of those elements anyways...

But on the other hand... depending on how pervasive arsenic and phosphorus are as elements it could mean the difference of 1 planet in 100 and 2 planets in 100 that could contain life and thats a huge leap.

That's for exobiology which is cool and all, but to me, not really something NASA should be announcing as it's not really important at this stage in the game for them.

That all being said, what does this mean for us? Besides being cool and a rewriting of a few lines in books...

A new hazard to kill ourselves with or be our potential savior. The primary way that they described it's benefits is that as we try to create green fuels/bio-fuels and expanding out population we are using up our phosphorus deposits. If we could bio-engineer a plant that uses arsenic instead of phosphorus we could potentially get our needed crops of food, have the phosphorus last several times long, and have "green" fuel, that is dependent on fertilizer that isn't dipping into and causing more problems with our food.

Yay, sounds great...right? But what happens if those arsenic plants get mixed in the phosphorus ones? will they be easy to tell apart? Will it cause problems if we eat it? And what about when we burn it? Yeah, we're not putting horrible green house gases in the air, but will we be putting all that arsenic in the air and how will that work out for us? I'd think that would get out of control before we knew what happened.


So for me this is more of a...

Yay, cool another cool thing that could potentially kill ourselves with.


P.S. Cynical_Gamer, if that existed out there I'd prefer knowing about it and staying far away than not knowing about it and accidentally stumbling into its territory.

Today's the day we meat ET!

Anyone have any knowledge about pre-paid/pay as you go cell phone plans?

I ask because I need to get rid of my current phone plan and get a new one along with a new phone. I don't use my phone enough to make even the lowest plans I've seen worthwhile and that doesn't answer the what phone to get.

I only use maybe 10 mins of phone time a month, if that...
And I currently have a Blackberry Pearl with 2GB SD card...(i use it mainly for an MP3 player)

So any ideas?

looking through a few deals I see a lot go off of $20 for a prepaid card that the minutes expire in 30 days... That is stupid. I might as well get a contract if that is how it works as you would end up having to pay the same price if you use it once a month.

Firestorm and the future Aqualad are both black teens

The reason they made Robin and Kid Flash those characters rather than their proper characters is because they were the first to use those names.

Aqualad I can semi understand because they wanted to have a black hero, but didn't have any... they also have a new Aqualad in brightest day so it may end up being him in the long run or something.

I think it's *** backwards to say "we're going to create a story based on this... but instead of calling them all the same characters so these less publicly known characters get some time in the light they get shafted again"

And people wonder why I say Tim and Dick are probably the two most disrespected characters for their level of readership and fame.

No >.>

I named my Black case PC... Black Box cuz Windows tells you to >.>

Why would you name things that don't need to be named? the point of naming something is to differentiate them when there are multiples that could be confused with each other and it's important... I suppose if I had another PC I'd name it, but still can't see the point in naming drives... If you have enough to name them it'd probably better just to label them in some categorical way...

I dunno which is more geeky though labeling categorically or naming...

So finished catching up with every bat title in current continuity...

Took a brief detour to read up on major arcs of GL to catch up on Brightest Day...

So now, it's on to Superman ^.^

Here's my reading list...

Action Comics ----------- 88 (#595) 894
Adventures of Superman -- 87 (#426) 649
Superman (v2) ----------- 88 (#012) 226
Superman: man of Steel -- 91 (#001) 134
Superboy (v3) ----------- 94 (#001) 100
Supergirl (v3) ---------- 94 (#001) 004
Superman: TMoT ---------- 95 (#001) 015
Supergirl (v4) ---------- 96 (#001) 080
Supergirl (v5) ---------- 05 (#001) 057
Superman Confidential --- 06 (#001) 014
Superman (v1) ----------- 07 (#650) 705
Superboy (v4) ----------- 11 (#001) 001
world of new krypton
Young Justice
DC comics presents Young Justice

(the first three titles are where I am at so that's why they are at '88 and +12 issues into the series)

Am I missing any important superman titles?

Also...so far the writing for '87's issues...Horrible! it is incredibly laborious to read through these so far...


Also here's my current read list... all great titles ^.^
#01. Batman ------------- 11 (#704)
#02. Detective Comics --- 11 (#870) c w4
#03. Superman/Batman ---- 11 (#078)
#04. Batman and Robin --- 11 (#016) c w4
#05. Streets of Gotham -- 11 (#017)
#06. Gotham City Sirens - 11 (#016) c w4
#07. Red Robin ---------- 11 (#017)
#08. Batgirl v3 --------- 11 (#015)
#09. Birds of Prey v2 --- 11 (#006)
#10. The Dark Knight ---- 11 (#???) [not begun]
#11. Batman, Inc. ------- 11 (#001)
#12. Green Lantern ------ 11 (#059)
#13. Green Lantern Corps 11 (#054)
#14. Brightest Day ------ 11 (#14)
#15. GL Em. Warriors ---- 11 (#004)