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You are writing so much nonsense, AngelLestat... I will try to only point out some more things K^2 didn't already: a) You claim he applies wishful thinking in regard to warp bubbles. In reality, he just said that the math turns out right, and that it is currently still not feasable in the near future to be tested on the space ship scale, and didn't even say if it may ever be. You definitely have no clue about science, especially physics. It's not his or my job to explain to you stuff beginning at the basics, while you still claim to know most of it already (hint: your behaviour shows you don't, and your statements on M-theory and a holographic universe are no better than what any random wtahcer of a TV show on pop sience would say). If you truly want to know some serious physics, get a ton of books on the basics, i.e. mechanics, relativity (special and general), quantum mechanics, QED, QCD, string theory, and probably many more I just forgot (just ask again after you finish relativity), and read them; before doing that, reading up on linear algebra, multi-dimensional analysis, integration theory, functional analysis, topology, differential geometry and representation theory is strongly recommended. You will probably spend years, as did others that studied it before. There is no short easy road, your (not-even-)half-knowledge is mostly dangerous. There is no easier way. Period. Anyone who claims otherwise despite thousands of professionals agreeing on that is a crank and actually has no clue. c) Stop making claims and then deny to have claimed anything. A claim that a paper on warp drive is wrong is still a claim. A claim that we will never see any FTL of this or that kind is still a claim. A claim that you understand core physics is still a claim.

Intel's i5-cores are about the same price range and have significant better performance per core (but only has 4), which for almost all games is more relevant. In the end, it turns down to what exactly you use it for, though.

Please read my post on that again: I said that the partial pressures would need to be about right; it is simply impossible to have 3% CO_2 at our usual partial pressure of 0.0004 (or 0.00025) atmospheres while still having the one of oxygen at 0.21 atmospheres (as this would amount to the absurdity of 1575% oxygen ;-) ). If your atmosphere contains oxygen, a lot of the toxic gases are unlikely to occure in relevant amounts due to oxygen's ability to react with lots of them. But there might be some processes that create such things by the local life, yes; I can't say much on this due to lack of any serious xenobiological knowledge.

0.9g is not low g. From a physical point of view, it's not very plausible that such a change should have much effect. The other data are from my mind, but I looked those up some months ago for another discussion, but you can check for yourself if you wish. Why should such a thing be imprinted into humans¿ I don't see any evolutionary effect of the species strifing for living below a blue sky. They would go down, yes, but out of interest and for science and all that.

What I know by the name of Pavilion by HP is a laptop. So post specs or whatever, you can't just throw in a name and expect me to know the details. That it is not used for much else doesn't make it competitive.

You don't need the same gravity (at least 10% difference should be fine, maybe even 30%), atm. pressure (from my memory you can go down to 80% of earth's and up by a lot) or gas composition (as long as the oxygen and CO_2 partial pressures are about earth's and there are no other toxic gases, you should be fine) for humans to be able to live there. And we already have temperature differences by more than 50K in the areas humans normally live in. And on radiation, you don't want the same, but ideally none.

To claim that a $350 laptop competes with a dedicated modern gaming PC is just... wrong. What are you basing this on¿ To answer the actual question, you should first figure out of it is going to be a laptop (portable, lower energy consumption) or a desktop (easier to swap parts, much cheaper per power if peripherals are already there).

Any evidence for that please... A simple "I can't imagine living without that blue sky" is not even close to sufficient.

KSP is not reality...

@Themohawkninja: If you are ready to accept one of they key aspects of special relativity, this rough but different explaination mostly based on newtonian arguments might help: All speed is only relative, i.e. A moving towards B is the same as B moving towards A in the frame of reference of A. Thus a moving solar system A cannot be distinguished from a nonmoving clone B from within (without an external frame of reference, you can't even define the difference). Therefore, the moving A and the nonmoving B will show exactly the same orbital behaviours. If gravity would work by where the central star was some time ago, the planets in A would try to circle around a star not even in their plane of ecliptic (or if the movement vector of the star is in the plane of ecliptic, the star would still not have been at a focal point that time ago), which is not possible. Thus they have to circle the actual position.

Can you please be more precise with that¿

No, as has already been said in the thread several times. A good guideline is that everything that could be used to send information (matter, light, magnetism, gravity, ...) is bound by the speed of light.

Are you talking about CF of a zygote or an actual grown dog here¿ The letter sounds unplausible to meand I would at least want to see a source. Also, replacing your blood with whatever else will not solve the problem of your cells (especially the brain) bursting as they contain lots of water as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience .

Genetically engineering of the four-arms-kind is really complicated and requires significantly more than the current research gives. It would involve changes to how fetusses grow, how your brain works, and such things. The problem is not that this yould be impossible per se, but to get well-working usable new limbs would require lots of tests, some of them maybe incompatible with (current) ethics.

You still have not given an argument. Also, the wikipedia article on reductio ad hitlerum explains why your naming is inappropriate. In the end, you are contributing nothing to the discussion by that and only try to convinve people by appeal to emotion instead of facts.

I am not a bodyguard here, I simply wish to also contribute to the discussion. I added to the discussion, namely that you are claiming things that are wrong or show that you have no idea what you are talking about. You seem to consider everything you don't understand as wrong or incomplete or "just a theory", despite K^2 already having given details (and then you felt mocked for him doing that). You also dodged most of what I said, "there is no consensus yet" is just wrong and not even related to what I said. Formulas exist, anyway. If "being sceptic" means to not believe things due to them sounding wrong to you despite shown the research, then "crankery" is really the better way to put it. You _did_ make claims, like that it is a PM, and ignored my request on you giving any calculations. You also claimed that this and that is wrong without evidence or reasons apart from "I don't believe it".

Yes. Even assuming a healthy normal life he would not be a good choice due to being to old. If you would take a much younger version of him with you, that would cost more than your average person as well, and due to having a reduced life expectancy might therefore be a waste of space for several others, depending on what your ship aims for.

And stop this na-zi (stupid filter) comparissions (a.k.a. reductio ad hitlerum) please. If you have arguments, just list them, and you won't need any derogatory terms.

At least the part about 3d sounds seems to be gibberisch, did you forget a sentence there¿ This was an attempt in explain it to you, who instead of knowing details just knows some superficial things and then makes up his own "theories". You claim random things like "changing states", "free falling" and "breaking", all of which are not really what K^2 used or said, and show that you don't know what it is. So stop complaining about him trying to tell you. If you are so very good at this as you act, how about you give us some calculation that shows how it violates conservation of energy (note: inequalities suffice, exact calculations are not needed). How about you "explaining" any other effect, like e.g. gravity or electromagnetism¿ According to you, reducing it to formulas and descriptions isn't enough... What you want is not science but philosophy, and has at least nothing to do with physics. The goal is to be able to accurately describe and predict things. It is, locally. It is not globally as this definition wouldn't even make sense in some cases. How do you define speed in your way¿ Please stop this crankery... That probably summarises your post very well: you just have an oppinion about something and expect that reality behaves that way, even at the many cases where we already know it doesn't.

Dividing the seats equally among the 196 countries is also a bad idea due to them being very differently sized.

Eugenics does _not_ imply mass murder. It did in most cases, yes, but the already mentioned sterilizsations do not kill anyone (yet still are a pretty heavy attack on ones human rights), and simply forbiding certain people to mate does so as well. There are many other attempts, read any source on the topic (didn't check the wikipedia, but it should do).

I know the difference between both. The genetic profiling you mentioned requires genetics itself and not just eugenics. You can't do it without. And you ignored the main point at all, namely that you gave no argument to support your conclusion that "genetic profiling is bad cause Stalin/Hitler/Mao/whoever did it".

What reason is this based on¿ It will probably not directly hit anything of relevance.

Earth is completely destroyed on that movie, and such a close passing would also screw orbits of everything else.