Rasori

Well... I think of the old "Man, this tastes GREAT! What is it?" "Squid." "PTOOEY!!!!" kind of conversation. Y'know, where people are told about what it is and then they decide it's disgusting. So I suppose psychologically there could be something. Not that it could be proven, but I tend to think the brain (or unconcious, your choice) sets limits on us. In most cases these limits are good, and also can be broken (for instance, strength- PM me if you want me to explain that idea more though), but in some cases it's a limit as simple as 'gosh, that's gross!' Hence the reason most people would have the above reaction.

...A bullet to the head isn't actual justice? LOL j/k. Not that I'm a professional criminal, or that professional OR unprofessional criminals think at all like me, but here's my two cents: Assuming I have a gun and am planning to go into a building to steal or... whatever, I would much quicker choose the building that has outlawed guns (thus putting me at an advantage) than one that has required, or even just allowed, its inhabitants to have one. Common sense is not so common, yes, but I think that goes beyond common sense into instinct.

I can't vote, but if I could... let's see, I suppose my views right now would say that I'd vote for what I believe is best for the country. At least with my views currently, I COULDN'T really vote for what's better for myself or my family, since I have no clue what would help or hurt me/us. 'Course, my views have been pretty closed-minded, and I *am* under 18, so maybe my views are just based on what my dad says. Perfectly possible, I suppose...

It'd be a dream to play in a junkyard. Or even in a field that just had junked-out cars and other things that you could get in and take cover. I like Sup Air and all, but I'd take anything where I can see the enemy and they can't see me anyday. Had one game like that once, the field had tubes, might've been for elctrical stuff or something at one point, that were shaped... uhh, weird. They went in and out, making rectangle-ish holes. Stick the barrel in, take aim, and fire!

I've got a .68 and I'm proud of it. It's called a Tippmann 98 Custom LOL. Paintballer. What I find odd is that here in the U.S. you can walk into a Wal-Mart and buy a shotgun and ammo in a pretty simple affair, but if you own a pellet gun for target practice or anything else, you need to be 21 to buy the ammo. To buy pellets that could maybe puncture skin, but not much more. It's weird. Personally, about gun control, just like a whole lot of other things (including having children) I think you should need to take a test first. If you're deemed too stupid and/or too irresponsible, you can't do it. That'll drive the population down and make guns a bit safer. They'll still be available to criminals and anyone else in the same way they are now, though. Yay for the black market!

Anything at all like matter and anti-matter? Y'know, blow up a quarter of the planet since one guy has beer and another has soda?

Swanson, if that post about the atoms not moving was directed at me, I know that. But copies of the atoms do, or at least in theory would. Much like a fax, the original CD would disappear and a copy of it would appear elsewhere.

Right-handed, Right-eye. I sight pretty well. If it makes a difference, I think I'm left-footed

I play WCIII. Horrible at it, as well as at SC, but I like them both. Also like Halo and AA in the FPS genre (America's Army, for those who don't know, is a free game and a whole lotta fun.) I got the trial of SWG last month and will be getting it around Christmas assuming I keep my grades up (the joys of being in High School). I'm pretty sure Jump to Lightspeed (the space-based expansion) is coming out this fall, so I'll be able to get that, too. I like Command and Conquer, but I prefer RA, RA2, and Tiberian Sun, probably because those are about the only ones I've played. The one that was released on N64 (and maybe other sytems) was alright too. I think that's just Command and Conquer... no subtitle to it. But then, I'm a game addict, so it figures that I can list all of these off.

Back to the original topic, I play paintball. I'm a new player, which is expressed greatly by the fact that I have a next-to-stock (new barrel, but that's all) Tippman 98 Custom. Fun to play and get shot, though. Even though it does hurt. A little. Someone mentioned how Paintball is fast-paced, which is true, and I like that, but if you ever play two-way Capture the Flag, you can prepare to be out there for near an hour, at least.

Assuming that eventually we could get skilled enough to teleport a large mass of atoms (say, a mass of atoms that could make a CD...) wouldn't that be enough to teleport the information? It wouldn't be instant, but by the time we get that far in teleportation we'd likely be able to write the communication to a CD much quicker than now. Once you've written it to the original CD, can you not teleport this CD to another location to be read there? When you're talking about interstellar distances, this would shave years off the time, in theory. I'm basing this on what Skoteinos said earlier: Oh, by the way, I am new to this stuff, so go ahead and correct me if this was a completely idiotic question. EDIT: Another advantage to this is that even if the likelihood of success is quite slim, it isn't hard to create another CD and try again.

Is perpetual motion not possible, or just not possible with friction and/or gravity? (I'm thinking friction has more of a role than gravity, but that's not necessarily true. I never really thought about perpetual motion before...)

...I concur, Sayonara.

I didn't say it was the same. "That paper" meaning a paper just like it, but "THE paper" is the original. Much like a fax.

Teleporting the details to another place is the same as teleporting. If you teleport the details of a piece of paper that has a date and time on it to another place, that paper, though not truly THE paper, is now in a new place. In theory, it's readable, too

Onto the original topic of THIS teleportation, what did they teleport? The actual atoms, or electrons, or... what? And if it was the atom as a whole, would it be possible to teleport electrons, as well? I ask this because, while we're talking about tiny bits of teleportation, even for things in a small scale, going smaller can be pretty darn hard. But if we could teleport electrons themselves...would it not be possible to teleport everything that an electron can represent? Whether it be electricity- moving electrons = electricity, so if a power station creates moving electrons and teleports them away to where they're needed, then gets them back when they're done being used, it takes away all of the resistance between the station and the required place. No more requirements for transformers, and producing 220 watts is probably a whole lot easier than all of the power going through the wires, so you could have one power station powering a state, or even a country (yes, there are problems with that as well, but still, just the possibility is amazing). This is, of course, just something that I've thrown together with just the basics of thought, so it's probably all wrong.

It'd take one ton of thrust (I don't know if you're talking metric or standard, but in standard that's 2000 pounds and metric I think 1000 kg, if you didn't know ), so the energy required to cause something to create that thrust. Vague, no?

Thank you, I think.

Uhm... lead-based orange paint. Yeah, that's it! Lead-based orange paint!

.... I'm still going to build a house with three-meter-thick walls of lead

LOL Again, even if it is gradual, unless we do something about it, it will mess up our electronics, especially GPS kinds of things.

Maybe less chance of everything getting cooked, but it still screws up most, if not all, of our electronics...

Your point? I wouldn't have gone there on my own, and I'm sure many people wouldn't. Leave him be.

I feel bad for him. So he's a little arrogant. He probably wasn't trying to be, and, if he was, oh well. Let him do as he wants, he was just giving us some (to some of us) useful tips.

Makes me feel extra-extra-extra (to the zillionth power) small. To think, each of those specks of light has millions or billions or more stars in it...