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It depends on what your goal with the antimatter is... The circumference of the ring is determined by the energy of the particles you are containing. If they're more energetic (in general, and before relativity takes too much effect, moving "faster"), you need need either a larger...

As smart as he is, there's a fundamental flaw in Hawking's argument, however... As Coyote6 says, barring some impossible-to-predict technological inventions, there's no way that extraterrestrial colonization is going to make the slightest dent in either our population problem or our resource...

It's not the cost of antimatter that's prohibitive, but the time it takes to produce it in any quantity and the ability to effectively store it for any length of time. The last time I checked, our best antimatter "factory" can't produce much more than about a billionth of a spoonful of...

One my favorite places to order pre-painted Star Wars and D&D minis: CoolStuffInc.com Good selection, reasonable prices, inexpensive shipping, fast service. I'd recommend them.

Allow to expound upon this just a bit... Direct to DVD movies, which are almost universally sequels, are a good idea gone bad. Let's be honest, if you don't think your feature length sequel of an award-winning movie theater blockbuster is good enough to show in those very same theaters, why...

Technically, we have the know-how to colonize the local solar system now, though as Umbran said, it would take a few years at the least to build the necessary equipment to do it with. The problem is that, as others have said, there's no good reason to do it, other than to say we we did it...

Simply cutting out every seen in which Anakin and Padme are alone together goes a long way to fixing those movies. Try it some time with the DVDs... Just hit the "skip ahead" button whenever they're the only two actors on screen.

In a word, yes. Triggered because they purposefully triggered the trap from a far to avoid the effects? Or triggered because they blundered into the trap and suffered the full effects? While I would certainly give full experience for the former, this situation seems more like the latter...

Agreed, on both counts.

If you don't mind a used copy, you can get the paperback through Amazon for as little as 44 cents, not including shipping. A brand new copy of the paperback goes for more than $300! Yikes! Borrowing a copy form the local library is out of the question?

For something just a little bit different from the usual fantasy magic stories, try Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede.

National Geographic's Photo of the Month Club is the only email newsletter I've ever subscribed to. Absolutely fascinating photos.

Model Train Landscaping Materials at Megahobby. Railroad and diorama supplies are also a great way to pick up generic animals for use as minis.

Also look into similar supplies used to build model train sets and dioramas... They could be less expensive, depending, and are especially great for wilderness terrain and features. A store like Hobby Lobby is a good place to start. "S-Scale" (1:64) railroad models would correspond to roughly...

I agree, much of the mind-bending horror of Lovecraft has very little to do with traditional slasher blood and gore. It'd be awesome if I could take my kids to this movie. :devil:

It kind of depends on how it's done. How the tangential examples are used and how tangential they are. At it's most basic, the tactic is a Red Herring... Subtly or blatantly changing the subject as a means of distraction from the opponent's argument. But the specific fallacy is determined by...

What happened to Ed? I liked him an awful lot as Bruce Banner. How terribly disappointing.

You guys are going to hate me for this. Look. These are both excellent entries. I've spent the better part of the last week on my son's netbook pirating unsecured wireless so I could pore over these entries again, and again, and again, trying to decide one way or the other. The way things...

Oh, no worries, now. Let me put it this way... Our house buying experience was like something out of a John Landis movie. Including, but not limited to, a madcap high speed dash all over town to collect each member of our family and arrive at the office to sign the final papers with only...