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Which is really just a fancy way of saying, "There wasn't any good exploration stories left in the Federation, so let's stick to the political thriller stuff, and send the explorers off to the other side of galaxy, where there's aliens we haven't met yet." You'll notice, they scaled back most...

The problem is that's all been largely done in the earlier series, and the continually advancing technology has gotten to the point ships are simply too big, too fast, too powerful. There's little challenge left without pushing the setting and the plots to extraordinary extremes. That's where...

What... You mean life after the zombie apocalypse won't be just like a tower-defense game?

I think that's the point of keeping the wall a mile away... At that distance (presumably), they won't see, hear or smell you and eventually will wander off somewhere else.

Yes. No, because they have mass, their relative velocity is not 1.0c, but (using GSHamster's equation above) 0.8c. In the interest of saving people's sanity, spoilered mathematics: velocity = (u + v) / (1 + (uv/c2)) velocity = (0.5c + 0.5c) / (1 + ((0.5c * 0.5c)/c2)) velocity = 1.0c / (1 +...

You know what I'd like to see? This (maybe done as a flack-back miniseries to start the ball rolling): Combined with this: ...to put not just the Federation, but the entire region of space into the same sort of situation that existed in Europe during the Dark Ages when the Roman Empire...

As GSHamster says, this is another one that falls out of the math... M=m/√(1-v2/c2) With m being the rest mass and M being the apparent relativistic mass. So, as velocity approaches the speed of light, the mass of the object approaches infinity. In other words, it would take an infinite...

But, to use your own interjection, that's just it. Relativity allows you to be your own "stable position", and let the rest of the universe be damned, because you are the center of the universe and everything else is moving but you are not. Ever. Unless you want to be. I am not moving and...

Or, to put it another way, if the train was moving at 0.9c and the race car started driving (on the train) at 0.2c (relative to the train), the track-side observer would NOT see the race car traveling at 1.1c. Instead, it would look like it was traveling at something greater than 0.9c but less...

I auditioned for our community theatre's production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Heh... I'm right there with you. How about we start a support group? In fact, I've even gone so far as to specialize in the "Jack of All Trades" niche.

Note though, that Disneyland =/= Disney World. Anaheim, California is a long way away from Orlando, Florida. ;)

I went through the same thing about a month ago... In the end, my wife (for my birthday) chose the Verizon Unlimited Family Talk & Text Plan (she didn't want to worry about counting minutes and texts), with 2 GB (I'm averaging less than 0.5 GB/month) of data per month. I got the Motorola...

Just for comparison... Our vacation was 3 years ago. Our package was 7 days and 6 nights from August 10th until August 17th (the least expensive time of year, then). Included 6 nights at the Port Orleans Riverside resort and meal plans for four adults*. If I remember rightly, the total cost...

Incidentally, a great traveling tip for remembering where you parked... On vacation, almost everybody has a digital camera or a cell phone with a camera handy. So, take photos of the lot you're parked in. It makes it really easy to find your way back to your car, if you've got pictures to...

Burning Wheel would be the slightly more generic version of Mouse Guard.

Not really... The nervousness, stress and tension created by having to pull a block from a nearly toppling tower is pretty integral to the ambiance of the game. You'd effectively eliminate the whole purpose of the game, if you got rid of that. Although, thinking about it, you could probably...

Also, if you are going to make reservations for sit-down restaurants, call the Disney reservation line MONTHS (no joke!) in advance, if you can. Reservations open up something like 180 days prior to the date, and popular restaurants (like the character breakfasts) during the busier seasons can...

Hrm... I'm trying to remember which "sit-down" restaurants we went to... We went to the Marrakesh in Epcot -- fantastic Mediterranean food and a belly dancing show. We also went to the Lady and the Tramp themed Italian restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. We went to the retro "drive-in"...

I'll second all of this... It's all stuff that we did during our trip as well.