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Other Discussion / Re: The world ends on November 26th!!!

« on: September 04, 2007, 05:30:58 pm »

If you were to defy gravity you wouldn't get in the black hole. lookie (I'm a wonderful Paint artist)

This is what happens when you get a device that defies gravity, you wouldn't go in the gravity hole, thus never reaching whatever is inside the blackhole (I could be very wrong though, but I think this is right)

Blue line is no gravity-defying device.
Red line is the path a gravity-defying device would take.

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: September 04, 2007, 01:18:47 pm »

Personally, I think Time travel is possible by all means. You just need a vessel to travel through a worm hole... That's what I heard. Now I am not exactly sure how you could get to a worm hole without it taking thousands of years. But maybe if you travelled at a speed that would make your perspective in time only a couple of seconds like Venus said. It could be possible because you wouldn't age biologically. I'm not sure if any of that makes sense to you. It does in my mind  And if you could get the vessel (A space shuttle or something) through the worm hole it could take you back in time and/or forward in time. I think it is only possible to go forward in time if we ever did have the technology. If it was possible to travel back in time, it could screw up how things happened back then which could cause events to change and the present would be totally different. I just think it's best we stay in our own time >_<

Time travel to the future is possible, you just need to go near the speed of light. Time travel to the past is not possible. You would have need of a negative speed, and you can't have a negative speed.

Anyway, if wormholes exist, they're most likely to let you take a shortcut through space, not make you go forward or backwards in time. Impression of a wormhole: lookie

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Other Discussion / Re: The world ends on November 26th!!!

« on: September 04, 2007, 01:12:38 pm »

Is there actually any way to stop black holes?

Just keep yelling "YOU'RE FAT."
This will cause the Black Hole to be obsessed with its own size. It'll be so traumatized and hurt, it'll become anorexic. It won't dare to suck up anything anymore, and eventually, it'll die of starvation (pun lol).

Lol.

There isn't a way to stop black holes. Oh well, there is one (but we can't use it), according to Stephen Hawking a black hole emits radiation -- the black holes leaks. So if the black hole sucks up all his surroundings, and floats into deeper space (out of galaxies), it would eventually die, because it emits more than it sucks up. Of course, this whole proces takes a whole lot of years (we're talking about billions), so it's to no use for us. So technically, if everyone is wrong and the black hole stays, we're !@#$% (as Dascu stated).

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Other Discussion / Re: The world ends on November 26th!!!

« on: September 04, 2007, 10:46:44 am »

This sounds realy cool, but it isn't gonna happen. Even when it does create black holes, *blahblahblah Steven Hawking blahblahblah*, they would evaporate immidiately. And even if Hawking is wrong, I read in a blog of a scientist, the black hole would only suck up 1 proton each 100 hours.

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: August 26, 2007, 06:20:41 am »

Are you absolutely sure about not going faster than the speed of light? I have an article, I'll edit this post with it if I find it...or it exists...because it had some concrete evidence that photons can go faster than the speed of light or something like that.

That is not possible, because a photon is the light. And the speed with which a photon travels is the speed of light, a photon can't go faster than itself. I guess the article is about accelerating photons to speeds greater than their normal speed.

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Coding / Re: A little known feature of GM

« on: August 22, 2007, 08:08:32 am »

Wow! I didn't know this! This is actually really useful.

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Other Discussion / Re: Sorry to Post such a topic after being absent for a time

« on: August 21, 2007, 05:31:11 pm »

now I feel like all White people are the same, I know they are not but this thing that happened left me that feeling

What? EDGE is evolving!
Congratulations! Your EDGE has evolved into RACIST!

xD
...Could you tell me where you live?...>.<
I'm not racist, I just feel like the next white person I see will act the same way, thats all.

And if they don't act like those idiots, you'll hate whites no more?

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Entertainment / Re: I know a lot of you aren't Metroid fans...

« on: August 19, 2007, 05:22:58 pm »

The controls worry me too.

not sure what they are

Fissure, several different control setups, Beginner, Normal, Advanced and Expert. I think.
Expert controls like your regular FPS, but with Lockon. While locked on you still have Free aiming, so if you're strafing around a space pirate, and notice that another one is charging, aim away at the !@#$% and blast him with a missile. Without having to lock on to the attacking one .

From everything I've read, Beginner, Normal, Advanced and Expert only change the size of the aim-box, where did you read that?

They also change the distance you need to move the cursor to the edge of the screen to look around. Expert works just like in a mousecontrolled FPS, advanced is at half, and if you play on beginner you need to move the cursor against the edge to move the view around. I read it in a Dutch games magazine, and it's true because they tested it. Anyway, I can't see why anyone would set the game on beginner, expert will work much better.

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: August 18, 2007, 07:52:12 pm »

I was not talking about photons. Photon are not alive. I didn't understand whether you meant aging as in getting older biologically, or just been alive for more years.

I meant aging as travelling through your time perspective.

A human at close to speed of light doesn't age biologically, but she does age in that she appears to have lived longer. For everyone else she could have been born 1980 and die 2550 but for herself she could feel she's only lived about 70 years because 500 of those years she was traveling forward in time (but not aging biologically).

It only appears she has lived longer for observants who didn't travel with (nearly) the speed of light. In the womans perspective of time, she just lived 70 years, and not 570. So basically this means time is different to everyone. There is no set "speed of time", if I travelled at 0.9999999c to the nearest star and back(the sun not included), it would take me (in my perspective of time), just a few seconds, while it would take 8 years for me to return in the time perspective for the people on earth.

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: August 18, 2007, 07:35:49 pm »

But they do get older in time still

That's not exactly true, they do get older from our perpective, but a photon experiences no time, the photon doesn't age in his perspective of time.

As for travelling into the future: we'll, we're doing it right now. >_>;

Lol.

I have always wondered, is that maybe because of how the galaxies, our planet, and such move? What if you were on the absolute zero speed for example, i.e. you're not moving relative to some main center of the existence. Of course, the might not be such thing. Everything is supposed to be relative anyway. But what is it then that makes us go forward in time some amount constantly?

The energy we have left from maintaining a speed makes us go forward in time, I think. Photons travel at the speed of light (actually theirselves lol), so they have no energy left for travelling through time.

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: August 18, 2007, 07:18:21 pm »

Einstein showed however that you can't go faster and thus can't have negative energy values for time travel.

And that does mean time travelling into the past is impossible. At least with the understanding of physics we have now. I also read that timetravelling into the future is possible, altough not in the way you would expect it. If you were to stay just outside the event-horizon of a black hole, time for you would go many times slower then it would be for people anywhere else, if you'd stay there a year (in your perspective of time), thousands of years could pass elsewhere, so when you'd leave the event-horizon, you "travelled into the future".

This form of "travel into the future" is theoretically allowed using the following methods:[12]

Using time dilation under the Theory of Special Relativity, for instance:
Traveling at almost the speed of light to a distant star, then slowing down, turning around, and traveling at almost the speed of light back to Earth[28] (see the Twin paradox)
Orbiting Earth for long periods of time (practical, but insignificant);
Using time dilation under the Theory of General Relativity, for instance:
Residing inside of a hollow, high-mass object;
Residing just outside of the event horizon of a black hole
Additionally, it might be possible to see the distant future of the Earth using methods which do not involve relativity at all, although it is even more debatable whether these should be deemed a form of "time travel":

Just google aging photons, and it'll come up with a lot of articles and discussions about it.

EDIT:

'age' is sort of a meaningless concept for a photon. If you mean does time pass for a photon, the answer is that photons travel along paths of zero proper time in spacetime, so the answer is no. On the other hand, if you mean if we could somehow watch a photon travelling (from a frame that *wasn't* travelling at the speed of light) would time pass for *us* whilst we watch the photon, the answer is obviously yes. So we could arbitrarily assign an 'age' to the photon from our frame, say, it's time begins when it is emitted from the atom, and ends when it is absorbed by one. The problems are firstly that the age would be frame dependent (this is the whole idea behind proper time in the first place) and secondly we can't actually 'see' or observe a photon until it's been absorbed - it's path before measurement has no real meaning as far as we can make predictions about it. Therefore there is no process by which a photon could even be *given* an age, as far as I am aware. Meaningless concept.

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: August 18, 2007, 06:44:38 pm »

I don't believe time-traveling is possible. I read somewhere that objects that move at the speed of light don't age, because how faster you go, the less energy you have left for travelling through the space-time continuum, objects at the speed of light need all the energy they have for travelling at that speed, so they don't travel through time (wait, this doesn't sound right). I'll look up the source.

I do believe that aliens exist. Why would they not exist? The universe is so big, there are probably millions of planets with life on it, maybe even millions with intelligent life.

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Entertainment / Re: I know a lot of you aren't Metroid fans...

« on: August 18, 2007, 06:38:10 am »

Hopefully we'll still be able to scan up on the Space Pirate computers to find out the sort of stuff they've been doing

Yeah! Don't you love to do that?

I can't wait for it, here in Europe it will be launched on 26 October, so I must get a Wii before 26 October. Didn't have a Wii yet because there are no worthwhile games for it (except LOZTP which I have for the Gamecube).

I plan on spending my money on BioShock too... a game that may surpass Oot as the highest average score ever has to be good.

So... you're never gonna get any more money? You can buy BioShock AND MP3

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Entertainment / Re: Did you pick up a copy of pokemon Diamond and Pearl?

« on: August 15, 2007, 09:29:06 am »

I got Diamond, my brother has Pearl.

Same here.

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Entertainment / Re: An Interesting Question

« on: August 15, 2007, 09:27:40 am »

Zelda: Links Awakening was my second game ever (first one was Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the GBC), I have some really good memories about that time. The Legend of Zelda is and has always been my favourite series.

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Entertainment / Re: Console or Hand-held. What do you prefer for Nintendo's next gaming system?

« on: August 14, 2007, 02:18:49 pm »

I don't know what I'd prefer. I actually like hand-helds and consoles both. So it's a win-win situation for me when Nintendo announces a new gaming system!

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Zelda Projects / Re: [Demo] The Legend of Zelda: The Shadowgazer (6/8/2007 - Update: z3 Demo out)

« on: August 12, 2007, 09:12:45 am »

And the screen resolution... is it equal to TMC's?

Nope, it's far bigger.

I forgot to say that the only thing I disliked is the resolution. I guess it's needed for the horseback battles, but if it's possible for it to be changed, please change it to the GBA resolution.

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Zelda Projects / Re: [Demo] The Legend of Zelda: The Shadowgazer (6/8/2007 - Update: z3 Demo out)

« on: August 10, 2007, 01:37:29 pm »

Amazing! You have put a lot of work in this! I can't wait to see more.

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Other Discussion / Re: What the sky looks like outside my house.

« on: July 20, 2007, 07:18:03 am »

=O Cool sky man, last week we had a really scary sky at my house. You heard the thunder rolling everywhere and suddenly a big stretched out weird cloud comes rolling over our house at a really high speed. It was really scary.

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Entertainment / Re: Got Pokemon Diamond for my Birthday from my mother.

« on: July 17, 2007, 01:19:41 pm »

and I got an amazing 228 hours and 44 minutes on Advance Wars Dual Strike.

lol is Advance Wars: Dual Strike your only Nintendo DS game?

Lol, I don't have much DS games; New SMB, Children of Mana and Metroid Prime Hunters. And don't ask me how I got those 228 hours, I'm surprised myself that I played it for so long.