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Wait'll he hears about baby oil...

"The effect is not unlike the acceleration due to real gravity." OK, it's not a 100% match. The water is emitted in at 55 degrees from...

Gravity due to mass is zero. Artificial gravity due to rotation is 0.5g. (see specs, top-left in diagram) It's a rigid tower, 110m...

Not a lot of people know this but a lot of these scenes were filmed on Earth to save production costs.

Now don't give up too quick... Are there many overpasses between your home and your fave campgrounds? Have you measured them? :oldbiggrin:

I also liked the 2010 follow-up film. It was fun and cleared things up to a degree. It was of course not so ground breaking since 2001...

2001 is a classic, without a doubt.

That is unfortunate. Have you heard the expression "You can't think outside the box if you don't know what's in the box?" School...

And there's nothing wrong with that. It's not a shortcoming of the observer, nor is it a "problem". Art is a communication between...

On the contrary, his scores average exactly 3/5. He's not giving you an absolute scale; he's giving you relative scale - which must...

I prefer the two colourful abstracts. This is my top pick: My own style is mostly about color and pattern in unusual places. (And...

Temporarily, because of the off-topic foray into philosophy.

We do have a thread for that. Would a more specific thread be beneficial?

If the beetle walks a straight path it must form a great circle, and will pass through its antipodes. To follow the path in wrobel's...

Granted. I may be talking out my butt. I am not sure how those are both true. In order for the beetle to walk path p that is not a...