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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Transit time for a round trip to Alpha Centuri...."Back home"? On Earth?
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread What Makes a Science-Fiction Movie Feel Scientifically Believable?.We don't know, which means we cant say its impossible. It's just beyond us. Most concepts of hyperdrive don't depend on thrust. My...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread What Makes a Science-Fiction Movie Feel Scientifically Believable?.Are these mutually exclsuive though? Hyperdrive isn't known science but that doesn't make it unbelievable in a future story.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Transit time for a round trip to Alpha Centuri....*sigh* All I'm trying to do is dispel Oracle's notion, here: ...that the spaceship occupant's experience is somehow less real, more...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread What Makes a Science-Fiction Movie Feel Scientifically Believable?.Yes. Inaccuracies I become aware of rip me out of the story and restore my disbelief. Yes. The science must be internally consistent...
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DaveC426913 reacted to berkeman's post in the thread What Makes a Science-Fiction Movie Feel Scientifically Believable? with
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Update: after a good suggestion by @.Scott the OP has been edited down for now (until the OP provides the AI attribution), and the... -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Transit time for a round trip to Alpha Centuri....Yes. I was oversimplifying. One could more accurately argue that, at the midpoint, A.centauri is only 1.75ly away, which is why the...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Transit time for a round trip to Alpha Centuri....To be clear (and please PFati correct me), its not a matter of merely perceiving. Aboard ship, if they look out their front window...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread RIP Dolly Parton (80) - Jan 1946 - Aug 2026.Dammit Reaper! I said Donny not Dolly!
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DaveC426913 reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread Jokes and a language: how does it work? with
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I was going to mention the Nova story as I learned in Internationalization coding with XPG/4 standard. Sadly though, it's an urban... -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread What Makes a Science-Fiction Movie Feel Scientifically Believable?.Is that what happened... Huh. It did have a very weird story arc. I assumed it was trying to copy "Lost"'s wild success.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Jokes and a language: how does it work?.The Banana Sketch! Classic! Do you use a yellow banana?? Or a green one??
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DaveC426913 reacted to WWGD's post in the thread Jokes and a language: how does it work? with Agree.
I assume a play on " Platinum Blonde".
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Jokes and a language: how does it work?.Ronald "Ray-gun" is fairly well known to us Boomers in the West, even north of the border. He was, after all, well known for his...
