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    How can a human body create such effects on a freezing cold winter day?

    Yes, I was looking for some answers along these lines. But you don't this happening in winter time all the times. So what conditions would be involved? A human body is electrically neutral, nor it acts as a magnet under known conditions. But, the dust devil, I think is a good analogy.
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    How can a human body create such effects on a freezing cold winter day?

    No, I didn't write it. And, I am actually interested in explanation in terms of a realistic phenomena. Let's just forget for a second about the human body. What sort of physical conditions might attract either dry snow from the surface, or if this were the case, condense it from the air? Reverse...
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    How can a human body create such effects on a freezing cold winter day?

    I was in doubt if this is the right chapter to place this thread, but it seems there are many talents just here. "we were observing from a decent distance through optics. The weather was frosty, clear, calm. When хххххх appeared from under the arch of the house (he was хххххххх to walk to the...
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    Any Analog (Formerly Astounding) Readers?

    Interesting site, I added it to my Favorites. I miss the era of Azimov, Lem, Clarke.
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    How Many Seconds Make Up Eternity in The Shepherd Boy?

    (t Big Bang 1 - t Big Bang 0) * 365 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = # of seconds. Don't forget adjustments to account for the expanding Universe, leap years, and other minor things. But you have to define *eternity* to begin with.
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    What Are the Most Fascinating Exotic Weapons in Sci-Fi?

    The ultimate weapon is time travel. You are just undoing all your foes, unfruitful realities, etc. Like in Interscission Proj.
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    Graviton generator/emitter/antennae

    In sci-fi series The Interscission Project, spacecraft use graviton generators, both for artificial gravity and for space/time travel. If these gens extend the gravity field, what would the simplest graviton antennae/emitter look like? By analogy with a membrane making sound, a flashlight...
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    Could Opening Gateways to Hell Be Possible Like in Hellraiser?

    The Surgeons from Witch Doctor mal practice comic books. The Mist by Stephen King has *some* similarity, too.
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    Rakka's" Alien Tech: How Far From Real?

    Thank you. And that substance from the movie demonstrate some sort of levitation, too, I believe?
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    Rakka's" Alien Tech: How Far From Real?

    What alien technologies are in Neill Blomkamp's "Rakka" and how far they are from real?
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