nah the replicators don't do alchemy/nuclear fusion, they rearrange molecules. its thus easy to make food since carbon oxygen etc. are all common, but any gold you replicate has to be in gold compounds to begin with, and its still relatively rare in the universe naturally

nah the replicators don't do alchemy/nuclear fusion, they rearrange molecules. its thus easy to make food since carbon oxygen etc. are all common, but any gold you replicate has to be in gold compounds to begin with, and its still relatively rare in the universe naturally

yea, it doesn't make sense that starships on the show are carefully put together messes of unreplicatable mechanisms

yea, it doesn't make sense that starships on the show are carefully put together messes of unreplicatable mechanisms

Gold is pretty neat. Its light, its malleable, it has heat shielding properties, its a good conductor, it doesn't corrode, it has interesting properties reacting to other metals/leeching them out of mines, its almost insoluble, its decorative but harmless enough to be edible (i.e., well suited to the aesthetics based…

Gold is pretty neat. Its light, its malleable, it has heat shielding properties, its a good conductor, it doesn't corrode, it has interesting properties reacting to other metals/leeching them out of mines, its almost insoluble, its decorative but harmless enough to be edible (i.e., well suited to the aesthetics based…

Everything is linked into the central ship computer, though, which is very aware of everyone all the time (witness how seamlessly the comm badges work intuitively)

Everything is linked into the central ship computer, though, which is very aware of everyone all the time (witness how seamlessly the comm badges work intuitively)

elves have been a part of the monster set in monster manual since the first edition - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B…

elves have been a part of the monster set in monster manual since the first edition - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B…

tom scharpling says tompkins is actually a jerk tho

tom scharpling says tompkins is actually a jerk tho

feel free anytime you actually want to rein in your insatiable urge for last-wordism and get to ignoring… time's a wastin'

feel free anytime you actually want to rein in your insatiable urge for last-wordism and get to ignoring… time's a wastin'

@drdarke:disqus - OK, lets turn this around. Lets say I'm totally wrong, and all of these are hard decisions Obama is making because he knows things I don't and it's all 11-dimensional chess I could never comprehend.

@drdarke:disqus - OK, lets turn this around. Lets say I'm totally wrong, and all of these are hard decisions Obama is making because he knows things I don't and it's all 11-dimensional chess I could never comprehend.

i offered you that exact deal months ago, the first time you pulled this silly ad hominem no-content argument. you said something along the lines of my stupidity was like acid eating through a beam or whatever (i forget the metaphor) and couldn't be ignored despite how one might try.

i offered you that exact deal months ago, the first time you pulled this silly ad hominem no-content argument. you said something along the lines of my stupidity was like acid eating through a beam or whatever (i forget the metaphor) and couldn't be ignored despite how one might try.

One or two people mentioning they quit listening to a show some time ago counts as a "Podmass backlash"

One or two people mentioning they quit listening to a show some time ago counts as a "Podmass backlash"