So why are you trolling the comments section of a show that you profess to have no interest in?

Actually, there was a surprisingly heated discussion on this topic in one of the puzzle threads a few months back. Of you include angle of the fingers, you can get a higher base. Myself, I contend that counting in trinary and possibly quadrary would be about the limits of easy contortion/recording, and if you include…

I never understood the fascination with swordplay in a modern or post apocalyptical era. I always imagined the fight would go something like this.

But, technically, the transporter would have to take your atoms apart, store them for the return trip and the “pad” on the other side would have to take entirely different atoms and use them to recreate you. Additionally, it would probably have to go down to the quark level to actually get it “right”. At that point,…

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They sort of did that on DS9 once. The problem is that you have to drop your shields to use the transporter, leaving you just as susceptible to that same attack (along with other, more conventional ones).

True.

Even our fingers function as a computer.

Just to be historically/linguistically nitpicky, the word “computer” was originally used for non-powered, hand-operated calculating devices like slide rules or the similar cardboard-wheel calculators that aviators or military gunners used to compute courses and trajectories. It was also used as a job title for the…

That’s pretty cool :) My grandfather helped produce and market an early educational computer back in the early 60s, with Claude Shannon:

Old Man Martial Artists, unite!

You won’t. Have had a WRX for 10 years, still enjoy driving it. There is a whole world of modding and a huge community. There is more to the experience than the car itself.

Oh no disrespect meant. I only felt that someone should have a picture up there. It was not in any way directed at you.

Agreed! It would definitely have to be someone with a grand sense of visionary film making.

Lord of Light is near the very top of the list of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy books, but I would prefer someone like del Toro, Peter Jackson or Alfonso Cuarón at the helm.

Life expectancy was hugely influenced by a high infant mortality rate. If you survived into adulthood, you could expect to live much longer. And while certainly less people lived into what we would consider “old age,” a fair number still did.

That was due mostly to infant deaths (kids under 5 dying of all the things). Most historians agree that once you lived to be an adult, your chance of living to be old were quite good (in the absence of war).

• Jerky: Though really, you should have thought ahead and bought this at Trader Joe’s.

No problem at all. Your comment was was funny to me because just a few days ago I googled up the meaning of brave (as in, fine, or good) while listening to my Pepys’ Diary audio book, wherein he’s constantly going on about brave this and brave that. “It was a brave morning...”, or “I had on a brave coat..” etcetera…