Da_bang80
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Humanity is easy. They're basically true neutral, with smatterings of neutral good and neutral evil. And also Dick Cheney.
I like the D&D reference there.
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Less a reference, more like the whole sentence.
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Daniel Butler
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mmm I was just thinking...DnD is like star trek after a fashion. Monocultures...how many entries in the Monster Manual say "Always chaotic evil" or "Always lawful neutral" etc...
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Da_bang80
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quote:ATHENS, Ala. (AP) � The Tennessee Valley Authority shut down one of three units at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant on Thursday because water drawn from a river to cool the reactor was too hot, a spokesman said.
The nation's largest public utility shut down Unit 2 about 5:42 p.m. CDT because water drawn from the Tennessee River was exceeding a 90-degree average over 24 hours, amid a blistering heat wave across the Southeast.
"We don't believe we've ever shut down a nuclear unit because of river temperature," said John Moulton, spokesman for the Knoxville, Tenn.-based utility.
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I'd be intrested to see how they managed to measure an experiment involving lightspeed that's only three feet apart.
quote:The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.
Er....yeah. It would certainly seem that way. Peer-review needed on asile 3.
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This is another example of making photons do interesting things in ways that can never be used to transmit information or violate relativity in any other way.
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Daniel Butler
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Quantum tunneling is well-known. It doesn't violate relativity and it's been observed before. It *is* near instantenous, and "faster than light," but no useful information can ever be transmitted faster than light.
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Da_bang80
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So these guys say they broke the speed of light, with light?
Man, high school physics class just doesn't cut it anymore...
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