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According to the YEC HEADQUARTERS the average person has 75 trillion cells.

You should read this, its pretty funny.

http://yecheadquarters.org/catalog1.2.html]LOL

I always though there was an absolute reference frame anyway!?!?! To me the speed of light has always been a limit on the speed of observations.

Sorry, ill try and expalin what i mean (feel free to shoot me down and torture me for military secrets btw)

Three stars  A,C,E; equi-distant from one another at 4 light years,  and three friends algol, clark and euler (at their respective stars)

I'm algol (at A). I jump in my FTL ship and fly to C in two years to visit clark. I arrive at C before clark sees me even leaving A (this will not happen for 2 years), i phone euler on my FTL (lets say for the sake of argument that its instant)phone and tell him im visting clark and he also cannot see that i have left yet.

Now, the moment my ship arrives at C (clark will not have seen it coming) it will appear to instantly travel backwards (as all the light from the ship during the trip catches up with the ship and C, it will appear to travel backwards for 2 years until the light from when i left reaches C.

However to euler at E, the ship will appear to leave A two years after the call (4 years after i left) and he will be able to watch me make the transit from A to C in two years (because he is observing the trip perpendicular to the FTL travel. He could call someone (on the inst-phone) at A to check, but i would be long gone despite what he could see.

Now, if i left a friend behind on A, because i am travelling directly away from him, he would not see me arrive on C for 6 years.

Now, this is the fun bit.

If i left C as soon as i got there (after the phone call to E) and went home (in two years again) i would once again arrive back in A without my friend seeing me coming. As soon as my ship arrived my friend (and I) would see the light from the trip catching up with A and appearing to show my craft travelling backwards back to C (this would again last 2 years - the trip time) Interestingly though i would see two images of my craft, one from the outbound (to C) journey and one from the inbound journey arrive at C at the same time.

Anyway, what im saying is that you may be able to arrive somewhere before you apper to have left but there is no way to circuvent causality.

Apologes to the board for the worst explanation of anything. Ever.

And what, exactly, is the purpose?

Will flaming people publicly in a special thread actually achieve anything? If you have a problem, pm someone.

Anyway, getting back on topic, wasnt someone saying something about santa? 

I'd have though the farm habs would cluster together to rorm a sort of farming community. This would bring advantages in transport as the rail head would go to where the communities are. Also Farmers wold be able to support each other and be able to deal with the colonies with a common front (i.e unionise)

GCNRevenger - What is the concept behind friction pre-heating the scramjet?

My understanding of teh concept was that at low speeds not enough oxygen passes through the engine for it to work (as it is incapable of drawing any in) - it isnt until higher speeds combined with a large 'mouth' (for want of a better word at the moment) that enough atmospheric oxygen can pass through teh engine for it to work.

I like that, i like that alot. 

A quick question.

Where does the 6000 year figure come from?
And how are the creationists so sure its been 6000 as opposed to say 7000, or 18000 etc?

Mechanical counter pressure suits also have problems at the back of the knees and elbows where air pockets are needed to facilitate movement as well as the chest (for men) for breathing. The main problem i have when considering them though is the change in volume fo your body as you move - muscles etc. I cant think of a decent way to take account of muscles expandinga and contracting.....

But i do believe they offer a partial answer to the need for a durable mars-suit. A hybrid design will eventually be decided upon in my opinion.

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Apparently the last time it blew it covered the whole of north-america in 20 metres of ash! Thats not something the rain is just going to wash away.

Bill Brysons : A Short History of Nearly Everything, has a good chapter on imminent natural disasters - makes you stop and think  ???

Its a sound idea but the ammount of antimatter that is produced each year in big accelerator labs such as CERN or Fermilab corresponds to the energy that would allow a 100 W light bulb to shine for 15 minutes. Also, making antiprotons costs about 10  billion times more energy than is finally stored in their mass.

or all that lead.....

they were exposed to so much in their wine and water systems they effectively sent the ruling classes insane, and as such could not effectively govern their empire.