Jahled

That's rather Woo Yay! Dinochick, though I would like to know when he get's to practice given i've never heard anything, and he seems to sleep for 23.5 hours a day. Cats seem to sqeeze the rest of their busy little lives into the remaining half hour! And a large portion of that is pretending they like us when they 'sense' us in the kitchen. Scathe, that's horrific! I'm now to terrified to venture into the basement for fear of what other fiendish creations I might find! Edit: One day i'll learn how to spell...

Hurray for Emperor Elvis!! Now at least I know i'm not alone, cause DA KING has returned. I'm also amazed no one else seems to have seen much Doctor Who, it's got cult following in the States, and as I said earlier the actors make fortunes doing the sci Fi convention circuits.

...Jahled raises his 'James Bond eyebrow' and cautiously looks at all around him...as rain lashed against his window he realized only Scathane knew what he was on about... he shuddered...yes, he knew Star Wars ruled the roost, but other Sci-Fi stuff deserved merit; Elvis might understand, but he's a youngen who probably assumed Doctor Woo was...*caugh*...Doctor Who...was crap 'cause he saw it's BBC neglected demise later on in the 80s... ...Jahled's lager tainted brain strained hard, making crunching noises like crap PCs, as he recalled golden episodes of Doctor Woo... like The Robots of Death, with the fourth Doctor. Uttering something incomprehensible, only SOCL could possibly understand, not least stand any chance of translating, Jahled sees a healthy looking vine beside his window and is overcome with a fierce yearning to clamber into the gnarly trees and be at one with the unkept sprawl known as his garden...high in the branches...alone...at peace with nature.... ...But then realized how much hassle it would be to get back to the fridge given the back door would be locked... and he had periodic attacks of vertico anyhows...and couldn't stomach seeing Zoot laughing at his misfortune from his bedroom window.... **sigh** Edit: Because I found something that might educate you guys in a Jahled sort of way... sort of thing...

If I can remember rightly, I 'borrowed' the dino-gif from b3ta.com, where the guy who posted it mumbled something about our Jurrasic friend being pissed out of his cashew-sized brain, as Scathe observed... BTW: I met Zoot this morning in the kitchen. I tried to tell him it wasn't the bundle of thread he was looking for. Stupid cat.

You guys are all ganging up on me! You all must know what Doctor Who is! Daleks, Cybermen, The Master, the Tardis.... It's been on British TV since the 60s...and the actors who have been in it make fortunes doing the American Sci-Fi convention circuits... Dinochick, you at least are having me on right?

Guys!!! It's true!!! What made me laugh upon reflecting about it afterwards was that for all the novalty factor of making a motorized vehicle out of an office desk, I was left not knowing what it was promoting!

There's very little chance of me getting a real life given my life is full of surprises like this at every corner!

As Scathe said: Doctor Woo! ...if you guys know not...click here. I used to download some of the files and secretly use them to replace Microsoft sounds on work PCs...

I was watching the news this evening here in London where it was announced by Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, that the latest Doctor will be Eddie Izzard!!! The BBC have announced they are going to continue the fabled Sci-Fi series after a brake of what seems like the latter half of my teenage years and my entire twenties. WOO! Daleks and Cybermen are GO! Can't wait. Probably be as wonderfully crap and low budgit as it was in the 70s! Superb!

DAHH!!! Dinochick, when i have stoped rushing round my house at high speed hurling my head against solid objects, you might just receive an email. I just figured out why I earn my living riding a bike. BTW: You guys no Piccidilly Circus in London right? It's the roundabout with the statue of Eros and the huge Coca Cola neon sign. Well today I was bouncing through the traffic their when I passed a man driving a DESK! I kid you not, some promotional woo-har, the steering wheel was a keyboard like i'm tapping on now. It even had a water bottle machine to boot!

Scathe, I had a look on behalf of Dinochick, and it seems to me the options to upload avatars and the option to put in an off site url link have been removed!

Scratching his head, Jahled begins wondering some more... Has anybody thought about the concept of Imperial retirement homes for all these clones? Are thery capable of reproduction?

It is indeed a little pocket of the sight concentrated upon the total-conversion, which is looking je ne sais quoi; only kidding, magnifique!

The mighty Chewbacca howls out a mighty wookie roar; for he has discovered a game so terrible not even he would be foolish enough to contemplate playing...even with a beat up astromech-droid, Indeed, few sports in the galactic outer-rim reached the shear levels of danger, or Hutt controlled-influence, as the lethal game of Table Tennis!

Yep! Never worked once... you guys on the staff obviously have some mechanics the rest of us don't!

'No problem...down here... ouch! Err.... reactor leak... ooff! Nothing to worry about... aghaa! Everything's ok... ouch!'

Cool! So i'm not alone in being confused about this one. In house links never work for me, I try to use a clever and skillful combination of brain, PC, and deft clicking with my right index finger on a plastic mouse...but nay!

I love a good realist!

ALL Stormtroopers are clones! They are all the same regardless of what gear they where on Tattooine or Hoth. If you don't subscribe to this after AOTC, and the whole licencing lark of never seeing a Stormtroopers face in any SW comic or film etc should have dropped some heavy hints. If you don't take my word for it, final evidance will be in the final prequal. I'm quite happy to discuss it until then.

Well penned dude! I'm not going to pick up loads of points because i've got to log out and do a few things before I hit the sack. But one thing that bugs me is your theory on rebel ships having better shields than their Imperial counter parts, which at Endor were Star Destroyers; the core of the Imperial Navy. I said this previously, but the Mon Calamari ships were converted from civilian luxory liners. There's no way they could be converted to something that good take more punishment whilst at the same time giving more to make that enhanced shield factor count as a warship, even with your rather well thought out rebel tactical argument. I will simply state that it is not possible, the Mon Calamari did not have superiour tech starships, their shields were not better than Imperial Star Destroyers other than one or two mentioned by authors other than GL; one of which was a command ship. No, if that tactical engagement was real it would have been like the battles in the gulf war. Overwelmingly superior firepower and overwelmingly superior trained-crews financed by an overwelmingly financed regime. In truth, the rebels would have been reduced to molten piece meal as quickly as the superior TIE fighters (as stated by GL in the original books) would have obliterated the antiques, and prototypes fielded by the rebels. (How did they finance such supposed superior fighters given they had only no offical galactic funding?) Complete crap. It's like saying the allies in the Gulf War would be content to field crap fighters from the fifties in the face of say, if the Iraqi's had access to F-14s, because we were confidant enough in the abilities of our moden destroyers and cruisers! Not reality is it, certainly not for a galactic empire controlling the galaxy. The last fifteen minutes of ROTJ were simply not realistic, unless one point you made i've been harping on about for ages now is addressed as the final comment. That when the Emperor died, the 'Forces of the Empire were plunged into confusion.' (to quote yet again) It is the only way the rebels would have won that engangement, through however you read what that influance Palpatine had; your theory is the most likely! Yo! BTW Hitomi! You stick around cause if this is your first post I look forward to reading your subsequant ones! Bloody good first post Woo! Don't click here!

You guys have simply got to read this I read today bored out of my skull in the Pakistani Embassy...from the Guardian newspaper: Reality in the melting pot According to 'multiverse' theorists, life as we know it could be nothing but a Matrix-style simulation Paul Davies Tuesday September 23, 2003 The Guardian Five hundred years ago it was widely believed that the Earth lay at the centre of the universe and mankind was the pinnacle of creation. Then along came Copernicus and showed that our planet was merely one of several orbiting the sun. Since then the lesson of Earth's mediocrity has been reinforced again and again: ours is a typical planet around a typical star in a typical galaxy, of which there exist untold billions. The Copernican principle - that our location in space is unremarkable - is the default assumption for most scientists. But recently this principle has been challenged by a group of cosmologists who claim that what we have all along been calling "the universe" is nothing of the sort. Rather, it is a tiny fragment of a much vaster and more elaborate system that, for want of a better word, has been dubbed "the multiverse". The basic idea is simple. Cosmologists think the universe began with a big bang about 14bn years ago. This means we can't see anything farther than 14bn light years away, however good our telescopes may be, because light from those regions hasn't had time to reach us yet. But this doesn't mean there is nothing there, and for decades astronomers supposed that what lies beyond this horizon in space is likely to be more or less the same as we observe in our cosmic backyard - just more galaxies. Now this assumption is in serious doubt following major developments in fundamental physics. A key premise of the more-of-the-same view of the universe is that the laws of physics are identical everywhere and for all time. But physicists have found that some features of nature thought to be law-like might actually be frozen accidents - properties that were locked in only as the universe cooled from its fiery birth. Take the mass of the electron. Why does it have the value it does? Well, maybe the mass isn't decided in advance once and for all by some deep law, but just comes out at random, like the throw of a die, in the searing maelstrom of the big bang. In which case, it could come out differently somewhere else. In the same way, the strength of gravity or the number of space dimensions might also vary from place to place. There is no evidence for any substantial variation in these features out as far as our best telescopes can peer. But that is no guarantee that a trillion light years away it will be the same. Electrons could be heavier there or space might have five dimensions. A God's-eye view of the cosmos would then resemble a patchwork quilt, with a haphazard pattern of properties. What we took to be universal laws of physics would be relegated to mere by-laws, appropriate only to our local "Hubble bubble", while far out in space other "bubbles", possibly generated by other big bangs quite distinct from ours, possess other laws. Multiverse enthusiasts bolster their claims by pointing to the astonishing bio-friendliness of the universe. It has long been known that the existence of life depends rather sensitively on the exact form of the laws of physics. Change things a bit and life would never have happened. This looks suspiciously flukey, but it can be readily explained by the multiverse. Most of the cosmic patches in the quilt will be sterile, their physics all wrong for making life. Only here and there, in rare patches where all the numbers come out right, will life arise and observers like us evolve to marvel at it all. History has thus turned full circle. According to the multiverse theory, if you look at Earth's location in space on a grand enough scale, then it does occupy a special and privileged position, namely one that can support life. Like winners in a gigantic cosmic lottery, we find ourselves in a rare bio-friendly patch for the simple reason that we could not exist in any of the bio-hostile ones. If one accepts recent advances in fundamental physics, then some sort of multiverse seems inevitable. But how far down this slippery slope should one go? Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that there is no need to stop with properties like the strengths of forces or the masses of particles. Why not consider all possible mathematical laws? Don't like the law of gravity? No problem. There's a universe out there somewhere with gravity that waxes and wanes in a paisley pattern. Of course, there's nobody there to admire it. Tegmark's speculation forces us to confront what is perhaps the deepest of all the deep questions of existence: why there is something rather than nothing. There are only two "natural" states of affairs. The first is that nothing exists. The other is that everything exists. The former we can eliminate by observation. So should we conclude that everything exists - all possible worlds? Those who would argue against this position must concede that there is some rule that divides what actually exists from what is merely possible, but not real. But where does that rule come from? And why that rule rather than some other? These are murky waters, but they get even murkier when we scrutinise what is meant by the words "exist" and "real". In the Tegmark multiverse of all possible worlds, some worlds will have intelligent civilisations with computers powerful enough to create authentic-looking virtual worlds. Like in the movie The Matrix, it may be almost impossible for an observer to know which is the real world and which is a simulation. And if the simulation is good enough, is there any fundamental difference between the two anyway? It gets worse. Mathematicians have proved that a universal computing machine can create an artificial world that is itself capable of simulating its own world, and so on ad infinitum. In other words, simulations nest inside simulations inside simulations ... Because fake worlds can outnumber real ones without restriction, the "real" multiverse would inevitably spawn a vastly greater number of virtual multiverses. Indeed, there would be a limitless tower of virtual multiverses, leaving the "real" one swamped in a sea of fakes. So the bottom line is this. Once we go far enough down the multiverse route, all bets are off. Reality goes into the melting pot, and there is no reason to believe we are living in anything but a Matrix-style simulation. Science is then reduced to a charade, because the simulators of our world - whoever or whatever they are - can create any pseudo-laws they please, and keep changing them. The final twist in this saga is that almost all multiverse theories predict the existence of infinitely many duplicate cosmic regions, including duplicate Earths and duplicate Guardian readers. There will also exist all possible variations on this theme. So if you are uncomfortable with the multiverse idea, content yourself with the fact that there will be another you out there somewhere who has just read a thoroughly convincing refutation of the entire multiverse concept. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1047755,00.html I was a bit dazed when I finally got the passport counter after reading that! Nothing seemed...real... Anyway you'll be glad to know the infinite particles of my existance managed to return some dude at Reuters his passport... Edit: Links tend to work if you link them...

...err..yes! I was actually reading about him in the Guardai today, he seems to have George Robertonson's approval; as with George Bush's.

Registered Jojo! Scathe, a summary of one month's activity hitting 2000 inboxes shouldn't be to hard, time-consuming, or far out for us to achieve! Think of the sudden influx of existing members suddenly remembering where their true souls lie...heck, even JediIgor! Given we have at least one hand raised to contribute, you web-site fiends should at least 'discuss this in the pit.' A brilliant way to draw back existing members at least...

Are! Easily addressed my friend! The Death Star: Passing squad of Stormtroopers: 'It's Luke Skywalker! His captured Lord Vader! Get him!' 'I am not Luke Skywalker! This is not Lord Vader. We are humble cleaners. You will let us go about our business.' 'Ok, you can go about your business. Say, your buddy looks like his dying, need any help?' 'He is not dying. He merely has a slight throat infection.' {waves hand again} ...repeat 497 times as our Jedi duo make their way through the Death Star. Passing squad of Stormtroopers: 'It's Luke Skywalker! He's trying to kidnap Lord Vader! Get him!' '...weeze...weeze...Luke, Son; I have just enough strength to obliterate them with Force-Lightening, we have done this 498 times now, it's getting a little irritating!' 'No father, you need to conserve your strength. Let me' Passing Stormtroopers: Aghaaaa...eieeee....

The full horror of young Luke's heritage had only just begun to set in...