sci-fi discussion, if u have something wierd to in ur head post here!!

everyone knows mother-in-laws come from hell, except mine, who comes from Hustler <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> btw i was in the Omicron Alpha system and guess what? I found the Hispania! right where I left it last time! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> better go and have some Titan livers... Edited by - Tawakalna on 29-09-2003 23:53:13

Blergh, Titan Livers, I ate to many last night and I felt bloated like a titan...I even moved like a COW this morning and was late for work. ----&gt;&gt;&gt;<img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>&lt;&lt;&lt;----- The Titan Flies Like A Cow <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;They´re talking from here...&quot; - Freddy Mercury ´86 Juni: Oh yeah?! Trent: uh, huh. Juni: Oh. Trent: yeah, great. TLR: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. Edited by - Nickless on 30-09-2003 00:10:49

PLEASE! stay on topic (some of u) i dont want another one of my threads locked but any way WarLord : so basically the usiverse is like a huge (and i mean one big ass huge) sphere, so that it seams like we got straight but we are not going straight, its just the universe is so huge we think we r going straight. so that means the probe that was sent to take pictures of jupiter and pluto and all those other planets will eventually come back to earth if it wasnt found by other life forms my mood: oy!: I´m happy iiieeee!: I´m psycho dude: I´m not in a very good mood AHHHH!: I´m mad

but it isn´t a sphere, is it? current thinking leans towards space being flat, not closed, so anythign sent out would (unless acted out by outside forces) continue infintely although progressively slowing down to an &quot;infinitely&quot; slow pace, as all the stars, galaxies, black holes, titan livers etc. wil also do. No infinite continuous velocity, no retraction and big crunch/bang, just slowing down and down and down until all motion apparently ceases. besides to suggest space has a shape (ok I know its a convention) implies a term of spatial reference so &quot;outside&quot; of space (if such a thing can be said to exist even conceptually) how do you determine what any shape is? for you have no space for that shape (of space) to exist in....or something like that..

Sry, that wasn´t my idea <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;Like a mighty castle our friendship shall survive, though the very heavens rain, er, big rocks down apon it&quot; - Civ III

the thing though is that assuming the universe is flat IS actually giving it a shape.... ....interesting though, if the universe is flat then it would be quite logical to assume that there could be several billion universes (or should that be universi?) above and below ours....like a gigantic book. I reckon that theory only exists because its easier for human´s to comprehend parallel universe theory. I mean, did you know that less than 300 years ago the whole world believed that the earth was the centre of the universe and 7 rings rotated around it, to accomodate for the discovered planets and the sun? it was assumed that everything on the outside of those rings was heaven...interesting...and of course before that they believed that the earth was flat and therefore it was possibly to fall off the edge...in the same way, in 300 years time they´ll all be laughing at threads like this. @Taw - Niner niner zero, roger...You´re looking good for trans-light. lol. never took you for a sarah brightman fan. lol. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

The really great thing is that we can muse over this for our whole lives and still be wrong <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I doubt they are gona discover the nature of the universe for quite a while &quot;Like a mighty castle our friendship shall survive, though the very heavens rain, er, big rocks down apon it&quot; - Civ III

wrong?? WRRROOONNNGGG!?!?!?!!! I´m always right! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I´d love to read a transcription of a conversation from the 15th century were philosophers debated the nature of the universe....i know you can read the conclusions....but the juicy stuff comes in debate. Thats why I´m enjoying this thread so much....

grom, i just liked the girls. btw yes the term &quot;flat&quot; I used is of course a convention, it isn´t &quot;flat&quot; at all because that is a spatial refernece which of course u can´t have outside of space boom-boom! &quot;..and that is why, sire, we knoweth that the earth is shaped like a banana..&quot; &quot;..this new learning doth astound me!&quot;

&quot;...and so sire, I conclude that we are at but crumbs on this enormous biscuit, let us pray that the lord shall not dunketh us&quot; <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>