Recent content by schiZm22

Oh man I haven't seen a game like this since one of my favorites way back from 2000, Tachyon: The Fringe. That was a great game (though nostalgia may be clouding my judgment since it was one of the first games I really got into) and purely focused on space combat. I hope this game takes...

I can see how this could actually be true. I would speculate that it is likely related to mirror neurons, which fire the same when doing an action or just viewing the same action. (Hopefully) almost no one has experienced killing a person, so the brain has no way to respond to that, which makes...

Extraterrestrial Life. Because when there is something like 3*10^23 stars out there, and apparently a good percentage of them have planets, it just seems statistically inevitable.

Perpetual motion is a bit of a misnomer. Everything is always in motion or still relative to everything else. (Newton's first law.) Maintaining constant velocity requires no energy. Perpetual acceleration would be a violation of energy conservation. A magnet would cause an acceleration inversely...

Without the Moon, there would be almost no tides, since the Sun contributes very little to them. Earth's axial tilt would oscillate by about 60 degrees instead of about 25 degrees, so climate changes beyond anything in Earth's history. It does not shield us from asteroids. The Moon only has a...

Only 120trillion miles?! Wow, that's like...more than 100,000 times further than humans have ever sent a spacecraft. Well, if we go near the speed of light, relativistic effects will cause the travelers to arrive in less time...relative to them. It'll still appear to take them many many years...

There are only two values numbers can have: nothing and something. All non-zero numbers are a variation on something. Nothing is defined as having not having something. Zero has no something. Therefore the value of zero is nothing, which is still a value. Wow, that was really tautological...

I would have to argue directly against the claim that you cannot to operations with infinite. Infinite is a particularly great concept to work with, especially when dealing with infinite series. As well as zero, if said series happens to, you know, converge to zero. And you can't argue against...

Well I wasn't specifically thinking of numbers per se when I wrote that. I was actually alluding to how mathematics can abstract more dimensions and physically impossible geometries. My main point was that if it can be assigned a value (even if that value is "undefined" in the case of infinite...

Ahh...that's the glory that is mathematics. You can abstract concepts that are totally impossible to conceive any other way. You could apply this same argument for infinite. Both are unable to truly exist in our universe, but are damn useful. Same goes for i (square root of -1). I guess I...

We should remember that that 13.7 billion light year number only represents the part of the universe that is visible. Which happens to correspond exactly to the age of the universe since that is how far any photon could have possibly gotten in the time span available. Which means that the...

I'm going to run through the list of plausible doomsday scenarios, so people can stop speculating. 30-40 years: Potential apocalyptic meteor strike...we have our eye on that one 5000-15000 years: Collision with plasma cloud that would break down the sun and earth's magnetic fields...