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Apparently Captain Kirk found it hard to do the salute, and another cast member couldnt do it, do they had to use glue

Zachary Quinto, actually. Awkward, since he played Spock. :-) Not a problem unique to him, though. Dame Judith Anderson (T'Lar in Star Trek III) couldn't do it, either, and there's some thought that William Shatner is also unable.

 

The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
Amy: But how did it end up in there?
The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.
River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.

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...um...Nimoy and Shatner are good friends...

 

The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
Amy: But how did it end up in there?
The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.
River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.

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The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
Amy: But how did it end up in there?
The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.
River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.

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Hmm, decisions decisions, choosing what to do for my DT GCSE coursework starting next year is the last thing I want to do because right now I have a cold and this could lead to be being mad enough to sue my body for the trouble it's caused me with a 3/4 of a new tooth grown and a 1/6 of another new tooth growing making it hard for me to chew. :twisted: :evil:

In other news, I've just watched Ashes to Ashes and the finale of Heroes on BBC iPlayer! :)

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Hmm, decisions decisions, choosing what to do for my DT GCSE coursework starting next year is the last thing I want to do because right now I have a cold and this could lead to be being mad enough to sue my body for the trouble it's caused me with a 3/4 of a new tooth grown and a 1/6 of another new tooth growing making it hard for me to chew. :twisted: :evil:

In other news, I've just watched Ashes to Ashes and the finale of Heroes on BBC iPlayer! :)

Can't be bothered with Ashes to Ashes, 1st series was so meh.

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This is crazy... according to a study, 41% of all pc software is pirated globally :shock:

It also says that the United States has a 20% piracy rate. Maybe this is why our economy is in a recession...?

I heard about this from Lifehacker, by being subscribed to their RSS feed.

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A lot of software on earth isn't very well known, just look at this forum, how many of the plugins do you actually know?

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I'm guessing the data was collected from ISPs. :roll:
Probably.

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More from that same piracy article...

:Glow: Lowering PC software piracy by 10 points over four years would create 600,000 additional new jobs worldwide.

:Glow: Reducing piracy by 10 points would generate $24 billion in higher government revenues without a tax increase.

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Saw Star Trek again today :D I was thinking more about that warp drive thing I linked to earlier, http://www.space.com/businesstechnology ... drive.html , which I remembered about after hearing Scotty in the new Star Trek saying, "It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving!"

If this is possible, and if it's how it was achieved in Star Trek (admittedly this is a hypothetical discussion, since Star Trek is fiction :)), then there are other implications.

1. It makes perfect sense when you see the ships accelerating to or decelerating from warp speed in near-instantaneous time. Since they weren't moving in the first place, there would be no "G-forces", and hence no danger from rapid changes in velocity (since there wasn't actually any change in the velocity of the ship).

2. Since there's no velocity, there's no momentum. Hence, this type of transportation requires a system which is constantly active. If you turn off the warp drive, you will immediately stop. You can't "coast".

3. This does not permit them to transmit information at effectively faster-than-light speeds. Radio waves do not have warp drives (see #2), and are still limited to propogating at the speed of light. So, they would need another way to solve this. The game Mass Effect had an interesting proposition here: transportation was accomplished via stable wormholes that were created by some advanced, ancient, long-gone civilization. They put the moral equivalent of a network hub at both ends of all of these. This had the consequence that if you were far away from a wormhole that communication was probably laggy.

4. I imagine that any objects floating nearby the space ship that jumped to warp drive would be carried along with it. So, don't jump right out of the space dock into warp speed. But hey, if you leave your coffee cup on the hood of your car top of the ship, it'll still be there when you arrive at your destination! (And due to #1, it won't have fallen off or spilled!)

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I thought mass bends space-time, so if you would find some way to put a black hole in the front of your spacecraft and find a way not to get sucked in, we would be able to make 1 km/h as acutual speed to 10km/h when calculating the speed with normal space-time. By the way warp drive is shrinking the space before you and expanding it behind you right? (I don't know how we could be able to expand space-time, maybe anti-matter has anti-mass, I don't know) When sending information we could do like a mail man service, put a black hole in front of a rocket with your usb-stick attached to it with your message on it. And then shoot the rocket.

The good thing of this is that no one would see you coming as the black holes absorpes all the light of your spacecraft.

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