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JMS and other scifi writers have a good motto, never let scientific reality get in the way of a good plot. In other words, toss realism if it takes the fun out of the story. Otherwise we'd end up with space battles with all the excitement of 2001.

Pseudo-science threads? I'll be sure to let Kip Thorne and Stephan Hawking know that they're totally wrong and that you are right. Might have to have a seance to tell Albert Einstien how wrong he was. And your pep squad is so very cute when they rush to defend you. And as I stated before LOAF...

I didn't start the name calling so don't speak of maturity.

Well, with technology today it still isn't practable. Although one would think 600+ years from now it would be. Although a bridge does make a ship generally look better.

Well, LOAF the correction was never put on the news section, so thats why I never found it. And don't worry LOAF, I will always be in the shadow of your ass. :)

TyeDyeBoy: You didn't help me with anything. And can't help making mistakes like the whole Mark Day thing when no one bothers to print a correction.

I apparently misremembered when he came up with the idea. It was in the October 1945 (twelve years before spuknik)issue of Wireless World. And it was for a network of communication satellites, around the world (although the communication satelite idea was his also and at the same time).

Library's also list Harlan Ellison as a science fiction writer and while he has written that, he's also written tons of other things. Most library's list all dramas, mystereries, etc under Fiction, but that does not mean anything. Science fiction writers (read any of their essays on the subject)...

Sweet mother God, where do you have your info. So there were artifical satalites up in the 30's. Wow, didn't know that. Thanks for clearing that up. He came up with the idea of a geosynchrous orbit before the sputnik was ever launched. And I have read most of those stories. Since your not from...

No, scifi is supposed to come up with fun, exciting stories. Science Fiction (like what Arther C. Clark writes) tries to use currect science to predict the future. Science at the time knew that a satelite could technically be put up there, he was just the first to think of it.

But what is "property"? Can we truly posess anything?

Napoleon: If you want to know what is scientifically possible, read this here http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~hinson/ftl/html/FTL_intro.html Totally realistic science makes for crappy scifi action fun. It's better left to movies like Contact or hard sci-fi books.

If we are following real science they wouldn't even fry the pilot unless they hit them through the cockpit. Microwaves bouce off of metal very easily. A neutron gun would fry the pilot and leave the ship mostly intact. Anything organic would be toast though, plastics and such, etc.

Yeah but Hawk wasn't annoying like Dallas.

I got it the first night no problem. Sat next to the comp. watching TV and clicking constantly on the FTP link. As soon as they put it up it started downloading. And when I got up the next morning, it was ready to play. Thats the only time I've waited for a game to be released on the net (demo...

Actually Spirit's death was the best for me, with Vagabonds a close 2nd. The worst death would have to be Dallas's. I mean, who didn't see that one coming from a mile away?

God I remember clicking non stop on the link until it went active. Getright served me well then. Have DSL now and get frustrated now waiting ten minutes for something to download. Those guys don't know what they missed.

What did he say were the plans then for Blair or for WC. Did he give any hints at all?

What is the proof?

Not doubting you on that, but do you have any proof to that? If so why did you print it?