Dont you just love nutters

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http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101106070034AA65RtS

Seriously, how the hell?

The second one is like a Saints fan walking into a Pompey pub after a match and going "Well grease me up big boys!"

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101106055442AAowtuw

 

[661-Pete]

Won't try to comment on the second one, looks just like a cut'n'paste from the dear old DM .... but the first one is somewhat intriguing. Antimatter is a favourite resource in the world of SF - didn't the Starship Enterprise get its power from matter-antimatter annihilation, after all? I'm currently working through Larry Niven's Ringworld's Children, in which the galactic armed forces spend a lot of time lobbing 'bullets' of antimatter at each other ... sometimes the 'guns' misfire, creating a lot of - michief... In that fictional universe, the protagonists have discovered a 'convenient' source for their artillery, I believe, an anti-planet just passing by ....

... but alas! No such resource in this real universe of ours. According to Wiki, antimatter is just about the most expensive substance to produce, costing an estimated "$62.5 trillion per gram". One gram would yield a 40-kiloton explosion: about three Hiroshima bombs. Somehow, I suspect the armed forces of the world aren't that interested in following up...

 

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Won't try to comment on the second one, looks just like a cut'n'paste from the dear old DM .... but the first one is somewhat intriguing. Antimatter is a favourite resource in the world of SF - didn't the Starship Enterprise get its power from matter-antimatter annihilation, after all? I'm currently working through Larry Niven's Ringworld's Children, in which the galactic armed forces spend a lot of time lobbing 'bullets' of antimatter at each other ... sometimes the 'guns' misfire, creating a lot of - michief... In that fictional universe, the protagonists have discovered a 'convenient' source for their artillery, I believe, an anti-planet just passing by ....

... but alas! No such resource in this real universe of ours. According to Wiki, antimatter is just about the most expensive substance to produce, costing an estimated "$62.5 trillion per gram". One gram would yield a 40-kiloton explosion: about three Hiroshima bombs. Somehow, I suspect the armed forces of the world aren't that interested in following up...

I cant remember antimatter ever being mentioned in the original series of Star Trek, but that may just be my memory.

The general theory is that anti matter and matter were created after the bigbang and there was slightly more matter. The anti was destroyed soon after but energy can be converted into matter or antimatter, or matter into energy... my physics is limited.

 

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Scientology cracks me up. I think Tom Cruise is the pretty-boy salesman for this hilarious garbage.

http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/what-cos.htm

I am told that they have a lot of very heavy lawyers. This post might prove expensive

 

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Scientology cracks me up. I think Tom Cruise is the pretty-boy salesman for this hilarious garbage.

http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/what-cos.htm

I am told that they have a lot of very heavy lawyers. This post might prove expensive

Would make me laugh. I would like to see them prove in a court of law that their beleifs are true, much like those prats in the States who went through the mill trying to disprove evolution.

 

[vernon]

Would make me laugh. I would like to see them prove in a court of law that their beleifs are true, much like those prats in the States who went through the mill trying to disprove evolution.

The challenge is no greater than getting any religion to prove that its beliefs are true.

 

[slowmotion]

The challenge is no greater than getting any religion to prove that its beliefs are true.

Thermogeddonists spring to mind, perhaps?

 

[Aperitif]

The challenge is no greater than getting any religion to prove that its beliefs are true.

I thought an 'ology' gave the bearer a head start in the magic book stakes...better than an 'ism' or an 'anity'.

 

[Speicher]

I thought an 'ology' gave the bearer a head start in the magic book stakes...better than an 'ism' or an 'anity'.

You've met Prof. Anity then?

 

[byegad]

La! La! La!

I'm going to keep on wearing my tinfoil hat until the antimatter using Atlantians come back, SO THERE!

 

[661-Pete]

Well, the prognistications have borne out - real live antimatter is on the way folks!

 

[vikingcyclist]

Well, the prognistications have borne out - real live antimatter is on the way folks!

Don't worry too much, the amount of antimatter they've produced would give a yield of about 11 millionths of a joule as an explosion.

The amount of antimatter depicted in Dan Browns little rant, however, would've been enough to take out the planet (and probably the moon as well).