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Not enough Rifter articles.

Do the rifters gain sentience when having sex with other rifters, or will sex with anyone do?

a fairly well respected (white) specialist in east Asian history.

What is the relevance of him being white

I am starting to suspect that this may not actually be a time traveller!

For example, here is a synopsis of time travel: https://bruceleeeowe.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/black-holes-and-d-branes.gif Why is it just the Nambu-Goto action of a closed string. If this relates to string theory, how is it possible since it is on a fixed causal background as far as I can tell. ...

Noto contains most unicode characters : https://www.google.com/get/noto/

Because the actual workings don't matter to anyone who isn't a pedant. Same with conlangs, NERD Passing through a wormhole's event horizon puts you in the interior, which is just somewhere else in our own universe. Which suggests a Klein-bottle topology of the universe, and why the hell not? It rea...

"They don't have DNA" is not at all the same thing as "They're based on magic"; DNA is a very specific molecule. Outside of RNA (kinda - RNA is not very stable), there are no known methods for such things. Hence whatever choice is made for this will be pulled from a buttocks, which is basically mag...

Magic?

I thought hunter-gatherers were generally regarded as less violent than settled societies? Analysing statistics in Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (1996): Table 6.2 lists the Percentage of Deaths Due to Warfare. Of the 8 primitive societies that survived l...

Eskimos speak Morse what?

The joke is that morse is also French for walrus.

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NEWS IN WORMHOLES AND SHIT VARIOUS THINGS I FOUND ON THE TOPIC OF MAKING WORMHOLES IN LATEST NEWS First, I must speak of this book https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19940612/Stargates.jpg I am not exactly sure how that cover came to be. I am all excited for the singularity, but will you truluy mak...

For some reason the Lexipedia gives nipples in french as "bout de sein"

What the fuck is this

MY NAME IS JANGO GORENC

YOU MAY NOT KNOW ME, BUT LET ME TELL YOU : IF YOU HAVE ANY NUMBERS, I AM YOUR MAN. I WILL MAKE SWEET LOVE TO YOUR NUMBER. PLEASE SEND ME ALL YOUR NUMBERS.

The combined universe all fits together pretty neatly.

The Empire had the earth destroyed by atomic war, not by some stupid W boson cannon!

If you want weird programming languages, you can look here :

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Though be aware that most of them are either joke languages or variations on Brainfuck, but there are a lot of interesting programming paradigms represented here.

LET MY PEOPLE GO

Warp drives are so far off that "to make sure they aren't divulging restricted technological info." is pretty silly. The energy requirements aren't the problems (although they are a huge problem), it's the sign of the energy. As far as I know there's no plan or even any idea how to engineer one, exc...

As a stupid question, has anyone tried mixing this up with Everett's many worlds? I'm sure the general answer is that you can't go to the other worlds, they don't work that way, don't even think it. But if you could, you could get the effect of FTL travel by moving to a world that happens to be shi...

I notice that usually, whenever there's some spacetime doohickey in a science fiction universe, the actual technical details tend to be rather vague. Wormholes are usually just spheres (or spiralling discs) floating in a vacuum, or at best are inside a fancy stargate. FTL travel is even less clear i...