Lollypop

Careful now, Montreal native and fluent french speaker here.

Lucky you ! I think the French language if the sexiest sounding language in the world. They tried to teach me French at School. But being silly and young thought " Why do I need to learn French ", so lost interest. Now I could kick myself. :lol:

My favourite episodes would have to be " Timeless ", " The Blink of an Eye " " Realitivity ", " Tinker Tenor, Doctor, Spy ", and " Body and Soul "

I used to like him, but went off him when he kept bad mouthing Voyager, and Star Trek. He seems very bitter about something.

I was rather disappointed with the latest one. The beginning was excellent where he kept going back to try and prevent his fiancee from dying. But I found the ending was rather lame. :lol:

I keep changing my mind on whether to believe or not. I think it's just too far, too far for them to travel. And then I read about bending Space and I change my mind again. :lol:

Brian Aldis's ' Hot House ' is a really good and different book to read. :lol:

Some of my favourite authors are...

Brian Aldis

Robert Heinlein

H.G.Wells

Frank Herbert

Isaac Asimov

Poul Anderson

James Blish

Ray Bradbury

Philip.K.(Please stop me from cursing)

Aldous Huxley

Anne Mccaffrey

Michael Moorcock

Frederick Pohl

Robert Silverberg

Clifford Simak

A.E.Van Vogt

Kurt Vonnegut

John Wyndham

I don't think it was Kes that had aged prematurely, it was the actress Jennifier Lien. I read somewhere that when Star Trek got rid of her she was so cut up about the whole thing that it made her ill.

Lollipop, try this.  Take a mobius strip, draw a line down the center as master_q suggested, and then take a pair of scissors and cut along this line.  You may be fascinated by the result, but it may also give insight into how it "works," a result which

can be predicted by differential geometry (or manifold geometry, just jargon really).  Also, try this, instead of a single half twist, give your strip two half twists (or one full twist) before taping the ends together.  Then cut along the center as before. The result (a "complex" form in differential geometry) also has special meaning in group theory and particle physics. 

Finally, make another loop, but give it three half twists before taping the ends together.  Then cut it down the middle as before.  Impressive, no?

I have been playing with these for years. :lol:

I think I understand what you are getting at master_q :lol:

I don't know ! Maybe someone can help me.

I have a dry sense of humour

I laugh a lot

I'm curious about most things

I ask lots of questions

I read a lot

I paint

I seem to know a little about nearly every thing.

I'm stubborn

:lol:

This is what I got. I tried it twice with different answers but got the same result both times. :lol:

nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e' :)

Some of my favourite authors are...

Brian Aldis

Robert Heinlein

H.G.Wells

Frank Herbert

Isaac Asimov

Poul Anderson

James Blish

Ray Bradbury

Philip.K.(Please stop me from cursing)

Aldous Huxley

Anne Mccaffrey

Michael Moorcock

Frederick Pohl

Robert Silverberg

Clifford Simak

A.E.Van Vogt

Kurt Vonnegut

John Wyndham

Star Trekkin by 'The Firm '

http://home.wanadoo.nl/~sytze/sttrekkin/

I think it's a tie between Quark, and Garak for me....

I liked Odo better in the earlier series when he used his shapshifting more.

I have seen a map some where, but I can't remember where it was...Sorry ! :)

I thought it was funny when Worf was asked " What happened " referring to the Klingons lumpy foreheads, or lack of them, and Worfs reply was " It's a long story " :)

Mixed Up In Space

What is it like to live and sleep in space? It is positively unearthly! Many basic Earth ideas are useless. For example, in space there is no up, there is no down.

Is it important to have an up and down? That fundamental directionality guides our conscious and unconscious movements. Imagine that you awaken from a deep sleep, startled by the bright flash of a cosmic ray inside your eye. Still sleepy, you wonder...Which way is up? Where are my arms and legs? You open your eyes and see the flight engineer with her head upside down and her feet near the ...ceiling? Or is it a wall? Close your eyes and you still can not tell which is up or down and, worse yet, you can not tell where your limbs are.

These strange sensations surprise first-time space travelers. On Earth, we always know which way is up. The human inner ear has sensors that feel the pull of gravity. These sensors signal the brain with information about directionality and orientation. In space, the inner ear does not have the same gravitational information. For a human in space, it can feel topsy-turvy and confusing.

Astronauts notice these weird changes. Space Shuttle crew member Robert Parker remembers,"One of the questions they asked us during our first flight was,'Close your eyes...now, how do you determine up?' " With his eyes closed, he could not tell which way was up. Up and down had vanished!

Another astronaut recounted a strange awakening. He opened his eyes, he saw the room floating around him. Or was it? On Earth, he always slept on his right side. Because of this habit, his brain thought that up was on his left at wake-up time. This time, however, the 'ceiling' was above his head. As his eyes surveyed the bizarre scene of a room rotating around a floating body, his brain had to wake up and work hard to adjust his sense of "up."

For many crew members, they spend the first few days in space keeping themselves oriented up with respect to the writing on the walls. This helps the adjustment to life in space. "After day two, I was more adventurous and would turn upside down for fun," reported mission specialist John-David Bartoe,"I had no problem!"

Other sensory systems in the human body miss the feeling of gravity as well. The proprioceptive system - the sense that tells you where your arms and legs are without having to look - is fooled without the feeling of gravity. As astronauts doze, they lose track of where their arms and legs are. This can be a scary feeling. To find their limbs, they have to consciously command them to move. When asleep, arms and legs just float!

One astronaut was confused when he awakened in the dark and saw a glowing watch face floating nearby. Where did this come from? As he stared at the watch, he realized that it was on his own arm!

These kinds of mismatches between what the eyes see and what the body feels can cause 'space sickness.' Scientists think that 'space sickness' is much like being 'car sick' on Earth. For a person trying to read in the car, the inner ear sends the motion signals to the brain but the eyes, staring at unmoving words, register stationary signals.

The symptoms are similar to those of motion sickness. Some astronauts experience mild headaches, vertigo, or nausea. In a bad case, vomiting can make a space traveler dehydrated, malnourished, and exhausted. Fortunately, the brain adapts. Space sickness usually goes away after thee days.

Preventing and treating space sickness is important to NASA. For that reason, NASA helped start the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. This institute studies how humans adapt to space and tries to develop remedies and preventive care for problems such as space sickness. They also study dizziness, balance impairment, physical changes to bones and muscles in weightlessness, the inner ear sensory system and the psychology of long-term space flight. This research will directly benefit millions of patients that will never leave our planet.

These problems never seem to bother the space travelers in the science fiction movies. There are no barf bags on the USS Enterprise. Captain Kirk never gets out of bed upside-down. In the command center, there are chairs and everyone's head is up. On Star Trek's Enterprise, artificial gravity provides the sensory cues for the crew. On the Space Shuttle and the Space Station, these crafts remain in orbit by falling around the earth; this 'free fall' creates the weightlessness that confuses human systems.

These problems do trouble real space travelers as well as earth-bound humans. The National Space Biomedical Research Institute will continue to research these and other human responses to weightlessness in space and on our planet.

Can you imagine if the Enterprise came across a ship that was upside down...

Seeing as you are the brains of the board, I have a question

Question..... How does a Möbius Strip work ? :)

Well Done ! :)

Another thing I have to say is...

If I were a farmer who wanted to grow organic corn etc, and had lots of customers for the product, and the farmer in the next field started growing genetically engineered corn, his crop would most likely contaminate mine. Not only would I lose my customers, I would have Monsanto knocking on my door wanting payment.

Go ahead and give us your opinions on this matter

You don't know what is going to happen 30 years down the track. Think of the hundreds of examples that have proved to be hazardous to humans despite their original promises of benefitting mankind.

We should be allowed to make up our own minds whether we eat them or not, so everything should be labelled if it contains GM ingredients.

And I don't think Governments should have the power say yes, or no to GM food for the rest of society.

What makes me really angry is that Monsanto are trying to get sterile seeds into 3rd world countries. This means that some poor farmer instead of having seeds collected for next year from his current crop, will have to purchase them again from Monsanto. This will happpen year after year.

Testing just isn't controlled enough e.g... there was tinkering done in our Country with Salmon and they mutated, and they weren't right sure that some of them hadn't escaped.

Excellent ! Keep them coming. :)

Earth is the jewel of the solar system only as long as we don't mess it up.

But I voted for Jupiter mainly because it's Earths life saviour. :)