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Re: Consequences for Using Telepaths or Off Scott My counter-arguments: They had undergone much less than Anna Sheridan. Never merged with a Shadow ship -- never been extracted from one. The new personality of Anna Sheridan was an active proponent of the enemy. Those telepaths were merely...

Re: Rangers Redux Thank you! :) (Some speculation follows. If you feel it might be better located in another thread, just mention -- I would not wish to generate any inadverent spoilers even if I could. ) . . . . . So... at least it was a habitable planet -- possible to endure with a simple...

Re: now i\'m creeped out I can see telltale signs of computer graphics on the "Babylon 4" object alright (the one posted by Vacantlook). :P The first picture, unfortunately... is too blurry to tell a difference, at least with my eyes. There probably are a few algorithms which *can* detect the...

Re: \"Best\" and \"worst\" deaths Your transcription of the word Marcus... appears to have some (probably subconcious) influence on people's spelling.

Re: now i\'m creeped out It does look... quite peculiar. The year 1999... is relatively recent. It could be a model aircraft. While I personally could not build it... a more experienced modeler might. People occasionally mistake my gliders for full-scale aircraft, at distances around 200...

Re: Why Minbari Tech Wears out Fast (minor TLADIS I completely agree. Many online models are: A) Newer, made with more advanced tools. B) Made with no deadline, and therefore complex. The downside: Warner cannot simply go and use them (although I am certain that if asked, most authors of...

Not that I would have special interest in debating rivers... ...but if people stopped debate at the strict (and most probable) interpretation you would apparently prefer limiting speculation to... ...notable boredom would ensue quickly (and in this case, much precious data would be missed...

Sorry, but I don't know a river called "f***ing Thames". Unless I am mistaken, A_M_Swallow was talking about an entirely different river, coincidentally called the Thames.

Re: Consequences for Using Telepaths or Off Scott The question has relevance... yet my impression was that victory did not depend on it. Clearly the White Stars, multiple Minbari ships and numerous herein unmentioned from other civilizations... could have easily shot apart some dozens of...

Re: Consequences for Using Telepaths or Off Scott It would depend... on multiple questions. Q1: Were they sentient any longer? (If no, they might be more expendable.) Answer: they appeared sentient. When Lyta temporarily cancelled out the commands of the "preparatory" device, the person...

Those on the outer reaches of the galaxy... have few neigbours, and are difficult to reach. Those beyond can opt to have none. Moreover, experience of a thousand years in interstellar travel... would hopefully yield a level of mobility which makes civilization portable. You pack it up, and take...

Re: Rangers Redux Thank you! An interesting fragment to this puzzle. I wonder how it goes.

Are you sure? Did the story of "Babylon 5" present us any central authority, anyone possessing absolute truth... to invalidate and/or resolve the contradictory views of its characters -- presented from multiple viewpoints and levels of experience? No... the storyteller who told this story did...

I prefer to avoid making the existence / nature of soul... a central question in any debate. Because such debate would quickly get silly. Happens when the subject matter is difficult to objectively analyze, and understood differently by many people, with some perceiving it as fixed and others...

Should it not be obvious? Without any doubt, 2257. :P

Whatever became of him... he certainly pulled a good enough disappearance trick. Naturally, anything less would have risked someone hostile tracking down where he came from.

But the JavaScript idea itself... sounds nice and practical. I mean, Java virtual machines do take some megabytes... are known to occasionally interfere with window placement (forcing the browser window to become uppermost after loading) or sometimes even crash.

Could easily be so -- unfortunately, difficult to oppose or support with arguments.

Provided much leftover time, I bet that many people would be willing to collect old junk (and disassemble mysteries). However... there is no proven mystery here. Merely an unproven claim. Since the claim is being presented to reap profit, one should suspect it to be false -- and not blindly...

Well... the latter mentioned... would already be asking for a formal opinion. When someone asks your opinion... your options for ignoring something (which you might prefer to neither stop nor formally authorize, since both choices have a downside)... ...those options are diminished. Unless...