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The problem with alternate dimension theories is that it requires that every single choice or possible difference cause an alternate reality to be created. That means at every single moment of every single day billions of new realities would be created by the billions of people on earth. To traverse such a dimension would be impossible because each branch is a new direction to travel. Also decisions aren't binary. in other words each decision you make isn't a 'yes' 'no' choice, all the choices in between the extreme choices that could be made are possible.The other problem with this theory is questionable choice. Lets say you are angry with someone you know. One choice is to let it go, and ignore it. Another is to get pissed off and yell at them. Well in this theory all possible decisions play out in alternate realities. But I would never choose to kill the person, but thats a possible choice that could be made. Just like I might yell at them, it all depends on what previously happened in the day and so on. In this way I don't think that multiple alternate realities exist. They don't really make a lot of sense.

Bob Saget is the actor who played the Dad in Full house, he is also the narrator/voice of older Ted in How I Met Your Mother.Opaque: The movie I think you are thinking of is 28 Days Later. This is kind of like that except that the zombies are replaced by multiple versions of Bob Saget. Think of it like an odd take on the virus type zombie movies. In I am Legend they made a virus that was supposed to cure Aids (i think) and while it worked the virus mutated and did something no one expected, turned people into mindless, light sensitive zombie like creatures. In this version the virus actually does what its supposed to, it just wasn't supposed to spread into the general population.

Which version of the game are you playing? The PC version doesn't have split screen. The xbox version you just go into the multiplayer area, set up a new game/map cycle by adding maps to the list on the right, and then start, it should ask who is playing.

The universe is expanding at points faster than the speed of light which means their motion relative to us is faster than the speed of light. This doesn't break any rules because their motion is because of the expansion of space itself, and not true motion.Some of the static you see on TV is remnant radiation from the big bang.Time runs slower under gravitational fields, a clock running in space will run faster than one on earth.

Hey guys, I thought Id start a thread for all the unique, strange, funny or whatever movie ideas you might have. I'll start the ball rolling:I am Bob Saget(2011)Genre: Comedy, Parody, Sci Fi, DramaBob Saget is the last man alive, living in a run down New York, trying to survive while finding a cure for the plague that has wiped out humanity.*flash back to how it all started*A new report talks about how beloved actor and Full House dad is dying of cancer, on deaths door he will be the first participant of an experimental medical trial that may cure cancer forever. A virus has been altered with his own DNA to spread through his body and replace every cell's DNA with the pure 'Bob Saget' DNA effectively changing all cancer cells in his body back to his original DNA. The experiment is a huge success and they send him home in full health.A new man, Bob goes to bed with his loving wife, looking forward to the rest of his life.Fade in to the new day, he leans over to kiss his wife as she sleeps, feeling stubble of an unshaven jaw. Shocked he turns her over to find a copy of himself lying there, the virus has mutated and has transmitted to his wife, turning her into ... him. She is like a mindless zombie though as her brain was reconfigured to match his, but of course his memories did not go along with it. She is reduced to nothing but primal instincts.More new reports follow of the outbreaks in the city, as the virus spreads and mutates at an alarming rate, more and more of the population becomes Bob Saget. It seems impossible to contain as America, then the world falls to the Saget Virus. Hordes of Sagets roam the streets, seeking out food, shelter and to mate. The original Bob Saget is the only one immune to the virus as he is the only one with matching DNA....And thats as far as I have gotten. Obviously its a Parody of I am Legend, but would try take itself too seriously in the ridiculous premise. Don't ask me why Bob Saget, he was the first person I thought of and no one else seems to fit quite so well. Well now, any comments, and more movie ideas?

Computer Vision is basically the processing of images and/or video to extract some kind of useful information. An example of where computer vision is used every day is in video compression. When encoded videos are processed by tracking arbitrary 'pixel blobs' motion over time, this means that all of the pixels colours don't have to be stored every frame, just their relative motion which can hugely reduce file size. Other uses include optical character recognition, augmented reality, object/human tracking, robot navigation, object recognition, etc. My specific area is Illumination Invariance, which basically means removing lighting effects from video so that they can be easier for computer to process and make sense of. I am always keen to answer more questions if you have any.

Ok, where do I start.First I guess that time is the 4th dimension. I think in general this is true but not quite as most people understand it. The idea of time and history as a simple dimension similar to length, width and height doesn't really make much sense. If this were the case then we could find some way to move along it (aka time travel). The big problem with motion through this dimension is that you are already occupying it. If I were to give myself momentum in the negative direction of time I would run into myself instantly. If we imagine what our bodies would look like if we took this dimension into account then we would be long snakes that occupy every moment along the dimension. Because of this fact I do not think history and future are really part of the dimension of time.More likely is that the dimension of time is almost like a rate of change dimension that causes the basic laws of physics to vary in strength. Take an atomic clock, it has been proven that they run faster in space than they do on the earth. This is because of the distortion gravity has on all dimensions including time. We may say time has been slowed but really what has been slowed is the break down of the caesium particle. I would also imagine the speed of electrons orbiting particles has been slowed, electricity would run slower, our brains react slower, basically everything. If we were to extend this effect to the extreme and pass the point of zero motion then we would get inverted motion and inverted effects, effectively running things in reverse. But this would only be localised and as the system is unlikely to be identical as it was when created the past that is moved into will unlikely be the same.Take for example your want to travel back in time, you decide the best way is to run the entirety of the universe in a reverse direction. First you would have to be outside of this reversal otherwise you would be taken along with it, forget everything and probably leave the universe reversing forever. So you sit outside the universe and watch it start to reverse, then things start going wrong, things that happened before when you were part of the universe now would not have happened, basically the universe would be rewinding as though you were never there, but it still ended up in exactly the same place, this would be some kind of paradox because your friends and family would know of your existence but no one would have ever seen you or ever have been effected by you.Ok, so sometimes seeing time as a dimension is a little boring because it doesn't really fit as a normal dimension as simple as space. Lets imagine that time travel is possible, you can go back in time and exist in the past. Can you change it. Here are my two thoughts on this:1- No, basically what has happened always happened, you travelled into the past and killed your granddad by mistake? Guess what, it wasn't really your granddad, he had his sperm frozen, or you are medically insane and had always just imagined your grandfather when you grew up. Basically with this notion is there is one time line and you cant change it, not without messing with your head. There are some interesting things you can do though. "What you don't know can't hurt you" - if I travelled back to medieval england and killed king arthur well some would say I have changed history, except that I don't know how king arthur died, so therefore what I did could have always been the case. The invention paradox is still possible - if I travel into the future, find a cool device and take it back without finding out who invented it, then I am free to invent it.2- The other most widely notion changing the past is that it creates alternate realities/universes. Well firstly I highly doubt the act of travelling back in time has a side effect of duplicating the universe unless it is a phenomenon that is reasonably common. It would also mean that in travelling back to the present there would either be a duplicate you because the change would mean it was unlikely you travelled back at the exact same time if at all, or you wouldn't exist at all, and if you went back far enough then no one you ever knew would exist either. One of the theories that supports the multiverse is that a new universe is created at every decision point you ever made. But since thoughts are related to collisions of particles and how they interact using quantum physics to determine what could possibly happen then at every collision of every particle an infinite number of new universes are spawned to create every possibility. This seems way to big to be possible as the multiverse would exponentially grow in its already infinity.This probably turned out to be very long, but id also like to quickly add that time doesn't stop at the event horizon of a black hole. The event horizon is the point outside a black hole where nothing can possibly escape. At this point not even light can escape the extreme gravity. The point where time stops I think is actually at the singularity itself.

Maybe WOW should add a skateboard mount and add some skate parks to their cities... that could actually be quite fun and a good way to get places faster.

Providing a kill switch would probably be the safest option realistically. That and adding limits such as not allowing it to convert animal matter, not allowing it to convert certain minerals (so that it can be successfully contained).But ultimately, unless we give these machines the ability to utilise nuclear fusion and fission then they are likely to only be seeking out very specific materials needed for their own reproduction. Just as us humans only eat certain things, we can't convert rocks into muscle matter just as much as the nanobot won't be able to convert flesh into their circuitry or whatever they are made of.

Hi, I am Robert from New Zealand...A little bit about myself, well I have a Bachelor of Science(Hons) majoring in Computer Science. Currently I am still studying, doing a PhD in Computer Vision. So if anyone has any questions or thoughts related to computer vision or colour theory, or anything like that I could probably be of help. Not sure if that fits anywhere in these forums yet but hopefully this could be my contribution. I also have interests in other areas such as computer graphics, some web and database programming. Outside of computing I am very interested in physics and the like, I have been playing around recently with lasers, peltier freezing modules, magnets, etc.That said I'll probably be coming to you guys more for help than anything, I know some limited php and javascript but am interested in learning what other web languages are out their, what advantages they hold and what I can do with them.Thanks,Robert.