I would like to know...

If you are sat in a time machine and you travel back in time, lets say 1 second, do you end up sitting on your own lap?

no you'd end up on top of your past self time michine... in your time michine if yiou stayed in one spot.. just as there leaving.

*draws breathe*
*stops*
*looks puzzled*

:| and...just how the heck did you think of that one?

I thought for a while about this one.  Suppose you can magically transport just your body to any point in time.  If you are still and you go back one second, then you would have two bodies occupying the same space at the same time.  Then one of two things would happen.  

1. If the two of you can occupy the same space but maintain individual control of your bodies, then you would occupy the same space for only one second before the past-you comes to the point where she transports herself back one second.  Then the current you continues with her life.

2. If the two of you can occupy the same space but NOT maintain individual control of your bodies, then you would be fused together for the rest of your lives, assuming one or both of you could continue living.  The tiny changes in your body's state, coming together from two different times, would surly spell disaster as blood vessels and neural pathways would get criss-crossed and everything would get mixed up.  On the cellular scale, you would end up with cells that have no DNA, cells that have two sets of DNA, and cells that have horribly mangled DNA.

So if you're gonna transport yourself back just one second, you better do it while running... or at least in a Delorean with a flux capacitor and time circuits moving at 88 mph.

Oh, and don't forget the extra plutonium.  
Then go to 2015 and tack on a Mr. Fusion and hovertires.
Bring back a hoverboard and a sports almanac too.  

That's all given me some more to think about.

I also had another thought which has been praying on my mind for many years after watching a program about geology and rock formations.

It was a long time ago and my memory of it is a bit worped now, but the main gist was that there was a particular formation which suggested that the rock moved in a liquid motion and it produced a curved consertina wave where it was being pushed through plate techtonics. This got me thinking, at what point on the viscosity scale does something become a solid, if it is the viscosity scale.

N.B. please forgive spelling.

I think the T-1000 was the android Arnold Schwarzenegger played in the Terminator Trilogy.

Yes he was.  That was his model #


I like this thread. OLD but I just learned something about diodes...

AND it reminds me that I really do not know how remote controls work... radio waves yes, but...

I saw sherlock holmes (the  new movie) and Holmes was amazed by the concept of remotes.

I wish I knew exactly how Digital Necromancy works.

...No, Arnie was a T-800 or an 850 with a pattern 101 skin. T-1000 was the first liquid metal termie.

Oh oops- I forgot Arnie was not the bad guy there... the t1000  was described by arnold as "mimetic poly-alloy".

and per wiki the T-1001 Terminator was, a second liquid metal prototype introduced in the 2008 television series.

Google works using special programs called spiders. I Google 'A Life Less Lonely', for example, and a spider crawls over it, taking the last three words as keywords. It then crawls through all the available sites looking for matches before reporting it's findings to Google's computer which then presents me with the results, greatest number of keyword matches first. It's really fast doing all that in about 3 minutes on a cell phone.

Just saw your post, Pikajedi3, so thanks for the new knowledge.

Sharding
They split up their index across shards, your search query goes to all the shards in parallel  and each returns a set of results, which is recombined by the frontend webserver.