Did anyone else notice how Leela was able to effortlessly pick up the little creature despite the fact that it was full of a superdense ball of dung? Poor Bender was struggling to pick the thing up after it had been excreted, but Leela had not trouble carrying the little animal around.
My question is, why did the space ship suddenly shudder when the animal pooped, even though the weight of the dropping was on the ship the whole time.
Paul
Take a 20-pound dumbbel in your hand, and drop it onto the floor. Even though the weight remained in the house all the time, the resulting thud will be noticeable :)
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Um, it's just a cartoon, and you are not supposed to think about whether the stuff that happens on the cartoon makes sense or not.When you do that, it's not fun or funny anymore.......
Yes, as fans it's fun to play "The Game". As it is called by Sherlock Homles fans. They pretend holmes was real and have discussions based on that premise.
It's similar in any good show. Exspecially Sci-Fi.
The reason Lela could pick up nibbler is simple.
cube = 6 a 2
prism:
(lateral area) = perimeter(b) L
(total area) = perimeter(b) L + 2bsphere = 4 pi r 2
f(x) = e; e-1; e x f(x) = ln(x)
arccot x = -1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1 + x2
There you have it.
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no, you got it all wrong! When Nibbler ate the animals, they got transported to dimension Q, where they get digested, hence Nibbler does not increase in size. When it gets ready to crap fuel, it gets transported back into Nibbler. It makes perfect sense! -Elliott
"Mark Putt " wrote:
just accept the fact that its a cartoon
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Paul Tomko wrote:
dear paul,
i think the implication was that the dark matter hadn't fully formed until on the verge of excretion. :P
hoping to make sense out of chaos,
robert :P
How about this: the creature's digestive tract exists in another dimension. This could explain:
1. How it was able to consume all of the other animals in the hold
without appearing engorged. 2. How Leela was able to pick it up even with the weight of all of
those animals in its digestive tract. 3. Why the ship shuddered when the dark matter was excreted (and
therefore reappeared suddenly in this universe).You know, this actually makes a LOT of sense...
Now I know I've got to brush up on my physics but assuming the ship had some kind of artificial gravity, when the pellet dropped the potential energy converted to kinetic energy and transferred itself to the ship's hull when it hit... thus the shudder. I could be wrong on this so prepare for a whole host of replies from people who have more time on their hand to research it if I am. ;)
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Good one! Sounds plausible...
Which leaves only the question of how Nibbler gets any nutition out of it.
Robert
I say we all write to Cubert.
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Because if Leela had struggled to lift the thing up, it would have given too early of a clue to the viewer that there was something little different about it.
I think the ship lurches when Nibbler pooped the dark matter because it wasn't sitting in the litter box when it let go. I could get into the physics of all this, but let's just say that most animals don't sit down to take a dump. They usually let it fall out of their butts.
Peace, Vince Yim
Paul Tomko wrote in message ...
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Actually, the little antenna on Nibbler's head is a gravitational field generator. This allows the creature to move about freely and carry it's own mass. Once he poops, the dropping is outside the sphere of influence (kinda like a warp field) and returns to it's original weight.
I'm not a space physics engineer, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. :)
This thread is reminding me of two things:
1) An issue of Marvel's "The Thing" back in the '80s, where Ben Grimm is carrying a basketball-sized piece of compressed machinery, easily weighing at least several tons. A letter was printed a few issues later, complaining that the Baxter Building must have (had) some pretty strong floors to be able to support the weight of that ball, when only a portion of the floor the size of the surface area of Ben's foot (or just part of) was actually supporting the weight of the ball while he walked. The editors chalked it up to Reed's design genius when the building was modified for the FF.
2) Why is it in sci-fi stories, every alien race always seems to be stronger, faster, telepathic, and/or (except for Kes on "ST: Voyager") longer-lived? Except for the fact that humans don't all tend to look alike, what makes us special in the universe? Surely there's something about us that would set us apart from everyone else out there. "Oooh, don't mess with those Earthlings! They can juggle flaming chainsaws!" Or, "...They'll make jokes about us!" Or, "...They invented Twinkies!"
I hope that answers your question, tpe
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|2) Why is it in sci-fi stories, every alien race always seems to be |stronger, faster, telepathic, and/or (except for Kes on "ST: Voyager") |longer-lived? Except for the fact that humans don't all tend to look |alike, what makes us special in the universe? Surely there's something |about us that would set us apart from everyone else out there. "Oooh, |don't mess with those Earthlings! They can juggle flaming chainsaws!" |Or, "...They'll make jokes about us!" Or, "...They invented Twinkies!"
As far as humans not looking alike... yeah, we kinda do. At least to anyone else. What gets me is that humans are always the most *featureless* aliens. Everyone else in the universe gets superfluous eyes, all-weather traction foreheads, limbs, and so forth... rarely do we ever see aliens with *fewer* physical characteristics than humans.
One novel exception to this is the Grey alien.. but let's not get into a thread over whether or not they are sci-fi .)
Otherwise.. at least in Star Trek, while other species get all the neato powers and spiffy foreheads and ears, humans will eventually get to be hip and happening space gods. At least according to Q, and Captain Picard's constant going on about our "yoo-man potential"..
I guess the ST:TNG writers figure that omnipotent godhood is only fair, what with us otherwise being gypped in the nifty powers department
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:14:29 -0700 (PDT), [email] wrote:
I always thought that humans in Star Trek benefitted from their gutsy give-em-hell attitude. Its the "human spirit" that Picard and Kirk were always yammering about. When the chips are down, when there's no way out, when all is lost, look to a human to come up with an out of this universe plan and save the whole ship's bacon. Notice how, in Star Trek, most (if not all) of the other races have some kind of tragic flaw to offset their super powers. Take the Vulcans (please): they have super strength and mental powers but they have suppressed all their emotions. They're the original clown that couldn't cry. Something that isn't often seen in Star Trek is races that are vastly inferior to humans. There's got to be some. All I can think of is those Space Morons from that TNG episode. "We look for things. Things to make us go."
Remember 1 pound of dark matter weighs 10000 pounds. Judging by volume, that nibbler scat coulden't be more then a 1/4 pounds worth. Leela could lift an extra 1/4 pound without even noticing. When Bender goes to pick it up however, you must recall the conversion rate of 1 to 10000. Even a robot would find 2500 pounds difficult to move. If that didn't help, remember the cyoaty doesn't fall untill he looks down.
Paul Tomko wrote in message ...
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I always tought 1 pound of anything weighed 1 pound!!!! only the volume or the density changed.
or am I ignoring something here?
i tought the 1 pound weighs 10000 pounds was a gag...maybe the professeur ment one cubic something weighs 10000 pounds... he's so absent minded anyway.
alf
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It's a gag. Remember the trick question, "Which weighs more, 10 pounds of feathers or 10 pounds of rocks?"?
P. Sanders psanders @ mindspring . com
P. Sanders wrote:
ummm...rocks!
the professor
Prof. John Frink wrote in message ...
It's obviously the feathers.
It could take a combined theory of super gravity and quantum mechanics to explain dark matter. You would have to be a Super Genius like Wile E Coyote to understand such laws of nature. I expect Nibbler, like the Road Runner, never studied law.
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