banned for i thought you were talking about stupid people.

Wizard's First Rule: 

Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

On a slightly related note, Sword of Truth Series = My favorite Series ever, tied with the Sword of Shannarah Series.

Y'all be banned if ye haven't read either of them.

-Twilight Storm

banned for definition.

Banned for n/0.

banned for not posting enough in this thread and to much in the 2nd best verison.

Banned for losing an "o" somewhere in that post.

Oh, are you going to get banned.

banned for threatening to ban someone but not actually banning them.  coward.

banned for just banning without regard for human rights and humanitarian efforts. bastard.

banned for those who ban have no rights in the ban game except to be banned.

Banned because anything you say can and will be used to ban you.

banned for backing up a ryat.  now got off of his head.

banned for painful grammar

Banned because I've been thinking about this physics problem for a week or so, and it's bugging the hell out of me. It deals with the conservation of energy for a number of disparate phenomena, all of which are what we would consider "teleportation": this could be wormholes, quantum tunneling, or any other way of traveling from one place to another without physically going there.

It's kind of hard to explain, so I'll just provide an incredibly basic example, using for simplicity's sake a pair of idealized "portals" that could stand in for any of the above effects- anything that enters one side of one portal comes out the other side of the other. Basically, the portals from Portal.

Let's say that there are two portals, one on the ceiling and one directly under it on the floor, with a large amount of space in between, enough so that a reasonable object could achieve terminal velocity and then some. There is a mass of water in between the two, so that it constantly falls through the bottom one and emerges from the top- basically, an infinite waterfall. This presents a problem, or more accurately a miracle- if I were to move a waterwheel underneath the waterfall (assuming no water splashed out) and plug it into my laptop, I would have a perpetual motion machine! (Which is, of course, a blatant violation of the laws of thermodynamics)

In more general terms, the problem is this: science tells us that there exist phenomena which can translocate matter from one position to another with a constant expenditure of energy (a wormhole crossing over the same distance will require the same mass to create regardless of which direction it is pointed). However, depending on the position, that object can have either greater or lesser potential energy than at its previous position, which can then be released back into the universe- thus, energy could be created (or destroyed) by the process of translocation.

banned for the waterwheel would be vaporized due to the increasing speed of the water. Ever seen a straight river? I have, but it didn't last long.