Bnonn
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 Is it worth it?
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Rhydderch Hael:
I thought I had explained it fairly well (why it's a "horizon" and not some plateau). Puddy wants to hurt me because I make big posts. Lee simply glosses over my writings. I just don't seem to be gettin' through to anyone.
Honestly, people. What do I look like around here, rotting flotsam? 
Hael, the problem you are facing is known as dumbness. People ask a question, and for some reason they expect that the answer will be in single syllables and phrased in such a manner that they can somehow understand it without thinking. Unfortunately in matters such as this, they are required to think, and it seems they rebel against this intrinsically unnatural action and therefore either don't read your posts at all (because the "if ($post(Length) > 50) { $ignore(post); post = (post + 1); $read(post) }" function activates), or they complain that it's too complicated (because if the number of non-standard words in the post exceeds 5 or 6 it causes a buffer overflow and they stackdump).
I found your first post to be quite coherent if a little unclear, and the second one was so blindingly well-explained that a trained ape could have comprehended it (although I am not entirely objective, having been familiar with the concepts you are attempting to explain since the age of twelve or thirteen). The quote by Lee, "Ok, I didn't even bother reading that last post. I would say the event horizion is a surface, if you could have one, of the black, or in this case, worm hole. The part you would enter through to get to the worm or blackhole. The end or face of it. That help?" sums up nicely the attitude I am talking about. Basically, despite not having the faintest clue what an event horizon is, Lee decided that your post looked too long to waste his/her precious time on, and s/he would therefore spew some completely nonsensical idea into the thread that would do nothing but confuse the original poster and cause intelligent/knowledgeable people to have to respond to correct him/her.
How about this all you "it's too hard" whiners:
horizon: a distinct boundary you cannot see beyond
event: an action or occurance
event horizon: a distinct boundary that you cannot see actions or occurances beyond.
A cupboard door is an event horizon because you can't see beyond it. The spherical area approximately 20 km in diameter surrounding a black hole, from which no light can escape and therefore no events can be viewed within is an event horizon, because you can't see beyond it. The "water" of the stargate is an event horizon because you can't see beyond it! Even the horizon of the Earth is an event horizon because, God for the last time, you can't see beyond it! However, calling these things event horizons is stupid, and the term is reserved for more worthy things in astro- and quantum physics.
Kapoosh?
Oh yeah, and while I'm on a rampage (I'm really a very nice guy, honest), whoever it was that said that half the scientific terms in existence have no meaning and are just for show...garg, wash your mouth out and stop making stupid comments.
I think I can end the rant now...nothing else comes to mind.
As a disclaimer I should probably mention (this part in italics so that all you people who never read long posts will see it anyway) that I have nothing against any of you because I've never met you and probably never will, but I have a nasty headache, am tired of people expecting to have everything handed to them on a silver platter, and would like to see the end of stupidity and ignorance in my lifetime, which is not going to happen and therefore makes me pissed off sometimes.
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12-12-2001 08:41 AM
)or live off the streets (which I will deny!) 
or what my life's about, so I don't know what you're talking about silver platters for.... Unless it's to get me started on the monarchy.... 
