Top 10 science fictional substances

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vogon13

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From the movie of the same name:<br /><br />The Stuff<br /><br /><br /><br />(weird edible goop emitted by the earth, pretty gross actually)<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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ashish27

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You guys didn't mention Omega 13, event resequencer, in Galaxy Quest.
 
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yevaud

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Already mentioned earlier. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>
 
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vogon13

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Interesting you bring up N rays.<br /><br />They were presented absolutely seriously by real scientists. But then turned out to be illusory.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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darth_elmo

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Tachyons.<br />Vibranium (from Marvel comics).<br />Trilithium (see <i>ST:G</i>).
 
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etavaunt

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<img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />All prasie the Dark Puppet of the Sith!.<br /><br />Mate, where you been hiding. All good i hope, been a good boy, Santa on his way to your crib heavily burdened, yes?.<br /><br />
 
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strandedonearth

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Actually, tachyons aren't just sci-fi, they are hypothesized (but not proven) from real physics. Relativity does not say that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, just that nothing can accelerate (or decelerate) through the speed of light. Therefore, it is theoretically possible to have a particle that always travels FTL, aka tachyons. <br /><br />Star Trek loves them because they're not pure fantasy<br /><br />
 
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jackarcalon

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Don't forget 'slow glass' by Bob Shaw. It takes light ten years to travel through one inch of the substance, meaning your windows can show a different landscape in the past. It's usually sold synchronized to your local time zone.
 
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etavaunt

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Don't do "It" inside lover, I can trust you, right?<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />(Human afterwards, "Damn it, i can never keep my Tencton girlfriends from bursting into flames"<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> )
 
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a_lost_packet_

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<font color="yellow">EtAvaunt - Don't do "It" inside lover, I can trust you, right?<br /><br />(Human afterwards, "Damn it, i can never keep my Tencton girlfriends from bursting into flames" </font><br /><br />I'll never look at those speckleheaded women the same again... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="1">I put on my robe and wizard hat...</font> </div>
 
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junkheap

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My favorite Star Trek particle would have to be "chronitons", which I guess would be "time particles". :p
 
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vogon13

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What about Popeye's spinach ??<br /><br />It sure as hell doesn't give me the ability to turn into a pile driver and smash Bluto (Brutus ??) into the ground up to his neck.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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billslugg

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No one has mentioned Fromunda.<br /><br />I don't know what it is but I know where it comes from. Fromunda here, fromunda there. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>
 
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