>> ^astr0:
There's a video almost the same as this that's been sifted already:
Green Screen - What You See Is An Illusion
Music is different and it's missing the Stargate Studio intro text but the rest is the same.
Very cool vid though


*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Green-Screen-What-you-see-is-an-illusion

There's a video almost the same as this that's been sifted already:

Green Screen - What You See Is An Illusion

Music is different and it's missing the Stargate Studio intro text but the rest is the same.

Very cool vid though

Oh i see, strange of them to express it so ambiguously. It looked like '30 or 28' to me.

However i still find it unscientific. I don't see any instance where information teleports itself more than 1 square. If information 'dies' and then further along the line new information is created which forms a similar pattern to earlier, is it really breaking the light barrier? For all we know in a system so simple, a goat dies in australia and a goat is born in england at the same instant so we say that a goat has broken the light barrier.

This calls into question their spaceships too. Because the ones that i was allowed to create in the web program spun (ie. the pattern after 1 step was inverted, then mirrored, then inverted again, then mirrored again, so the pattern had a 4 time unit cycle, during which time it wasn't the same shape). You can't claim that it's moving in a case like this.

If for one second i take it wholly out of context and look at a stargate, it's as though we put a chicken in a stargate and a chicken came out the other end. Until we can establish that it's the same chicken, for all we know if we put a cat in one end, a dog might come out the other. Does that help to illustrate my cynicism? If we put a certain pattern in and see the same pattern later, all we can say is that one pattern gives rise to the same pattern later on. It could be coincidence.

In fact, if i had the time, i could probably create a pattern which split off into bits. Then, if ANY pattern disappears and i see the pattern reappear elsewhere, i can claim that i have broken the light barrier. See what i mean?

Having said that, i still can't identify what you're talking about in the final section of video, so i'm still left guessing at what's taking place.

Edit:
After having looked at this - i suppose this also raises a philosophical question about reality as we see it - if i move a chess piece from one point to another, is it the same chess piece or a copy? If time in reality was cut down into strips like in the 'game', and if space was cut down into blocks as in the 'game', i could say that the chess piece is not the same chess piece. So now imagine that the time units and blocks were infinitesimally small, how do i know that the chess piece is the same after every fraction of space and time i move it through?

Of course the answer is "That's what their rules state." Because they define the 'universe' (of blocks), they give me the opportunity to question their theories. Our universe isn't defined in rules and so we must make our own, and some things we take for granted. In a defined universe of our creating such as this, we must deal in certainties, surely?

Ya, the 'faster than light' bit at the end was a bit unclear, but they didn't say it traveled at 30c, they said it traveled at 30/28c i.e. 1.0714285714285714285714285714286 times 'the speed of light'. This means a pattern in the game can travel slightly faster than one square per 'turn' which is otherwise 'the speed limit'.

If you stared at this really closely you would probably find that when the "ship" passed through the "Stargate", it jumped 2 extra squares, and so on average the "ship" traveled 30 squares in 28 time steps. V = Dist/Time so 30 squares / 28 time steps = 30/28c where c = 1square/time step. But I didn't state at it long enough to check.

To me, the 'Primer' example was the coolest. It's certainly surprising to see prime numbers pop out of two simple rules.

I wonder what would happen if a hexagonal grid was used instead. *Asks Google*

Oh, someone thought of that... check it out:

http://www.cse.sc.edu/~bays/h6h6h6/

Select the 'pattern' button and checkout what's been found. My favorite: Supernova

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Do the yanks who seem to be able to see this (yes, I'm looking at you Netrunner and poolcleaner) want to share their secret for viewing this exotic and forbidden European video?


The secret is that I found and posted this video while at work, which is located far beneath Cheyenne Mountain on the other side of a stargate. We don't suffer region blocking.

>> ^brain:
Why are they speaking English?

Ah. Asked by generations of Star Trek, Stargate and Star Wars fans, not necessarily in that order.
The only SciFi that solved this to my liking is Farscape. And the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

A possible explanation here would be that the Na'vi are speaking their own language, and you hear English because American audiences can't handle subtitles. Then the only question is how does Sam Worthington's character speak Na'vi?

Congrats, BTE! Make sure to let us know if you find any Stargates.

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I've been moderately enthusiastic about the Stargate franchise for years now (and with their recent feature movie's plot directly implying that all religions are false, how could I not be ) but even disregarding that, this looks like a serious attempt at a decent knock-off of all the good stuff BSG was praised for.
Me likey.

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FAKE! It's obviously a Stargate.

For shame. They missed Stargate SG-1's homage which, while admittedly a bit too short (less than a minute), is way better than anything else on that list.

i upvoted because i think it deserves a place on the sift, even though i don't think i will personally benefit from this video (i don't understand a lot of what they say, and i'm pretty sure i don't agree with what i do understand) i still think it's interesting to see different views on reality

cult -> check the site, the template is focused on for example rituals/ceremonies), it beliefs the mayan theory of return of 'the stargate' in 2012, etc. it has local chapters like http://www.thetemplateglastonbury.com/, and there are a lot more reasons (it's a neutral sociological term though..)


In reply to this comment by EndAll:
How is it a cult? And why did you upvote?

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