"It was so wrong"

Ann Mill sat in her cell waiting for the potion to work.

"I'm only 16." She stood and shouted "Sixteen years old. I DID NOTHING WRONG!".

Jeers and shouts came from the other 500 thousand inmates in that prison.

She sat down on the little cot in her little cement cell and began to cry.

The judge has declared her guilty just the day before.

"Miss Mill. For crimes against the peoples of the Free United States of Obamamerica. You had not completed your 170 year sentence when you died of a heart attack in prison at the age of 72 as Ken Murdoff. With only 2 years of your sentence carried out, you face 168 years of imprisonment to complete the sentence that was issued by the Courts in the year 2009. "

"Miss Mill." he continued in a stern and angry voice. "It is the decision of this court that you serve the 168 years remaining in the Reincarnate Prison in Sudbury Illinois. Case Closed"

And with a solid rap of his hammer her fate was sealed, her parents disowned her, her best friends scowled at her and turned away, her boyfriend hung his head and never looked at her again.

And just today she was given the potion. That awful potion that would let her remember all the deeds done in her former life. A potion invented by one Brian Harnois who, after taking it, realized that he really had been Napoleon and was now a celebrity on OBama-wood Squares.

She cried for another hour.

Then the potion kicked in.

With a look of terror, then disbelief she let out a loud long sigh and pronounced,

"Shit. That sucks".

(Picture from Visualparadox.com)

I often thought that the formula E=MC(2) was proof of life after.
The reasoning being that we are energy.
When we die, if that energy was suddenly stopped then we would see a massive
amount of Mass suddenly appear.

However, I got to thinking further on that and using the Car analogy I came across this.
If you have a car, it's got a lot of power and 'seems alive' with the radio, traveling and lights.
If you stop the car and turn it off, it's like it 'dies'. (Especially if the battery is taken out)
And we don't suddenly get a ton of Car Mass.

It might be the same with us.
We are chemical energy and we use the energy as we need it. Once we die, then we no
longer convert those chemical reactions to energy.

The only 'hope' I saw was when there was a scientific measurement of a person's body mass when they pass on. It was found (and i'll find out where again sometime) that a small amount
of Mass is lost. Well that could be the soul since a small amount of mass is actually a large amount of energy.

Thoughts?
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E=MC(2)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%3Dmc_squared
In the formula, c² is the conversion factor required to convert from units of mass to units of energy. The formula does not depend on a specific system of units. In the International System of Units, the unit for energy is the joule, for mass the kilogram, and for speed meters per second. Note that 1 joule equals 1 kg·m²/s². In unit-specific terms, E (in joules) = m (in kilograms) multiplied by (299,792,458 m/s)².

A little mass like 2 units times the speed of light squares (wicked big) yields a large amount of energy.
2-kilograms x (299,792,458 [meters / second] x 299,792,458 [meters / second]) is really big.
Lots of joules :-)

Joules = (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule)
The work done to produce power of one watt continuously for one second; or one watt second (compare kilowatt hour), with the symbol W·s. Thus a kilowatt hour is 3,600,000 joules or 3.6 megajoules

Hmmm so let's look at calories then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calories
1 cal_th = 4.184 J (1 J = 0.23901 cal_th) (Thermochemical calorie)
So 1 cal is 4 joules or the power to light 1, one watt bulb for 4 seconds.
WOW A human could easily light up the world with the joules we have.

What if, the prime directive, was also a way of "us" telling aliens that if they communicated with us directly, then they are going to affect our civilization in a way that we don't want?
Therefore, don't make direct contact: We don't want it.

Thank and ttyl
Steph

Well my friend Bill and I are starting a new business. It should go 'live' in about 3 years. Trade show and Parlor magic.

Not sure what we are going to call it yet: Moore Beach Magic Productions? Not bad.

But it gets better. Wait until we publish the Show's name.

Here's the elevator ride speech.

We will entertain your guests at parties, deliver qualified leads to your sales folks at trade shows.

We also have a show we put on each week.

It's a comedy parlor magic by both of us.

Good?