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Old 11-22-2007, 01:35 PM
kerowo kerowo is offline
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Default Re: How do Force Fields Occupy Space?

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What does "grok" mean?

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It means to understand something at a 1960's group-love science-fiction pseudo-mystic-martian level.
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Old 11-22-2007, 03:16 PM
FortunaMaximus FortunaMaximus is offline
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Default Re: How do Force Fields Occupy Space?

Read Heinlein and you will grok what grok is.

Short def: To completely understand and absorb the essence of something.

How has that not made it into Webster's yet? o_O
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Old 11-22-2007, 03:28 PM
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Default Re: How do Force Fields Occupy Space?

Grok: When the observer and the observed merge.
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