Questions Only IV: Dude, Where's My Thread?

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How do you know I haven't?
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Do you have any idea how the photon torpedoes work in Star Trek?
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Don't they usually cause large explosions?
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Are you admitting you know as little about the mechanism behind photon torpedoes as I do?
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Is there actually a mechanism to understand?
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Doesn't something have to happen to make photons explode?
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Wouldn't they have to not be photons to explode?
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Did you know that this is what a proton looks like?
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How do you know it's not a mu meson just pretending to be a proton on Facebook?
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When you unfriend a neutrino on Facebook do they become an oldtrino?
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Isn't a neutrino an unfriended neutron?
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If your middle and last names were Higgs Boson, what particle would make for a distinguished-sounding first name?
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Isn't "Baryon" a nice, friendly name?
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Are you surprised at all that in Ant-Man, they shrink people down to the level of subatomic particles (like Quarks) but fail miserably to depict it in a way that invokes awe and wonder?
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Have you noticed a distinct shortage of awe and wonder in contemporary entertainment?
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