"The Spin(\u56DE\u8EE2Kaiten, literally \"rotation\") is a supernatural phenomenon wielded by Gyro Zeppeli and Johnny Joestar and featured in Steel Ball Run. It is a state of perfect or near-perfect rotation which produces an energy that can be applied for a multitude of uses. The Spin may be considered a counterpart to the Ripple power featured in the original timeline."@en . . "Spin"@en . . . "eBook"@en . . . . . "Spin (aka SPIN) is an open source\u2191 software tool, with an international user base, that can be used for the formal verification of distributed software systems. It is based on the language Promela\u2191. The Spin tool was developed at Bell Labs\u2191 in the original Unix\u2191 group of the Computing Sciences Research Center, starting in 1980. The software has been available freely since 1991, and continues to evolve with new developments in the field. In April 2002, the tool was awarded the System Software Award for 2001 by the Association for Computing Machinery\u2191 (ACM)."@en . "TBA"@en . . . "Spin"@pl . . . "The S.C.E. thought it would be a simple task: a derelict vessel heading straight for the inhabited world of Lokra needs to be diverted to avoid catastrophe. However, the derelict isn't as easy to deflect as it would seem -- the S.C.E. team must figure out how to operate the vessel before it crashes and destroys the Locra civilization. The derelict isn't the only thing on this mission with a secret, and even as Commander Sonya Gomez and her crack team try to unlock the secrets of the ship, Captain David Gold must find out what the Locra are hiding."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "SPIN"@en . "Spin"@fi . "10"^^ . "Spin states are the states in which very very drunk particles like drunkleons, votcaons, whiskyons and partyons are in, almost all the time. The quantum energy of the particles found in these states has not been determined yet because scientists had very big trouble in following and anticipating they\u2019re trajectories. They can however be photographed in a cloud chamber when the copions hit a barion thus disintegrating the barion. During the disintegration process which can last from several seconds to several minutes you can see all the drunkleons leave the barion in a hurry. It is presumed that the spin state of a particle has some potential energy but very rarely, kinetic energy because usually the particles that are trapped in a spin state are lazy and too dizzy to create kinetic energie"@en . . . "Daddy's Boy"@en . . "Caution: Monsters' damage is modified by their statistics, which are in majority unknown."@en . "Dalam mekanika kuantum, spin adalah momentum sudut intrinsik yang berhubungan dengan partikel. Sebagai contoh, partikel dasar seperti elektron, mempunyai momentum sudut dari spin, sekalipun mereka (untuk maksud lain) adalah seperti partikel titik. Partikel subatomik lainnya, seperti neutron, yang tidak mempunyai muatan listrik, juga mempunyai spin."@in . . "-"@en . . . . "eBook"@en . . . . "thumb Hoewel vele geleerden geloven dat alle spinnen hun wortels terugvoeren naar het oude koninkrijk van Azjol-Nerub, de reusachtige spin van Kalimdor hebben een claim op het schaduwrijke hoeken van Ashenvale Forest. Hoewel niet noodzakelijkkwaad, kan wilde spinnen geworden geduchte tegenstanders als zij het \u200B\u200Bgevoel hun nesten zijn bezoedeld."@nl . . . . . . . . . . . "#45: The Art of the Deal"@en . "-"@en . "Hunting"@en . "Spin is a promotional-only compilation album featuring Neurotic Outsiders, released in the USA by Warner Bros. Records / Reprise Records during 1997."@en . . . "Kaiten"@en . . "TBA"@en . . "Spin"@gl . "SCE"@en . "Caution: Monsters' damage is modified by their statistics, which are in majority unknown."@en . "Spin is a sci-fi trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson, featuring the novels Spin,Axis and Vortex. The first book in the series, Spin, follows narrator Tylor Dupree and his childhood friends, twins Jason and Diane Lawton. As children they witness the strange phenomenon that alters the course of human history: the night the stars disappeared from the night sky. As they grow up, the world slowly discovers the truth: the Earth has been covered by a membrane (dubbed \"The Spin\") that slows down the flow of time on our planet. A lot."@en . "Spin to jeden z bionicznych \u017Co\u0142nierzy Krane'a . Jest on nawracaj\u0105cym bohaterem. Od odcinka First day of Bionic Academy razem z innym bionicznymi \u017Co\u0142nierzami ucz\u0119szcza do bionicznej akademi. Jest grany przez Maxa Charlesa."@pl . . . "Spin is a very competitive person and is always trying to out do himself, He has a strict training schedule that he will not break, he is generally a nice person but in the heat of battle he sometimes gets a bit carried away and shows a bit of a mean streak but that hardly ever happens. His team includes: Lecko/Dormeek/Nelk, Lefin, Boboink, Tikel, Grober and Chikoi"@en . . "J. Steven York and Christina F. York"@en . "Spin"@en . "High"@en . . "Trank"@en . . . . . . . . . "Spin was a player who was in command of the guild Rage Against The Machine during the Beta Server war."@en . "Spin on yksi RuneScapen monista emoteista. Emoten nimi ei en\u00E4\u00E4 ole spin vaan twirl ja eik\u00E4 t\u00E4h\u00E4n tarvita mit\u00E4\u00E4n, koska t\u00E4m\u00E4 on valmiina emotes listalla. T\u00E4ss\u00E4 emotessa ei ole \u00E4\u00E4ni\u00E4. 1. \n* OHJAUS"@fi . . . "Spin is a very new (created 2011) option to habbo games. Usually When you loose a game (E.g. falling furni or Cozzie change) you are givein the options P2P, KIK or REV. Spin is a new and free option to the habbo options when you loose a game. There are several versions of this furni, including one for the ChildLine promotions."@en . . "2.99"^^ . . . . . . "Spinning is an unofficial term that refers to the act of returning a card from the field to the top of its owner's deck; Extra Deck Monster Cards are instead returned to the Extra Deck when spun. Spinning is more powerful than bouncing because it both removes a card from the field and uses up its owner's next draw. Like bouncing, because most spin effects target monsters, spinning can also waste the owner's Normal Summon or Set for that turn, and can remove powerful but difficult-to-summon monsters such as \"Stardust Dragon\" or \"Destiny HERO - Plasma\". Spinning can work well in combination with bouncing effects such as those of \"Begone, Knave!\", \"Neo-Spacian Grand Mole\", and \"Giant Trunade\"."@en . "2005-11-15"^^ . . . . . "20"^^ . . "Rotation"@en . . . . . "Spin is a cog move of Spin Doctors."@en . "Spin is the second song on the album Wake Me by Grey Daze."@en . . . . . . . "Spin.gif"@en . . "Yes"@en . "220"^^ . . "743496876"^^ . "Spin"@in . . . . . . . "Spin"@en . "The S.C.E. thought it would be a simple task: a derelict vessel heading straight for the inhabited world of Lokra needs to be diverted to avoid catastrophe. However, the derelict isn't as easy to deflect as it would seem -- the S.C.E. team must figure out how to operate the vessel before it crashes and destroys the Locra civilization. The derelict isn't the only thing on this mission with a secret, and even as Commander Sonya Gomez and her crack team try to unlock the secrets of the ship, Captain David Gold must find out what the Locra are hiding."@en . . "Spin on yksi RuneScapen monista emoteista. Emoten nimi ei en\u00E4\u00E4 ole spin vaan twirl ja eik\u00E4 t\u00E4h\u00E4n tarvita mit\u00E4\u00E4n, koska t\u00E4m\u00E4 on valmiina emotes listalla. T\u00E4ss\u00E4 emotessa ei ole \u00E4\u00E4ni\u00E4. 1. \n* OHJAUS"@fi . . . . "8"^^ . . . . . . "thumb|Rotierendes Elektron Spin, eine Bezeichnung f\u00FCr bestimmte Eigenschaften von Teilchen. Besonders der Elektronenspin stand bei der Entwicklung der Vokabel Spin im Vordergrund \u2013 die Formulierung von Atommodellen, bei denen ein positiv geladener Atomkern von einer negativ geladenen Atomh\u00FClle umgeben ist \u2013 durch Nagaoka Hantaro, Ernest Rutherford und Niels Bohr \u2013 erweckte die Vorstellung eines Sonnensystems mit Planeten auf Kreisbahnen, die wiederum um ihre Achsen rotieren. So entstanden Bezeichnungen wie Gesamtdrehimpuls und Eigendrehimpuls, die \u2013 da Elektronen Ladungstr\u00E4ger sind \u2013 auch magnetische Eigenschaften verursachen. Der Begriff Spin wurde danach in der Quantenfeldtheorie \u2013 genauso wie der Begriff Teilchen \u2013 immer abstrakter. Kategorie:Teilchenphysik Kategorie:Atomphysik Kategorie:Quantenfeldtheorie Kategorie:Stub Kategorie:Neue Seiten"@de . "thumb Hoewel vele geleerden geloven dat alle spinnen hun wortels terugvoeren naar het oude koninkrijk van Azjol-Nerub, de reusachtige spin van Kalimdor hebben een claim op het schaduwrijke hoeken van Ashenvale Forest. Hoewel niet noodzakelijkkwaad, kan wilde spinnen geworden geduchte tegenstanders als zij het \u200B\u200Bgevoel hun nesten zijn bezoedeld. Spinnen zijn dol op het gebruik van gif spugen en gooien banen op hun tegenstanders. Ze zijn te vinden in bijna elk continent van de Azeroth en zelfs in Outland, met uitzondering van de woestijnen (zoals Tanaris) en besneeuwdetoppen (zoals Dun Morogh). Kan echter spinnen ook worden gevonden in grotten ofkerkers van die regio's in het algemeen in verband met quests."@nl . . . . . . . . "1"^^ . "Spin is a debuff. You spun backward after receiving a strong shock. You cannot do anything for a period of time."@en . . "Twirl"@en . . "[[Ficheiro:Spin maio09.jpg|thumb|250px|Capa do mes de maio do 2009 con No Doubt]] Spin \u00E9 unha revista musical que informa sobre a \"m\u00FAsica para a vida\". Fundada en 1985 por Bob Guccione, Jr., \u00E9 a principal competidora da Rolling Stone. Madonna foi a artista que apareceu no seu primeiro n\u00FAmero. Nos seus primeiros anos, a revista destacou pola s\u00FAa ampla cobertura musical cun \u00E9nfase nas bandas de rock universitario e na aparici\u00F3n do hip-hop. A revista era ecl\u00E9ctica e audaz, e \u00E1s veces ca\u00F3tica. Puntualmente foi unha alternativa \u00E1 Rolling Stone, cunhas formas m\u00E1is \"correctas\" e que naquel intre lle prestaba menos atenci\u00F3n \u00E1 m\u00FAsica. Spin meteu nas s\u00FAas portadas a artistas novos, tales coma R.E.M., Prince, Run DMC, The Eurythmics, The Beastie Boys e Talking Heads, e realizou longos artigos sobre figuras establecidas coma [Bob Dylan]], Keith Richards, Miles Davis, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Tom Waits e John Lee Hooker."@gl . "The caster teleports, inflicting Earth damage around destination cell when he lands."@en . . "ISBN 0743496876"@en . . . . . . . . . . "A Spin is defined as the rotation of the ball as it moves through the air, affecting its trajectory and bounce. There are a few types of spin: backspin, topspin, and underspin."@en . . . . . "2.06"^^ . . . . . "Spin is a debuff. You spun backward after receiving a strong shock. You cannot do anything for a period of time."@en . . . . . "Spin to jeden z bionicznych \u017Co\u0142nierzy Krane'a . Jest on nawracaj\u0105cym bohaterem. Od odcinka First day of Bionic Academy razem z innym bionicznymi \u017Co\u0142nierzami ucz\u0119szcza do bionicznej akademi. Jest grany przez Maxa Charlesa."@pl . . "One Toon"@en . "No"@en . "1"^^ . . . . . . "Education | Version Control | Introduction to Programming | Unit Testing Research | A Broadcast Calculus | Model Checking | VSR"@en . . . . "The Spin is an attack used by Crash in every Crash game (except for Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart, and Crash Boom Bang) where Crash will spin on one leg. It is one of the most used attacks in the whole series."@en . "Spin is a very new (created 2011) option to habbo games. Usually When you loose a game (E.g. falling furni or Cozzie change) you are givein the options P2P, KIK or REV. Spin is a new and free option to the habbo options when you loose a game. There are several versions of this furni, including one for the ChildLine promotions."@en . . "Spin"@nl . "\u56DE\u8EE2"@en . . . . "Spin is the second song on the album Wake Me by Grey Daze."@en . . . . "No"@en . "Direct Damage, Movement"@en . "thumb|Rotierendes Elektron Spin, eine Bezeichnung f\u00FCr bestimmte Eigenschaften von Teilchen. Besonders der Elektronenspin stand bei der Entwicklung der Vokabel Spin im Vordergrund \u2013 die Formulierung von Atommodellen, bei denen ein positiv geladener Atomkern von einer negativ geladenen Atomh\u00FClle umgeben ist \u2013 durch Nagaoka Hantaro, Ernest Rutherford und Niels Bohr \u2013 erweckte die Vorstellung eines Sonnensystems mit Planeten auf Kreisbahnen, die wiederum um ihre Achsen rotieren. So entstanden Bezeichnungen wie Gesamtdrehimpuls und Eigendrehimpuls, die \u2013 da Elektronen Ladungstr\u00E4ger sind \u2013 auch magnetische Eigenschaften verursachen. Der Begriff Spin wurde danach in der Quantenfeldtheorie \u2013 genauso wie der Begriff Teilchen \u2013 immer abstrakter. Kategorie:Teilchenphysik Kategorie:Atomphysik Kategori"@de . . . . . "2004-03-29"^^ . "Spin is a term from Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge, though examples of it existed before the Season. When a Bakugan which involves a Wheel stands, its result counts as a Spin. The term is mostly used on BakuTactix Bakugan which determines the G-Power. It is also used on Special Attacks like Preyas."@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Dalam mekanika kuantum, spin adalah momentum sudut intrinsik yang berhubungan dengan partikel. Sebagai contoh, partikel dasar seperti elektron, mempunyai momentum sudut dari spin, sekalipun mereka (untuk maksud lain) adalah seperti partikel titik. Partikel subatomik lainnya, seperti neutron, yang tidak mempunyai muatan listrik, juga mempunyai spin."@in . "The Spin is an attack used by Crash in every Crash game (except for Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart, and Crash Boom Bang) where Crash will spin on one leg. It is one of the most used attacks in the whole series."@en . . . "The Spin(\u56DE\u8EE2Kaiten, literally \"rotation\") is a supernatural phenomenon wielded by Gyro Zeppeli and Johnny Joestar and featured in Steel Ball Run. It is a state of perfect or near-perfect rotation which produces an energy that can be applied for a multitude of uses. The Spin may be considered a counterpart to the Ripple power featured in the original timeline."@en . . "Stacy reacts to Mark and House\u2019s argument: \"My goodness! It\u2019s like watching Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward in the third grade! Excuse us.\" \u2015Spin Spin is a 2nd season episode of House which first aired on November 15, 2005. A famous cyclist who admits to blood doping becomes House patient and Cameron wants to report him for cheating. Meanwhile, House attempts to force Stacy to admit how she feels for him by going to disrupt Mark Warner\u2019s therapy group and by stealing Stacy's files from her therapist to get more insight."@en . . . . "Earth"@en . "46"^^ . "Mr. Auerbach"@en . "No"@en . "None"@en . . "Steel Ball, Stand, Golden Rectangle, Horse"@en . . "Spin"@de . . . . . . . . . . "8.6"^^ . . . . . . "Spin"@en . . "Spin is a term from Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge, though examples of it existed before the Season. When a Bakugan which involves a Wheel stands, its result counts as a Spin. The term is mostly used on BakuTactix Bakugan which determines the G-Power. It is also used on Special Attacks like Preyas."@en . . . . "Spin (aka SPIN) is an open source\u2191 software tool, with an international user base, that can be used for the formal verification of distributed software systems. It is based on the language Promela\u2191. The Spin tool was developed at Bell Labs\u2191 in the original Unix\u2191 group of the Computing Sciences Research Center, starting in 1980. The software has been available freely since 1991, and continues to evolve with new developments in the field. In April 2002, the tool was awarded the System Software Award for 2001 by the Association for Computing Machinery\u2191 (ACM)."@en . . "Spin is a cog move of Spin Doctors."@en . . "#47: Creative Couplings, Book 1"@en . . . "Spin was a player who was in command of the guild Rage Against The Machine during the Beta Server war."@en . . . . "Spin"@en . . . "A Spin is defined as the rotation of the ball as it moves through the air, affecting its trajectory and bounce. There are a few types of spin: backspin, topspin, and underspin."@en . . . "He is portrayed by Max Charles."@en . . . . . . . . . "Wenn das Bakugan sich auf einer Torkarte ge\u00F6ffnet hat, dann dreht es sich. Kategorie:Spezial-Effekte"@de . "Mr. Auerbach was the son of a media mogul whose holdings included the cable news network KN News. He pursued a career in journalism, hoping to work his way up in his father's company. While working on a story, he met Edwar Martinez, who was capable of sensing the fears in others and making them a reality."@en . . "Spinning is an unofficial term that refers to the act of returning a card from the field to the top of its owner's deck; Extra Deck Monster Cards are instead returned to the Extra Deck when spun. Spinning is more powerful than bouncing because it both removes a card from the field and uses up its owner's next draw. Like bouncing, because most spin effects target monsters, spinning can also waste the owner's Normal Summon or Set for that turn, and can remove powerful but difficult-to-summon monsters such as \"Stardust Dragon\" or \"Destiny HERO - Plasma\". Spinning can work well in combination with bouncing effects such as those of \"Begone, Knave!\", \"Neo-Spacian Grand Mole\", and \"Giant Trunade\". See also: Returns from field to Deck, Returns from your field to your Deck, and Returns from your opponent's field to your opponent's Deck"@en . . . . "Education | Version Control | Introduction to Programming | Unit Testing Research | A Broadcast Calculus | Model Checking | VSR"@en . "November 2004"@en . . "Spin is a promotional-only compilation album featuring Neurotic Outsiders, released in the USA by Warner Bros. Records / Reprise Records during 1997."@en . . . "Mr. Auerbach was the son of a media mogul whose holdings included the cable news network KN News. He pursued a career in journalism, hoping to work his way up in his father's company. While working on a story, he met Edwar Martinez, who was capable of sensing the fears in others and making them a reality. Auerbach eventually was put in charge of KN News, where he had a hand in determining much of the content that the network covered. He also led a double life as the villain Spin. He kept Edwar captive in the basement of the news building, hooking him up to machines and forcing him to watch news coverage. In this setting, Spin was able to channel and direct Edwar's amazing ability. His first caper was robbing a Faberg\u00E9 Egg from a local auction. He created a distraction by summoning earthquakes, which had been in the public's mind due to a recent quake in Hub City."@en . . "Spin"@en . "Stacy reacts to Mark and House\u2019s argument: \"My goodness! It\u2019s like watching Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward in the third grade! Excuse us.\" \u2015Spin Spin is a 2nd season episode of House which first aired on November 15, 2005. A famous cyclist who admits to blood doping becomes House patient and Cameron wants to report him for cheating. Meanwhile, House attempts to force Stacy to admit how she feels for him by going to disrupt Mark Warner\u2019s therapy group and by stealing Stacy's files from her therapist to get more insight."@en . . . . "[[Ficheiro:Spin maio09.jpg|thumb|250px|Capa do mes de maio do 2009 con No Doubt]] Spin \u00E9 unha revista musical que informa sobre a \"m\u00FAsica para a vida\". Fundada en 1985 por Bob Guccione, Jr., \u00E9 a principal competidora da Rolling Stone. Madonna foi a artista que apareceu no seu primeiro n\u00FAmero."@gl . . "Wenn das Bakugan sich auf einer Torkarte ge\u00F6ffnet hat, dann dreht es sich. Kategorie:Spezial-Effekte"@de . "eBooks"@en . "TBA"@en . . . . . . . "He is portrayed by Max Charles."@en . "RS2 Launched!"@en . . . . "Spin states are the states in which very very drunk particles like drunkleons, votcaons, whiskyons and partyons are in, almost all the time. The quantum energy of the particles found in these states has not been determined yet because scientists had very big trouble in following and anticipating they\u2019re trajectories. They can however be photographed in a cloud chamber when the copions hit a barion thus disintegrating the barion. During the disintegration process which can last from several seconds to several minutes you can see all the drunkleons leave the barion in a hurry. It is presumed that the spin state of a particle has some potential energy but very rarely, kinetic energy because usually the particles that are trapped in a spin state are lazy and too dizzy to create kinetic energies. They prefer to \u201Chang around \u201D or if you prefer the scientific term, spin. The effect the spin state particles have on humans has been researched for many years. Einstein once said \u201Cthey make you spin\u201D thus opening a new window of opportunities on spin research. It has been proven so far that the spin particles can disintegrate a human being turning him into a moron another subatomic particle that has been most elusive since 1801 BC. Another effect of the drunkleons, votcaons and such is that they inhibit the motor functions of the body and they affect the nervous system also. While votcaons, whiskions, are normal spin particles it has been recently found since Woodstock that there are other particles that have the same effect like grassons, LSDons, acidons, potons etc. These newly found particles though are not allowed to roam free like the votcaons and whiskions because they have proved to be fatal too many times. There is only one institute of research for grassons or potons in the whole world and it\u2019s location is in Amsterdam. \n* Types of spin states: \n* Spin left \n* Spin right \n* Spin out of control \n* Spin into the Southern United States \n* Just spin \n* Barbara Streisand \n* Spin City"@en . . "Pocket SCE #46"@en . . . "Spin is a very competitive person and is always trying to out do himself, He has a strict training schedule that he will not break, he is generally a nice person but in the heat of battle he sometimes gets a bit carried away and shows a bit of a mean streak but that hardly ever happens. His team includes: Lecko/Dormeek/Nelk, Lefin, Boboink, Tikel, Grober and Chikoi"@en . . "Spin is a sci-fi trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson, featuring the novels Spin,Axis and Vortex. The first book in the series, Spin, follows narrator Tylor Dupree and his childhood friends, twins Jason and Diane Lawton. As children they witness the strange phenomenon that alters the course of human history: the night the stars disappeared from the night sky. As they grow up, the world slowly discovers the truth: the Earth has been covered by a membrane (dubbed \"The Spin\") that slows down the flow of time on our planet. A lot. So much so that after about fifty years on Earth, over four billion years will pass outside. By that time the sun will expand into a red giant and destroy the planet. Trying to find out where The Spin came from, and looking for ways to survive the destruction of Earth, forms the plot of Spin. \n* Belief Makes You Stupid: The twins, Jason and Diane, take two different paths in life. Jason becomes an influential genius scientist, working to decrypt the mysteries of the Spin and possibly save the world. Diane, on the other hand, turns to religion and goes off the deep end, eventually ending up in a cult in the middle of desert in Arizona, playing subservient housewife to her Perpetual Smiler Wide-Eyed Idealist husband. A husband who later lets Diane nearly die after she contracts a serious illness because he thinks the rapture will be happening soon and there's no point in getting her any sort of treatment. \n* Benevolent Alien Invasion: Not an invasion, but \"The Hypotheticals\" planted the spin membrane to protect the people on Earth (and later Mars) \n* Big Dumb Object: The Archway, a gargantuan arch later discovered to be a full circle, just halfway embedded into the Earth stretching across the Indian Ocean and reaching out of the atmosphere. Near the end of Spin it's discrovered that the Archway is a gateway to an earth-like planet, light years away, intended for humanity to colonize and expand into. \n* Bio Augmentation: The \"Fourth Age\". Available to the protagonists late in the story, it is a nano-augmentation that fundamentally changes the user in both physical and neurological ways. Dubbed by some as \"the adulthood beyond adulthood\" due to the mental clarity and maturity that a Fourth exhibits. Also allows for different advanced \"modules\" to be installed that include the ability to communicate with a network of other nanotech. \n* Black Sheep: Diane, whose father and brother are contemptuous of her new religion. \n* Child Prodigy: Jason Lawton. His oppressive father, E.D. Lawton, realized Jason's potential and spent his entire life grooming him for power and feeding his potential, intending Jason to take over the family business after he dies. \n* Corrupt Corporate Executive: Jason and Diane's father, E. D. Lawton, who cares more about making money off strategies to deal with the Spin than whether or not those strategies are actually effective. \n* Faster-Than-Light Travel: Averted by the Hypotheticals, who are revealed to be a collective of Von Neumman replicators that stretch across the whole galaxy and are forced to \"think\" very slowly due to the distance between them and the speed of light. Played straight with the Archway, but only because it's part of a Portal Network. \n* First Contact: Not so much. \"The Hypotheticals\" that are presumably responsible for the Spin membrane never directly speak with humanity or even explain their motives. Justified in that it's discovered that their cognition is so slow that any sort of \"contact\" or communication is impossible. We Are as Mayflies indeed. \n* Inadequate Inheritor: Jason's father feels this way about handing off control of Perihelion, the government agency responsible for managing the Spin, to Jason. \n* Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness: Medium to hard. \n* Nanomachines: Used as a gigantic data gathering network, intended to span multiple star systems. This is what \"The Hypotheticals\" are revealed to be. \n* No Conservation of Energy: Due to the time differential, the people on Earth would normally be subject to three year's worth of sunlight every second. The Spin somehow absorbs all this energy to keep people safe, but where exactly this energy goes is never explained (it isn't radiated away, at least). \n* Maybe it goes towards maintaining that time dilation field. \n* Portal Network: Buying time to set this up is the purpose of the Spin membrane, since the portals have to be towed into place the slow way (i.e. slower than light, which takes millions of years to get anywhere appreciable). \n* Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Averted - Outside the Earth's Spin membrane, 4 billion years pass during the events of the book, enough to set up an interstellar network of nanomachines and to terraform Mars \n* Starfish Aliens: The only character who manages something resembling \"communication\" with The Hypotheticals ends up dying from the episode. Without the aliens even realizing. It turns out they weren't even trying to communicate in the first place. The character in question describes it as the aliens trying to assimilate him via his nanotech - they don't realize that he's an intelligent being and think that his nanotech is just an exploitable system they can absorb, which is a normal thing for them to do \n* Terraform: As our sun expands, the habitable \"goldilocks\" zone around it expands, leading to Mars starting to warm up enough to become Earth-like. The humans on Earth take advantage of this, and combined with the Time Dilation of the Spin membrane, are able to easily terraform Mars into a habitable refuge. \n* Simply load up a rocket with simple bacteria. Shoot it out of the Spin membrane in the direction of Mars. Wait a day (hundred thousand years outside). Load up another rocket with more advanced bacteria. Shoot it at Mars. Load up a final rocket with some colonists... \n* The Stars Are Going Out: Happens at the beginning of Spin, as the Spin membrane goes into place. \n* The Stoic: The main character, Tyler Dupree, though he occasionally verges into The Spock and Extreme Doormat. He's perfectly fine with people treating him like crap, taking it all with hardly an eyeblink, and is able to give humble and reasonable explanations later on for why he acts certain ways. Instead of getting angry, he simply cuts someone to their core with his words. As a love interest later in the novel (bitterly) puts it: \"If reasonableness was a knife, I'd be lying on the floor and bleeding out\" \n* Time Dilation: What the Spin does."@en . . . . . .