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Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.
Even if the self portrait we distribute for popular consumption were accurate it would be dangerous to present it as a picture of the ideal society.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Even if the electric power fails after an attack, any time that the heater has been used will make the shelter that much more comfortable.
Even if we were not bound by Nugent, petitioner here would not be entitled to the report.
Even if all these operations could be performed instantaneously, the ICBM still has a time of flight to the target of about 30 minutes.
Even if this is some day possible, there remains the 30-minute time of flight of a missile to its overseas target.
Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.
Even if gymnastics are not the ultimate goal, the good tumbler will be a better dancer, a better athlete, and a human being with a greater margin of safety in any activity.
Even if we strip their respective claims to the barest minimum, the `` odds '' still favor them both, for the trend in effect is always more likely to continue than to reverse.
Even if we marshal substantial agreement behind mandatory public education, we likely cannot expect that all the states will enact the legislation.
Even if there are no livestock, the farmer cannot leave the farm for long periods, particularly during the growing season.
Even if it did not, how would this little world of gentle people cope with its new reality of grenades and submachine guns??
Even then, if she took one step forward he could catch her.
Even if he is gifted with the merest mustard grain of imagination, something must seep in.
Even if he angry, Tim wouldn't hurt a woman.
Even the two-year-old feels miffed if the family has a prayer-time without her.
Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead.
Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.
Even if we do, you'll be out of here in a week, probably ''.
Even if they ever did say anything about people like Lucille Warren, I know they wouldn't have dreamed of saying it in front of me.
Even if not yet ratified, the Articles provided domestic and international legitimacy for the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War, conduct diplomacy with Europe and deal with territorial issues and Indian relations.
Even so, half of a given amount of astatine will vaporize in an hour if put on a clean glass surface at room temperature.
Even if the resolution of an analog signal is higher than a comparable digital signal, the difference can be overshadowed by the noise in the signal.

Even and fictional
Even on the fictional level, however, the contradictions which give rise to the mystery story are not fully resolved.
Even Jesus Shuttlesworth, the fictional baller played by Ray Allen in He's < sup > sic </ sup > Got Game went there.
Even minor characters like Prentice's grandmother, the fictional town of Gallanach, and his family's home in Lochgair are carefully described, giving Prentice's life depth and context.
Even more so than the Doctor's TARDIS, Iris's bus is a device for moving her between fictional genres and even texts.
Even though Ultima I is set on the fictional land of Sosaria, Ultima II borrowed characters and the story of Ultima I, but relocated them to Earth with no explanation.
Felix Kersten is heavily parodied in the Woody Allen book Getting Even, in the chapter entitled " The Schmeed Memoirs ", in which a fictional barber in wartime Germany describes his time as a hair stylist for Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officers.
In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as " four flushing " in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present ; in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it's used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls ; and in Uncle Buck, Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.
Even when faced with science fictional technology ( e. g., starships with immensely powerful lasers ) The First could use their powers to construct powerful technology of their own making them hard to defeat.
Even the characters in the strip's fictional world of Pleasantville have started to notice that their lives are repeating themselves, and the lack of reader interest is causing characters to start fading.

Even and universe
Even though causality applies to the known world, it does not necessarily apply to the universe at large.
Even if causes and effects in the universe looped back on themselves, they would still, at any particular moment, be contingent and thus would have to be caused by God.
Even if such civilizations are rare, the scale argument indicates they should exist somewhere at some point during the history of the universe, and since they could be detected from far away over a considerable period of time, many more potential sites for their origin are within range of our observation.
Even if the observable universe were filled with monkeys the size of atoms typing from now until the heat death of the universe, their total probability to produce a single instance of Hamlet would still be a great many orders of magnitude less than one in 10 < sup > 183, 800 </ sup >.
Even if the universe is not exactly spatially flat, the spatial curvature is close enough to zero to place the radius at approximately the horizon of the observable universe or beyond.
Even light itself does not have a " velocity " of c in this sense ; the total velocity of any object can be expressed as the sum where is the recession velocity due to the expansion of the universe ( the velocity given by Hubble's law ) and is the " peculiar velocity " measured by local observers ( with and, the dots indicating a first derivative ), so for light is equal to c (- c if the light is emitted towards our position at the origin and + c if emitted away from us ) but the total velocity is generally different than c .( Davis and Lineweaver 2003, p. 19 ) Even in special relativity the coordinate speed of light is only guaranteed to be c in an inertial frame, in a non-inertial frame the coordinate speed may be different than c ; in general relativity no coordinate system on a large region of curved spacetime is " inertial ", but in the local neighborhood of any point in curved spacetime we can define a " local inertial frame " and the local speed of light will be c in this frame, with massive objects such as stars and galaxies always having a local speed smaller than c. The cosmological definitions used to define the velocities of distant objects are coordinate-dependent-there is no general coordinate-independent definition of velocity between distant objects in general relativity ( Baez and Bunn, 2006 ).
Even after the development of expanding universe theories, people would engage in this exercise from time to time when looking for a replacement for general relativity.
" Even absolute music may be viewed as a, " metaphor for the universe ," or nature as, " perfect form.
Even though the majority of the DC Universe is policed by the Green Lantern Corps, and later the United Planets, most rogue races strive to conquer the known universe.
Even " immortal " outer bodies are dissolved at the end of the universe, along with that of its secondary creator Brahma.
Even following the adoption of Copernicus's heliocentric model of the universe, new versions of the celestial sphere model were introduced, with the planetary spheres following this sequence from the central Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth-Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Even when I was in Berkeley, I would see something and just see kilobytes or circuit boards while he'd see karma or the meaning of the universe.
From this we know that Jack Boniface didn't die from jumping off of a skyscraper like it was speculated in the last Shadowman issue in the original comic ( Even though, it has been stated it was an alternate universe, as stated in Unity 2000 ).
This is much simpler than the original, however ; according to Stibbons, Hex is technically a Very Big Thing, while the Braseneck device is barely a Quite Big Thing ( the next step up would be a Great Big Thing, every particle of the universe being modelled within it ; apparently these terms are quite exact, as when the Lecturer in Recent Runes postulated that the Braseneck wizards would try and build an Even Bigger Thing, Ponder Stibbons corrected him.
Even though all live cells are constantly dying, the small birth requirement of two cells means that nearly every pattern in Seeds explodes into a chaotic mess that grows to cover the entire universe.
Even before its release, plans to expand the universe introduced by the game were underway ; this included sequels, pen and paper games, books, and comics that would expand the scope of the Dragon Age franchise.
Even though they were thought to have been driven to extinction by the humans, the Xeelee constructed a universe for the Silver Ghosts that was appealing to their mathematical nature.
" Even though it was an alternate universe, and I got all excited because we realized we were going to kill everyone on screen!
Even on a larger scale, the parts of the universe were arranged on the principles of a musical scale and a number.
Even at the rate of millions of combinations per second, it is unlikely, even given the entire lifetime of the universe to run, that the program would ever produce the phrase " METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL ".
Even though he coined the phrase “ Big Bang ,” Hoyle rejected the ‘ big bang ’ theory of the origin of the universe in favor of the steady state theory, which claimed that the universe has always looked as it does now.

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