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At 9/2/10 08:15 AM, NoxDexus wrote:

At 9/2/10 08:07 AM, grime-reaper wrote: I'd also just like to say that some people may think having 22330 posts in an online forum and maintaing databases of relatively useless statistics is pointless as well.

Ohhhh you silly goose

Oh, I missed that. CONGRATS ON MODSHIP, BAHAHAHAMUT!!

not caps

In that case, I think the OP needs a better definition of pointless. Unless you are referring to a broken pencil, only an action can be called pointless. A high post count cannot be called ineffectual (pointless), because having a high post count isn't a intentional action, nor is it supposed to do anything. Your thread was pointless, because it lacked the meaning necessary for a thread to continue to exist unmolested. If you make a thread, it is expected to have a point; to serve some purpose. As it is, you failed epically at giving it one. Pointlessness and inanity are synonyms.

Teaching kids that fighting in public for no reason is appropriate is kind of a bad idea. You don't punch your friends, or even someone you just dislike or have a beef with. If you fight someone, the intent is to render them immobile or kill them. "Dueling" because two guys both like the same girl is just idiotic. In ten years, they'll be doing the same thing in a bar. Then they get a year in Rikers for aggravated battery.

At 9/2/10 08:02 AM, grime-reaper wrote: Who's definition of pointless should be definitive?

That apostrophe is pointless. The 'e' at the end of 'whose' is necessary, however.

I don't understand your point. Are you trying to determine which cultures' biases are right?

This comes from personal experience with the RAND Corporation (see: Pentagon Papers) and a pretty good understanding of military history.

Here were the options the United States had, as they presented themselves in the late 60's:

A. Pull out
B. Kill everyone in Vietnam with communist sympathies and burn down all of the region's forests, using gunship brigades and missile cruisers to rain down holy hell on everyone within a hundred miles of Tôn %u0110%u1EE9c Th%u1EAFng

A guerrilla war can only be won by killing all of the guerrillas.

I was bored, so I looked up how to make it. Apparently any idiot who knew what he was doing and had access to a pharmacy could brew up enough explosive to start a war.

(RDX is the primary ingredient in Composition 4, or C4. It goes boom.)

... Discuss

Bahamut, because I always wondered why he wasn't a mod

Sorry Cookies :(

In less than a billion years, life on earth will be extincted.

Stars begin their life by fusing hydrogen, forming a core of heavier elements like helium and carbon. Our sun has been doing this happily for about 4.5 Billion years. Over the course of the next 5 billion years or so, it will continue to run out of Hydrogen, becoming hotter to compensate.

By the current predicted rate of heating, all the water on the surface of the earth will evaporate in less than a billion years. And after the 5 billions years is up, the sun will be out of hydrogen. In an effort to save itself, the sun will desperately try to increase its mass until it can begin fusing the copious amounts of helium in its belly. Like a fat person trying to eat himself to stave off starvation. Exactly.

At that point, the sun will become a red giant and expand until it reaches us. That's when Earth gets sucked into the sun. After that, as it slowly cools, the sun will eventually dispel large clouds of helium until finally all that's left is a white dwarf. White dwarves, as previously stated, are large solid-carbon structures. There is such a thing as the Chandrasekhar mass, over which no single element can form a solid ball without going boom. Sadly, the sun is about 2/3 of that even now.

Other stars, on the other hand, are a lot more fun. For starters, the vast majority of stars orbit another star in a binary system. That is, they spin around eachother like ice skaters. But not in a gay way. Binary stars are often of different ages, and that's where things get fun. When one star becomes a white dwarf while the other one is still kicking, the gravity of the dwarf sucks a large chunk of hydrogen from the other star. The ensuing fusion reaction, called a nova, causes a huge explosion, visible from millions of lightyears away. That's not even the cool one.

Supernovae, on the other hand, are even cooler, though unrelated to novae. Simplistically, there are two types-

Type I: Something similar to a nova occurs, however the mass approaches the Chandrasekhar limit. At that point, the star has enough mass to begin fusing carbon and oxygen in its dead core. That creates a lot of energy... that goes boom. And by boom, I mean BOOM! What's left after that is a neutron star; a mass made entirely of neutrons from collapsed atoms, 200 times the mass of the sun, but the size of New York City. Yeah.

Neutron stars are pretty cool. Some of them (if they feel like it, really) emit two constant streams of radiation on opposite sides of the star. Neutron stars rotate rapidly, which means that viewed from earth, these stars, called pulsars, look eerily like lighthouses. They 'blink' at a constant rate comparable in accuracy to an atomic clock.

But now, the cool one:

Type II: If a star is at least 9 times the mass of the sun, then it has sufficient mass to fuse oxygen and carbon like a big boy, without collapsing into a white dwarf. Eventually, however, all of that will be fused into iron, which collects in the core. Problem: Fusing iron doesn't release any energy, unlike fusing less massive elements. That means a large chunk of imfusible crap collects in the center. And once it reches the Chandrasekhar limit...

It goes BOOM! as well. After that, it also forms a neutron star. But the story doesn't end there. If a neutron star is still very large (bigger than the TOV limit; wikipedia says about 4x the size of the sun), then it can no longer sustain itself against that devil gravity.

A neutron star is so compressed, that a mass that big would proceed to crumple in on itself so violently, that space-time would become compressed to an infinitely small point. That's right; it forms a black hole. The formation of a black hole also releases a huge explosion- or maybe it doesn't. Here is where we really don't know anything more. It's still up for debate amongst the dudes with the telescopes.

I love me some science

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I would go to Disneyworld!

And kill anyone who tried to stop me.

I'm kind of sad that it's against the rules to just post

TROLLLLLLLLLL

But those be the rules.

No, Muslims aren't evil, and asking a question like that is like asking "Are British people good or evil."

What about keeping a clean hoose?

Obligatory Scottish joke

Nene is Korean. Go fuck yourself.

Old news is old about China blocking sites.

At 8/25/10 06:54 PM, Madnath75 wrote: This will be so helpful to me in later life. Thank you for this gem of wisdom.

It's just like that scene where they remove some of his life force. Except instead of using a machine, I do it by getting you to waste thirty seconds looking at this thread.

in the Princess Bride. At the end, Wesley apparently doesn't have the strength to stand, and yet he manages to walk all the way to the princess' chamber. I know he later claims he was bluffing, but still. There was no point for him to be lying on the bed the whole time.

I think I win!

At 8/25/10 04:45 PM, Chdonga wrote: Not only that, have you read some pokedex entries?

Uxie, the Knowledge Pokémon

Known as "The Being of Knowledge." It is said that it can wipe out the memory of those who see its eyes.

Holy shit...

This topic may have been exploited by spam, but this took me two hours, God damn it!

At 8/25/10 07:02 AM, Zendra wrote:

At 8/25/10 06:54 AM, Soviet wrote: I think America should go back in Communism!

Was America ever adapting the communism-system?

The pilgrims lived very communally for the first twenty years or so... Oh, and they did at Jamestown, beginning in maybe 1615. The capitalist method of colonization produced a bunch of skill-less bourgeois gentlemen living in deteriorating tents in a marsh while they searched for gold in vain. Then John Smith went all Lenin on their asses and saved America by forcing them to tend to such mundane activities as "producing food." He was later burned in the arse.

True story

Just bought it. Waited two hours to install it with Steam. Liked Medieval 2: Total War. How is?

At 8/23/10 07:28 PM, JohnnyDamon wrote:

At 8/23/10 07:26 PM, Im-A-Pirate wrote:

At 8/23/10 07:26 PM, JohnnyDamon wrote: Fuck ACTA. I'm a proud Pirate.

Arr.

Imposter!

I'm Captain Johnny Damon.

Here is me vessel.

Arr,

Fuck, man! Is that image in the public domain?!

We are so fucked! Tell Rob to start torching servers!

At 8/23/10 11:03 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

At 8/23/10 11:02 AM, RWT wrote: How do you place anchors on the level editor? Every time I try to, they disappear when I try to validate it.

Probably because you're placing them on static ground. You can't attach anchors to static ground.

It didn't work. The 'dynamic' option gets unchecked every time I try to add anchors.

How do you place anchors on the level editor? Every time I try to, they disappear when I try to validate it.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

I scanned your profile, and you don't type like a Brit...

Where the hell do you live that it rains so much, then?

IQ in the 150's. One in fifty-thousand. ^_^

I can also hum pop music like a pro.

We need to get you hooked back on regular music!

Here's some- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRNKOTGiE _A

Firefox 3.6.8, to be specific, with the Newgrounds toolbar and some Japanese persona.

http://kliktoria.webs.com/apps/forums/to pics/show/3271342-rwt-proclaims-his-revo lution-

Join in! There are many new positions opening up for young, upwardly-mobile guerrillas and leftists!

At 8/22/10 07:52 PM, JohnnyDamon wrote: Can I be head of your countries military?

Too late, I already toppled it in a bloody coup.

Having looked around on it for ten minutes, I have to ask-

Do copyright laws not exist in Turkey? Because you seem to have a very limited grasp of American law: http://forumen.pokemoncraft.com/index.ph p?topic=529.0

Lol Türkler

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