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Can this page be renamed to SS Council? See http://sscouncil.com I'd do it myself but I don't know how (or maybe I don't have permission).

Thanks for letting me post this Polix!

Depends on how rigid the stick is More! I think in the case of an infinitely rigid stick, it would be 8 minutes, though this doesn't really make sense as special relativity sets a limit on material rigidity. The time taken would depend on the speed of sound in the stick. woooh ignorance. this topic is not stemmed in science, deal with it. did you read the first post? looks like about 20 paragraphs of bull!@#$%^&* with bad grammar to me, so why even take the time to complain about science? it is obvious that this topic is supers!@#$%^&*ious, not scientific. secondly, it doesn't seem feasible for people to take physics courses so they can say more intelligent things on a forum full of reASSS. lastly, you're looking for quantum physics. First, I admit that my post was a little dumb, and this topic did start with a load of trash, but there is science in it. Second, why is it not "feasible"? Third, I meant physics, not quantum physics. I don't think quantum physics has been talked about much in this topic, just general relativity and special relativity. My post wasn't really directed at you. Eh, what sort of science are you in? On the whole thing with turning coal into oil, I'd be fairly certain that the energy requirements to do it on a large scale are not practical. That's just a gut feeling, so I'd be welcome to reading anything you throw my way. To be honest, there's only two sources of energy on this Earth, suns and mini-suns. Solar, fossil fuels, hydroelectric, and wind all come from our Sun, fission and geothermal come from some star going blammo, and the mini-suns are fusion. In my opinion, the only good solutions for long-term energy are harnessing the sunlight incident on the Earth in a timescale not long compared to the rate we use it, and fusion. I'm not banking on the latter. I don't recall carbon monoxide ever being a huge deal, but I'm younger than you so perhaps I don't remember. I thought the big atmospheric hubbub in the 90s was chlorofluorocarbons and the Antarctic ozone hole (which is absolutely unrelated to the greenhouse effect but people still lump them together). The only significant contribution CO has to the greenhouse effect is eating up OH radicals that would otherwise break down stronger greenhouse gases. Regardless, carbon dioxide is a pretty big deal. I've heard convincing arguments that nearly all the carbon dioxide that is soaked up through photosynthesis is returned to the atmosphere through aerobic respiration. doesnt gravity come from mass i heard the theory that gravity in space is like a big flat blanket. put stuff on it, it makes indentations, and then stuff near it "rolls" towards the "planet" The blanket is one way of explaining general relativity, which is the widely-accepted theory of gravitation. I think Aileron means that we don't know why bits of m!@#$%^&* attract each other, and that general relativity is inconsistent with quantum mechanics.

Science. This topic needs more of it. Seriously, if you're interested in this stuff, take the time to actually learn what you're talking about. I don't mean by reading Wikipedia either. MIT undergraduate physics courses are a good place to start.

Aww man, you guys changed the port too? I specifically had 5000 and 5001 unblocked for me to play HS. -_-

I can't use the directory servers, could someone please post the IP?

I occasionally have the same problem as well, actually. I'm certain that it's not processor usage or available RAM, it's kind of a puzzler. I'm running Vista as well.

I think you meant to post this on the Metal Gear Forum. Nevertheless... Multifire turrets in MG are a part of a "package." Packages are purchasable with credits, which are earned by participating in events and pub games. PM !help to MetalPub-1 and you should be able to figure it out. If not, this topic should sort you out. I think the packages are a bad idea, so I personally recommend not buying any.

Ah, that's cool. I was interested because I'm currently studying in Cambridge myself (not Kings College, but a stone's throw away).

You ever considering doing this? I certainly want to some time, though I'd probably want to make it a tour of North America, and take at least a couple months doing it. I did 3000 miles up and down the western coast of the US in 2006 with some friends (essential with the cost of gasoline). We took 11 days for it and saw a lot, but it was a breakneck pace. The four of us did the whole trip on ~$800 for everything, of which $335 was for gasoline. What's your connection? o_o

Ahh, that 512MB of RAM will hurt with Vista, even Home Basic, I think. I'm running Vista Business and at boot-up I'm using ~700MB. It would be expeditious to buy your own RAM and install if it you got something with 512MB. While we're at it with cheap laptops, there's one for $400 with similar specs here.

Ah, Home Premium is good (well, relatively -- you just don't want Home Basic). And to the AMD bashers, Kirk is right. You can bash their future products, because they don't seem to have their act together, but the current stuff is fine. And "fine" is a great metric. o_o I would spring for it. I think I'm wrong about cheaper laptops -- they do exist, but not with specs anywhere near that.

Seems like it's well-worth the money. If you want to go even cheaper (~$400), you probably could -- what you want to do doesn't require much power. You might have to wait around for a deal though. What (if any) operating system comes with it? Don't expect battery life to be too good.

If we are deleting Moon Lander, we should also delete games like Bankers Deal where there is a maximum possible score.

It's fixed in that it lists me as the top score, but I don't actually hold the trophy since the score was input before the fix ... I don't know if anything can be done about this though, so I'll try to beat my score.

Also, the scores in Easy Chess go the wrong way ... the top score should be least moves, not most.

I love the arcade and have been playing it way too much the last couple days. But can we get rid of the YetiSports games? They're terrible! Also, could we get the game "Sports Smash"?

I thought you were getting married. But this is bigger! Looking forward to the rollout.

Make sure that you actually turned the image file into a CD, and didn't just store the file on the CD. There's a quick and dirty iso burner here: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com

Heh, I went to the first spaceflight of SpaceShipOne in 2004. It was pretty neat. Unfortunately SpaceShipTwo operated by Virgin Galactic will only go up to ~140km, which is well-below orbit heights, but still would give a pretty awesome view. P.S. Dav I'm in Cambridge now.

http://www.laserfaq.org/sam/laserioi.htm I'll pull a theory out of my butt: The intense laser light heats up the sensor, making it shift toward red-ish light. Yeah it's a !@#$%^&*ty theory

My guess is that you're saturating the charge sensors in that area blarghargharghargh and they're going whack. Or something like that. CMOS sensors work by light building a charge across a photodiode and then sensing that charge with some fancy transistors. There's multiple sensors that are sensitive to different wavelengths. Lasers emit light in a very narrow range of frequencies (your green is ONLY green). Or I could be making all of this up.

Go read up on CMOS sensors and figure it out yourself.

Thanks for the help everybody, but nothing has worked. I even set the .url extension to open in Firefox, but no dice. Maybe someone with intimate knowledge of the chat window (like Mr. Ekted) would know.

My default browser is Firefox, but when I click on links in the Continuum chat window, they open in Internet Explorer. What gives? I'm running Windows Vista Business Edition x86 and Continuum 0.40.