Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

/me whaps Phil.

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

Not ot mention the Noodle incident.

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

We don't mention "The Incident" do we? No we don't.

Especially not after the court case. That was a luckily timed fire in the evidence storage room wasn't it Narf? I'm sure you wouldn't have been acquitted otherwise.

It was almost too lucky if you ask me.........

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

Now i want you to stare deeply into my Avatar and tell me that Narf is trully guilty of everything...

Come on say it...

You can't now can you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

Narf if trully, madly and deeply guilty of everything. Especially 'The Incident' of which he is at least twice guilty of.

Wasn't that hard to say really. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Who moved the cheese?
 

Now where you looking deaply into my avatar at the same time?

If it didn't work then I realy nead to work on my subliminal messaging system..

EDIT:
Oooo, I am now a Second Lieutenant. Yea me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

THE NOODLE INCIDENT !!!
 

Incident? What incident?

.... *gasp* Surely you don't mean THAT incident, do you? That's unspeakable, unmentionable, never happened, didn't see anything, didn't hear anything! Besides, there's no proof.

Re: Definately no proof.
 

Of coruse there's no proof! Nothing would have survived. Not that it happened.

Re: !macS nairegiN
 

"The Party insists that nothing of the sort ever happened here! Any who says otherwise is a TRAITOR and will be SHOT!"

Re: Definately no proof.
 

That's right, absolutely nothing has happened. Everything is quiet here, situation normal, no irregularities of any kind whatsoever.

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Oh, and while we're at it, it just so happens I've recently aquired all the oceanfront property in Arizona, USA; anyone wanting to make a purchase of said property should get their head examined by a professional psychiatrist immediately.

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Proof? Who said anything about proof?

If this were a proper show trial no-one would be concerned with proof, not when you have entirely unforced spontaneous confessions!

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

I voted today! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

I'm an innocent little mousey!

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

But you look guilty!

/me puts on his uber lie detecting computer "Come on, you can do it, boot up one more time..."

Computer sparks and dies.

Well, I guess I'll just have to do it myself.

/me Walks towards narf. "Don't worry, It won't hurt a bit.."

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

"You mean 'It won't hurt me a bit'."

/me knocks out AdmiralMartin with a wooden hammer, then escapes out the roof hatch.

'Escape, escape, escape from the crazy people!'

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

/me catches narf anyway.

Now. Look at me
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6982/toocute11hg.jpg
and tell me the truth... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif . You cannot lie...

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Ummm... I like big butts??? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

The truth?

That avatar is way too cute!

Awww...

Re: From my front porch you can see the sea
 

You might want to ask David E. Gervais to put a nice shiney coat on it.

cute!! cute !! cute !!!
 

That kitten is really really cute! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

... um, where are his ears?

Re: cute!! cute !! cute !!!
 

That's a Martin. It's an actuall small, furry animal.

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Oh, I didn't know there was an animal called a martin, but that picture looks like a kitten to me. ...A kitten with no ears.

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

It's just a kitten with it's ears flattened back pretending to be a marten, hoping to confuse passing Pine Martins into thinking it's not a baby cat and so eat them. Cunning bugger!

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Or perhaps. It is a martin. An AdmiralMartin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Sometimes I wish we could learn complex skills instantly like they do in the movie Matrix. It takes so much time and effort to learn a new language or a new sport or to learn to play a musical instrument. It would make life so much easier.

Re: Oceanfront property for sale
 

Things are prized based on the effort we needed to acquire them.

OT: More often than not.
 

Shush! Your wisdom is showing!

Re: OT: More often than not.
 

Ooo, shiney new avatar. Fear my new black hole!

Re: Oscar Mayer wieners
 

Re: Oscar Mayer wieners
 

That's funny! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif But also, that is just evil. A true friend wouldn't do something like that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

Re: Oscar Mayer wieners
 

Don't worry, I have a bunch of graviton beams stabilizing my black hole.

Re: n teg I nac erehw)gnixulf ton ,sroticapac xulF
 

Who says we were friends? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif Don't you remember the chaos and infighting during the First and Second Bar Wars? We were at each others throats!

(2000th post! yay! just after being the 11,111th person to view the newbie FAQ. Boy, I'm feeling lucky today)

Re: n teg I nac erehw)gnixulf ton ,sroticapac xulF
 

Avatar wars! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Ashton's avatar spews antimatter jets at everyone.

Re: n teg I nac erehw)gnixulf ton ,sroticapac xulF
 

Happy Chinese New Year! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
This year is the year of DOG.

Fez!
 

Hmmm we are due another bar/avatar/something war sometime soon, much like San Fransisco is due a giant earthquake. It could happen any time with no warning.

Year of the dog. So many awful jokes to make, so little time.

Re: Fez!
 

/me watches the pretty sparkles approaching.

Re: Fez!
 

/me watches them wink out

Re: assassination spells and stealty commanders/ar
 

Hey now! There's no particular reason for antimatter to sparkle....

Well, unless it's running into particles ... or vice-versa.

Sparkling antimatter
 

Well, I've never seen any antimatter, so I can't say whether it sparkles or not. I suppose that if the antimatter made up something shiny, like a Christmas ornament, then it could sparkle.

Re: We wish you an antimatter Christmas...
 

Or a diamond! An Anti-diamond! Made of anti-carbon! Just anti-perfect for that anti-special anti-someone .....

Re: We wish you an antimatter Christmas...
 

Quartz. That's sparkly as well, indeed that was one of the few things I learned doing Geology. Sparkly = probably got some quartz in it.

The diamond/anti-diamond reactor, possibly the most expensive way of generating power ever. Aside from burning water maybe.

Re: Burning Water
 

Actually, burning water into hydrogen ash is actually being worked on as a viable method of storing energy.

Burning water into helium and loose oxygen is being worked on for generating energy.

Re: Burning Water
 

Burning water into helium and loose oxygen sounds very tricky. For starters where does the helium come from. You could fuse together two hydrogen atoms to get helium, but that isn't really burning, that's nuclear fusion.

As for the first part I'll hold my hands up and say I have no idea what that means. As I understand it you could call water 'hydrogen ash' as it is fully oxidised (burnt) hydrogen. So how do you burn something that is already burnt? And how do you store energy by doing so http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

morf emoc eseehc seod erehW :eR
 

Most expensive? Naah. Diamonds are IIRC actually one of the most ubiquitous precious stones there are, it's just the fact they used to be so rare (and of course their sparkly shiny look when cut, and the fact that it's the most dense naturally occuring material known to date) which is why they're expensive.

Then again, my source (old space strategy game called Fragile Allegiance) may not be entirely accurate in this time period, so I might be completely off the mark here.....

Re: morf emoc eseehc seod erehW :eR
 

Diamonds aren't dense, not especially.. They are the hardest naturally occuring substance and only beaten by a few very odd man made compounds.

The expense depends on size, disproportionatly so. Industrial diamonds (fraction of a carat sized) are indeed dirt cheap and fairly common. As you get bigger you get rarer and hugely more expensive.

A typical mine will 'lose' 80-90% of the total carat value in processing, but that only accounts for less than 1% of the money value. That's how 'worthless' small carat stones are.

On the other hand if it weren't for jewelry the large diamonds would be equally worthless, they have no inherent value, just the rarity and sparklyness of them. Which is part of the reason man made jewelry diamond haven't caught on, a man made large diamond is like a knock off designer clothing. It's a statement of wealth and status, so buying a cheap one defeats the point (unless you haven't got the money, but want people to think you have http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)

Re: morf emoc eseehc seod erehW :eR
 

Actually, I think the most dense naturally occuring material known to date is uranium.

Re: morf emoc eseehc seod erehW :eR
 

So I meant hardest..... Big deal http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Eh, well so my source was wrong. Well..... we know what to do when our sources are wrong, don't we Louie?[/Brando voice]

OT: Power of Four to One!
 

Nuclear fusion is just a special kind of burning..... also, it's four hydrogen atoms -> one helium atom.You use electricity to un-burn it. You use electrical energy to separate the water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, changing electral energy into potential chemical energy (2(h2O) -> 2(h2) + o2); as long as nothing sets it off, and you keep the two gas types thus produced around (and separated, hopefully), the stored energy is very stable. With the application of a small amount of energy (and mixing the two types of gas back up), you can convert that potential chemical energy into another form of energy - electricity, say. Sure, there's energy lost to an unuseable form at every stage.... but you can store it just about forever.

Re: OT: Power of Four to One!
 

Yeah I did get my nuclear fusion wrong, it's been a while. I still wouldn't call it burning though.

Ditto the first past, seperating hydrogen and oxygen and storing the gases that isn't burning or even oxidisation. When you recombine them, that's oxidation. (By the definitions I know anyway) That's what threw me, the way you phrased the first statement. Still all cleared up now.