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Forum: Space Empires: IV & V May 10th, 2007, 05:38 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 5,627
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: What The Hell Is Wrong With MS?

Yeah, my bad; terror does not equal fear...Much greater quantity. Terror is caused by the bad guys. Fear is merely caused by good guys pointing at the bad guys over there. To quote Douglas Adams,...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V May 10th, 2007, 12:31 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 5,627
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: What The Hell Is Wrong With MS?

Updates seem like grocery store purchases to me. If I had some pre-existing item that I want fixed, and a patch comes along that addresses that issue, then I'll get it.

Otherwise, they all read...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V May 9th, 2007, 03:43 AM
Replies: 131
Views: 12,144
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: Gas Prices

A Wave Farm (http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0521-hydro.html) in Portugal for generating power from the movement of the ocean's surface.

http://www.mongabay.com/images/media/pelamis_515x235.jpg
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V May 8th, 2007, 06:42 PM
Replies: 131
Views: 12,144
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: Gas Prices

Just one little thing about that: How much energy does it take to run the electrolysis process to separate water into it's componant oxygen and hydrogen? That is the amount of energy that would be...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V May 8th, 2007, 01:13 AM
Replies: 131
Views: 12,144
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: Gas Prices

May 15th is national "Don't Buy Gas" day, to protest.

"Rumor has it a gas boycott will be in effect on May 15, 2007. Have you heard of this? ... The e-mail stated, "Do not buy gas on May 15. In...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 24th, 2007, 10:48 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 3,150
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: Want a new hard drive...

I installed XP Pro (sp2) on a second logical partition (D:) of my only physical drive. When it booted, it would pause during the DOS boot sequence and give a choice of which operating system to boot...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 23rd, 2007, 06:40 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,404
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT - Dreaming of Angband...

Maybe summon a bug swarm?
And the bugs have a disguise spell: "I am not a bug." Instead of 'b's they appear as lower-case 'a's.
Until observers outnumber bugs, then the spell is broken.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 21st, 2007, 08:25 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

http://home.comcast.net/~anglewyrm/workthatpremise.jpg
(Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica)
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 19th, 2007, 05:38 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

The Michelson-Morley experiment was trying to detect wind from the earth passing through aether--the fluid that conducts light waves. It failed to notice any, and is considered proof that there is no...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 19th, 2007, 12:39 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

There was no mirror in the original torch example. Whether or not it has travelled the same distance/taken the same time in both directions is what is at question.

In this illustration, a red bulb...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 18th, 2007, 03:41 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

Might be able to do something like this with red/blue doppler shifts seen in surrounding stars.

For instance, take a given star and measure it's color-band shifts in spring when the earth is...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 15th, 2007, 01:09 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

If mass and energy are the same thing, what happens when I move my coffee cup from one side of the table to the other?
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 14th, 2007, 10:02 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

How about a squirrel busily gathering nuts? I'm at rest relative to that.

Energy of squirrel = Mass of nuts times Chewing velocity. Squared.

Cause everyone should have a square meal.

...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 13th, 2007, 03:49 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

heh, ya. Was gonna make a countdown timer page to link to also, but...it'd take me more than an hour http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

For a more interesting hour, Gravity...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 9th, 2007, 06:51 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 7,169
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: System Clock Loses Hour

I found an hour. It was in a tray with the spare change and car keys. It's in fairly good shape -- looks like it was only used a couple times to watch TV. If anyone's clock is still missing an hour,...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 3rd, 2007, 08:38 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 7,567
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: The 10th Demention

Oh I like pretty pennies! New technological marvel:
The Covariantly Layered Orthagonally Teathered Hyper Energized Stored Potential Induced Nullifier
...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 3rd, 2007, 01:07 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 7,567
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: The 10th Demention

The Work performed in washing it was stored as potential energy in the gravitational field. So when it came out as kinetic energy, it had picked up some field odors.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V April 1st, 2007, 02:17 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 7,567
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: The 10th Demention

Something's amiss with the Work formula. If I lift a brick straight up it takes some effort. If I lower that brick straight down, it doesn't feel like I've exerted as much effert. If I push it...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 30th, 2007, 04:42 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 7,567
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: The 10th Demention

The whole book is on P2P for download (magnet:?xt=urn:ed2khash:dfdb8e25e34d3f8186fca229643cec69&dn=McCutcheon_Mark_The_Final_Theory_of_Everything.pdf&xl=16849054) as a pdf.

While he does raise...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 30th, 2007, 06:43 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 7,567
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: The 10th Demention

Saw another crazy theory, The Final Theory of Everything (Expansion Theory) (http://www.thefinaltheory.com/?gclid=CNK22_e1lIsCFRJMYQodrwNYRA), in which the author figures all matter is expanding, and...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 27th, 2007, 08:46 PM
Replies: 354
Views: 41,373
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: Season 3 BSG

Looks like RM set himself up as the storyteller, and then ran out of gas. He's turned on his audience, messing with their minds.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 27th, 2007, 08:23 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 3,986
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: OT: Things One Qught Not Do Just Before Bed

"...Because pure A.I. doesn't have good properties..."

So the Alloy would be mixing AI with knowledge of player locations, map triggers/waypoints, preassembled build plans, foreknowledge of the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 26th, 2007, 05:30 AM
Replies: 354
Views: 41,373
Posted By AngleWyrm
They\'re Cylons!

I wonder how they're gonna explain Colonel Saul Tigh fighting in the first war with the original toasters? And the fifth Cylon? Madam President's head rush? The phantom Kara Thrace?
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 22nd, 2007, 02:23 AM
Replies: 354
Views: 41,373
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: Season 3 BSG

There's only one 'i' in Tigh...

Why are Pirates called Pirates?
They just aaaarrrrrr.
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 20th, 2007, 06:29 PM
Replies: 354
Views: 41,373
Posted By AngleWyrm
Re: Season 3 BSG

Well yes, sort of. It is my impression of the video blogs, and extra interviews from Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica website (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/) taken together with what is...
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