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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Mar 16, 2015 17:18:05 GMT -5
Same dead rat on the side of the road in DC after almost a week. Feels like a statement has been made.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Mar 16, 2015 17:42:45 GMT -5
Today, at work, I met a man named Lance Magnum.
He looked exactly like you'd imagine a man named "Lance Magnum" would look.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Mar 16, 2015 17:56:36 GMT -5
At work some weeks ago I met a staff sergeant payne... that was a highlight.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 16, 2015 18:41:54 GMT -5
Today, at work, I met a man named Lance Magnum. He looked exactly like you'd imagine a man named "Lance Magnum" would look. Roided and oiled up, super bright teeth, a chiseled ballsack chin, and bleached blonde ringlets or faux hawk or Mullet? Wait. What? I just mostly described Brock Samson from Venture Brothers...
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Mar 16, 2015 21:43:45 GMT -5
No, you described me from when I bleached my hair.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 16, 2015 23:00:48 GMT -5
No, you described me from when I bleached my hair. Ah, if only Ymmot was still around and could produce appropriate artwork for this...
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Post by cheminhaler on Mar 17, 2015 15:13:42 GMT -5
Same dead rat on the side of the road in DC after almost a week. Feels like a statement has been made. What the hell is wrong with Necromancers these days?
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 17, 2015 15:26:08 GMT -5
Same dead rat on the side of the road in DC after almost a week. Feels like a statement has been made. What the hell is wrong with Necromancers these days? Didn't they all die when the Warhammer world imploded into the Warp? Today stuff is happening.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Mar 18, 2015 22:38:24 GMT -5
Today was my last day on the east coast.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Mar 18, 2015 23:14:35 GMT -5
Today was my last day on the east coast. Bon aventure, Req
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Post by cheminhaler on Mar 19, 2015 11:03:16 GMT -5
Good travels. Hopefully it'll be the dream job and you'll be able to enjoy working in Asia and taking a few more pictures of these great, far-off places. Today I have been awarded with 3 hours off work and a tenner to get more black milliput (used my last pack patching up brickwork on a wall) and a new brush from the art shop. 0000 this time.. Didn't they all die when the Warhammer world imploded into the Warp? That was maybe after; - The Earth cooled - The dinosaurs came - They grew too big and fat; and turned into oil....
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 19, 2015 16:50:27 GMT -5
That was maybe after; - The Earth cooled - The dinosaurs came - They grew too big and fat; and turned into oil.... And then there was the Quest for FIRE!<.< >.> Kill. Maim! BURN!!!
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Mar 19, 2015 18:33:48 GMT -5
Today will be my last day in the US for quite a while.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 19, 2015 18:57:54 GMT -5
Today will be my last day in the US for quite a while. Watch out for Gundam pranks. I demand that you find a way to be involved in one. And film it. Then post evidence here. Ganbatte, Req-san!
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Mar 19, 2015 19:05:06 GMT -5
Today, I tracked a package sent to me (in northern Virginia) from central Maryland, a drive of maybe an hour. The US post office decided to send the package TO NORTH CAROLINA for sorting, then back to MARYLAND for delivery. To illustrate the scale of stupidity of this route to our members in the UK, imagine you lived in Milton Keynes, and sent a package to someone in Guilford, just south of London. The royal mail decided the easiest way to do this would be to send the package to PARIS, FRANCE in order to read the label to figure out where it goes, and then sent it over to Chelmsford before delivering it.
This is why everyone uses Fedex.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Mar 19, 2015 20:59:51 GMT -5
I noticed that every once in a while they'll decide to sort something in NC instead of Baltimore. I'm glad I put the tracking on there for everyone's amusement.
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Post by jenburdoo on Mar 20, 2015 13:45:55 GMT -5
Ahhhhh.... home after an awesome week in Bermuda. A very friendly place -- I had about a dozen drinks bought for me by strangers. Small-town atmosphere too; one of those drinks was with the Minister of the Environment. Yet relaxing; very green and lots of parkland and old fortifications to roam around. I must go back.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 20, 2015 15:43:29 GMT -5
Oh, ElegaicRequiem, I heard on the radio today that on April 1st in Japan a Burger King Whopper-scented aftershave/cologne is going to be released (only 1000 bottles will be produced, and they will sell for $40 each). You know what to do.
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Post by Rook on Mar 20, 2015 18:08:33 GMT -5
Today will be my last day in the US for quite a while. Safe travels my friend.
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Post by Julian Sharps on Mar 21, 2015 1:29:18 GMT -5
It occurred to me today that Saturn's moon Titan is an interesting place that I might have to write a plot arc for in Frontier: 2170.
For one thing, despite being only half again as large as the Moon (smaller than Ganymede, but larger than Mercury), Titan's atmosphere is about half again as thick as ours at sea level. Its surface gravity is comparable to the Moon's, and these two factors combined make for the amusing possibility of human-powered flight by strapping on a pair of wings and flapping like a bird.
Titan's surface features closely resemble what you'd expect to find on Earth; oceans, rivers, streams, seas, and other similar water features have been documented, but what makes Titan an object of particular interest is the fact that its hydrosphere is made of methane rather than water.
Titan has oceans of liquid ethane, methane icebergs, complex hydrocarbon compounds like acetylene and propane can be found naturally in the air, and it literally rains natural gas (liquid methane, in this case). What prevents this moon from catching fire is the lack of oxygen in its atmosphere.
Furthermore, there's even the possibility of life on Titan, although likely either primitive bacteria or something far more alien: methane-based organisms. While they're only theoretical at this point, our understanding of biochemistry suggests that such creatures would inhale hydrogen instead of oxygen, metabolize it with acetylene instead of glucose, and exhale methane instead of carbon dioxide. There's enough ambiguity in our understanding of Titan's atmospheric composition and its causes to suggest that it's not impossible that these things might actually exist (obviously, there'd be no way to safely eat a hypothetical Titanian fish. If just the act of cooking it didn't kill you, its chemical composition would), which I find exciting and tantalizing as a writer of science fiction.
Probably the only downside to living on Titan aside from the usual lack of natural life support options you get with space travel, as well as the sheer distance from civilization (At its closest, Saturn is about 1.2 billion kilometers away from Earth, and its furthest is about 1.65 billion. Even with gravity assists from Earth, Venus, and Jupiter, it took the Cassini-Huygens probe about seven years to get there), is that the average surface temperature is around -179.2 degrees Celcius.
Needless to say, Titan would be a good source of chemicals needed to make all kinds of plastics (especially since I imagine that between the scarcity of oil and the rise of cars and aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells or purely electric motors, the demand for gasoline has dwindled to practically nothing by the 22nd century, although most nations on Earth anachronistically still use natural gas and coal-fired electrical plants due to a shortage of people qualified to run fusion reactors and insufficient support infrastructure to build and maintain them, and they're glad for a new source of natural gas, even if it's on the other side of the inhabited solar system and it takes them seven years to get a shipment in at a reasonable cost).
I imagine that the extent of human settlement of the Saturnian system essentially amounts to a few oil rigs on Titan, some automated refineries in orbit, a couple orbiting habitats (although nothing extravagant like an O'Neill Cylinder, more like a cheap hotel with a nearby strip mall), a few drilling platforms on Enceladus (a moon of Saturn's that has an underground ocean that periodically erupts geysers into space) and some more refineries and habitat stations in orbit above it, and a customs station in orbit around Saturn itself for servicing the automated nuclear thermal rocket-powered tankers that take years to travel between planets but are substantially cheaper, and the fusion torch-powered space barges that only take months but are too pricey (and dangerous) for everyday use. People go to Saturn for a few years to work on the oil rigs of Titan or the water rigs of Enceladus, and then return home to civilization to blow all their back pay (starting at around the equivalent of $60/hour for the guys working the rigs) plus overtime (the operation's always short-handed because most people don't like being hours away from civilization by radio and away from all of the comforts of home, not being able to quit and go home before their contract's up if the job's not for them, and not being allowed to bring family that aren't also working at the operation. Also, company regulations on sexual activity (more specifically, anything related to having children) while at, and enroute to or from Saturn are pretty draconian due to the life support and supply limitations living at Saturn imposes (why send seven years' supply of diapers and baby bottles when you can use that mass allowance for more food, oxygen, or spare parts?)). Also, most of them would want to come back for a time so that they could do simple things like feel the wind on their faces and swim in seas of water.
Titan has a lot of potential for science fiction writing.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Mar 21, 2015 3:30:02 GMT -5
Damn that makes me want to be creative, I was fixed to reading that and it wasn't even a story
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Mar 21, 2015 4:16:05 GMT -5
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Post by scotti88 on Mar 21, 2015 4:16:05 GMT -5
After 11 weeks spent In different hospitals around the uk I'm finally getting to take my little girl home. Shes 11week old.on Sunday and we have spent all this time in hospital.
Going home mother fluffers
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Post by treadiculous on Mar 21, 2015 4:55:04 GMT -5
Titian has a lot of potential.. I've thought this for some time now.
scottie88 .. wow, that must be a relief! congratulations!
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Today...
Mar 21, 2015 5:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by scotti88 on Mar 21, 2015 5:28:36 GMT -5
Well it is and it isn't, they still don't know why she was having her episodes. But they're happy to move us back to our local hospital, which is good for the whole family. And she can bond with her twin brother.
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Post by jenburdoo on Mar 21, 2015 6:53:10 GMT -5
Scotti88: Twins? Mazel tov! Best of luck to all of you! And good luck dealing with the bill. I still have a picture of the one my dad got after I was in hospital for two months after birth, with our cat curled up next to it...
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