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Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 7:39 pm
by Error
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 8:53 pm
by ҉
Sure, it could, but the question I think we ought to be asking here is whether or not it should.
Absolutely unrelated to the topic, but to your signature: Why would anyone measure FTL speed in AU/second rather than multiples of lightspeed?
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 10:05 pm
by Vinyl
Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:Absolutely unrelated to the topic, but to your signature: Why would anyone measure FTL speed in AU/second rather than multiples of lightspeed?
Yeah... what's up with that?
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 7:08 am
by Error
It comes from a discussion in EVE (where warp velocity is measured in AU/second). Warp drives there are intrasystem, with jumpgates handling intersystem; someone wanted to know how long it'd take to travel a light-year under standard warp speed (3.5 AU/s), so I did the math.
Could do it in multiples of c, yes. But that's more boring.
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 7:39 am
by Prototype
I may or may not have done this.
And I may or may not have been fired for it.
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 9:13 am
by Professor Fenway
ಠ_ಠ
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 9:35 am
by Error
As for whether or not it should, yes. It definitely should.
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 3:57 pm
by Shadowcatbot
We should measure it in Rods.
Fucking aliens will never get our secrets then!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 6:32 pm
by Tau
Let's change the standard scientific unit of speed to cubits per fortnight.
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 6:35 pm
by Shadowcatbot
Tau wrote:Let's change the standard scientific unit of speed to cubits per fortnight.
Agreed. The alien commie spies will never understand such democratic human ingenuity!
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 6:54 pm
by Error
I'mma sodomize you both with a sharpened ruler someday. Just so's you know.
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:06 pm
by Shadowcatbot
But is that ruler in inches or centimeters?
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:59 pm
by Error
Precisely one meter in length, marked in centimeters.
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:19 pm
by Vinyl
Error wrote:I'mma sodomize you both with a sharpened ruler someday. Just so's you know.
I don't think Tau would be very opposed
Re: Ever wanted to make a homemade volcano?
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:53 pm
by ҉
Shadowcatbot wrote:But is that ruler in inches or centimeters?
What kind of shitty ruler doesn't have inches on one side and centimeters on the other? I honestly don't think I've ever seen one that only had one, except maybe really old ones.