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Who is the world's first Canadian superhero?

Some archeologists found make-up and moisturiser from Roman Britain, near St Albans, and it contained the same ingredients used today. 1,000,000 s = 1 million seconds = 8 minutes 1,000,000,000 s = 1 billion seconds = 31.6 years, so it makes sense that a thousand billion seconds is about 30,000 years (you must be counting slower than 1 number every second). triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13 (interestingly, the dictionary.com definition is an abnormal fear of the number thirteen; which begs the question of what a normal fear is ...) So do sharks. Some seals use their teeth to keep their waterholes trimmed in the depth of winter ... but once their teeth are worn down they starve because they don't keep growing ... All animals take a logarithmic step down in numbers proportional to size. This is one reson why a Blue Whale, the biggest living creature (some trees are bigger) eat krill, one of the smallest living cretures ... they are effectively jumping several steps in the food chain (well, nearly all of them; all that's left is to eat billions of algae), hence they are deriving a higher joule density for the same food ... One third of all animals are insects. Over a half of all insects are beetles. Again, smaller creatures' hearts beat fster due to thermal dynamics; if an elephant's heart beat 100 bpm it would lose too much heat and die. Dentine hardens over years, that's why teeth appear to become more yellow-brown with age; it is just the dentine (the stuff under the enamel) hardening. This is still happening after your twenties. They also milled their flour with sand (it was easier to break the hard germ of the wheat, like stones in a river) ... this caused them all to have serious dental problems in their early twenties. It is more common to be killed by a hippopotamus than run over in Africa. (Well, Imade that up, but it is more common than something everybody things is really common, that I have mometarily forgotten.) A hummingbird's wings don't beat in a synchronised manner, i.e. they aren't both down nor up at the same time. (I guess it gets a bit hard to tell at that speed.) The average temperature in space is almost absolute zero. (It's t same in a crater out of the sun's gaze on the moon, because there is no atmosphere. It is considerably warmer in the sun's rays, though, several hundred degrees centigrade. Space suits need to be able to deal with both temperatures simulatneously.) A man kept a chicken for a couple of years without a head. It had been beheaded but he managed to keep it alive by feeding it through its neck. (He used to show it in freak shows to make money.) I lucid dream all the time.

:D That's one of the risks of the game " We could also run a thread here, where every Friday night (say) we conduct a turn or two on the boards ...

I'm waiting for the ending-content mod from Aurora's team before I play again. I like your avatar, Catt.

Is he higher or lower on the marshmellow pecking order than Mr Staypuft?

Many thanks!

I don't even want to contemplate the thought of letting my mind wander to a place where an idea of what is going on here might cross my mind ...

What do you mean? I've been here all along... Just maybe not as much, as I've also been busy with *gasp* my social life. (I know, I know... I should know how to set my priorities better. ) Funny enough, a couple days ago I was wondering the same about you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I must have taken two days off this week: sorry about that.

Who goes first? :D

So a jiffy = 1 centisecond? What about left handed people? Approximately 70% of the world's legal crop of poppies is grown in Tasmania, Australia (for opiates used in medicine). Some people are starting to question this goldfish fact, most notably some followers in The Path of Nemo Doesn't a nickel have 119 ? (Or is it 117? can't remember and I don't have one to count ...) Yes.

Well it is also the main limiting factor to prevent Baley-like tsunami of philosobabble spam from every igqualified (like what I did there with prefix of opposition -- see I can be imaginative when it counts ) lunatic with an inadequate medical dosage. There is plenty of room to speculate on such things as we haven't satisfactorily explained so far; e.g. the before of the beginning of the universe ...

It was a couple of NY vets who noticed the pattern in cats that had survived after falls from high buildings, then conducted an a posteriori inductive analysis to provide their hypothesis.

Did you ever place a bucket of water perched on top of a half-open door just before this DM was due to walk through it? "

If I know you, it won't be a standard garden variety either, it'll be a less-known Arch-Rustmonster, with its even rarer cousin the psionic permaent-random-ability-score-sucker. <_<

Barring incompatible timezones, I don't see why not; we would need a central conversation with everyone in (a meeting or whatever the parlance is) and an individual converastion window with each player, each; for eight players that would be eight windows. W'd all have to use an agreed technology. We'd have to agree on a scheduled time to start and finish according to a schedule, otherwise it'll be difficult for all of us to manage (and if the timezones cause problems, it might be too difficult).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is better on the radio. But then, what isn't? :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A slideshow presentation.

I prefer the first one, actually, but I will address my comments to the third. If you say that the physics that describe our universe are just a subjective false reality, an illusion, then it is not very easy to have a conversation against it. However, it is remarkably less probable that a given illusion will be consistent across so many different scientific disciplines for so many different witnesses. Now there are an infinite series of possible levels of "truth" between "What science says is absolute truth" and "The universe of my experience is illusion", and it is conceivable that for every advance I made in arguing from the latter to the former, you might just as easily take the next-least -difficult to prove position, ad infinitum. I would hold that, as appealing as your philosophy is from a chaotic stance, it is next to useless -- speaking form a utilitarian / logical positivism stance. Equally, although the discussion on what is absolute truth is fraught with more of these sorts of arguments than can be addressed in an infinite series of lifetimes, I would invoke Occham and just get back to what knowledge we can use. I mean, after all, even though the Earth and the Sun do revolve around each other, the Newtonian physics describes perfectly well how the size of the force driving their interaction is inversely proportional to the square of their distance apart, thus: Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth. :cool: Now, can I have your liver?

HHGttG was almost written before I was born, so it may not live up to your expectations because it has been influential in a lot of SF since, so it may not be as fresh as you might expect. I particularly liked Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, too, but the sequel was a bit Meh.

Well, if everyone from the forum opens a browser on the site and starts continually downloading things --- anything -- then that should bring the site down for sure! (w00t) (Is that what you meant? <_< )

This sort of thing is common in slums of India, where the dispossessed have no claim to any land and must queue for water at a public dispenser, which only flows for a few hours a day. (I guess they might be able to move closer as people closer to the water die of some horribly degenerative, but curable, disease or move on some other place ... ). And they don't have work and aren't permitted to work in anything (caste system and the "unclean" people) ...

I bet you don't craft your own weapons and armour, either!

Mario has changed his outfit since I last recall ... and what is happenning in the third frame of that comic ...?

I'm all for it; most mods out there have a hak pack (and some have movies and sound files, too), so it makes no nevermind to me. And Rust monsters are cool, especially if you play a Monk ...

In fact I would argue it ensures a lack of contentment ... " Arrogant? Who are you calling arrogant? And no! I'm not paranoid, either. Who said that?

Why not relocate to the water? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The people who live there are probably not going to welcome them with open arms ... also, they are probably near their own farming land / places of work.