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Guess! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, October 27 2005 12:58 Profile Homepage #36 ... Xerch'de? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, October 27 2005 03:54 Profile Homepage #51 Technically, any machine capable of doing mechanical work can be called an engine. A purely electric car doesn't have an internal combustion engine, of course. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
That new girl is bloody well HOT in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, October 27 2005 03:22 Profile Homepage #1 I have no idea what this topic is about and am disinclined to give you a chance to explain. If this is a reply to something in another thread, post it there, not here. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, October 27 2005 01:11 Profile Homepage #46 Okay, so it's also necessary to assume that the tourist's statement was in fact true. Whoops. :P -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
My Nanowrimo Novel - Vahnatai stuff! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, October 27 2005 01:06 Profile Homepage #3 Yep. Prossis-Bok, Glantris-Bok and Elohi-Bok. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Creative Writing in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, October 27 2005 00:03 Profile Homepage #8 quote: Originally written by 4000: Btw, the "An Artist's dream on a revolving door" would be a wonderful line if you followed up on that metaphor or explained it in the following lines. It's a perfect iambic pentameter. Just if you were to write the rest of the poem like it, it would be great. It's not quite pure iambic pentameter -- you don't stress the "a" when reading it, or at least I don't, and when I force myself to do so it sounds unnatural. Not that that's a bad thing; I'm just pointing it out. [ Thursday, October 27, 2005 00:03: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 23:45 Profile Homepage #44 The following answer assumes that the monks are all perfectly rational, all know that all the other monks are perfectly rational, all see everyone else's eyes every day, all believe the tourist's statement, all know that all the other monks believe the tourist's statement, all fully intend to kill themselves if they know they have red eyes, and all know that all the other monks fully intend to kill themselves if they know they have red eyes. It also assumes that none of the monks will ever kill themselves for any reason other than finding out that they have red eyes, and that all of the monks know this. Tell me if there are any assumptions that I missed. The red-eyed monks all commit suicide eventually, and all of them do it on the same night. Taking the first night after the tourist's announcement as night 1, the night on which they all kill themselves is the night equal to the number of red-eyed monks. Why? Well, if there's only one red-eyed monk, he can see that he must be the only red-eyed monk, since nobody else has red eyes. So he kills himself on night 1. If there are two red-eyed monks, then after the other one hasn't killed himself on the first night, each red-eyed monk knows that the one red-eyed monk he can see isn't the only red-eyed monk in the monastery (otherwise that monk would have killed himself), so he must be the other one. If there are three red-eyed monks, then after the other two haven't killed themselves on the second night, each red-eyed monk knows that the two he can see aren't the only red-eyed monks in the monastery (otherwise they'd both have killed themselves), so he must be the other one. ... and so on. [ Wednesday, October 26, 2005 23:56: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
My Nanowrimo Novel - Vahnatai stuff! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 23:37 Profile Homepage #1 The Council in X2 were Boks, weren't they? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
"Heirs to Thesis"? in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 21:44 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by 4000: Heirs to Thesis is actually an interesting scenario title. Not the least because it combines the titles of an Alcritas work with a future TM work. :) Alcritas did that already with Tomorrow. Because, you know, tomorrow belongs to Echoes. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Guess! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 21:42 Profile Homepage #25 EM? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
CREATING A MESSAGE BOARD(NEED A HAND!!!) in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 21:38 Profile Homepage #13 That's not chicho, that's UA. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 18:42 Profile Homepage #40 I've heard that in order to maximise the chance that you'll get the highest tile last, the correct fraction of tiles to flip before settling on the highest tile you find after that is 37.5%. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Explore Mars now in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 14:06 Profile Homepage #37 quote: Originally written by i: However, I agree it really does depend on how readily your skin breaks. The outward force is a lot, and we only need microtears to form for the effect to start. I'm not an expert on the toughness of skin, but it really depends on a lot of factors. I suspect a thinner person's skin would rupture before a more robust person's. In order to resist breakage, the skin and connective tissue only needs to be able to exert a force equal to the vapor pressure of water at body temperature (since we're trying to maintain enough pressure to keep our bodily fluids from evaporating). I'm not sure how much that is offhand, but it can't be that high. [ Wednesday, October 26, 2005 14:09: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun!* Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
This is getting old. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 13:50 Profile Homepage #59 quote: Originally written by chicho: Member 666 doesn't appear in the search... who could been him? http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile;u=00000666 Random newbie. Members will only appear on a search-by-member-number if they actually have posts up on the forum you're searching. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What the... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 01:46 Profile Homepage #2 Huh. Works fine for me. But I've added a different link for your edification. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What the... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 01:37 Profile Homepage #0 Mmm... kahk... (Original link edited out because it seems to be giving other people problems) quote: Hit animated series The Simpsons has made the leap to Arab television - as Al Shamshoon. But in order not to risk offending the Arab audience, some of the characters' most distinguishable traits have been modified, and references to things forbidden by the Koran, such as beer and bacon, have been removed. ... Arab satellite station MBC Network Television is making several other changes to the show, which include Duff beer becoming soft drink, hot dogs becoming Egyptian beef sausages and Omar munching Arab biscuits called kahk instead of doughnuts. For the sake of making this a moderately productive discussion, what's everyone's opinion on translation and localisation? Where's the line between adapting a creative work to make it understandable to a foreign audience and changing it so that it's no longer a faithful adaptation of the original? [ Wednesday, October 26, 2005 13:45: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Guess! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 01:30 Profile Homepage #9 You're pregnant? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, October 26 2005 01:13 Profile Homepage #21 I'm attempting to start a meme. Unfortunately, I don't think "Explode Khelavaster, the Dead Sage Now" will fit in the name entry box. "Explode Aran Now" will, though. [ Wednesday, October 26, 2005 01:15: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 23:41 Profile Homepage #17 1) A half-dollar and a nickel. The half-dollar is the one of them that is not a nickel. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 23:32 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon: State the color of the hat in front of "him." This means 9.5 on average will survive. this message sponsored by half.com Wait, how? Each person can either give the guy in front of him information by stating the colour of the hat in front of him, or act on the information given to him by stating his own hat colour given to him by the guy behind him -- he can't do both. I can see how you can get up to 7.5 by having people alternate between stating the hat colour in front of them and their own hat colour, but I don't see how you get to 9.5. [ Tuesday, October 25, 2005 23:33: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
ATTN ALL CULTISTS in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 22:56 Profile Homepage #43 In more recent versions of Angband, greater demons have been changed to U. & is still a major demon in Nethack and its variants. If it's a Nethack water demon and you're really lucky, you might get a wish from it instead of getting beaten to a pulp. [ Tuesday, October 25, 2005 22:57: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 22:10 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Spring: I have one (not sure if its completely right): A man puts $50 into a bank. Withdraws $20, leaving $30 Withdraws $15, leaving $15 Withdraws $9, leaving $6 Withdraws $6, leaving $0 $30 $15 $6 ($0) + ======= $51 Where did the extra dollar come from? That's hardly even a puzzle. You can't add the amounts that are left in the account after each withdrawal and expect them to add to $50 -- that's just silly. It's only a carefully-crafted coincidence that the sum even happened to be close to $50 in this particular case, making you think there's some connection between the amounts when there isn't. (It's easy to see this by giving other examples. If you withdraw the $50 all at once instead of in little chunks, for example, the sum of amounts left after each withdrawal is obviously $0. If you withdraw it $1 at a time, the sum of amounts left after each withdrawal is, well, a lot more than $50.) [ Tuesday, October 25, 2005 22:14: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Explore Mars now in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 21:44 Profile Homepage #35 quote: Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon: You seem to missing my point. Water = Life. Plants require nitrogen for Life. Plants don't need atmospheric nitrogen, though -- in fact, without the aid of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, they can't use it (and not all plants live in close symbiosis with nitrogen fixers). Whether or not we put nitrogen in the atmosphere of Mars, it'd be necessary to import large quantities of nitrogen fertilisers from Earth, at least at first. i - vacuum, as you know, is a very poor conductor of heat. I find it very unlikely that you could freeze to death in a vacuum in 30 seconds, broken skin or no -- and I'm not convinced your skin would break either. This site has interesting information on vacuum exposure in humans and animals. I haven't checked the sources it cites to confirm that they actually exist, but they sure sound legit. Seems like lack of oxygen would kill you long before cold or tissue damage did. [ Wednesday, October 26, 2005 00:24: Message edited by: Explode Thuryl Now ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun!* Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Explore Mars now in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 11:58 Profile Homepage #31 Um, the reason pure oxygen is dangerous at standard atmospheric pressure is because it's a higher partial pressure of oxygen than we've adapted to -- obviously, 100% oxygen at 1 atmosphere is 5 times the normal atmospheric partial pressure of oxygen. But 100% oxygen at 0.2 atmospheres is the same partial pressure of oxygen as we currently breathe, give or take. To put it another way, if you took all of the nitrogen out of Earth's atmosphere we'd still be able to breathe. The concentration of oxygen in air expressed as a percentage would rise from 21% to almost 100%, but the partial pressure of oxygen wouldn't change. To reiterate, the important thing to keep track of is partial pressure, not concentration. What matters is how much oxygen is there in absolute terms, not the degree to which it's mixed with other gases. [ Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:01: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Explore Mars now in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, October 25 2005 10:34 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by Jerry Gerard: Unfortunately, even if you do feel like making more oxygen on Mars, the fact remains that your lungs would be found outside of your cadaver the moment you opened your mouth. The only reason explosive decompression is harmful is that it's, well, explosive (and even then, it's not as bad as some fiction makes it out to be). There's absolutely no danger in being gradually brought down to low pressure, since the pressure in your lungs will have a chance to equalise with atmospheric pressure. As far as I'm aware, one could quite easily survive at one-fifth of Earth's atmospheric pressure, assuming a pure oxygen atmosphere. The limiting factor, therefore, is the current lack of oxygen. Mars is larger than Titan, so in principle it seems as if it ought to be able to hold an atmosphere if we give it one. Of course, that requires getting half a dozen or so metric hecks of a lot of oxygen. [ Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:35: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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