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Every Living Thing To Get A Barcode in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, August 4 2005 19:08 Profile Homepage #6 Oh, relax, all of you. The article isn't very clear about what exactly is being done from a technical perspective, but it seems as if there's going to be one barcode for every species, not for every individual organism. It's basically just a new and convenient classification system for species. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Human cloning in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, August 4 2005 19:03 Profile Homepage #2 As the forums' resident biology expert, I suppose I ought to have a go at this question. quote: Originally written by Jeros: Do you think that human cloning should be developed in the near future or do you believe that it is morally wrong to clone human beings? The important thing to appreciate here is that when scientists talk about "human cloning", they can actually mean one of two rather different things, that start out roughly the same way but are done for completely different purposes. Reproductive cloning is what most people think of when they think of cloning. You take a nucleus from one of someone's cells, inject it into an egg that's had its own nucleus taken out, let the egg develop into an embryo, implant it into a uterus and wait for it to turn into a person. Therapeutic cloning is the other kind, where you start out by making a cloned embryo, but don't let develop into a full organism. Instead, cells from the early embryo (which are genetically identical to the person they were cloned from, but have the advantage of being able to proliferate indefinitely and develop into any cell type) can be cultured into various adult tissue types and used for medical purposes, such as transplantation. This is a technology that's still in its early stages right now, for a variety of reasons (both legal and practical), but shows a lot of promise in the future. You seem to be talking about reproductive cloning. Now, I don't object to the idea of reproductive cloning in principle (although it seems like a pretty frivolous thing to do), but in practice no sane biologist would countenance its use in humans today. For every successful clone that's been made of a mammal, hundreds more have developed severe abnormalities and died either before or soon after birth. Even the clones that start out healthy often develop problems later on. Quite apart from the ethical issues, an assisted reproductive technique that produced 200 severely malformed babies for every normal one would be a public relations disaster. [ Thursday, August 04, 2005 19:05: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 20:22 Profile Homepage #55 Agreed. To me, EV Nova played like a second-rate EV/EVO plugin, as if it really, really wanted to be Frozen Heart and couldn't quite get there. (Incidentally, Frozen Heart was awesome, but that's beside the point.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Poor Man's Starbound? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 20:22 Profile Homepage #55 Agreed. To me, EV Nova played like a second-rate EV/EVO plugin, as if it really, really wanted to be Frozen Heart and couldn't quite get there. (Incidentally, Frozen Heart was awesome, but that's beside the point.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Delete this thread please. in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 20:14 Profile Homepage #29 He was banned temporarily for goatse, then indefinitely for ban evasion. He could probably come back if he wanted to, but it seems he doesn't particularly want to. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Our President in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 20:07 Profile Homepage #59 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: Christian/Catholic? :confused: They aren't necessarily two different things, the latter is just a subset of the former. Why use that term? This is an American thing; for peculiar historical and cultural reasons, lots of people over there don't really consider Catholics to be Christians. quote: I have never understood what people mean when they say someone should keep his beliefs seperate from his policies. It makes no damn sense. If I believe that outlawing abortion infringes on a woman's rights, should I ignore that when I'm formulating abortion policy? If I believe that single mothers need help to be able to be effective as both workers and parents, should I ignore that when formulating welfare policy? The answer to this depends on whether you consider representative democracy to be an ideal in its own right or merely a useful practical approximation to direct democracy. In the former case, it's reasonable to suppose that provided a validly-elected President makes a bona fide effort to keep his election promises and follows the rules and procedures of his system of government, he can do whatever else he likes. In the latter case, on the other hand, the ideal President is one who holds no opinions at all, and merely attempts to reflect and balance the views of his constituency as accurately and fairly as possible. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Long-distance relationships? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 00:38 Profile Homepage #28 You know, the Chernobyl disaster happened because someone wanted to test something too. :P -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Scripts and mods in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 00:29 Profile Homepage #1 You could sort of do this, but only by replacing one of the existing creations with it. Also, the actual creation-making screen would still show whatever creation type it originally was, which would be odd. [ Wednesday, August 03, 2005 00:30: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
THE PEARL CONTEST BEGINS in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 00:24 Profile Homepage #7 His email address is already in his profile. It's not that he doesn't want people knowing it, it's that he doesn't want the terrible, soulless machines finding it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Long-distance relationships? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 00:13 Profile Homepage #26 Correction: we were avoiding that topic until you went and brought it up again. >_< -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
I'm back! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, August 3 2005 00:12 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by JadeWolf: There's somthing I don't quite understand; while I was gone, was TM unbanned and then banned AGAIN!? He was. After being unbanned, he very quickly returned to behaving even worse than he had immediately before the ban; the admins decided he hadn't taken the ban seriously enough and banned him again. He's gone until October this time. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Our President in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, August 2 2005 22:53 Profile Homepage #22 I made my position clear when the war started; removing Saddam might have been a good thing under some circumstances, but I didn't trust the US Government not to make an utter mess of it. I think at this point it's fair to say that that distrust was justified. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Airborn, Skybreaker in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, August 2 2005 02:56 Profile Homepage #3 Okay, since this topic was apparently revived purely for its creator to acknowledge that it served no particularly constructive purpose, I'm closing it now. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Scariest thing... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, August 1 2005 23:38 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Jeros: Hmm...interesting scary things that people have experienced first hand around here. Anyone have any uncommon phobias by any chance, besides spiders and heights? By uncommon phobias, like a fear of clowns or a fear of going to the dentist or something like that... I used to have a phobia of satellites. I'd explain why, but it's more fun to let people guess. [ Monday, August 01, 2005 23:41: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, August 1 2005 15:29 Profile Homepage #133 quote: Originally written by Niemand: An event seems to be something Jeff added to make it easier to make a large number of things in the scenarion depend on something occurring. The only calls that use/affect them are day_event_happened and set_event_happened. Events appear to be only used internally by your scripts, the player does not know if they are being used or not. In fact, as far as I know, no one has bothered to use them in a scenario, since you can do all the same things with SDF's. Events are in there for backwards compatibility with BoE, which had events for equally inexplicable reasons. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, August 1 2005 15:29 Profile Homepage #133 quote: Originally written by Niemand: An event seems to be something Jeff added to make it easier to make a large number of things in the scenarion depend on something occurring. The only calls that use/affect them are day_event_happened and set_event_happened. Events appear to be only used internally by your scripts, the player does not know if they are being used or not. In fact, as far as I know, no one has bothered to use them in a scenario, since you can do all the same things with SDF's. Events are in there for backwards compatibility with BoE, which had events for equally inexplicable reasons. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The 10th planet! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, August 1 2005 03:18 Profile Homepage #31 I believe the consensus is that however hard it is to create a black hole, it's a few orders of magnitude harder to create a black hole that's large enough to eat anything. (Mind you, I'd still feel a little safer if any serious attempts at creating black holes were done in orbit somewhere.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The 10th planet! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, August 1 2005 02:57 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Contra: Untrue. There is always the pull of gravitation, and that pull would tear you appart. In order for you to be torn apart, different parts of you have to be moving at substantially different velocities; this is a fundamental requirement for tearing things apart, since as long as things are moving in step with each other, regardless of what speed they're going at, they're going to stay together. Moving extremely fast doesn't necessarily guarantee that different parts of you will move at different velocities, as long as you accelerate gently enough. (To put it another way, it's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Scent of new-mown hay in Richard White Games
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 20:42 Profile Homepage #91 But ben, if it weren't for all the sinners there wouldn't be anyone left for you to preach to! :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
E3 Group in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 20:39 Profile Homepage #46 Don't forget that when you're dual-wielding, your opponent's armour bonuses are applied to each hit. This is especially bad against Doomguards, which are heavily armoured and split every time you damage them. Also, note that this topic is about Exile 3. Party design strategy is a little different for BoE scenarios. [ Sunday, July 31, 2005 20:41: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Hintbooks... in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 13:38 Profile Homepage #8 If the scenario in question was Quintessence, the reason you didn't hear back is that the Hall of Fame for that scenario is already full. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Evil Cannisters? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 13:36 Profile Homepage #3 In Geneforge 2, using a lot of canisters got you into one or two fights that you wouldn't otherwise get into, and had a small effect on the ending. In Geneforge 1, canisters were basically the only means to get spells and creations, and you were expected to use as many as you found without penalty (although you did get slightly alarming messages in some places if you'd used a lot of them.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
souls to take in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 13:34 Profile Homepage #6 Contrary to popular belief, being immune to magic doesn't make a monster immune to Capture Soul. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
souls to take in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 04:16 Profile Homepage #4 Yes, you're limited to four. The order in which the creature slots are filled is random, so if a newly-captured monster overwrites one you already had in there and wanted to keep, reload a saved game and try again. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Monestory Caves in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, July 31 2005 04:14 Profile Homepage #5 Yep. Shutting down the spawners in that area is what you need 20 mechanics for. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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