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Master
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written Wednesday, September 14 2005 17:39
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No, the comprehension is easy too. Basically, it means that the little piece of paper in my hand contains enough energy to make a huge explosion when merged with anitmatter. But I doesn't say a thing about antimatter. Anyway, the equation also says that matter is energy. -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, September 14 2005 19:15
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Yes, energy and mass are the same thing, but that is conceptually difficult and not really applicable to the everyday world. —Alorael, who certainly thinks everyoen would be better off knowing about electroweak force instead of E=mc^2. That's a definite everyday (and every second) event. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 04:40
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From the 19th to the mid-20th century, chlorodyne was one of the most popular patent medicines (although "patent" is something of a misnomer, as its formula was widely known and copied). Its active ingredients varied from preparation to preparation, but typically included chloroform, morphine, alcohol, cannabis and just a dash of cyanide. Further explanation of its effects seems redundant. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 04:52
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This was used for a century? Near-instant death seems to me like a side-effect that wouldn't go unnoticed for long... -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 05:00
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It didn't have very much cyanide in it. You were actually more likely to die from the morphine in it than from the cyanide. :P [ Thursday, September 15, 2005 05:01: Message edited by: Chlorodyne ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 05:04
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Oh. A "dash" is a vague amount. :P But I gather that it was still a rather unhealthy mixture. -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 06:01
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 -------------------- Take the Personality Test! INTJ 100% 75% 100% 44% Huzzah for the Masterminds! www.Keirsey.com for personality information. The Sloganizer! "Swing your Archmage Alex." Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 06:30
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I'll quickly hail back to the E=mc^2 thing. Knowing the variables probably would help. But having a mind that is able to comprehend any kind of physics apart from basic elementary stuff would help more. Chlorodyne sounds kinda like death-in-a-bottle. I'm sure consuming all those things at once caused the deaths, instead of just one ingrediant taking all the credit. -------------------- "I am a living sign..." Thus endeth this post. Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Master
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 15:36
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Eh, I'm sure that is was so popular because it did its job quickly and efficiently. They should have used it for another one of those luxury anesthetics. ;) -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, September 15 2005 20:55
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There's a big difference between anesthesizing and euthanizing someone. :P quote:E is energy, m is the mass of the matter, and c is the speed of light. Completely converting any matter into energy produces an amount of energy equal to the mass times the speed of light squared. -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, September 16 2005 02:04
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Today's name, Calomel, is a chloride salt of mercury. In past centuries it was commonly used as a purgative (a powerful laxative), for a broad and mostly spurious range of medical indications. As if that wasn't bad enough, long-term treatment could lead to chronic mercury poisoning, damaging the nervous system and many other organs. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 16 2005 02:29
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*dons pedant hat* E = mc^2 is not about translating matter into energy, but mass into energy. Energy, like mass, is a property. It is not, like matter, a kind of stuff. You have energy not in the way that you have blood, but in the way you have height. All the Star-Trekky stuff about 'things made of pure energy' makes as much sense as 'things made of pure height'. *removes pedant hat* Whatever. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, September 16 2005 03:16
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quote:I'm going to have to find a good occasion to steal that analogy. :P -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Friday, September 16 2005 05:28
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 -------------------- Take the Personality Test! INTJ 100% 75% 100% 44% Huzzah for the Masterminds! www.Keirsey.com for personality information. The Sloganizer! "Swing your Archmage Alex." Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, September 16 2005 06:36
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As a little side question: Light has no mass, right? If so, how can it then have any energy? -------------------- Somebody PLEASE turn the heat on. Posts: 617 | Registered: Tuesday, April 13 2004 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, September 16 2005 06:58
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quote:I have it on good authority that light is a wave. Why that gives it more energy (or even ANY energy) is beyond my comprehension. And AA, another corker. Unfortunately, I also spilled hot coffee on myself, so... ouch. -------------------- "I am a living sign..." Thus endeth this post. Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Friday, September 16 2005 07:03
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To make matters worse, it has momentum. I like to think of it this way: E=mc^2 is just a special case of E^2=m^2 * c^4 + p^2 * c^2, where E is energy, m is mass, c is the speed of light, and p is momentum. This means that energy takes two forms: mass and momentum (where relativistic momentum is conceptually a lot like classical velocity). Light has a speed, so it has a velocity, so it has — don't think too hard about it — a momentum. Light has no rest mass, though. An electron just lying around has energy packed into its structure, into the fact that it is matter, despite not being in motion. Photons don't. EDIT: And light is a wave. And also a particle. It's a particle when you're looking at it and a wave when you're not. If this sounds entirely silly, well, it probably is, but it's true. [ Friday, September 16, 2005 07:05: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, September 16 2005 08:15
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Ah, so there's the part I've been looking for. Momentum. I have to write this down. -------------------- Somebody PLEASE turn the heat on. Posts: 617 | Registered: Tuesday, April 13 2004 07:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, September 16 2005 15:54
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quote:Ah, quantum mechanics brings everything into the light so very fast. :P I never knew that about momentum though. So even if you're massless, you can gain energy by traveling. Hmm, I s'pose that makes sense. -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, September 16 2005 17:46
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*bows down before the awesomeness that is Archmage Alex* -------------------- Ignorwhat? Posts: 301 | Registered: Thursday, October 2 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, September 17 2005 03:35
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Today's name, Blistering, is another of those wonderful Victorian-era treatments based on the premise that everyone would be in perfect health if only it weren't for all those annoying bodily fluids. Blisters were raised on a patient's skin using either hot compresses or chemical irritants. Since this was in a time before antibiotics, infections were a common cause of serious complications in this procedure. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Saturday, September 17 2005 04:41
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 -------------------- Take the Personality Test! INTJ 100% 75% 100% 44% Huzzah for the Masterminds! www.Keirsey.com for personality information. The Sloganizer! "Swing your Archmage Alex." Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, September 17 2005 08:18
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And the genius that is Alex stuns us all yet again... -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Master
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written Saturday, September 17 2005 17:05
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quote:Wow. I bet people paid good money for a few blisters. :P You'd think they'd figure out in due time if something didn't work. -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 | Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, September 17 2005 20:14
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you'd think they'd learn how to blister themselves. -------------------- Ignorwhat? Posts: 301 | Registered: Thursday, October 2 2003 07:00 |