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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 19.04.2013, 09:43 | Message # 1111 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) It must have been cool anyway to grow up with the web.
It was pretty cool, though I wish it had been then what it is today. Wikipedia would have been awesome back then. Instead I had to rely on incomplete and outdated astronomy books to learn anything. I love books, but I don't miss those. Having access to the sum total of human knowledge directly from your home is a phenomenal thing, and might qualify as the greatest innovation in the history of our civilization.
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| NovaSilisko | Date: Friday, 19.04.2013, 09:51 | Message # 1112 |
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| Friend just provided me with a horrible joke:
"What sort of orbit does a space horse have?"
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| midtskogen | Date: Friday, 19.04.2013, 11:01 | Message # 1113 |
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| Quote (NovaSilisko) Friend just provided me with a horrible joke:
About as horrible as this one:
"What do you do if you see a space man?"
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 01:26 | Message # 1114 |
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| Forum kept saying disk space reached when I tried to post.
Also, fo the in-game wiki, I call dibs on the names Nakaflagen, Kha'ak, Magic Eight Ball Planet, Rock, Spherical Turd and Bill.
I play teh spase engien
Edited by Disasterpiece - Saturday, 20.04.2013, 01:31 |
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 01:32 | Message # 1115 |
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| Quote (Disasterpiece) Forum kept saying disk space reached when I tried to post.
Yes, we know. Everybody who tried to post on the forum at that time knows. Clearly the problem is fixed now so let's move on.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 02:43 | Message # 1116 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) </angry_rant_to_forestall_other_similar_posts>
Unable to Respond: Disk space has been reached
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| anonymousgamer | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 02:50 | Message # 1117 |
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| Quote (DoctorOfSpace) Unable to Respond: Disk space has been reached
It's a paradox
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 02:57 | Message # 1118 |
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| Hey guys whnevr I lok at sun its so brite and hot whn r it raning?
I play teh spase engien
Edited by Disasterpiece - Saturday, 20.04.2013, 02:57 |
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| Salvo | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 08:44 | Message # 1119 |
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| I don't know why yesterday I couldn't post anything 
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 10:46 | Message # 1120 |
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| Ok Salvo, we get it, everyone had the same problem. Like I just said just a few posts ago, let's move on, there's no need for every person to say "idk y i no can post yesturdai :(". There was a problem. It was forum-wide. There is no longer a problem. End of story. Move on.
I don't mean to be mean, I'm sorry if I sound that way, but really there is no reason to have fifty posts about this - this being something that has happened before and will probably happen again. It's normal. This forum occasionally has issues. Let's accept that and get back to other things.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 14:48 | Message # 1121 |
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| Yeah lets not talk about the forum issues anymore and remember that today is 420
We all know what 420 is
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| Salvo | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 15:01 | Message # 1122 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) Ok Salvo, we get it, everyone had the same problem. Like I just said just a few posts ago, let's move on, there's no need for every person to say "idk y i no can post yesturdai :(". There was a problem. It was forum-wide. There is no longer a problem. End of story. Move on.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770 GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 270 RAM: 8 GBs
(still don't know why everyone is doing this...)
Edited by Salvo - Saturday, 20.04.2013, 15:06 |
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 19:46 | Message # 1123 |
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| This is a nice picture (best viewed in full size).
It's not mine. It was taken by Hans Aspenberg on 2008-07-29. When this storm was approaching I went outside to take a few pictures. After a short while I got a bad feeling about the storm and decided it was safest to get indoors again. At the moment I stepped into the door there was an tremendous blast followed by buzzing noises from inside our house and a power failure. The lightning visible to the left on the photo above had struck a tree in the garden of a neighbour across the street. It fried a lot electronics in our house. I had protected much behind surge protectors, but it didn't make any difference, apart from adding to the heap of fried electronics. It did about $6000 worth of damage here (insurance covered this), but it also fried half of my 50+ sensor home built weather station, which left me with a lot of soldering work afterwards.
Still, the neighbour across the street was worse hit receiving some $20,000 damage. The 30m pine tree was split from top to root. Buried electric cables literally exploded and undug themselves in an instant. Their fuse box exploded and anything in the house with copper content pretty much did the same. One neighbour witnessed the strike and reported a glowing ball following it. Whether this was some kind of explosion or a lightning ball I don't know. I think we were lucky that no fire started.
I gained a bit more respect for lightnings after this. I've witnessed a couple of strikes within 10 meters before (fortunately behind windows), but nowhere close as powerful as this. The only cool thing about this was that someone photographed the strike (a fellow member of the Norwegian Astronomical Society, so that's how I found out about the picture).
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
Edited by midtskogen - Saturday, 20.04.2013, 19:58 |
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 21:24 | Message # 1124 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) This is a nice picture (best viewed in full size).
Oh , thats really pretty.
Quote (midtskogen) It's not mine. It was taken by Hans Aspenberg on 2008-07-29. When this storm was approaching I went outside to take a few pictures.
Its still kinda cool.
Quote (midtskogen) It did about $6000 worth of damage here (insurance covered this), but it also fried half of my 50+ sensor home built weather station, which left me with a lot of soldering work afterwards.
Well, I guess we should appreciate the science.
Quote (midtskogen) Buried electric cables literally exploded and undug themselves in an instant. Their fuse box exploded and anything in the house with copper content pretty much did the same.
I play teh spase engien
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 21:57 | Message # 1125 |
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| Quote (Disasterpiece) shok
"Pretty much did the same" means "broke in some way or another", but the undigging and fuse box part is no exaggeration.
NIL DIFFICILE VOLENTI
Edited by midtskogen - Saturday, 20.04.2013, 21:57 |
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