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| Salvo | Date: Friday, 14.12.2012, 11:00 | Message # 121 |
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| First snow of year! 
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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| midtskogen | Date: Friday, 14.12.2012, 20:55 | Message # 122 |
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| Cloudy here (Oslo, Norway) as well during the last two nights, but my webcam caught one (about 17 seconds into the clip) in the twilight on the afternoon of the 12th. Fast and short lived, but had it been in darkness, it would have been fairly impressive.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 14.12.2012, 21:08 | Message # 123 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) my webcam caught one
Nice one!
Given how nice of a show this was, I wonder if any of the astronauts on the space station managed to capture any. It would not have been hard for them.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 04:08 | Message # 124 |
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| anonymousgamer | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 04:20 | Message # 125 |
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| That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
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| Talisman | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 04:21 | Message # 126 |
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| Is it annoying how I place a  face in every single post I post? I love that smiley and started using it quite often, and then I figured I should use it on every post almost like some sort of signature.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 04:21 | Message # 127 |
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| You could always create a fake signature like this:
Optional text here.
Just insert this code on the next line after the end of your text in any post.
Code [list]
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[hr]B)
[size=7]
Optional text here.[/size]
(Make sure to add a space before the emoticon though, it wouldn't let me put it in the code...)
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| Antza2 | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 18:40 | Message # 128 |
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| I merged "B)" here to reduce the amount of dead threads.
Go to antza2.deviantart.com for cool photos!
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 21:18 | Message # 129 |
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Don't worry about the preview image it is safe for work.
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Sunday, 16.12.2012, 21:37 | Message # 130 |
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| I always knew there was something seriously screwed up with teletubbies. Thank you mom and dad for not making me watch that show.
I play teh spase engien
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 17.12.2012, 10:04 | Message # 131 |
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| A harsh Russian winter 
(watch from 14:00)
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 17.12.2012, 13:43 | Message # 132 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) A harsh Russian winter
Or Norwegian: Clearing the road in Jæren. This was after a single blizzard a few days ago. Jæren in the extreme southwest has the mildest winters in Norway and snow rarely remains for more than a few days. But perhaps not this winter.
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| OrbitalResonance | Date: Tuesday, 18.12.2012, 02:36 | Message # 133 |
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| i have ASMR
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers" - Carl Sagan
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| werdnaforever | Date: Wednesday, 19.12.2012, 03:49 | Message # 134 |
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| In avatar, why didn't they just build a mine using a tunnel boring machine?
Not too far into the film, we're told that a huge deposit of unobtainium is right under the Na'vis' huge tree. This is more than 100 kilometers away. If that's too far, go to the halfway point and drill two tunnels: one towards the village and the other away.
140 years from now, I'll assume some advances were made in tunnel boring technology- it's hardly a stretch considering the other kinds of advancements seen. If the resources to create a TBM aren't available at Hell's gate, then just bring them from Earth on the ISV next time.
The film implies that they knew about the unobtainium before Jake arrives. If they discovered it between the last ISV's ride home and the Venture Star's arrival, and they did not have the ability to manufacture a TBM, then so be it- they'll have to transmit this info home for next time. If they found out about it years ago, and were able to communicate this message back before the venture star (or previous vessel) left, then this should have been on the cargo list.
If it's two far, then why not just head to the midpoint and drill from the middle? There's really no excuse here why this wouldn't work.
After the tunnel is drilled you can mine the unobtainium from right underneath them. Just be careful not to destabilize the tree or anything, and it's done. Send it all through the tunnel. The Na'vi get to keep their home, no one dies horribly, and the RDA gets their fictional superconductor. Everyone's happy. This also provides an opportunity to create an underground transportation network on Pandora, especially for mining other areas.
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| OrbitalResonance | Date: Wednesday, 19.12.2012, 05:32 | Message # 135 |
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| they needed plot
imo its more likely that any unobtainium would be freely available on nearby asteroidial moons
but then there would be no conflict to drive a story
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