The_DarthMoogle

Hey! I am on the internet! I am entitled to wade in and deliver on subjects I am purely an amateur in! Anywho, I'm getting addicted to the recent BBC Sherlock series. It's fucking fantastic, and 3 episodes a year is nowhere near enough to go on ;_;

Whyyyyyyyyy. Please look before you post. Please think before you post. Please never post again.

Sigh... okay, the PHASE VELOCITY of light in water is less than that of a vacuum. Christ...

Charge isn't blue. The reason the water in the reactor glows is because the Beta radiation emitted is moving through the water at about 75% of the speed of light in a vacuum, which is actually faster than the speed of light in water (This is what Cherenkov was observing afaik). Rayleigh scattering makes the light emitted at the lower end of the EM spectrum, hence the blue glow. EDIT: But for fucks sake, do not ask me why it isn't purple. I haven't taken a physics degree. I doubt even people with degrees would be able to tell you.

Correction. Beta particles can be electrons or positrons and either get repelled, or ionise the molecules they hit. You should know that gamma radiation is not strictly matter, and thus the probability of interaction is nothing to do with the 'amount' of radiation. It is in fact proportional to thickness, density and absorbent cross sectional area. (the surface area of the object facing the source) Although there are more ways for gamma radiation to ionise(Photoelecrtic effect, compton scattering, and the other one I always forget), it is less ionising than beta.

Correction. We don't use modems unless we're on a cable service. Down the phone line, we're on Digital Subscriber Line Routers. Modems (modulater/demodulator) work with analogue signals. Dunno about cable services myself, but I know they're called modems. Then again, there's probably dozens of variations on the term, plus differences in the way ISPs work in the different countries we belong to.

Why he thought you were joking I have no idea, but basically Beta particles are literally particles. They have mass and charge. So while an atom is mostly empty space, Beta particles will eventually hit a nucleus and get bounced back, or lose its energy. With a large volume of a dense substance such as water or lead, the chances of any travelling particle hitting a nucleus is compounded, dig? Beta particles can only travel a couple of metres in air, so the Beta radiation you'll receive standing over SimpleGuy's reactor will take only a few centuries to give you a decent tan. Don't have to be a nuclear scientist at all :3

None of you should have modems. I severely doubt you can play Minecraft on less than 56kbps.

I finally got the time to use my tablet for drawing something... nothing strictly Tekkit, though... Cat!

Thief. Get them now.

Stop stalking me, dammit!

Is there a super trolls server around?

Dangit, I was hoping for a thread about shooting Mo' Creatures turtles.

And for what reason are you taking a survey on what mod people use most? Because there's only five of them. Any statistic you could possibly generate with only five pieces of data would be rubbish. Or is that on purpose?

You should recommend this over on Alblaka's IC2 forum. This would be sick, but Mojang's lighting engine (hahaha) doesn't support coloured lights.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EDIT: HA

Gosh, I remember when I was like the third highest spammer until I started making my videogame... why on earth do I hang around here, I don't even play Minecraft in any form any more.

Holy deep fired hooker on a stick, Batman! Did you not consider that someone might have actually died in the time between your post and the last one before it?

Quite why it takes hours to work out how an archive was packed is beyond me... although all you'll find is that damn video that isn't a video.

Few hours? I call hax.

None, apparently.

The 'tominecon' thing is a video in a format my PC can't recognise. I'll go and get VLC and see if that does anything.

Eh, I checked it out, and it looks like them students have done it again. It is most certainly unique, and has a lot of charm to it, and despite having barely any text beside titles, it still manages to convey some sort of story. The ending threw me off fo' sure Few games pull of what these guys have done, and you really do have to look at things from a new Perspective. I approve, for what it's worth.

Wahoooooooooo! Wacom tablet achieved! It's even got photoshop and corel painter in it. So awesome ^^ I may actually contribute something to this thread some day.