Cap'n Refsmmat

If it ain't broken, you're not trying.

Nothing.

Methinks its a good idea. But science fiction is normally not meant to follow science, so it wouldn't be much of a scientific discussion.

I also believe low frequency tends to bounce instead of being absorbed, so it just "bounces" along around things.

Blue. 472.

At the bottom bar (in IE) it says something like: goto whatever.com so you type it in.

Depends. If you made it so you needed a certain number of posts, then they could choose it. Otherwise it would be the admin/mods.

It's certainly possible, though I doubt you would realize it. Crappy virtual reality.

How would the plant know that the man killed the other plant, and how in the heck (sorry Sayonara) would they measure it?

Wait a minute... Just a while ago you had 5,666 posts but now you have 5,662! And I thought spam was kept in a hidden forum...

Example: ExtraSense gets "Martian Believer" because he is one, and thus he deserves it. Things like that (they shouldn't all be bad things though).

I notice Sayonara3 stays on for great lengths of time, though he might be doing other stuff at the same time.

Yeah... but wouldn't it be better if those who deserved it (not just payed for it) get it?

Are you: A) A member who lurks on the forums all the time, just waiting for a post to happen. B) Someone who pops in and quickly checks for new posts, then leaves. C) Someone who only comes on if they have to ask a question. D) Someone that comes rarely and stays a while to read all the posts. I used to be an A, but now I'm a B.

I wish an admin would come around and see this...

1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail 2) Spaceballs 3) A History of the World, Part 1 That's it!

Well, that's a good thing, if you think about it. "Whoops, left my arm behind, excuse me a moment!" Obviously you want to perfect it.

Did you really have to say this TWICE?

I like XP, and don't see what people think is so horrible about it. Of course, Microsoft itself is different. "Keyboard not detected, press any key to continue."

The propellant in hairspray is butane!

Ever tried a model rocket igniter? I bet one of those would work well.

What type of screws were these? They might not have been very conductive. One thing you could do is just wire up a 9-volt battery to a switch, and have two wires go into the camber next to each other. The thing is, I believe a piezoelectric igniter uses much higher voltages (but at low current) then that, so it may not work unless the spark gap is tiny.

You could get a piezoelectric lighter from something like a gas fireplace. Those should produce a spark even when wet, because all that is there to get wet is two wires. Just press the red button, and BANG! EDIT: Which reminds me of the famous last words, "I wonder what this button does?"

As I poked around another forum, I noticed something. On that forum, many users get titles from the admin, things like "Top Poster 2003" or "Top Spammer 2003" or even "Top Waffler". I thought maybe it would be nice to spice things up a bit around here by giving out more of them, and not just to bad people. You could give out "Top Psuedoscientist" titles, or perhaps "Mr. Know-It-All". Or, if a user hit a certain amount of posts, he could get a title. A few suggested titles: 1. Swansont should get one, for always knowing the answer. 2. Tesseract, for posting even though he has no clue what the answer is. 3. ExtraSense, for obvious reasons. ("Martian Believer") 4. albertlee, for always having a computer problem... No offense to those people! I think it would make the forum a little more interesting...

Unless he's actually an evil gangster trying to collect credit card numbers to use.