Gilded

"a couple of Kilo of Genuine semtex with which to compare his homemade stuff with probably :)" Not really, just some rocks. (And Semtex, especially the H variety, is just a big waste of good RDX )

Ahh, I just looked at a bottle one day. Is it just H2O all the way, and de-ionized etc. etc.?

Merry Christmas to all from Finland, especially to Canada. I hope we beat you in hockey in the next world cup.

I'd like to thank Sayonara (and probably quite a bunch of other mods) for deleting quite a few of my stupid posts, which didn't seem to be stupid at the time I posted them. ) Thanks mates, for the best Christmas present one can get.

When I was younger, I used to sacrifice grasshoppers to the Elder Gods. Iä! Iä! Also, when I see an elderly person reaching for a slots machine, I run as hard as I can to tackle him/her and get to play before the bugger.

Things I'm planning to own after Christmas: - A Geiger counter (with a digital display, yum yum) - Some groovy destructolicious chemicals - Some more elements (don't know exactly which ones to acquire this time ) And I'd like to thank jsatan for sending me such a nice Christmas present! Probably the customs confiscate it, but it's the thought that matters.

And now that TimeTraveler mentioned potatoes, I must add that Finnish people eat VAST amounts of potatoes and consume the most coffee per person in the world (at least this was the case when I last checked).

Yet another very interesting topic... I wonder if black holes (or other very gravitationally pull-y things) look the same with a gravity detecting device as neutron stars do when observing magnetic fields.

"a simple way of doing it would be to just boil some water in a container with a makeshift top that filters all the gas evolved into a tube leading to another sealed beaker surrounded with ice" Yeah, this method is especially good in winter time. Unless you live in a hot country, that is.

Yeah, that's probably the best way, but I wonder if Silencer wanted to know a way of knowing the amount without exactly having any of the saturating and to-be-saturated compounds.

"according to this site Claude Bernard discovered haemoglobin in ~184x" Well, that's not quite the middle ages.

"im thinking of making a nice sucrose/potassium chlorate torch tho ;p" Sounds better than my idea of blowing the ice off with a 5kg pack of TNT.

Bah. Some nice high explosives will clear the ice far more easily. And you won't ever have to take care of your steps again, since you have none.

"Would an alchemist in the middle ages know about haemoglobin? I doubt it." Although alchemists knew quite a bit back then (just not too much details), I must agree that they probably didn't know about haemoglobin, no matter how skilled and wise. When was it discovered anyway?

Yeah, losing some "and"s is quite clarifying in most cases. You lose the "and then and then and then" kind of feel, which isn't necessarily what you want. However, there are cases where the "and" is most necessary. For example, such is the case with writing the word "fanduck".

"i was wondering why the avatars are resitricted to 75 by 75." Yeah, I recall this being discussed before. I remember some grumpy ol' bastard changing it to 75x75 and letting the people with 100x100 keep theirs.

Wow, perhaps they should start another From Hell-series with Roundabouts From Hell.

"IIRC Lithium Carbonate is used as the medicine, apparently it has something to do with it being a good carrier for electrical nerve signals" It sure is. My father (being a professor in psychiatry and all) explained some aspects of lithium carbonate in the treatment of bipolar disorder, but I can't seem to remember it anymore.

Talking about churches, Finland has the biggest wooden church in the world (Kerimäki church). So please don't burn it down. ...Yay, I found my hometown at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisio

Energy can't escape the universe as far as we know it. Energy and universe is like ants walking around on a floating 8-ball or something (not those suicidal ants that jump to their death when they feel like it). And when the 8-ball gets bigger, if the amount of ants is constant, the ants are just more scarce, yet they remain, no matter how much they run around. (It had to come to this. I was getting analogy-shakes. )

Finland Good: Reindeers, lots of alcohol, lots of drunken people, free school food, education and health care and of course Lapland, where you can see even more drunken people (like Santa), and of course ice hockey Bad: The drunken people tend to be angry, the free school food tends to be bad, as is the education. People say that Finland's health care is among the best in the world, yet I haven't noticed it for some reason Summary: Alcohol, ice hockey, over-aggressive and very depressed people. That's all we got. A typical Finnish day involves drinking booze for breakfast, not doing any work, drinking some more booze, play some hockey while drunk, then beating someone up and then going to jail.

In the case of iridium or such, where usually a very, very thin almost unnoticeable layer of oxide forms on the layer, it protects the pure metal underneath. In the case of iron, however, the iron not only forms oxide but also hydroxide, which lets further corrosion happen underneath. Don't know about rust's color though, that's more physics than chemistry, but probably has something to do with the spectre of an iron atom.

Ahh yes, I forgot that only the rest mass is 0. Well, that explains a few things.

"just dont do anything like K and HCl:\" Yeah, I don't recommend it either. It's probably fun though, but in a masochistic and stupid way.

"Gilded are you serious. It seriously sounds like your dying. Are you OK now?" I wish I wasn't, but I'm serious. Just had an awful "diarrhea attack" (if that's what you want to call it), and I've been missing several days of school every now and then. And tomorrow starts the exam week (5 exams in a row you know, 1 each day for five days)... As if it wasn't awful enough already. I don't think I'm dying, as the tests turned out normal, and I don't think it's viral or bacterial since it has lasted so long. Probably some sort of acute intolerance to something, I just don't know what, but I bet not getting enough sleep had something to do with it.