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Madness makes the world sound so much less eloquent and beautiful than it is. Sheer pessimism doesn't do justice to the wonder of the world, and pure optimism doesn't account for the evil it contains.

True. Because the ambient pressure is too great to permit the water to turn into steam, so it remains liquid, despite the fact that its temperature is above boiling. If exposed to low pressure atmosphere, the water explodes violently into steam.

"What did you do?" "Nothing, I stirred the tanks." -- "This is Houston, say again please?" "Houston, we have a problem. We have a main Bus B undervolt- er, we're getting a lot of thurster activity Houston, a Caution-Warning Panel, Master Alarm, Quad C to Main A overload. There's another master alarm, Houston!" "I can't get the hatch to seal!" "J-just stow it! If we'd been hit by a meteor we'd be dead by now."

He's using his fancy mathematics to muddy the issue of the level of quality regarding Season 1 vs. Season 2.

You'd have a phenomenal amount of success in crippling me if you attacked from inside the Strike Bay. However that would also get yourself killed since it would have the same level of success if an Aircraft inside the hanger of an Aircraft Carrier armed and fired a Long-Range Anti-Ship missile at the wall in front of it. xD It's quite obvious from my setup as a Carrier with a Cannon that I do not have very much ability to combat Strike Craft if they are outside the range of the Point Defenses. But if for some stupid reason you were flying in a straight line away or towards me, the Heavy Cannon would be able to pick you off all right, and it would be like shooting a kid on a tricycle with artillery.

Sorry if I've saddened you about the "no-need for your life story" thing, Sinister. I mean no offense or aggrevation, I just need simple facts for the startup- Which I think I will now actually make for reals this time Tuesday, November the 8th unless there are objections or better suggestions. Actually knots to by wingeing. Added an abbreviated version of yours to the character sheet. @Fluttershy: on the list you Go. For in-game conventions, I suggest we ensure we keep identities well defined visually. Insuch, I'll remind OOC spoilers. Ship names will be in Italics, like RMS Titantic, Elizabeth II etc, addressing or indicating other Captains will be done with Bolding. Said the GM to Richard Roam. For the remainder of the time until the Game starts, this can be just a free general chat about the game, or speculation about what the story will be like. Maybe if I like your ideas I'll rip some of them off without telling you.

Reminds me of when they asked how many Kilowatts in a Megawatt/Hour. That's like asking how many Feet in a Meters Per Second.

It's called a grape press. The traditional method for several hundred years for pressing grapes to make wine has been dumping them in a giant tub, then squashing them by treading on them with bare feet. Obviously you have to wash your feet very well, or else the flavor won't be right. (Among other rather unlikable consequences x) I imagine it's a lot more exhausting than it is fun.

What is Eternity? Oh, I could go on about that forever.

With all due respect, I didn't update it with the new text because it's too cotton-pickin long: with all honesty, the Accepted Players post is mostly quick reference for myself when it comes to combat, and thus the Descriptions and so on are not detail I need.

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I have a neutral opinion of the Shipping Industry; I work in it. (Buy products from Westfair Foods, Loblaws & Associated Companies) I have a very negative opinion of indulgent inter-relation of characters or objects from fiction for the purpose of writing Fan work that is explicitly romantic or sexual in nature, or image-based portrayals of such.

United States Space Marines strikes my vision for "seven-ish centuries in the future" as an odd entity to either exist or still be in existence. Additionally, in the real world, The Marines do not build anything in terms of vehicles or weapons, let alone spacecraft. (Neither does NASA, mostly. They usually just assemble it.) The Marines would commission or order from a Defense Contractor or Aerospace Company. Lastly, in the real world, G-forces are not as high as one might imagine them to be if inspired by science fiction, and G-forces are only sustained when your speed changes or stops changing. A well trained pilot would be able to take 7 G-forces for small amounts of time, 9 for very very very short spurts. The best pilots in the world can take 11 or so for about 2 seconds before it becomes an insane risk. It is not physically possible for a human to sustain 13 or more for longer than 1 second without losing consciousness at the very least, and in all likelihood sustaining serious injury. (For at 13 G-forces, your body if it weighed 180 pounds, would weigh 2.3 tons for the entirety of the G exposure. That can rupture blood vessels due to relative fluid pressure, or break smaller bones.) You survive a car crash of 150 G-forces because it only lasts for a hundredth of a second, but in combat in a fighter, a pilot would be subject to repeated and extended exposure to high g-forces. Maybe if your species was from a planet that had higher than Earth gravity so that they could friggen sleep while at 8G (because for them 1G Earth Gravity would be 0.12G) then they'd be able to take these extremes no sweat. But super high numbers (read: above 9) are a bit hard to bite for puny humans.

@Fluttershy Don't forget you can have wingmates, as many as 2 in addition to your flight Captain. Additionally I have some nitpicks with your description but otherwise you look pretty rerrin' to go with that set up. @Recoil Corvettes have 2 hardpoints and one Non-hardpoint weapon. If you wish to have 6 Hardpoints and 3 Non-hardpoints, I'll file you in as a Reserve if you change your build to Heavy Capital. xD @Lord Sinister Very detailed, thanks Lordy. However most of that doesn't seem to have direct relevance to what may occur in the future, we'll see. I'll add the Records though. Regarding Crew+ families, I don't care; You're the Captain and you're responsible for their souls.

All things considered, I am almost offended that it comes as a surprise to you that I don't like shipping. I never have.

Bah humbug looking for a decent fanfiction is so much reading. I'd rather be reading things I have assurances about being good to read, like Kierkegaard or Augustine. Or at least finishing what I started with Lewis and Dostoevsky. Thinking about that last statement, I think it effectively conveys what sort of mind-softening effects I seek when I consider or watch My Little Pony.

Better eat some Ibuprofen just in case. Drugs are sometimes good for you.

Two main things strike me as frustrating in this thread: First, it exists to praise the show whenever a new episode comes out, or a character mentioned, in rather fluffy terms that have little complete substance to them, and thus [to borrow the reference of how Mussonini did speeches] speak a thousand words and never say a thing. Second, as a place for ambivalent, anti or pro brony members alike to say or post things of an annoying, disturbing, unlikable, innuendo or otherwise nature in order to incite further discussion of said irksome material. Fan-fiction discussion, character analysis, heck even transcriptions (why not) I find much more enjoyable company for presence of mind and typing than having to sift through the posts that just say "Yay", "Ponies", "Cupcakes" or images that have sexual connotations because those are things I do not like having to come home to after a day of work. In all honesty it would sit just right with me if I could simply whip out an episode on Youtube as soon as my computer starts, but the reliability and speed of my internet connection does not grant me that luxury. Thus it drives me to forums. My analysis of what I saw of Spiderses from Axeldeath's post: My heart has already been won for "Horribly botched attempt at the English Language results in patriotic and literary brilliance in the form of a Fan-fiction" by Doom: Repercussions of Evil.

I can't remember which moderator that sometimes moderates while on drugs. Was it J.C.?

I reserve my opinions for after I've seen it. Also, I stumbled on something interesting while reading the Letter to the Galatians:

No, this is innapropriate: It is now the mothershuckling dangle dongler hour.

Prospective players must use the Vessel template. This is going to be a lot more about space travel than it is walkin' around and shooting stuff. Recoil, your entire character sheet could have been supplanted with just the picture. That's both how laconic, apt and hilariously to-the-point it is.

The cover art for Catherine reminds me of how much I dislike the art, for spite of the character Catherine, and its mishmash remix of Ravel's Orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Also, the bell near the end of the level was always annoying.

My workplace has a "StartSmart Breakfast Program" for Union members. Every morning I start the shift with free sugary cereal and milk. Whoop I thought we were on the previous page and still talking about food or something. I have a scratchy throat but I am convinced that I will not have a cold.

Made for a lark yesterday. The hardest part was the Moon, the only decent picture I could get of it appears for only about 5 frames.