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Gosh! Something I completely lied about has met your acceptance! It is of course extremely important to have people spending vast quantities of finance creating something so small that once you struggle to purchace it (it being a tad small), you've either lost it on the bus going home or within your right ear; given you were so excited with your new consumer product, you skipped reading the instructions teliing you in BOLD but friendly letters READ ME FIRST, DO NOT INSERT IN RIGHT EAR! EDIT:http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mm523/b3ta/7-small.jpg

Sort of related given it's more or less about real people, but I stumbled across the following looking at someone's profile on another website that made me laugh: I attended a fantastic registry office wedding in Yorkshire once where the bride and groom had chosen to get married to the Imperial March from Star Wars. All very geeky and dramatic. Unfortunately, it's quite short, and the tape kept running, so they actually conducted most of the service to the Cantina Music from Star Wars Arff! A Komodo dragon died at London Zoo on Sunday laying an egg, and everyone is very sad. I might reveal which government organization I work for, and the angle I can fluctuate my left-eye brow, later...

GOD DAMN IT! The bold lettering of this thread concerning DarthTofu's dental health care has reminded me of George Michael, which quite frankly is unacceptable. A random child must die. But glad you are liberated my friend, a right hassle if I remember...

Thanks J Occasionally the hits at just the right time I'm just wishing I had the power of time-travel and could quote it as a bloody DISCLAIMER on the initial post, though. I'm so glad I didn't post the link with the IPod re-sized for a termite....

Nope! You're all right with multiple characters on missions; all their appropriate attributes should slowly improve in accordance with what mission you've sent them on. This is why I like long games sending characters on incite uprising missions...they tend to be much better admirals/commanders/generals with the improved leadership...

No such a person can't exist... I hope. Damn! You beet me to it M!

No, apparently i'm some form of Special Forces Mon Calamari Cruiser built for Jedi to wander the galaxy in. Seems good enough for me!

Carefull though, by using special forces with characters, the character's stats don't improve...

Dude, have you not read anything DarthTex or Krytos posted? *Sighs* Right, i'm off, this has as I mentioned earlier all got to wierd.

If I were a scientist (working for some big conglomerate, seeking to keep its shareholders happy), developing a nano-robot responsible for removing "plaque" buildup in the bodies' arteries, what are the odds that it'll work perfectly first time out? ... Not good (also, killing patients with experimental procedures is not considered good PR). Perhaps, the robot needs to deploy "arms/legs/pincers/whatever" from its body to do its job. Those appendages need to rotate on a hinge. How do I know my hinge will work? Test a simple hinge; let's say on a pair of miniature sunglasses What about the structure making up the frame of the robot shell? If I use curved beams for support, will they be strong enough? How about on the miniature sunglasses, the frames be made from the same cross-section as the beams and testing them Now, how to remove that built up "plaque" on the artery walls without damaging the arteries themselves? How about using an ultra-sonic cleaning device like they use to clean jewelry To test this we could build a nano-guitar to see if the "strings" will vibrate correctly to produce the necessary effect, maybe a nano-tuning fork would be better Let's test the nano-guitar first and then later the nano-tuning fork One could go on and on with different scenarios. Test and re-test to make sure you have everything as best as possible. Plenty of todays common appliances/vehicles/medical gadgets/etc. are improved versions on older models that at one time started off as a "prototype". A prototype (and sometimes several prototypes) to prove that certain aspects of a design would work, or to get them to work as best as possible, before mass producing for the commercial market. In ten years time, if these items would lead to a nanite procedure for killing cancer, would you then consider it a "waste"? FLOB ME! What a brilliant post!

This is indeed breaking down into farse. My impression is that a few of you making grand statements about research without thinking about your arguments to much, but that's only to be expected given alot of you are still at school, and your oppinions about life, as if you know all about it, are always entertaining. I think Krytos has made the most intelligent contribution, and i'm glad to see some of you have realized ultimately what he said. How this ever got to the following type of argument with a pair of sunglasses on a housefly is indeed laughable: Not while money/time is wasted on projects like this! We live in a capitalist free-market. How do you know it wasn't a private firm who commisioned some scientists to do some research; a by-product of which was the original post? Are you suggesting we don't research anything that isn't about disease or famine? You might as well switch off your PC now and go and stare at a cave wall for the rest of your life. Private companys can do what they want with their money, and if it's researching sunglasses suitable for ants or houseflies, then so be it. I you have a problem with that, go and live in such 'enlightened' societies as North-Korea, where i'm told life is really fun. I could go on more, but justifying posting a picture of a housefly wearing a pair of sunglasses, is like getting sureal, and i'm beginning to feel like the ghost of Salvador Dali is somewhere in my presance...

It's on the previous page TK!

Like *doh* You haven't taken in anything I previously posted have you? What if they're already employed to design your 'nanotech,' but did the sunglasses, like I said in their spare time. Pointless? They made us laugh and go wow, so what is your entire negative thing all about?

Why not post this in the Warlords section of the site where it's more likely to get noticed and addressed....

Emm... exactly, but I think your point is prooving elusive to someone... Right, to spare you any further humiliation dude, my guess is that you've approached all this without really thinking about it, but you're swiftly making a fool of yourself, so I shall try and point out what you haven't apparently grasped. Do you actually think that scientists get funding from governments to make sunglasses for houseflies? Or make guitars in the hope that some housefly, whose lucky to be around longer than a week, is going to be the next Hendrix? What I linked was most likely the by-product of some other research along a simular vein; some scientist did in his/her spare time whilst working on something much deeper* Are you actually of the belief that some of the most educated people in the scientific community actually have nothing better to do than make sunglasses for houseflies? Chill Tofu dude. *Feels conspiracy theorists approaching....

Wierd how blurred the distiction between the US govenment's demand for information on google 'searching' and what we were discussing about Chinese-government state control on the information people have access to, like we were discussing here not so long ago. But seriously, to put it very simply; on the one hand, the Chinese government want to have complete control over what is accessable, and on the other, if that ruling had gone against Google, the US government would have won the right to potentially having the power to know everything that is being accessed... a slippery slope.

Curious to know myself, I came upon this, though it only deepens the mystery...

I can't deleate this post WHY?

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,279642,00.jpg What's freaked out about this picture is that it's NOT shopped... Text: 'A pair of glasses rest on the 2 millimetre-long head of a housefly. Scientists were able to place the glasses with the help of special laser technology. The picture is part of an exhibition of science pictures on display in Munich.' -The Times Would be interested if anyone can actually link the article from the site; I found this linked from elsewhere...

You are cool Mr nuruodo, given I have not said this about me before. You handle your lightsaber very well. Like a Jedi.

Holy smoke E-dude! You DID ACTUALLY research the names like you said you might... Cool findings though, because it more or less identifies where I went wrong. May I express my Star Wars concern at how low some of your scores are folks btw, I did indeed score what I said and thought it was all fairly easy in under a minute... all alphebet nonsense...

I'm mildly-dyslexic, so give me some space on the spelling.

This isn't but, hey, it's animated! I think I've played it a gazillion times... Looking forward to the 23rd* when I can come back and chuckle at a few things around here without it being a hassle... *Broadband gets active!

Yes, alot of people's brains will feal like that tomorrow morning I guess...

http://www.cerado.com/web20quiz.htm Will only take a minute, if that. I scored 41 and was basically told to get a life....