Posted by Traffic Light

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I welcome inactivity when the alternative is threads like Oh hey guys.

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I didn't know that would happen.

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Posted by blackhole89

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Stop toying with forces you don't understand.

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But then I'll never attain immortality and/or unlimited power

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I honestly didn't know these weren't already here.

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Posted by Xenesis

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Great Stalling Contest

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Bahahaha... Oh, oh wow. Thank you. That's two or three to the greatest thing ever.

Posted by Lord Myre

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I thought it was all over at the 3rd generation, until D/P came out, which I thought was great amounts of fun.

Still, Pokemon was best in the G/S/C era.

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I don't understand why people like GSC. It had the greatest amount of terrible and forgettable pokemon of all generations thus far. Its overworld design was awful and linear and linear and awful. The only mildly interesting thing about it was a Kanto retread where everything sucked. Sure, you could go back and fight the gym leaders, but they were all too easy because they were weaker than the elite four who you already beat... And they butchered it's overworld design, too. And Every trainer in the game was underleveled and pitifully easy to beat except for Red. Its single-player experience just wasn't up to par, and its competitive aspects were best summed up by Xenesis there.

Emerald is clearly the best of them all for single-player, and in multiplayer, Diamond/Pearl offer the greatest strategy.

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spamming is still a bannable offense guys

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Let's all celebrate this number.

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Posted by Sukasa

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Yeah, whatever.

Come back in 7 threads.

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35 has prime factors of 5 and 7, while 42 has prime factors in 2, 3, and 7. And, of course, the fewer factors, the better. You're just up and wrong.

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power abuse GO

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[05:31:06] <@Alastor> I hereby declare project !ostracize a big success
[05:31:17] <+Arbe> XD
[05:31:26] <@Alastor> This is the best script ever.
[05:31:46] <+Xenesis> It's deliciously jerkish
[05:31:54] <@Alastor> When I type !ostracize (name), everyone is voiced except for that one guy!
[05:32:34] <+Arbe> this day will go down in history.
[05:33:12] <+Xenesis> down in flames, as Alastor terrorises everyone in #acmlm
[05:33:37] * Alastor changes topic to 'This is the dawn of a new era. This is the dawn of the era of !ostracize.'
[05:33:58] <+Arbe> haha. the old topic was boring anyway.
[05:34:13] <@Alastor> You apologize
[05:34:17] <@Alastor> !ostracize Arbe
[05:34:17] * Alastor sets mode: +v roxahris
[05:34:17] * Alastor sets mode: -v+m Arbe
[05:34:22] <@Alastor> OH WAIT YOU CAN'T.

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A cruel joke.

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Actually, I'm usually in a pretty good mood.

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Well, I actually had two birthday parties

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Posted by ShadowTails

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I still haven't beaten the game yet, I only have one green star IIRC, I love this game and it needs more people to buy it because it's really underplayed.

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It's fantastically popular what are you talking about

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Posted by Arbe

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GSC had a better plotline. It was before Nintendo decided to aim all of their games at the "new generation" of kids/teenagers. I guess it was kinda retro.

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It is pretty sad when you play pokemon for the plot.

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Posted by Ailure

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Grey goo.

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"We cannot afford certain types of accidents", Eric Drexler, Engines of creation, 1986
"I wish I had never used the term 'grey goo'", Eric Drexler, Nature 10 June 2004

Not really all that possible.

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Posted by Royal Academy of Engineering

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Media coverage of nanotechnologies has invariably raised the spectre of the ‘grey goo’: a doomsday scenario in which nanoscale robots self-replicate out of control, producing unlimited copies of themselves, consuming all available material and ultimately laying waste to the planet. Whereas most of the scientific community considers this to be science fiction, others have argued that it is a possible outcome of unregulated nanotechnology. The level of public and media interest in nanotechnology therefore justifies the following question: Is ‘grey goo’ a real concern, or is it a distraction from the important issues?

The original concept of molecular manufacturing described by Dr Eric Drexler, Chairman of the Foresight Institute, imagined the synthesis of materials and objects by a mechanical ‘assembler’; that is, a machine with the ability make any object by selecting atoms from the environment and positioning them, one at a time, to assemble the object. This assembler can be programmed and is independently powered. As it can make any object, it can reproduce itself. If the process malfunctions or is corrupted, intentionally or not, the self-replication process could continue indefinitely. Over the past 20 years or so, Drexler and his colleagues have continued theoretical studies of the feasibility of such machines, but as far as we are aware there is no research in this field that has been supported by funding agencies, and there has been no practical experimental progress over this period. The reason is simple: there are many serious fundamental scientific difficulties and objections, to the extent that most of the scientific community believes the mechanical self-replicating nano-robot proposal to be impossible.

The scientific issues have been debated in open correspondence between Dr Drexler and Professor Rick Smalley, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of carbon 60—so called buckyballs. In summary, there are two major difficulties: first, to lift and position atoms one needs very fine manipulators, of a similar size to the atoms being worked with; second, the atoms being manipulated must first attach – i.e. chemically bind – to the manipulator, and then unbind from the manipulator and bind to the object. Although scientists have used atomic force microscopes to manipulate a restricted group of individual atoms and molecules into simple structures on surfaces, the properties of matter on this lengthscale appear to be incompatible with the requirements for a mechanical self-replicating technology. These objections have been termed by Smalley as ‘thick fingers’ and ‘sticky fingers’. Professor George Whitesides has questioned the feasibility of the energy management system that would be needed to handle the large energy input and release that occurs at the different stages of the construction process. Because the assembler is a nanomachine, its positioning accuracy is severely limited by the intense bombardment it receives from atoms in the environment – whether gaseous or liquid – which causes Brownian motion. It is quite clear: making a mechanical self-assembler is well beyond the current state of knowledge.

Our experience with chemistry and physics teaches us that we do not have any idea how to make an autonomous self-replicating mechanical machine at any scale, let alone nanoscale. Where we can find self-replicating machines is in the world of biology. The cell, thousands of nm in size, is the smallest unit we know that contains all the machinery essential for the process of reproduction, given a suitable environment. In fact, the planet we know today is quite different from its earliest form: biology evolved and turned a desert into the ecosystem of which we are now a part. At present however, the complete details of operation of even a simple cell are far beyond our understanding.

Given the above, we have heard no evidence to suggest that mechanical self-replicating nanomachines will be developed in the foreseeable future, and so would direct regulators at more pressing concerns outlined in chapter 8.

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Re: the topic at hand, nanotechnology is pretty cool and awesome, and it's nice how much it's come into our daily life. But what is mentioned in the article linked from 2010 on is pretty well not possible. Nice as it is, it just can't self-replicate.

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Identity crisis, what is this madness

On the internet I used to go by Kyouji and Alastor, but... You can just call me Stark. That's what everyone else calls me. On account of it being my name.

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I was playing around with this over at a friend's apartment. It's amazing just how much you can make that's utterly d'aww-tastic.

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Also, I think it's amazing how the files are .pngs

seriously, what

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Speaking for the community of those woh live in Washington but are not Washington citizens, Washingtonians are terrible drivers.

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