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progaeopteryx
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Posted: April 07 2008 at 20:19 |
I'm still contemplating a vote. I think.
Are these the phone cops at the door. I would hide behind a couch.
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Vompatti
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Posted: May 01 2008 at 17:33 |
Today I noticed it's summer and there's a lot of ants. I thought I'd remind everyone that now it's a good time to catch them and make them more copious. I've been thinking about mating them with mastodons to create a race of really small mastodons that would take over the world.
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progaeopteryx
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Posted: May 01 2008 at 20:12 |
Where does one go to get a mastodon these days?
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Dean
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Posted: May 02 2008 at 04:04 |
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Vompatti
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Posted: May 04 2008 at 16:37 |
The forest or the river? Or the river in the forest? Or the forest in the river?
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Vompatti
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Posted: June 01 2008 at 18:28 |
In the room where I am there are huge (1-2 cm) ant-like creatures. Instead of putting them in the fridge I kill them. If they were bigger, I wouldn't like to look at their bodies, so I'd try to throw them out of the window alive.
I wonder, is it the same with people? If people were as small as these ant-like creatures, would I just kill them like ants instead of throwing them out of the house? I think it would be somewhat disgusting to look at ant-sized people walking around the room, so I'd have to get rid of them somehow, and if they were really small, it might be hard to catch them alive.
CONCLUSION:
1. I think it's nice that people are relatively normal in size and don't walk around my room directionlessly like these creepy ant-like creatures.
2. I feel bad killing these ant-like creatures that have done nothing bad for me. I wish they didn't exist, so I wouldn't have to worry about them.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: June 01 2008 at 19:09 |
progaeopteryx wrote:
I'm still contemplating a vote. I think.
Are these the phone cops at the door. I would hide behind a couch.
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Hmmm, I'm thinking we don't have enough postings for you to vote yet.
Edited by Slartibartfast - September 02 2008 at 18:49
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Relayer09
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Posted: June 02 2008 at 20:22 |
Warning!
If seen do not approach this Ant.
Ant has been known to cover his victims in honey and eat them.
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If you lose your temper, you've lost the arguement. -Proverb
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 02 2008 at 18:22 |
How copious do ants become in absolute zero temperature?
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: September 02 2008 at 18:49 |
Vompatti wrote:
How copious do ants become in absolute zero temperature?
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At that point they are most certainly no longer copious and probably rather brittle.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Dean
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Posted: September 02 2008 at 19:04 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Vompatti wrote:
How copious do ants become in absolute zero temperature? |
At that point they are most certainly no longer copious and probably rather brittle.
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mmmmm... crunchie...
...any desires to be copious would have long since abated due to the sudden need for long thermal underwear.
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 18:20 |
So sometimes ants can become less copious when you decrease the temperature? This means that sometimes ants can become more copious when you increase the temperature. So the question is:
What is the ideal temperature if you want to maximize their copiousness?
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Dean
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 18:45 |
I think the optimum temperature would be something aproaching whatever the ambient temperature minimums are of their natural habitat. However, since ants hibernate at low temperatures I would imagine that their copiousness would be triggered by their emergence from this dormant state as the temperature increases, so the actual temperature is probably not that important as long as it is cold enough for them to enter stasis.
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tuxon
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Posted: September 04 2008 at 19:20 |
Vompatti wrote:
CONCLUSION:
1. I think it's nice that people are relatively normal in size and don't walk around my room directionlessly like these creepy ant-like creatures.
2. I feel bad killing these ant-like creatures that have done nothing bad for me. I wish they didn't exist, so I wouldn't have to worry about them.
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I wish they didn't excist so i didn't have to kill them, actually it's quite tiresome to walk behind an ant with my magnifying glass and than having the sun dissappears behind a cloud.
or maybe that's God's way of telling me not to do that.
better use a flamethrower.
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 07 2008 at 16:29 |
I just got the best idea ever: Why don't I lock myself in the fridge, become more copious and take over the world? Ants can do it, so why can't I?
Let C1 be my copiousness in this moment. After I break out of the fridge I'll post C2, which will be my copiousness in that moment. If my calculations are correct, I expect C2 to be roughly 738 342 096 843 times C1.
Edited by Vompatti - September 07 2008 at 16:35
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 16 2008 at 13:06 |
OK, I've now spent a week in the fridge and C2, signifying my copiousness in this moment, is a whopping 738 342 096 844 copiousness units. This means I'm even more copious than I expected!
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LinusW
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Posted: September 16 2008 at 13:08 |
Fascinating!
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Dean
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Posted: September 16 2008 at 13:17 |
That is indeed compelling evidence Vompatti, however, living as you do, in a climate that for more than six months of the year exhibits an average temperature several degree colder than the average internal temperature of a standard domestic refrigerator, then perhaps the remarkable differential between C1 and C2 copious quotient is attributable to some-other factor, such as the proximity to cheese or other dairy products?
Also, there is tertiary refrigerator-related question that you should now able to confirm or deny - did the light go out when you closed the door?
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Vompatti
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Posted: September 16 2008 at 13:34 |
Dean wrote:
Also, there is tertiary refrigerator-related question that you should now able to confirm or deny - did the light go out when you closed the door? |
I can't really tell. As soon as I had closed the door I couldn't see the light bulb anymore.
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Dean
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Posted: September 16 2008 at 13:39 |
Ah shame, now we will never know for sure, perhaps next time (if there ever is such and event as "a next time") you could take a small torch with you (I say small, since you wouldn't want any latent heating effects of said torch to corrupt the experiment, like say a candle would do).
Oh well, at least it confirms another hypothesis of mine.
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