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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Damn it, I got the joke. All I said was that it was a stretch. Chill.

    DirtyDirtyVagrant on
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hey Bacon, so you should probably put your Guide to Overcoming Roadblocks in the Questions thread.
    tynic wrote: »
    Baron von Richthofen, I think. Metal's right! Wiki really is down.

    Manfred von Richthofen

    Tam on
  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    but.... its not a stretch. Its in fact, multi-layered.

    Nappuccino on
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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    If any of you are in the Southeast US, or are willing to make the drive to hang out with some awesome people, may I interest you in this thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=112763

    Stale is an amazing cook and I've always had fun at these things meeting forumers. And since SCAD is in Georgia, I know at least some of you blokes can make the trip.

    Munkus Beaver on
    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • bombardierbombardier Moderator mod
    edited March 2010
    Bacon don't worry I got your joke. That probably went without saying, though.

    bombardier on
  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I think if I get sent to Hell after I die, my ironic punishment is going to be having to explain all the mediocre throwaway jokes I've made throughout my life to dull-witted, finicky morons for all eternity.

    What do fighter pilots have to do with dogfights, class? Anyone? Just raise your hand if you think you've got it.

    Actually bacon...you're already dead. Welcome to the afterlife. You never caught that flight. Is it all coming back to you now? The grandma with the walker? The car accident? The eggplant allergy?

    PROX on
  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I got it also, Bacon!

    Bacon I had a dream about you the other night. For some reason I was on the run from the FBI, and you and Cake were the agents they sent after me. You had finally tracked me down to a hotel, but you and Cake had lost your badges somehow so you couldn't get them to shut down the building to smoke me out. Then you spotted me as I was leaving, and chased me outside, but you lost me because there was a parade going past.

    You and Cake were very upset

    Fugitive on
  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    That would make a good every movie.

    PROX on
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited March 2010
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I got it also, Bacon!

    Bacon I had a dream about you the other night. For some reason I was on the run from the FBI, and you and Cake were the agents they sent after me. You had finally tracked me down to a hotel, but you and Cake had lost your badges somehow so you couldn't get them to shut down the building to smoke me out. Then you spotted me as I was leaving, and chased me outside, but you lost me because there was a parade going past.

    You and Cake were very upset

    So was I the straight-laced by the books agent, or the loose cannon doesn't play by the rules agent?

    I'm also curious as to whether your subconscious portrayed me as what I actually look like, or as my cartoon avatar. I would guess the latter, just because- presuming you haven't printed out my picture and nailed it to your stalker wall- you see the avatar way more often in association with my posts.

    Angel_of_Bacon on
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I got it also, Bacon!

    Bacon I had a dream about you the other night. For some reason I was on the run from the FBI, and you and Cake were the agents they sent after me. You had finally tracked me down to a hotel, but you and Cake had lost your badges somehow so you couldn't get them to shut down the building to smoke me out. Then you spotted me as I was leaving, and chased me outside, but you lost me because there was a parade going past.

    You and Cake were very upset

    So was I the straight-laced by the books agent, or the loose cannon doesn't play by the rules agent?

    I'm also curious as to whether your subconscious portrayed me as what I actually look like, or as my cartoon avatar. I would guess the latter, just because- presuming you haven't printed out my picture and nailed it to your stalker wall- you see the avatar way more often in association with my posts.

    Actually, you were the paranoid conspiracy theorist agent and cake was the common-sense agent.

    Metalbourne on
  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    You were both kind of bumbling but likable antagonists.

    You looked like a realistic version of your avatar, but your hat was black to match your suit. Cake was sort of a vague shifting mass that represented the abstract idea of Cake, which I imagine made him difficult to work with.

    Fugitive on
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I got it also, Bacon!

    Bacon I had a dream about you the other night. For some reason I was on the run from the FBI, and you and Cake were the agents they sent after me. You had finally tracked me down to a hotel, but you and Cake had lost your badges somehow so you couldn't get them to shut down the building to smoke me out. Then you spotted me as I was leaving, and chased me outside, but you lost me because there was a parade going past.

    You and Cake were very upset

    Odd, I also had a dream last night about AC forumers. Various AC forumers were all popping up in Alabama for whatever reason (i.e. Kochi lived in Birmingham, bombsy drove a truck, Lexxy was driving across America, and Night Dragon was helping repair Bombsy's truck and Lexxy's broken car.), and I kept telling them to come to Stale's cookout weekend! And so I made the previous post, because if a dream tells you to do something you do it.

    Munkus Beaver on
    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited March 2010
    Fugitive wrote: »
    You were both kind of bumbling but likable antagonists.

    You looked like a realistic version of your avatar, but your hat was black to match your suit. Cake was sort of a vague shifting mass that represented the abstract idea of Cake, which I imagine made him difficult to work with.

    So basically I was kind of dressed up as if I were doing undercover work trying to infiltrate the Blues Brothers?

    Angel_of_Bacon on
  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Aww...no one ever dreams of prox.

    PROX on
  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ooo ooo are we talking about WWI fighter planes, I know all about this shit, someone ask me a quesiton.

    Mustang on
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Oh god I feel like a dick, I just realized that I asked cake for his gamertag and then forgot to add him.

    Metalbourne on
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    PROX wrote: »
    Good morning AC! What's the story behind that picture cakemiks?

    It's Asha Greyjoy from the Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George RR Martin. There isn't a whole lot of story more than that. We really just shoehorned the image into being her because the idea we were coming up with for a cool picture started sounding so much like her.
    Oh god I feel like a dick, I just realized that I asked cake for his gamertag and then forgot to add him.

    I wouldn't worry about it, I haven't signed onto xbox live in over a week since I got the SC2 beta.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Cake I'll add you when I get home promise

    Metalbourne on
  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sigh

    I always look like total shit in photos.

    DirtyDirtyVagrant on
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    DDV (actually, everybody), great fucking news:
    Druhim wrote: »
    so, astronomers found the 90% of the distant universe we couldn't see before

    as he states in the article, this has nothing to do with dark matter:
    As it happens, we know that when the Universe was young, about a quarter the age it is now, star formation was going on at a much higher rate on average than it does now. So astronomers figured, hey, why not do searches for distant galaxies using Lyman alpha? They should pump it out, and make them easy to see.
    So they looked. And to their surprise, they only found about 10% of the galaxies they predicted they should!
    This has been a problem for some time. But it’s not anymore: a recent experiment by astronomers shows that the galaxies are there, but they’re hidden!
    What they did is look in one part of the sky, using the GOODS South field (part of which is pictured above), trying to find Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. Then they looked at the same region, but looked instead for H alpha, the line emitted when an electron jumps down from the third energy level to the second. And guess what they found: tons of galaxies!
    The problem, they surmised, is that the galaxies are actually there and emitting Lyman alpha. But before that ultraviolet light can get out of one of those galaxies, it gets reabsorbed by gas inside the galaxy itself. We never see it.
    But H alpha can more easily escape the galaxies once it’s produced. For one thing, it’s red light, and that can penetrate the gas and dust better than the ultraviolet Lyman alpha light can. There are other more complicated reasons as well, but the point is, the galaxies were simply hidden from us before, but not anymore. By extrapolating their results, it looks like they found 90% of the distant Universe!

    Tam on
  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sigh

    I always look like total shit in photos.

    same.



    My iron man arc reactor shipped whinewhine I want it to be here

    edit: wtf it is apparently in romulus, I don't know why that is so funny but it is

    Kochikens on
  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    DDV (actually, everybody), great fucking news:
    Druhim wrote: »
    so, astronomers found the 90% of the distant universe we couldn't see before

    as he states in the article, this has nothing to do with dark matter:
    As it happens, we know that when the Universe was young, about a quarter the age it is now, star formation was going on at a much higher rate on average than it does now. So astronomers figured, hey, why not do searches for distant galaxies using Lyman alpha? They should pump it out, and make them easy to see.
    So they looked. And to their surprise, they only found about 10% of the galaxies they predicted they should!
    This has been a problem for some time. But it’s not anymore: a recent experiment by astronomers shows that the galaxies are there, but they’re hidden!
    What they did is look in one part of the sky, using the GOODS South field (part of which is pictured above), trying to find Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. Then they looked at the same region, but looked instead for H alpha, the line emitted when an electron jumps down from the third energy level to the second. And guess what they found: tons of galaxies!
    The problem, they surmised, is that the galaxies are actually there and emitting Lyman alpha. But before that ultraviolet light can get out of one of those galaxies, it gets reabsorbed by gas inside the galaxy itself. We never see it.
    But H alpha can more easily escape the galaxies once it’s produced. For one thing, it’s red light, and that can penetrate the gas and dust better than the ultraviolet Lyman alpha light can. There are other more complicated reasons as well, but the point is, the galaxies were simply hidden from us before, but not anymore. By extrapolating their results, it looks like they found 90% of the distant Universe!

    I loved that you (almost) singled me out for the astronomy news.

    Shows you really care.

    (Don't let him see you cry old man. Don't let him see you cry)

    DirtyDirtyVagrant on
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I got it also, Bacon!

    Bacon I had a dream about you the other night. For some reason I was on the run from the FBI, and you and Cake were the agents they sent after me. You had finally tracked me down to a hotel, but you and Cake had lost your badges somehow so you couldn't get them to shut down the building to smoke me out. Then you spotted me as I was leaving, and chased me outside, but you lost me because there was a parade going past.

    You and Cake were very upset

    Yes......dream.......<shifty eyes>

    Actually at school we used to have this fake buddy cop movie thing starring my buddy Mike and I (he did that painting I just posted). It was called Schutter and Hayes, and in the last move "Outback and Out for Blood" we had to go to Australia to stop a notorious drug lord. These movies are really just an excuse for me to put together an awesome soundtrack of mostly 80s music. But I also write a short script/plot to go along with it.

    Oddly in Schutter & Hayes I was also a vague shifting mass that represented the abstract idea of myself.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Cake I have a solution for your SC2 addiction.
    Lend me your b.net account and I will play in your stead so you can go do some work :winky:

    Scosglen on
  • bombardierbombardier Moderator mod
    edited March 2010
    cakemikz wrote: »
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I got it also, Bacon!

    Bacon I had a dream about you the other night. For some reason I was on the run from the FBI, and you and Cake were the agents they sent after me. You had finally tracked me down to a hotel, but you and Cake had lost your badges somehow so you couldn't get them to shut down the building to smoke me out. Then you spotted me as I was leaving, and chased me outside, but you lost me because there was a parade going past.

    You and Cake were very upset

    Yes......dream.......<shifty eyes>

    Actually at school we used to have this fake buddy cop movie thing starring my buddy Mike and I (he did that painting I just posted). It was called Schutter and Hayes, and in the last move "Outback and Out for Blood" we had to go to Australia to stop a notorious drug lord. These movies are really just an excuse for me to put together an awesome soundtrack of mostly 80s music. But I also write a short script/plot to go along with it.

    Oddly in Schutter & Hayes I was also a vague shifting mass that represented the abstract idea of myself.

    Post it. The youtubes. Selfmade movies are great.

    bombardier on
  • F87F87 So Say We All Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    DDV (actually, everybody), great fucking news:
    Druhim wrote: »
    so, astronomers found the 90% of the distant universe we couldn't see before

    as he states in the article, this has nothing to do with dark matter:
    As it happens, we know that when the Universe was young, about a quarter the age it is now, star formation was going on at a much higher rate on average than it does now. So astronomers figured, hey, why not do searches for distant galaxies using Lyman alpha? They should pump it out, and make them easy to see.
    So they looked. And to their surprise, they only found about 10% of the galaxies they predicted they should!
    This has been a problem for some time. But it’s not anymore: a recent experiment by astronomers shows that the galaxies are there, but they’re hidden!
    What they did is look in one part of the sky, using the GOODS South field (part of which is pictured above), trying to find Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. Then they looked at the same region, but looked instead for H alpha, the line emitted when an electron jumps down from the third energy level to the second. And guess what they found: tons of galaxies!
    The problem, they surmised, is that the galaxies are actually there and emitting Lyman alpha. But before that ultraviolet light can get out of one of those galaxies, it gets reabsorbed by gas inside the galaxy itself. We never see it.
    But H alpha can more easily escape the galaxies once it’s produced. For one thing, it’s red light, and that can penetrate the gas and dust better than the ultraviolet Lyman alpha light can. There are other more complicated reasons as well, but the point is, the galaxies were simply hidden from us before, but not anymore. By extrapolating their results, it looks like they found 90% of the distant Universe!

    I loved that you (almost) singled me out for the astronomy news.

    Shows you really care.

    (Don't let him see you cry old man. Don't let him see you cry)

    Wow...

    That is really cool. Thinking of the universe in such a way blows my mind.

    F87 on
  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ha I think I remember that from the gangbunch forums. The train seems to have not noticed us.

    Also Tam, please tell me what the hell that all means in 2 sentences.

    earthwormadam on
  • Nineteen HundredNineteen Hundred Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Sigh

    I always look like total shit in photos.

    Are you, like, the new me? Did the AC feel it needed to fill the void after my endless complaining took a vacation?

    Nineteen Hundred on
    There was something important here. It's gone now.
  • F87F87 So Say We All Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ha I think I remember that from the gangbunch forums. The train seems to have not noticed us.

    Also Tam, please tell me what the hell that all means in 2 sentences.!

    We have discovered a massive amount of new galaxies - with science!

    F87 on
  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    F87 wrote: »
    Tam wrote: »
    DDV (actually, everybody), great fucking news:
    Druhim wrote: »
    so, astronomers found the 90% of the distant universe we couldn't see before

    as he states in the article, this has nothing to do with dark matter:
    As it happens, we know that when the Universe was young, about a quarter the age it is now, star formation was going on at a much higher rate on average than it does now. So astronomers figured, hey, why not do searches for distant galaxies using Lyman alpha? They should pump it out, and make them easy to see.
    So they looked. And to their surprise, they only found about 10% of the galaxies they predicted they should!
    This has been a problem for some time. But it’s not anymore: a recent experiment by astronomers shows that the galaxies are there, but they’re hidden!
    What they did is look in one part of the sky, using the GOODS South field (part of which is pictured above), trying to find Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. Then they looked at the same region, but looked instead for H alpha, the line emitted when an electron jumps down from the third energy level to the second. And guess what they found: tons of galaxies!
    The problem, they surmised, is that the galaxies are actually there and emitting Lyman alpha. But before that ultraviolet light can get out of one of those galaxies, it gets reabsorbed by gas inside the galaxy itself. We never see it.
    But H alpha can more easily escape the galaxies once it’s produced. For one thing, it’s red light, and that can penetrate the gas and dust better than the ultraviolet Lyman alpha light can. There are other more complicated reasons as well, but the point is, the galaxies were simply hidden from us before, but not anymore. By extrapolating their results, it looks like they found 90% of the distant Universe!

    I loved that you (almost) singled me out for the astronomy news.

    Shows you really care.

    (Don't let him see you cry old man. Don't let him see you cry)

    Wow...

    That is really cool. Thinking of the universe in such a way blows my mind.

    I have a sneaking suspicion that when we actually do figure out all the complexities of the universe's operations, it will all be infinitely more mundane than we sometimes make it out to be.

    DirtyDirtyVagrant on
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I am sorry I didn't mean to say we had an actual film. I just meant there was a running joke that Mike and I were a buddy cop team and we had fake soundtracks for movies that did not exist. I wish there had been an actual film.

    Scosglen if I get tired of it in the near future I will give you access.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • F87F87 So Say We All Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    F87 wrote: »
    Tam wrote: »
    DDV (actually, everybody), great fucking news:
    Druhim wrote: »
    so, astronomers found the 90% of the distant universe we couldn't see before

    as he states in the article, this has nothing to do with dark matter:
    As it happens, we know that when the Universe was young, about a quarter the age it is now, star formation was going on at a much higher rate on average than it does now. So astronomers figured, hey, why not do searches for distant galaxies using Lyman alpha? They should pump it out, and make them easy to see.
    So they looked. And to their surprise, they only found about 10% of the galaxies they predicted they should!
    This has been a problem for some time. But it’s not anymore: a recent experiment by astronomers shows that the galaxies are there, but they’re hidden!
    What they did is look in one part of the sky, using the GOODS South field (part of which is pictured above), trying to find Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. Then they looked at the same region, but looked instead for H alpha, the line emitted when an electron jumps down from the third energy level to the second. And guess what they found: tons of galaxies!
    The problem, they surmised, is that the galaxies are actually there and emitting Lyman alpha. But before that ultraviolet light can get out of one of those galaxies, it gets reabsorbed by gas inside the galaxy itself. We never see it.
    But H alpha can more easily escape the galaxies once it’s produced. For one thing, it’s red light, and that can penetrate the gas and dust better than the ultraviolet Lyman alpha light can. There are other more complicated reasons as well, but the point is, the galaxies were simply hidden from us before, but not anymore. By extrapolating their results, it looks like they found 90% of the distant Universe!

    I loved that you (almost) singled me out for the astronomy news.

    Shows you really care.

    (Don't let him see you cry old man. Don't let him see you cry)

    Wow...

    That is really cool. Thinking of the universe in such a way blows my mind.

    I have a sneaking suspicion that when we actually do figure out all the complexities of the universe's operations, it will all be infinitely more mundane than we sometimes make it out to be.

    Mundane in the way that it isn't a mystery anymore. I wonder if humans will possibly live long enough to discover "all the complexities" of our universe. Seems like that might take a while... but what do I know? I'm not a scientist.

    F87 on
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ha I think I remember that from the gangbunch forums. The train seems to have not noticed us.

    Also Tam, please tell me what the hell that all means in 2 sentences.

    Looking at two galaxies, side by side, it means that the farther one is older, due to the time that it takes light to reach us. In essence, finding these galaxies means more insight as to what the earliest stages of the universe were like.

    Metalbourne on
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Adam, they found a lot more of the Universe by looking for different light than they were before.

    Tam on
  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    add me to your battlenets!

    prox.sandoiichi

    PROX on
  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Ha I think I remember that from the gangbunch forums. The train seems to have not noticed us.

    Also Tam, please tell me what the hell that all means in 2 sentences.

    Sometimes I'll just throw a stick and start a fire.

    Nappuccino on
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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I added you prox, I am:

    powernaut.ryan

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    DDV (actually, everybody), great fucking news:
    Druhim wrote: »
    so, astronomers found the 90% of the distant universe we couldn't see before

    as he states in the article, this has nothing to do with dark matter:
    As it happens, we know that when the Universe was young, about a quarter the age it is now, star formation was going on at a much higher rate on average than it does now. So astronomers figured, hey, why not do searches for distant galaxies using Lyman alpha? They should pump it out, and make them easy to see.
    So they looked. And to their surprise, they only found about 10% of the galaxies they predicted they should!
    This has been a problem for some time. But it’s not anymore: a recent experiment by astronomers shows that the galaxies are there, but they’re hidden!
    What they did is look in one part of the sky, using the GOODS South field (part of which is pictured above), trying to find Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. Then they looked at the same region, but looked instead for H alpha, the line emitted when an electron jumps down from the third energy level to the second. And guess what they found: tons of galaxies!
    The problem, they surmised, is that the galaxies are actually there and emitting Lyman alpha. But before that ultraviolet light can get out of one of those galaxies, it gets reabsorbed by gas inside the galaxy itself. We never see it.
    But H alpha can more easily escape the galaxies once it’s produced. For one thing, it’s red light, and that can penetrate the gas and dust better than the ultraviolet Lyman alpha light can. There are other more complicated reasons as well, but the point is, the galaxies were simply hidden from us before, but not anymore. By extrapolating their results, it looks like they found 90% of the distant Universe!

    So, by "distant universe", do they mean in our section of the universe, or past the center of the universe?

    Fugitive on
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Distant probably means "outside the local supercluster".

    Tam on
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    have people mentioned this yet:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

    this is witchcraft

    Brolo on
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