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Mrlucky77 wrote on 2010-08-11 19:41

What will the planet in the middle of Skaia be like after the fourth prototyping kernel enters the spires?

8D
Blassreiter wrote on 2010-08-11 20:12

Quote from Moppy;121650:
Why does love always feel like a battlefield? Like a battlefield?

But in all seriousness. What, in your opinion, is the fourth dimension?

Anything that you fight for is basically a battle, therefore it feels like a tedious battlefield, love. You are fighting to gain the love of the person you basically love.

The fourth dimension is something what we do not see yet we see almost everytime, our dreams. (It took me 5 seconds to think this >.>)
Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-11 20:16

Why is "colonel" pronounced "kernel" in English? (Or at least American English.)

What's the history behind that?
Zid wrote on 2010-08-11 20:33

Quote from Blassreiter;121664:
Good and Evil. These two words are easily misinterpreted. What I see is that there is no Good or Evil, only two sides with opposing views. One side calls themselves "Good" because they believe they are doing what should be done and the opposing side is called Evil by them yet that "Evil" side calls themselves "Good" and the apparent "Good" side is really "Evil" to them.

In nature living is the proper way, to answer your question all living things have a basic instinct to live so whatever they do is "Good" because its so they live. Right and Wrong is just a system developed by society and humans.

That's why I put quotes around good and evil. Because I knew they were subjective terms in a thread like this.

Good answer though.
Tatsu wrote on 2010-08-12 05:10

Now, time for a serious question:

Zeroo, where the hell is Sadstunts at? He really does owe me money.
Virtue wrote on 2010-08-13 08:08

Quote from Mrlucky77;121697:
What will the planet in the middle of Skaia be like after the fourth prototyping kernel enters the spires?

8D
PokÃ©planet.

Quote from Phunkie;121778:
Why is "colonel" pronounced "kernel" in English? (Or at least American English.)

What's the history behind that?

"Mainly to continue the tradition of making English as incomprehensible as possible, thereby keeping the spelling bee industry in business. (Believe me, there's millions in it.) Colonel comes from Old Italian colonello, commander of a column of troops, which in turn derives from colonna, column. It wasn't always spelled the Italian way, though. Four hundred years ago English followed the Spanish practice and spelled the word "coronel," sensibly pronounced the way it looked. Eventually this was corrupted to ker-nel, still not bad considering we're talking about the British, who pronounce "Featheringstonehaugh" "Fanshaw."

But it couldn't last. Some nameless busybody decided coronel ought to be spelled "colonel" to better reflect its Italian origin, doubtless out of the same misplaced love of precision that gave us 16-1/2 feet to the rod and 27 and 11/32 grains to the dram. It's just the Anglo-Saxon way, I guess. How these people conquered an empire I'll never know."

Quote from Tatsu;122202:
Now, time for a serious question:

Zeroo, where the hell is Sadstunts at? He really does owe me money.
I don't remember who that is. Do I know him?
Justified wrote on 2010-08-13 08:44

Quote from Virtue;121693:
Dimensions higher than three cannot be visualised. The fourth dimension is time.

Lies!

The fourth dimension in this space was sometimes interpreted as time, but this is no longer done in modern physics. In the last century spacetime was developed, which unifies space and time but with a different metric so the time dimension is treated differently from the three spatial dimensions. The resulting space is a Minkowski space which has different properties from this space.

See : Tesseracts
Tatsu wrote on 2010-08-13 14:03

Quote from Virtue;123211:

I don't remember who that is. Do I know him?

Of course you do! It's Substance!
Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-13 14:10

Thanks for the nice response! I've always wondered that. :)

Another question!

Why do dogs and cats have whiskers? What purpose do they serve?

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