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Orbiter English => Orbiter English => Topic started by: McBrain on 20 June 2004, 18:27:47
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Now that the old Grand Useless Post Thread is full and it takes forever to load it, here's the new one:
McBrain proudly presents:
THE GRAND USELESS POST THREAD MkII
Credit goes to Daniel Polli
(It's his forum, a great forum BTW)
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I AM A LIVING LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I GOT MY FIVE STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *****
I AM THE THIRD WHO EVER MADE THAT ON THIS FORUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDDDDDDDDDDDDYYYY!!!!!!!!!
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:applause: :flower: :gift: :beer: :drink: :friend:
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Gotta change my sig now.
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woaw three living legend in my forum.....
congrat :gift:
and :beer:
Dan
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thx! :)
I really LOVE this forum!
It's my second home! :)
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O ---- "McBrain!! What have you DONE!?
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Hey man, whasss up??
WHAT have I done?
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Grand Useless Post eeeh ? :)
Here our today activity: the end of years school party.
My daughter:
(http://www.dansteph.com/publie/divers/fete2.jpg)
Daughter again:
(http://www.dansteph.com/publie/divers/fete3.jpg)
And my son:
(http://www.dansteph.com/publie/divers/fete4.jpg)
Dan
Post Edited ( 06-23-04 13:44 )
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Cool useless pictures, Dan!
Your kids are sweeeeeet! :)
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...But are your cool useless picures more useless than mine? I dare say my archives go pretty far...
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LLLLLOOOOOOLLLLL!!!!!
This sign is VERY useless!!!
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There is Plenty of on topic things in this "grand useless" thread :)
(my wife find your animal very cute :)
Dan
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 19:17 )
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Hehe
the mouse is cute, OK
But what about the gun?
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Dan, maybe you should close the old GUPT, so we are forced to post here. Congrats McBrain.
I think Dan needs to think of about 10 more statuses and add room for about 20 more stars. We got to this stage far
too quickly. 8o
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"my wife find your animal very cute"
So do I, although the weapon is worrying. :)
I love your photos Dan. mmm I'll have to find the ones we took last week of Libby painted as a tiger, she looks
almost as sweet as your daughter. Unfortunately I only took photos with my phone, so they are crap quality but
Atom's Mum had a real digital camera with her. My digital camera is now quite old, so big and clunky and I can't be
bothered to carry it all the time. With my phone service I get 20 inclusive picture messages a month but since I now
have a cable to link to the computer I've no need of them as I dont know anyone to phone to who has a photo
phone :(
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 19:43 )
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You can by me a picture phone :). Then you can send pics to me :top:.
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lalalalalalala
Now THAT'S useless, freespace!!!
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Beat me, freespace!! :)
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hurry, freespace!
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Brilliant McBrain! :applause:
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not as good as your's McBrain, but still worth it :)
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yup, it's nice.
But mine are better:
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Hey, freespace, comeon!!
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THE GRAND USELESS POST THREAD MkII has GREAT pics today! Well done everyone! Nice kids Dan!!! :)
Missao Impossible
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[Edit ]Sorry for the spelling mistake. Thanks :) [/EDIT]
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:04 )
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schumanna: "kind" means friendly. You should say "kids"
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Are you angry, freespace?
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Bungeejumping can be so exciting:
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Tadaaaaaaaaaa! :)
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Hehe
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So true Krytom!! So true.
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Without words...
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HA! take this!
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Note that the kana on the package reads "butter"
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:07 )
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LLLOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!
Freespace, you're good but not good enough.
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Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:13 )
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I hear it's going to be a highrise.....
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Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:16 )
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(http://dl.lustich.net/bilder/bombe.jpg)
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(http://picture.funnyjunk.com/pics/0047.jpg)
I need one of those.
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NOONE CAN BEAT ME!!!!
(Now that I'm a living legend)
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McBrain, You think that haert? He probebly like it. I wonder what then happened with Mr. US Pres?
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schumanna wrote:
McBrain, You think that haert?
that haert? Can I eat this?
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Everyone should do this at the end of school!:)
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LOL, Krytom!!
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Sorry again, I mean do you think it was painful for him? Eat sadly no. :) wuahah
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Krytom: Will do.
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Who is really blonde?
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That's NOT me:
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yup
But not useless.
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Allow me to enter the fray!
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:28 )
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Only 3 more seconds...
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Not my worse but hey we have kid here :)
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Dan
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:30 )
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Office prank:
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lol Dan :)
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Frisky Basketball Players
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What we need right now :)
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 20:34 )
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The perfect chat keyboard!!!!
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The perfect chat keyboard!!!!
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Wrong hole!
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...
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There's no end of the pictures in sight, is there?
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No, isn't.
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That's a problem.
My system works great, still.
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Who don't agree?
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Women's Parking Lot
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lllllllooooollllll :)
EDIT: DAMN I was NOT refering to the parking post but to some earlier ones. :grrr:
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 21:15 )
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Here is finally the prove that women can't repair cars:
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Is this your boss?
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Atom: No, this is my boss:
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Wait, I'm trying to find my photo of Tom wearing nothing but a pair of binoculars! :)
Oh damn our scanner is broken ;)
EDIT: NB this was a JOKE I would never do such a thing ;)
Post Edited ( 06-20-04 21:20 )
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http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/insanity_test.htm
Aint a picture, but still funny.
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Back to where it started.
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I'm starting to run outta pictures :(
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It's not funny.
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5000 posts on this forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post Edited ( 06-20-04 21:10 )
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OMG!!! Poor cat!
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Find the mistake.
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Ah!! Modo-kun!
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freespace2dotcom wrote:
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http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/21/
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Finally, the flow of pictures has stopped!!!!!!!!
GUPT now stands for 'Grand Useless Picture Thread'. :)
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This will be hell to load!
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It's not that bad at the moment, for me anyway.
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http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/35/
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Atom wrote:
news item about accident with a pie
lol I found the 2 Pie movies I've seen very funny :)
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Ninja Cat
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You guys aren't out of pictures.... are you?
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*sarcastic voice* (If the King of sarcasm will allow) "Oh yes lets have a new GUPT the old one takes soooo long to
load"
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I will allow it, because it was funny. ;)
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Sarcasm rule no.1 ------------> One may only use sarcasm when the intention of the post is to be humourous.
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I can't believe how much crap you posted here!
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McBrain wrote:
I can't believe how much crap you posted here!
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I opened a new thread, and the answer is.....
CRAP, ONLY CRAP, NOTHING AS CRAP!!!!!!!
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Yup. Nothing but Crap everywhere. Wasn't that the idea? :)
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McBrain wrote:
Now that the old Grand Useless Post Thread is full and it takes forever to load it, here's the new one:
McBrain proudly presents:
THE GRAND USELESS POST THREAD MkII
Well I think this post now takes forever to load with a 56k modem. LOL
Man I think we have gone Picture mad. LOL :) How far of topic can we go!
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Yup, I actually had to wait to get to work to see all this. You peaple went nuts :) Then again, I'm flooding the
Screenshot thread ;)
LOLed a lot though, tnx!
Cheers,
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One from the "Life is never fair" department :wall:
Krytom was to have taken his piano exam in the Baptist church which is just across the street from our house.
BUT he will be in Austria, with his tuba when the Aylesbury exams are scheduled.
So now I will have to drive him for a round trip of an hour to the high Wycombe session. :(
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Hehe, I first read and understood you'll have to drive him to Austria in an HOUR :) and wondered how come you have
a DG3 and I don't :))
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LOL!!!!
A DG would probably have less fuel to get from GB to Austria. ScroogeMcDuck made a DG X which has External Gas Turbines!
They are WAY more efficient in atmospherical flight! Go to M6 and look around. He offers a BETA version to download.
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Yup, tryed it last night. Very cool.
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Hehe 130.000 Unique Visitors to Dan's Forum! :)
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1/130th of those were me. ;)
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Hey McBrain. If you EVER find yourself with TOO much time, I'd love one of this. I promise to test flight it and all
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Hey, what's this? :) :)
Look's great!!! Currently I have WAY too much time! Will finish it tomorrow.
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Check the image's site. Just an artists impression of an Air Taxi :) Other nice shots too.
http://www.chasedesigns.com/bryce/
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Cool!!!!
Wish the models are to download in 3ds! :)
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Hm.. I have one of those sights somewhere too. If you can convert 3ds or max to mesh... lemme see...
http://www.trekmeshes.ch/ - Star Trek stuff (you actually have DRYDOCKS and STARPORTS there!!!!)
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/index.php?page=models - all kinds of meshes
ADDED: http://www.startrekaustralia.com/ - some more meshes here
Maybe something useful? :)
Post Edited ( 06-24-04 12:55 )
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Actually, I'm kinda wishing there was something for freespace 2 (the game) ships. :(
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Hm.. Keep looking, you'll know proper keywords better than me. I can tell a Freespace mothership from a fighter :)
There is plenty our there..
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Yeah, my favorite would have to be the orion class. fwahahaha!
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Hm.. I found this:
http://www.freespace-2.com/tools/
Now that tool COB2FS/COB2FS2 - Create 3D models out of TrueSpace files - Now if that thing supports some sort of
mesh format McBrain can use, then you're set?? Or some other tool there could do the job?
Or here maybe:
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/fsport/dloads.html
I dunno.
Post Edited ( 06-24-04 13:17 )
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YEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHAAAAWWWW!!!!!
My site has reached 500 visitors!!!
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Congrats
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Okay guys, I propose we close this thread down. It's redicoulously long and the message input box keeps jumping
about as the images get loaded :) Annoying when you are actually trying to type stuff in :)
Start a new one or whatever :) and try to keep it rich text :)
Who's against it (shut up freespace!), say so :)
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I totally agree with you, Doc! :)
But, Dan, is it OK to open the GUPT III?
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Well, if we keep ALL of off-topics stuff in there, it shouldn't be a problem I think. The question is. Do we need a GUPT
anyway :) Off-topic is one thing, GRAND USELESS THREAD another :) on relaxes the serious conversation the other
kills webspace and bandwidth :)
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I leave doc's choice, either open a GUPTIII (close the others so they don't come back in front)
or do whatewer you think to keep this forum pleasant to read.
In brief You have a "white pass" Doc :)
Dan
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Ah, le carte blanche :) Lettre de Marque eh? :)
Okay, then this is what we will do. I have already closed GUPT I because it was bumped to the top, this one will also
be closed just as soon as I come up with a better idea :)
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An off topic forum? :wonder:
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An off-topic forum would be really great, Mr. Moderator!
I hope it's not too much work for you to open an off-topic thread.
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Yes, I agree, but that IS for Dan to decide. I don't manage THE FORUM only the English part of it :)
Cheers,
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I vote for Dan to make an off-topic forum! And that he name ME the moderator of said forum. :) If he doesn't do
that, Then I'd rather just have random off topic threads (occasionally labeled as such) to give doc headaches. :)
because being the moderator of Three forums'd be just way too unfair to us unprivilidged peons that don't have
connections to bribe dan.
Oh, and "Lettre de Marque"? I don't think doc needs one of those...
If my memory serves right, were those not letters from a government declaring that the receiver of said letter had the
authority to commit "acts of war" which essentially made piracy legal against rival countries and made cheap
navies/armies for practically nothing?
Err.. well.. If it has nothing to do with that, then blame "pirates gold" for usng that term. :) I am a fan of that game.
fwa hahaha~!
But in any case, doc is a power-monger! DOWN with the establishment! UP with me! I promise to be semi-
benevolent...
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Maybe that is why you should not be a moderator. Although, I'm much more mature, *wink* *wink*.
(Atom sneakily hands Dan two £20 notes.)
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I still maintain the fact that I have the most posts besides dan. Besides that. I can lie a lot more than you can.
therefore. let the mud-slinging contest begin. :)
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Heh, well if Dan decides to open an off-topic forum, I second your moderatorship there :) gives me a chance to worry
about the topics that matter :)
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:beer:
If dan does approve of such a thing, I would request that it be named "general discussion"
I actually have an idea for a "post-a-day" thread, where I make witty comments about world affairs.. all from my point
of view and therefore must not be taken seriously... but still great for a good laugh. maybe it'd even have high score
from games I have. or maybe I just need to open a blog.. well.. whichever comes first.. ;)
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Hiya,
well I am not that long here but I think it would be a interesting idea. I only worrie that the only discussion then
would be off-topic or "general discussion" ;) and not about orbiter or Dans software. And not talking about
someones mother. :)
But then again having a off-topic would maybr clean the other posts up abit with off-topic. LOL
schumanna
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Schumanna, that is basically the point of this another forum. It would also be interesting to see how Freespace would
abuse power, and kill whoever disagreed with his color commentaries on world affairs.. Speaking of which. You
SHOULD open a blog for this sort of thing. :) I actually ran one just like that with a pal of mine, but we got bored of it.
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And maybe I will, thank-you-very-much ;)
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Hi everyone,
If anyone is interested I have posted pictures of the Sun and Vinus transit on the 08.06.04 on my
website that I toke then. :)
Note: The camra was just a normal one with a T-Ring but soon get a new CCD chip camra so the pictures will be better soon. YAY!
schumanna
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Great pictures!!!
Just one/two things: Please change "Vinus" to "Venus" and "Injoy" to "Enjoy"! :)
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LOL, Ops Do that now.
DONE as you command. :) hehe
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Nice :) Cool telescope. I still didn't get around to buying one. Can you make a photo of Saturn? IT should be rotated
to display its rings now..
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Ofcourse I could. :) I will put it down in my todo list of Astronomy next night I am out. It's diffacelt thugh becouse I
am mostly in the City and ofcourse light pullotion. :( I may take it in September with me to Ireland then be great
viewing again.
Two summer again I toke the Telescope down to the Ruhn here in Germany and there where about 50 people afterwords asking to take a look. Once you say yes to one person they all came. I never did that again. No sir. Not again. Funny thugh a man on a bike on a bridge fel right off it when he say the telescope and me. AHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
schumanna
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The best thing that I have seen that amazed me was not the Planets and Galaxy I can see with my telescope but the
old Space station Mir.
I track Satellits sometimes and one week Mirs course was right over my area and so one evening I toke out the
scope, I figured in my head where it world fly by and then 20 min later I could see a star figure moving really really
fast. I amid my Telesope to it with the help of my computer and I looked thrugh and I could see almost everything.
The computer kept the image stady and so my telescope moved with Mir ontill it pased the Horazon.
I could see all the Solar panels and even the Windows and docking hatches. Was really amazing. I have not at all
tracket the ISS yet but sure plan to. :) Sadly thugh I never toke a photo it and now Mir is gone. :(
schumanna
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Normally I don't post to the GUPT (I typically use Opera and for some reason it has problems with the forums on this site
that are over 200 or so posts) but I wanted to share a link that's at once fascinating and haunting:
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
It's sort of a photojournal written by this Ukrainian woman who's into motorcycling - in this case, through the "dead zone"
surrounding the old Chernobyl power plant. Yes, she takes a geiger counter. Apparently ambient radiation is low enough that
you can now travel through the most of the area as long as you stay on the roads and don't decide to familiarize yourself
with the local vegetation or stop and camp out. The pictures are of the remaining homes and buildings and city streets, empty
for 18 years, everything in the same state it was the day the population was forced to flee, including calendars on the
walls, family pictures on desks, and Communist posters being readied for the upcoming May Day parade.
If ever there was an essay demonstrating the dangers of not respecting powerful technology, this is it.
8o I'm still absolutely floored, even hours after reading it. Easily one of the most educational, sad and eerie websites
I've seen in weeks...
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Hm.. that was a sad combination of events. I remember back then. The radiation cloud was moving around with wind,
even to Europe, I remember, being a kid, for a few weeks all homegrown vegetables were off the market for fear of
being contaminated. They WERE mind you, but never above the acceptable limits. No salad, no nothing... All had to be
imported.
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YEEEEEHHHAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!!!
I had my final technology exam today!! Guess what: A!!!!!!!!
AH: I also use Opera, it works very well! Maybe it's because I have the V 6.04. It's an old version.
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Congrats, technology man! :)
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about the nuclear stuff. Yeah, it's scary, and three mile island could have been another one. I heard that the concrete
wall built over Chernobyl (that was hastily built and undersandably) has shown signs of deteriorating and possibly
even a collapse could happen. that'd suck MAJOR.
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Well then they will just plaster another one on top of the old one.. Russians. Sturdy, practical, prefering brute force to
high-tech :)
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Actually, a bit of trivia for you. My grandfather was passing by pretty close to the place (TMI) as the drama occured.
funny thing is that us americans were just as eager to keep it nice an quiet. here's a bit of info.. Notice that the guy
didn't tell a lie, but I'll be damned if that was the whole truth.
March 28, 1979, 4:00 a.m. - Beginning of the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit-2 loss-of-coolant, core melt accident. The
plant came within 30 minutes of a full meltdown. The reactor vessel was destroyed, and large amounts of
unmonitored radiation was released directly into the community.
March 28, 1979, 4:30 p.m. - Press conference of Lt. Governor William Scranton:
This is an update on the incident at Three-Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant today. This situation is more complex than
the company first led us to believe. We are taking more tests. And at this point, we believe there is still no danger
to public health. Metropolitan Edison has given you and us conflicting information. We just concluded a meeting
with company officials and hope this briefing will clear up most of your questions. There has been a release of
radioactivity into the environment. The magnitude of this release is still being determined, but there is no evidence
yet that it has resulted in the presence of dangerous levels. The company has informed us that from about 11 a.m.
until about 1:30 p.m., Three-Mile Island discharged into the air, steam that contained detectable amounts of
radiation.
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Holy sh*t!! :hot:
Freespace!! Look at your post count! 8o
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yeah, I'm catchin' up to dan. :)
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Hm intresting. Was the the incident after which China Syndrome movie was made? Only they made it worse in the
movie.
I guess they may have a point there. There are different type of radiation damage. One is direct exposure. You can
actually withstand quite a high dosage, assuming it is shortlived. Most of it passes through your body possibly even
not damaging the tissue. Of course, that is NOT a rule and depends on many things. In the case of TMI I guess that
was the case. The radiation then goes off in different directions and dissipates. Residual radiation can be low enough
to be safe. Still it is RADIATION... And people SHOULD know it's there. But that's another point.
But the problem gets really serious if you have contaminated particles, that float in the atmosphere. Like in
Tschernobil there was radioactive graphite dust from the control rods that spread around with wind and settled onto
everything. Then you get persistent radiation AND you inhale it, eat it, touch it whatever. Now once the contaminated
particle gets into your body it can wrech havoc.
But yes, comminism is no worse than capitalism when it comes to coverups.. Only the motivations changes. In one it's
party prestige in other its potential profit loss... Check this link, just read it yesterday and I think I will actually
participate for what it's worth.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/061504_call_action.html
Cheers,
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAWW!!!!!!!!!!!
I finished school!!!! :beer:
Now only 3 years to go (gymnasium)!
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Good for you! :)
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Right.
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BTW:
Here's the official Virtual X-Prize site of the McBrain Spacecraft team:
http://www.mcbrain-spacecraft.com/X-Prize/x-prize.html
Click on the link at the bottom to see some larger pictures of my design.
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Congrats McBrain:) have a super holiday:8)
Hmmmm :wonder: only 3 years at the gymnasium then some more at university then too many in a job..... also the
delights of marriage and parenthood......
Lets face it, its all downhill from here, enjoy this summer while you can. :turning:
Doc's old eyes couldn't see the ships in my sigi so here in Large Print:
(http://img33.exs.cx/img33/382/shipsinnewsigi.jpg)
Edit: I've just seen your Xprize designs :applause:
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Shmi wrote:
Hmmmm :wonder: only 3 years at the gymnasium then some more at university then too many in a job..... also the
delights of marriage and parenthood......
Let's see... anyway thanks! :)
I WILL enjoy summer! 8)
BTW: Dan, what about opening the new off-topic forum now?
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McBrain wrote:
BTW: Dan, what about opening the new off-topic forum now?
You're not planning on making a Gupt III if he does, are you? :)
First it was useless posts, then it was useless pictures. Next it'll proabably be useless links. :)
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I won't make a GUPT III because I would cause confusion. :)
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Well, I think an off topic thread is good to an extent, so we don't post garbage on "on-topic" threads, since we all
seem quite talkative, but it should just be offtopic, not useless :) so like you said Free, no links, no photos, just plain
old offtopic ranting :)
Hm.. come to think of it. Theoretically, I COULD erase old posts from this thread directly, if you all agree, so we just do
away with the stuff that slows down the load time of this thread. Most of it IS against the forum rules anyway
(politics, religion, sex,...) :)
McBrain?
Krytom?
Freespace?
Atom?
Shmi?
Dan?
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Good idea, but don't take away Dan's nice photos.
The first few images they submitted were quite witty but then it turned into a race into how fast they could post
something.
I tried to deflect them by pointing out how embarrasing some images could be, but they were out of control.
BTW I have found the photo of 2 year old Krytom with only a pair of toy binoculars preserving his modesty
and we have a brand new scanner! :) :) :).
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I for one disagree, because I think they're all pretty funny, And for the record. I was not racing to post another image.
I was merely in competition with the others to have the best picture, and it was in good fun...
Heck, even dan posted a few pictures, and the love bug virus wasn't exacly friendly. Doc, you gotta loosen up a little.
just becasue You have an opportunity to use your powers of moderation, doesn't mean that you should!
Though I can't help but feel a little guilty for starting the flood of pics. I technically was the first to start posting the
really useless pics with my useless sign.. But nah, I got rid of my conscience years ago.. That feeling's just gas...
I would like to say that very few baby pictures could embarass me. Most show that I was once innocent, and that is
not true of me at all today, so.... I'm cool with it. and for those few pics that might, well..
I took care of the scanner in case somebody might get ideas. :)
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OK, what about that:
Let's post baby pictures of everyone here and then close the thread (or even remove it).
Then Dan could maybe add an extra forum (not a thread) for off-topic purposes.
Dan, could you do this?
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*sigh*
maybe I should take a vacation from the forum?
Then all of a sudden the off-topicness would go away, only to come back with my return.. :)
I do suspect that I am the indirect cause of most of it... I fear it's my personality. :(
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Hey, don't worry!!!
You brought the change to Dan's forum!! :)
Look at the other forum's, even at M6 they have not as much fun as we have!!!! :turning:
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Hm.. come to think of it. Theoretically, I COULD erase old posts from this thread directly, if you all agree, so we
just do away with the stuff that slows down the load time of this thread.
Calm, Freespace. I would like to direct the honorable gentleman's attention to the quote above, specifically making
sure he notes the "if you all agree" part of it. Or perhaps I should rephrase that, if you all agree. I feel no need
to erase stuff arbitrarily, it was merely a proposition. Since you disagreed, as far as I am concerned a new solution
must be found.
As for the photos. Yes, they WERE all funny, more or less, depending on one's taste. However, they were funny the
first, second, third, maybe fourth time. But now it's deadweight. And since I would like to keep the GUPT, I made that
proposition. A better idea of course is to form an offtopic forum run by Freespace, master of uselessness :) BUT that's
Dan's decision alone :)
~Fighting to let us all keep our forum rights and makes sure everybody knows when an authorities' powers
are used on him.
Theoretically, you have no rights :) also theoretically, the authority is absolute (Dictatorship, to quote Dan),
furthermore, the forum is Dan's private property and American memeber know that term well. Realistically though, I
personally hold it for sacred that we all have full rights of speeking out and I start from the premise that I myself,
have no rights nor authority to impeed you in that. I just moh-deh-rate :) I keep the discussion within moderate
limits. Keep you from killing eachother verbally, and try to direct discussion not to deviate too much from the topic of
Orbiter. That's it.
And you can quote me on that, as I am quite sure you will, hehe.
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Someone should look through all posts and count the percentage of post that are actually off-topic!! :)
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we are a litle group of 10 guys posting regulary here this is not enough
to open an off topic forum. (and to get bored by sad people posting flame / political / religious / spam / other **** )
Anyway feel free to open another GUP III (or IV ?) and leave this one sunk. (doc you can close it ?)
take just care when you open off-topic post that you put the [hs] tag in the title.
Perhaps someone can open a "[hs] forum member child photos" thread only dedicated to ours
kid ?
As I stated already I preffer an alive forum with *somes* (reasonnable) off topic post
then an empty "on-topic" forum.
Dan
"Just got my new 2048 ADSL... woaaaw" :)
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What is meant by "[hs]" tag?
May I open the GUPT III?
May I? May I??
And may I open the child photo thread? May I? :)
Come on, guys! Let's keep the forum alive! (and clear) :)
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What's [hs]?
As in [Off Topic] GUPT or [hs] GUPT?
Shame I cannot move individual posts, I could just relocate the kid's photos to a new thread.. :(
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McBrain wrote:
What is meant by "[hs]" tag?
Sorry this is the french tag for off topic :) :stupid:
in fact it an "[off-topic]" tag in english.
May I open the GUPT III?
May I? May I??
And may I open the child photo thread? May I? :)
Ask Doc, he is the moderator here, perhaps he want to open
it himself with a special text ? ;)
Dan
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OK, Doc, want you to open them by yourself?
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No, you just go ahead. It's traditionally yours. I'll just close up this one :)
PS: Just to finish off this forum, Shmi, this one is for you:
http://www.orbithangar.com/searchresults.cfm?Catagory=default&OrbVer=default&Submit=Get%
2BResults&search=RainbowBrite Magic Shuttle Repaint
(crappy link)
Edit: Alternatively go to orbithangar.com and in the Database search for addon 492.
(Pink, power puff girls shuttle anyone?)
Post Edited ( 07-07-04 14:32 )
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LOL!!
BTW: Copy the link to your browsers address window, then it works! :)
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