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I'm really interested in like, "Board Theory" these days
Lunchbox:
I am sorry Harry. I have found my own special beard.
Inlander:
Eww, didn't we recently establish that that would be kind of incestuous?
Lunchbox:
Allow me to snort and punch you gently in the bicep, Harry.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: johnny5 on 02 Jan 2011, 01:19 ---this board seems to have its own way of talking/typing/accent. i can't place it right now without pulling up some good examples, but hopefully some of you know what i mean. other msgboards i'm on don't seem to have this, but maybe because they aren't as personal as this board (i'm guessing, with all the sex)
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it's a community that functions in the way its members choose to treat it. here, they treat it like basically a conversation between a large group of friends, which in a lot of respects it is.
KharBevNor:
Man you know what I'm really interested in these days? The IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Completed on December the 18th at the Scott-Amundsen station at the south pole, it's the worlds largest high-energy Neutrino Observatory. 5160 seperate optical sensors buried up to two and a half kilometres deep in the antarctic ice shelf extend the limit of observable neutrinos up into the TeV range, allowing us to explore and understand high energy astrophysical processes that produce such neutrinos, and search indirectly for dark matter by looking for the remains of decaying weakly interacting massive particles, as well as forming part of earths supernova early warning system. Did you even know the world HAD a supernova early warning system? Well it does. Not to protect us from anything mind, but in order to give astronomers a pointer where to aim their telescopes. Neutrino emissions from a supernova peak several hours before the actual explosion (or rather peak photon emission), so you've got a bit of warning there. The other elements of SNEWS are the Borexino, Super-Kamiokande, Large Volume Detector and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Neutrino Observatories are pretty interesting anyway. They detect the Cherenkov radiation (sort of like a sonic boom, but with light) from the passage of a neutrino through a medium in which the speed of light is slower than the theoretical maximum. Ice and water generally. Cherenkov radiation is the thing that creates that terrifying ghostly blue glow around submerged nuclear reactors btw: cool stuff.
What cool things are interesting the rest of y'all right now?
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