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Replace melons with coconuts in this pic: :mischief: I read an article in New Scientist recently about fusion power, where they went through some of the major obstacles. One of them was that it's so incredibly hard to confine the plasma perfectly. There will always be sudden bursts of...

Indeed. My colloid chemistry prof used to say that nanotech is just a fancy new word for stuff that they'd been doing for decades. (colloids = tiny particles, some of which fall within the nano size range) So nanotech is in fact just a subset of chemistry. The reason why the words "nano" and...

Can schools also train expert "goods processors", like blacksmiths and cigar makers? If they can only train raw material producers (like farmers and fishermen) then I'd say building a school early on doesn't sound like a good idea, since you can just send them to native villages instead..

Sounds logical. :) Can wagon trains be automated, you say? That's pretty cool. Is there a way of selecting the amount of cargo to go on a ship/wagon train, or does it just fill it up to the max automatically? Oh, and is it possible to transport food from one settlement to another? If so...

When I was studying mechanical engineering we learnt about a method for assessing the total environmental impact of products. It's called Eco-indicator 99. Basically it assigns every possible product and service a figure from 1 to 1000 indicating how "environmentally friendly" it is. (high is...

Looks like you might want to change your freezer's temperature, since ice spikes hardly ever form at temperatures below -10 degrees Celcius.. which isn't really sufficiently cold for a "real" freezer.

My goal is to reach a point where I'm rich enough to not have to worry about money. I want to be able to eat at a fancy restaurant every now and then without having to think about money. It's a happiness thing -- I want to avoid money worries. Other than that, I don't require much. Now I'm...

Last time I heard, they had 50.000 unemployed engineers..

My favourite:

I have a student loan, but I'd be able to repay it all tomorrow if need be, so my overall balance is in the green zone.

Good idea for a thread. :) I'm having a hard time picking a favourite.. I've read many good books. But the book which had the greatest impact on me was The Lord of the Rings. Such a fascinating universe! More than anything it "set the stage" and kickstarted my own imagination, creating...

Wow!! Goodwynn and Sourboy, do you have any of these in higher resolution? Desktop material!

Me too. :) That would be my first priority -- buying and preparing quality food. I'm hoping to one day have so much money that I can buy food without having to worry about the pricetag. If I want lobster one day, heck then I'll buy lobster.

South Park, anyone? ;)