It turns out your bad luck is all my fault

[DrewBledsoe]

Hi eris,
Try setting your firewall to randomly disable itself for a couple milliseconds every now and then. This will let lucky packets through while still protecting you from basically everything else.

Oh, behave

 

[ColossusCrusher]

This is a great thread.

But have you tried using a neutrino inverter to convert negative chanceons into positive ones? I think that should do the trick.
If that fails, which it shouldn't, use an inverse tachyon beam to create a time/anti-time rip in space, which will then spew out anti-negative chanceons, which will have the same effect as positive chanceons. In order to negate the anti-positive chanceons you have to set up a positive chanceon filter, to stop both normal and anti- positive chanceons from getting through the rip.

If all else fails, get a DeLorean and some Uranium. I recommend you research Physics and Fiber Optics, and maybe some Fusion, just to be safe.

...Or a double-sided coin...

 

[bestbrian]

Not a bad thread to Necro. At least it's one where I had something witty and clever to add (as opposed to all the others).

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Fortunately, TheMeInTeam has the necessary letters required to make both "nine" and "ten" in it. Unfortunately, the numbers are not spelled out directly. I've found this leads to interesting results. With minimal, statistically acceptable variance, I win combats at the same % as the numbers displayed as my odds!

Isn't that something.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Apparently SevenOfNine wins at least twice the combats she would be expected to. Whether this is due to double lucky packets leaking through from the collective, or to the fact that her combatants are unable to overt their eyes from a certain part of her anatomy, remains to be determined...

Futher study, much, much more further study is deemed necessary

 

[Stoney the I]

I knew it!

its not paranoia if people are out to get me.

 

[Bushface]

The recently-invented flux capacitor has many disadvantages. In the first place, it requires charging by several million random numbers, obtained not from a computer RNG (the output from which is never truly random) but by the use of thousands of 16-sided dice whose faces are marked 0 to F. Secondly, it produces far more chanceons with high negative bias than with any positive bias at all: the latter affect only the region in the vicinity of the capacitor, whereas the former disperse widely and so affect, adversely, results expected by innocent parties world wide. Use of this device is expected to be banned by both the U.N. and the Apostolic Palace.

No existing neutrino inverter is sufficiently powerful to convert the state of any chanceon. Calculations show that to attain this desirable result the inverter would need to be approximately one light-year in length and absorb the entire power output of a Class 0 star. And as chanceons already travel faster than light, they are themselves a form of inverse tachyon beam and another such beam would not affect them.

The latest report from L'Institut Sablon-Piaf in Paris, where a team has been attempting to generate chanceons, is disappointing. Their efforts have so far produced nothing better than "chansons".

 

[ColossusCrusher]

Out-of-argument: Gah!

In-argument: Of course, of course, but if you invert a phase-matter disruptor so that it turns energy into matter (rather than the other way around, naturally), you could theoretically trap chanceons as they form and turn them into solid mass. A star-powered inverter, perhaps powered by our Sun, could than be launched into space. The solid chanceons, when sent into the inverter, will then, due to the inverter's shape (a cone), fling back, inverted as posi-chanceons towards Earth. Naturally, in order to defeat the size requirements we will need Miniaturization I, II, III, IV and V.

(What? GalCiv II is a great game)

 

[Kark]

16-sided dice whose faces are marked 0 to F

Aha! As an old D&D-player I've used all kinds of dices, but this one's new to me. But I think the important dice in a computer game is the 2-sided one with 0 and 1. That's how remove all the bad luck in BtS.

 

[Bushface]

Colossus - alas, chanceons are not simply a form of energy but also have negative mass. As a result, even a fractal-dimensional inverted phase-matter converter (a device not yet practical) would transfom them into anti-matter, with catastrophic results unless the problem of containment is solved, thought to be somewhere in the region of Future Tech 221. Nor is there reason to believe that there is any possibility of transforming the prevalent negative-bias chanceons into ones with positive bias: it is more likely, according to Professor Yee Haa (of Beijing and Tucson), that they would perform a rotation about the p-axis into chanceons with extremely high WTH, which is clearly undesirable.

 

[bestbrian]

I like pie.

 

[ColossusCrusher]

But the containment issue is solved - store them in a vacuum, suspended by magnetic fields. The hard part is turning them from antimatter into matter, which would turn them from antipositive to positive.
Obviously, we need Future Tech [Infinity Symbol] to get this far...

 

[thadian]

but youll be at alpha centuari by then right?

 

[ColossusCrusher]

...Good point...
But that's not the issue!
The issue is that we have to be able to synthesize luck!
XD

 

[SevenSpirits]

So, I hadn't even done anything civ-related for over 6 months, and this thread has been dormant for just as long. Two days ago, I install BTS on my new computer and go read over my past posts so I know what to believe.

Including this thread.

Only hours before it gets summoned back to life.

There's gotta be some "recently viewed threads" feature on this site, right? Right?? Because otherwise I'm going to back slowly away from the chanceons without losing eye contact.

 

[bestbrian]

Ghosts in the machine?

 

[Bushface]

Colossus - alas, the containment issue is not solved. Chanceons are not affected by magnetic fields, even at an intensity of 100 tezla, as was demonstrated long ago by Dr. Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) at Utrecht. Also, for a magnetic field to contain anything (such as a nuclear reaction) it would have to be a spherical field and preferably one stronger at the outside than at its centre: no such field can yet be produced, and almost certainly never will be.

P.S. How I love technobabble !

 

[LegionSteve]

Thanks for bringing this thread back, I enjoyed it the first time around and it's even funnier now. It has really cheered me up when I was having a miserable time. to everyone that posted.

 

[GIO888]

Here here and seconded.

Maybe we should put combat odds in a box with some radioactive matter....

 

[thadian]

i think it was a "Fateon Destinious" particle that caused this threads revival right as you were starting up again