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[Hellblazer]

Just get the faq out and sit out for 15 mins. In the sun....

[TheNave]

If I wipe down my vacuum cleaner with a towel, then I'm making my vacuum cleaner.
...which means that technically I'm also a vacuum cleaner, right?

I'll be that guy:
Technically you would be making your vacuum cleaner, cleaner, which would mean that you are a vacuum cleaner cleaner.
A vacuum is space without anything in it (including air), which means that you cannot be cleaning it as there is already nothing in it to clean.
Referring to a vacuum cleaner as a vacuum is incorrect.

Technically vacuum isn't really empty. There are constantly particles and their anti-particles whizzing around and canceling out as proved by the casimir phenomenon; Vacuum is cleaning itself. Which means Vacuum is the true Vacuum cleaner, right?

Vacuum is the space that is devoid of matter. That means if there's anything made out of atoms in it, it's not considered a vacuum anymore... vacuum fluctuations, dark energy, transiting gamma- and cosmic rays, neutrinos, along with other phenomena in quantum physics can still occur in vacuum as those things aren't made out of regular atoms and thus do not count as matter...
that means, if you try to clean a vacuum cleaner with a towel, you're actually inserting matter into a vaccum and thus making it in fact not cleaner, but dirtier! so if anything, you wouldn't be a vacuum cleaner cleaner but a vacuum cleaner dirtier-er!

[Rhino.Freak]

Guys I think we need to publish some papers, there are tonnes of new discoveries here.

[A-Man]

vacuum fluctuations, dark energy, transiting gamma- and cosmic rays, neutrinos, along with other phenomena in quantum physics can still occur in vacuum as those things aren't made out of regular atoms and thus do not count as matter...

Not made of regular atoms? While quantum mechanics' stuff haven't been satisfying with all its wishy-washy ideas that has almost given fundamental particles "free-will", we can not just dismiss it, simply because it works. Using the Casimir effect, it was possible to actually pull a pair out of the vacuum. Regardless, the term matter, even though it can also be generally regarded as anything with mass, has been considered a loose term in Physics since the time Einstein had put forward a relation between mass and energy.

@Freaky: lol not really XD. We haven't even scratched the surface of the cool deep stuff graduate physicists are into. Ask the big guys for that matter (BP or Reaper)

[TheNave]

vacuum fluctuations, dark energy, transiting gamma- and cosmic rays, neutrinos, along with other phenomena in quantum physics can still occur in vacuum as those things aren't made out of regular atoms and thus do not count as matter...

Not made of regular atoms? While quantum mechanics' stuff haven't been satisfying with all its wishy-washy ideas that has almost given fundamental particles "free-will", we can not just dismiss it, simply because it works. Using the Casimir effect, it was possible to actually pull a pair out of the vacuum. Regardless, the term matter, even though it can also be generally regarded as anything with mass, has been considered a loose term in Physics since the time Einstein had put forward a relation between mass and energy.

I might have chosen my words poorly, I only wanted to state the definition of a vacuum
as a space is always a vacuum as long as there are no "classic" elementary particles (electron, neutron, proton, etc)
no matter which other "stuff" there is flying around, it would still be called a vacuum by definition

[LutiChris]

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”

well that was a pretty clever analogy :o

[Hellblazer]

just reached half and my mind blew up! tl;dr!!


i see that bamb reads every post fully and sincerely. thattt timepass guy


and hu da hell told these guys to start that rocket science?! nobody here considers to read it except bamb! (lel) that aint gonna make u einstien will it?

[Lauli]

Take this with a grain of salt, everybody:

You could read up a bit on being more open minded.

LF2 has exactly one stereotype girl out of 22 characters (excluding lex and template here) - and she's just support. The download section for custom characters doesn't look any better.
Even HF only slightly tries to improve on that: there are more females, but those are all the same generic body type, while male characters come in all variations (from Lucas to Drew/Titto/Gordon/Saw/...) and still are in the overwhelming majority.
If you ever open your eyes you will realize most of todays media still has the very same status.
Have some respect for diversity.

[Hellblazer]

Alright i did not read that post till now, but i bet its to me
edit: k it is. huge lecture.. i bet yinyin went open minded to type it

[YinYin]

Take this with a grain of salt, everybody