[barend]

it has more uses then just film grossings, that was just the inspirateion...

but to calculate the rest, we must find the cronomic equivelant of Pi.

[Mnesymone]

The single useful constant... it would have to be the rise in can prices per year if that were a constant... any ideas?
Oh and we'd have to do it in american terms - cause in Australia we cross the 14th February 1966 line and it all goes out the window.

[floppydisk]

The measurment of boredom in units of insanity. The more bored you are, the more insane the things you do to have fun.

1 boredom involves going onto messageboards for hours on end

5 boredom involves playing in traffic

5000 boredom involves taping cats to every part of your body, threatening to bomb the White House with your cat-suit, then actually doing it.

[Mnesymone]

Whoa... funny mental image there.
How many boredom would I need to wear a suit of articulated berylium-polonium sheathed in U-235 surrounded by conventional explosives and an outer casing that makes me look like the master chief and do that to the white house.

[floppydisk]

Umm... I don't know what you mean. Is that a radioactive suit?

[Mnesymone]

No. Its only a hypothetical device, but if it works its a personal nuclear weapon.

[barend]

how about a racsim chart?

measured in neoroman figures.

k = amusing joke at expense of ethnic group
kk = derogatry remark or unfair blanket statement about specific race
kkk = active participation or support for organised groups devoted to the cause
w = invading another country and pulling civilians of the street to torture and humiliate.

This post has been edited by barend: 26 May 2005 - 07:51 PM

[Mnesymone]

I'd measure racism in 'k' as well. Can there be a millik or a kilok or something?

[floppydisk]

How many k's equal a w?

MNE: Well, your idea would be less insane, because it would actually do something, unlike a suit of cats. It doesn't even factor in on the scale, unless it's caused by boredom.

[Mnesymone]

If you were bored enough you might start wearing a personal nuclear weapon... i'd probably take about 12,677 boredoms. And at least three decinutbars, a nutbar being the amount of madness required to attempt to escape from a mental asylum using wombats.

[BiggSpiffy]

i guess that if i wore a personal nuke weapon i would become paranoid of every peicee of fire i saw, fr fear of it exploding

[floppydisk]

Nuclear weapons need a detonator, they don't blow up from getting hot. Two chuncks of plutonium or whatever are flung into each other, creating a Japan-leveling explosion.

[BiggSpiffy]

oh well i guess im not up-to-date on how to blow up nukes, but its always go to know

[Mnesymone]

I realise I might get some weird looks here but here goes.
There are two kinds of nuke. implosion and gun. Gun is a long barrel, with a lump of U-235 at one end and another wedge-shaped lump at the other end, with a conventional explosive behind it. The detonator goes, the explosive sets off and drives the wedge into the lump, causing critical mass and a nuclear explosion.
Implosion is a sphere, with an outer skin of conventional explosives over a layer of U-235 enhanced with plutonium (sometimes) over a central core of berylium-polonium. The explosives go, driving the uranium to the core, where it bunches up, hits critical mass and foom.
If you were wearing a personal nuke, don't get burned, cause the fire would trigger the detonator system, the conventional explosives would go off and your nuke would go off prematurely. Admittedly you die a horrible death when it does go off anyway, unless you do some serious engineering work and are phenomenally strong.

[floppydisk]

Are you a physician or something? And what I said was the same thing, just not as fancy.