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Off Topic / Re: Smoking Thread

« on: July 24, 2011, 01:41:41 PM »

I actually started pretty late, at 16, quite a few of my friends were on and off since their v. early teens. Then again, a lot of them are farmers, so you know.

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Off Topic / Re: dUBSTEp. May the Wub Wub gods give us more wub wubs.

« on: July 20, 2011, 06:12:41 PM »

Cookie Monsta is good.

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Off Topic / Re: I have been diagnosed with the Grey Death

« on: July 18, 2011, 01:20:52 PM »

Those starfishs at the clinic aren't worth ten credits.

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Off Topic / Re: Offical Airsoft discussion Megathread

« on: July 16, 2011, 08:27:07 AM »

I've linked this before, but german kevlar battle bowlers are seriously worth getting from cheaperthandirt if you're in the states. They're advertised as Grade 2, but they're pretty much Grade 1. German helmet covers can be found pretty much anywhere, scour ebay/whatever for some cheap ones, the germans use(d) a lot of camoflauge patterns, so you're spoilt for choice. I picked up a second hand british Mk.6 w/ standard woodland cover at an insane 18 GBP, fellas from the forces sometimes sell their gear when they're made redundant, and more often than not it's at pretty awesome prices.

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Off Topic / Re: Have some money again.

« on: July 15, 2011, 05:16:22 PM »

Buy a Czech M10 mask. I'd do the same, except most US sites won't ship across the big pond. $11.97 w/o P&P is a FINE deal. Or a battle bowler, of course. Now't quite like some fine milsurp.

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Off Topic / Re: You Can Buy Uranium on The Internet

« on: July 15, 2011, 03:32:44 PM »

You require Uranium 235 to make a fission weapon. This is present in minute quantities in Uranium minerals, and can be extracted by exploting the differences in properties between U-235 and U-238 as UF₆. Three atomic weight units. This is not much.

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Off Topic / Re: You Can Buy Uranium on The Internet

« on: July 15, 2011, 01:23:58 PM »

This uranium ore contains barely enough Uranium for power usage, let alone enough U-235 for any sort of weapon. You can get uranium ore from the huge mounds of tailings from old mines, there's plenty enough in there to make you a fair buck if you fancy carrying tonnes of it home and selling it on the web. Of course, if you're intent on extracting the metal, you could always pulverise the ore, extract the uranium by dissolving it in a solution of disodium carbonate and sodium hydrogen carbonate, then boiling off the water and reducing it with lithium/magnesium powder and the application of heat. Even then, without a tonne of ore, you won't get enough for a useful fuel mass, and you'll have to be waiting a pretty long time without a giant neutron reflecting container for it to go critical, and then you've got to moderate it enough to stop it from just melting into a pile of burning horrible uranium.

Of course, I say all this for informational purposes, inhaling uranium compounds is probably the least harmful part of producing a clandestine reactor. Did I mention elemental uranium is impossible to machine, is incredibly hard and it's dust likes to catch fire?

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Off Topic / Re: What supplies would you bring in a Zombie Apocalypse?

« on: July 14, 2011, 04:44:08 PM »

Blates an SVT 40 and a dozen crates of 7.62x54R, there is nothing but 7.62x54R.

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Off Topic / Re: Clocks And Griefing

« on: July 14, 2011, 03:56:02 PM »

Nope, just an underachieving student.

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Off Topic / Clocks And Griefing

« on: July 14, 2011, 03:54:02 PM »

At some point in the last two months, the clock in my sixth form study room was removed, so I replaced it with a crudely drawn smiling clock pointing to 3:20, with the words "GO HOME" beneath it. Yesterday that was removed, so I decided to upgrade the study room's timekeeping devices.

I can probably grief my fellow students this way for another two months. Discuss.

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Off Topic / Re: Batteries!

« on: July 14, 2011, 03:36:26 PM »

You can use a 9v battery and some steel wool to make fire almost as reliably as a lighter. stuff gets hot yo.

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Off Topic / Re: Batteries!

« on: July 14, 2011, 03:21:55 PM »

Fun fact: You can use a car battery, a set of jumper cables and a couple of straightened wire coathangers as an arc welding setup, just hook up one jumper lead from the battery to one of the pieces you're welding, and the other lead from the battery to the coathanger. The arc should melt the coathanger and the molten metal should hopefully weld your pieces together if they're close enough. Produces stuffty welds, runs out of juice quickly and may electrocute you to death, but it works in a pinch.

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Off Topic / Re: Fly infestation - forget

« on: July 12, 2011, 01:08:38 PM »

There are these tennis racket shaped things which are designed to electrocute them whilst they're flying, so you just swat them out the air. I have one, and I just caught a fly, and normally it produces tiny sparks, but seriously I tapped that thing whilst holding the 'electrocute stuff to death' button down and a huge arc went through the fly, making it pop out the grid and producing a sound equal to a small firecracker going off.

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Off Topic / Re: Post your Speedtest

« on: July 11, 2011, 03:43:37 PM »

You're joking right? However that would explain a lot about my internet speeds going higher when I use a speed tester.

Nope, it's been reported, but I don't know how common a practice it is, or if any ISPs are daring enough to actually do it after it was first brought up or even in the first place, haven't really heard anything new about it.

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Off Topic / Re: Post your Speedtest

« on: July 11, 2011, 03:24:54 PM »

Some ISPs are sneaky sons of bitches and offer better speeds and additional bandwidth to speed testing sites in order for the connection they provide to look faster than it actually is. I don't know how common it is, but it's been reported.