[Sailor Abbey]

Also, how appropriate is it to find the original date the episode where Colonel Tigh first appeared without an eye aired, then declare that "Talk Like Colonel Tigh Day", wear an eyepatch, and make anti-cylon racist slurs all day?

I think that’s a fabulous idea, and entirely appropriate. Can we drink like Colonel Tigh as well? It could be like St. Patrick’s day, only instead of green bowler hats, we could wear the eye patches, and instead of drinking green beer and saying things like 'kiss me, I'm Irish,' we could drink whisky and scotch and shout things like 'get the frak out of my way' and 'put that fraking thing in the brig.'

The possibilities are endless!

[Cobnat]

Yeah, you know I would put a statement on all the threads that have been inactive since 2004 but I don’t want to seem like a necroposter... Or a person with a lot of opinions.

This post has been edited by Cobnat: 19 May 2007 - 12:59 PM

[SimeSublime]

Oh, and question: What's electronegativity?

For that matter, why are these quantum number things so useful for understanding chemistry?

Electro negativity is just a measure of how likely an atom in a molecule is to attract an electron. Atoms towards the right side of the periodic table (such as the halogens) excluding noble gasses are more stable as anions, thus they have a high electro negativity, whilst the atoms towards the left of the period prefer to exist as cations, and are thus less likely to attract electrons and have lower electro negativity. Additionally, the larger the electron cloud, the more shielding there is between the attracted electron and the nucleus. Thus atoms lower down on the periodic table tend to have lower electro negativities.

As for the quantum numbers, when you start playing around with Schrodinger's equation and the like, they can describe the electron density around a nucleus. That is, you can work out the probability of finding an electron in any given volume of space near to the nucleus. From this they can determine the orbital shapes, bonding properties and all manner of other things.

[Mirithorn]

I think that’s a fabulous idea, and entirely appropriate. Can we drink like Colonel Tigh as well? It could be like St. Patrick’s day, only instead of green bowler hats, we could wear the eye patches, and instead of drinking green beer and saying things like 'kiss me, I'm Irish,' we could drink whisky and scotch and shout things like 'get the frak out of my way' and 'put that fraking thing in the brig.'

The possibilities are endless!

The date's October 6th. Participate, so I'll feel less stupid knowing that I haven't made up a holiday only I participate in.

[Sailor Abbey]

The date's October 6th. Participate, so I'll feel less stupid knowing that I haven't made up a holiday only I participate in.

I've got it marked on my calendar already. I'll be sure to tell my mom who is a BSG fanatic. So that makes three of us at the very least. But if Col Tigh has taught us anything, its that its ok to drink alone.

[Mirithorn]

This being the last day of school, I have stockpiled a project against the coming boredom. I have kidnapped a classmate's pen. He's quite fond of it, and I think he'd pay at least 5 dollars to get it back, but what would be more valuable would be the endless entertainment it would offer me. For instance, I plan to lead him on something of a scavenger hunt- tell him if he leaves 50 cents by the bottom of some tree I will replace the money with the pen, then instead plump an envelope with a decoy pen, and include more pictures of the pen encased in a block of ice, being threatened by an action figure with a gun, suspended over boiling water with red food coloring... etc.

I've put two pictures I've taken so far and plan to include in an envelope (with nothing else) which I will place on his doorstep before ringing the doorbell and running away (dressed in a ninja suit, of course, lest perchance he see me) in the photo album. These are only a teaser- I'll have Otal make a phone call (well, I can't very well do it, he'd recognize my voice) threatening the pen's life if he doesn't follow my instructions exactly (then I'll let him talk to the pen to let him know it's still alive). Should he hesitate at any point, I will mail him a piece of casing clipped from the pen, and a threatening note written in the pen's own ink.

So, question- does anybody have suggestions for what to do with the notes, random things to make him do that would amuse me, or the script for the aforementioned phone call?

[Jane Sherwood]

Sorry, I don't have any suggestions, but wow.

This kid must really love his pen.

[Slade]

Hahahaha! That's incredibly crazy, Mirithorn. I love it, but it's seriously way over the deep end. Also, I demand that we all have access to these pictures when it's over.

You need to make a letter out of newspaper letter clippings so the handwriting isn't tracible, and when he talks to the pen, make sure you make it click or something so it talks back.

[TheOrator]

Hey guys, I'm not really for real back yet, I am having a fixed laptop re-opening ceremony on Monday. But I need to know what's going on with Bond. His post count is most definitely...incompatible with what I last remember. I hope to god he hasn't actually broken the counter.

(I'm on a computer at school, online for a chat about drugs at drugabuse.gov for health class. My question has yet to be answered.)

EDIT: Replaced 'calculator' with 'counter.' Added a...thing between the paragraph and the parenthetical.

This post has been edited by TheOrator: 12 October 2007 - 11:52 AM

[reiner]

It was reset and he is on restricted status.

[Bond]

Yes; no regrets, though.

Good to have you partly back, TheOrator.

Oh, and here's an Actual Question: Who'd like to sign up for The NEW MSPaint Comic Game Thing thread?

[mireaux7]

a rather grim topic, but something ive always wondered about,.so here goes.

as sad as it is, suicide does exist, and being that this is the case, those who employ its tactics often try to chose the least painful, and quickest way to exit this existence.

most often chose to do so with a firearm. a read a report once that said men usually chose to aim for the brain, and women for the heart.

but when the shot is fired, when would they truly be dead? if someone shot themselves in the head, it would puncture the skin, penetrate the skull, and sink deep within the tissues of the brain,.either coming to a stop within one of the many lobe areas of the brain, or possibly even hitting the spinal cord connected to the brain. assuredly, this would cause the brain to be either destroyed upon contact,..or perhaps only certain portions of the brain being damaged, as the rest of the body is on the quick demise towards death.

the real question is,..would the victim who chose this way to exit life actually be able to feel anything at all? or would the bullet be so quick and deadly,.that it would kill them before the central nervous system/brain would have time to register all of this?

if someone chose to kill themselves by aiming for the heart, this would of course stop bloodflow,.oxygen to the brain, etc. but it would seem to me, that this would send an unprecedented amount of excruciating pain through the central nervous system for the few seconds until the person is actually dead.

ok..why am i asking all of this. well, i guess i tried to ask in an anonymous fashion, but looking over everything i have typed already,.i know its going to draw many questions from other chefelfers.

on oct 29th 2007, my beloved 17 yr old nephew took his own life. it was very unknown to everyone, but he was coping with depression. no one really knows what the depression was over. he had a girlfriend that loved him so much. he was a 4.0 honor student that just recieved his letter jacket, he had many colleges expressing high interest in him.

on his last day, he took a sawed-off .22 rifle, and aimed it at his forehead and pull the trigger. yes, its sad, and ive cried many tears over it. i still dont understand it. and when something this tragic happens,.i guess you try to figure out the pieces of one huge painful jigsaw puzzle.

so, here i am, trying to understand if my nephew suffered any amount of pain. it seems to me like he would have for a split second. i dont know. death is the one topic that no one truly knows anything about. once your gone, you cant report back to the living world about your dying experience. but looking at all of this from a medical standpoint, it may paint a clearer picture to me of how everything would have played out.

[Spoon Poetic]

That's awful, I'm sorry mireaux. Honestly, I doubt he felt any pain, due to the tiny fraction of a second it would have taken for him to die - I don't think his pain receptors would have been able to register the pain before his passing. I don't know much medical stuff but that's my guess. I'm really sorry about your nephew. *hug*

This post has been edited by Spoon Poetic: 05 November 2007 - 02:48 PM

[Moudini]

Sorry about your loss. Suicide is horrible enough as it is, but it's especially tragic when it's someone young.

I'm fairly certain he felt no pain. When you're submitted to a lot of sudden pain it takes a short moment before you feel anything. You know, like when you put your hand on something incredibly hot and you burn yourself. You remove your hand almost instantly through reflex, but you don't register the pain immediately. Firing a firearm at that close range, I'm sure it would shut down the systems necessary to feel anything before there is a chance to.

Again, sorry for your loss, man.

[z e w b]

most often chose to do so with a firearm. a read a report once that said men usually chose to aim for the brain, and women for the heart.

but when the shot is fired, when would they truly be dead?

It depends on the caliber and what part of the brain is damaged. People have, in recorded history, been shot in the head and lived, some even shot multiple times. The skull is very tough, and weaker bullets, like a .22 caliber, can sometimes not penetrate through to the brain. Some people have been shot with heavier rounds, and lived, albeit with lack of certain functions.

Now, if someone were to blast themselves in the head, and the projectile penetrated through the skull and managed to destroy the brain, they would be instantly dead. They probably wouldn't feel any pain at all; their thalamus can't process the pain because it has been shredded apart and scattered all over the carpet. A shotgun blast would do the job and then some; the pellets would completely destroy almost all of the brain. A large jacketed hollow point round would also have a big chance of an instant kill, as they expand on impact and destroy much more tissue. Full metal jacket rounds, however, whiz right through the brain and come out the other side and don't do as much internal damage, so that would leave a slightly smaller chance of death. Small, rimfire rounds like .22 are not intended for killing people, but for target practice, and as such they have a significantly lower chance of an instant kill.

Now, shooting yourself in the heart, as you mentioned, would not kill you instantly, and you would spend the last few seconds of your life writhing in agony and bleeding everywhere until your brain dies.

Personally, I don't recommend either one. Go jog or something.