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Colonel Banryx · News Stuff

Okay, I really need you guys now... I need tips, and since I'm supposed to satisfy you, you can go ahead and tell me.

Please fill out this form, for what is to go on the home page. I'll post what's currently up if you aren't sure what I'm talking about...

Main Article: Disappearence of Smileys.

1st Side Article: Things to Ponder
2nd Side Article: Simpson's quote of the week
3rd Side Article: Nothing, for now

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1st Side Article:
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Dread Abyss

Main Article (stub, this is merely a suggestion): After we received a surplus of smileys, they disappeared before many of the members could see them as well as half of the other smileys. Abyss stated that an error occured when he was adding another new smiley and before he could do anything, half of our precious smileys were gone. However, Abyss has been working to add new smileys to our current list, so it seems alright. Thankfully, those wretched bananas have disappeared for good. Or will they be back to wreak havoc once more?

1st Side Article: Will any of the other seldom seen members return?
2nd Side Article: "People see you as something of an ogre." "I'll club them and eat their bones!"
3rd Side Article: Darkness there, and nothing more.

Colonel Banryx

I sorta meant new ideas, not really what I should put up now.

Dread Abyss

Oh ok, well I guess what I said sort of works as an idea on what to say.

General Ceyrox

Gravemind becoming a member could be news?

Lord Storms

So could Ceyrox getting 1000 posts.

Lord Kaen

>_> ...

What about...

dang.got nothing

Lord Duality

How about, "Lord Freeze claims he is so much better than everyone else that he needs his own article."

Any takers?

Lord Bunnies

I concur on the 'Freeze in a self-centered egotist' issue.

ha, watch what you say...

Lord Duality

Yup, that sums me up.

Lord Kaen

>_> It does

Lord Storms

"Freeze is a Zelda-obsessed maniac."

This is becoming a fad!

Colonel Banryx

So am I.

Dread Abyss

You're avatar of some ugly rock thing with a metal crotch does make you seem like you enjoy Zelda. You could probably report on Gort, Bondage, and Aima coming back to post occasionally; you could report on that religious discussion; you could even report on Gort.

Gollum, Gollum! Gollum, Goron!

Lord Duality

Report an article stating that we need more issues to report about.

Dread Abyss

Good idea. Banryx could report on the current lack of news!

Lord Bunnies

report on the lack of foremicoh. it's heartwrenching.

Dread Abyss

Foremicoh will come tomorrow and he will smite our enemies!

Yes, Foremicoh and Gravemind joining would make excellent news.

Lord Bane

heres somthing to ponder:
is darkness the absense of light, or is light the absense of darkness?

Lord Storms

Darkness the abscence of light. There's scientific proof for that.

Lord Bane

how can you prove it? if darkness is the absense of light, then light has to be the absense of darkness.

Lord Storms

No, it doesn't.

And Bane, it was proven years ago. Simple testing.

Seriously, Bane.

Lord Bane

...show me the evidence.

Lord Storms

Go to Wikipedia. Type in "light" or "darkness." All your evidence will be right there.

Lord Bunnies

yeah, plus, there's LIGHT WAVES. haha, I think that's all the proof you need.
no dark waves. sorry. antimatter's cool, though.

Colonel Banryx

Hm. Well it's simply that darkness is absence of light, while light is simply energy in particle form, being reflected by color wavelengths.

And don't get Antimatter and Dark Matter confused, Bondage, just an FYI.

Lord Bunnies

I know. I don't think dark matter really exists, does it?

idk, typing that just made me think of antimatter, though..

Colonel Banryx

Maybe not, but I got this new book called Astronomica and it has several theories on dark matter and antimatter. And neither of them exist, it's just in theory they HAVE to, otherwise the universe is missing 96% of it's mass.

Dread Abyss

So, Banryx, do you need the administrative powers on Friday so you can update the home page and rearrange the forums or do you want to do the home page earlier?

Colonel Banryx

Before I can do either of those, I need two things. A really interesting topic to discuss on the home page. And approval from EO.

Dread Abyss

Alright, that might take a while considering EO hasn't been on much recently...

Lord Bunnies

call him. and what if emperors ocean says no?

Dread Abyss

We don't know his number.

If he says no, then Banryx tries again.

Lord Bunnies

you don't?!
and oh. so the old "annoy him til he says yes to make you stop" plan?

Dread Abyss

No.

Yup, that's pretty much it. Except more sly.

Lord Bunnies

lolololol I've had it for many years.

and yeah, if you want to call posting your plan on a forum that he can read at any time being sly, then... yes, it is very 'sly'

Lord Bane

accually, antimatter does exist.... and is it really anti matter, or is it normal matter, and every thing around us is antimatter?

Colonel Banryx

Antimatter doesn't exist in the fact that no one can see it, it's never been proven to exist, and anything that's not energy or matter doesn't exist. The exact time they realized there has to antimatter is when the calculated the mass of the universe and realized 96% of it was missing, and so 96% of the universe is either dark matter or anti matter.

Lord Bunnies

actually, antimatter is proven.

General Ceyrox

No Bondage... it isn't. Nothing in science is ever really proven, rarely at least. Get me a quote that it's proven, 'cause I gaurantee I can find one saying it's still a theory.

Colonel Banryx

Yup. Astronomical objects are rarely proven. And since antimatter isn't matter, it doesn't exist. It is a well accepted theory, but antimatter isn't anything, it's just missing matter, basically.

Lord Bunnies

I'm too lazy... and half the reason why antimatter's not really ever here is cuz when matter and antimatter touch, they pretty much explode each other.

(I know that's bad grammar, I like how it sounds, though)

Lord Storms

It has been proven. Just because you're a fundamentalist or a nihilist doesn't change reality.

They created it in a particle accelarator. Of course, it blew up pretty quickly.

Lord Bunnies

actually, it pretty much blew up instantly. and that was a LOT of energy that released.

Colonel Banryx

They did not. Where are you two getting your facts from?

Lord Bunnies

I don't fully remember. where are YOU getting YOUR facts, and when was that book publishEd?

Lord Storms

I went to a lecture by Nobel Prize candidate and string theorist Lisa Randall (I think I got her name right) not too long ago.

Colonel Banryx

Astronomica, published in 2008 by Millenium House Pty Ltd.
52 Bolwarra Rd., Elanora Heights, NSW, 2101, Australia
Ph. 612 9970 6850
Fax. 612 9913 3500
email. editor@milleniumhouse.com.au

That.

Lord Bunnies

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Research/Antimatter-en.html

I don't care WHO published the book... that's CERN I'm talking about.

Lord Storms

What do you mean?

Also, they mentioned it being proven on the History channel show called "The Universe."

Lord Bunnies

CERN... is the most hardcore science group ever.
They made the LHC. and they invented www.

and they discovered antihydrogen. in 1995. they discovered antimatter in 1995. 1995. THAT early.

General Ceyrox

You guys put up a good fight...

But I will not give up that easily. To the Batmobile!

Colonel Banryx

We're debating whether antimatter exists or not, not if it's proven. It's been proven that antimatter MUST be something, but it certainly doesn't exist. It's been proven that it is in our universe, but it still doesn't exist.

Dread Abyss

General Ceyrox

Lord Bane

antimatter is matter with positive electrons and negative protons.

General Ceyrox

That's impossible idiot. A proton by definition is positive, vice versa with electrons.

Colonel Banryx

General Ceyrox

Banryx is right. I await your response.

Lord Bunnies

lulz @ wrongness.

Bane was right. Just worded it badly... what he meant is that it has negatively charged subparticles where the protons would be in matter, and positively charged subparticles where the electrons are in in matter.

and hello, I just posted a link that shows that they created antihydrogen in CERN's lab. THAT'S ANTIMATTER. If it still doesn't exist just because it's not anywhere in the universe that we know of naturally, then video games don't exist either, cuz they don't exist in nature either.

Lord Storms

Bondage just ownd you.

And CERN's finally working? I didn't know that CERN was where the antimatter was made.

Lord Bunnies

Yeah, CERN's always been active, just, for a long time... they've been making that Large Hadron Collider. Which they activated last october.

and yeah, they made antihydrogen in 1995. which is simple antimatter (which technically is nowhere near simple, but it's simple comparted to other antimatter), but STILL antimatter.

General Ceyrox

They haven't proven antiatoms exist. It even said the particles moved too fast to study. (nearly the speed of light) They aren't proven. I could find a site with information about black holes, yet those aren't proven either. We know very little about an atom, and even less about an antiatom. I await your rebuttal.

Lord Storms

They didn't. But they've created atoms that have a proton-sized particles doing the job of a proton except with a negative charge and electron-sized particle doing the job of an electron with a positive charge.

General Ceyrox

Exactly. They very much believe antiatoms exist but it has yet to be proven. Case closed. Back to discussing news. (For an admin Storms is off topic alot.)

Lord Storms

Wait... Ceyrox posted while I was posting. I said exactly to Bondage's post.

General Ceyrox

Okay... back into the discussion.

Lord Bunnies

Well actually, CERN created antihydrogen and it obliterated itself with the air or something. Which is what antimatter does when it touches matter.

I now too rest my case. Will Storms follow suit? Find out next time on Family Adult Male!

And for news, how about Blagojevich getting impeached unanimously ealier today?

General Ceyrox

You can't rest your case until th opponent agrees with you...

Anyways... they don't know if it was antimatter. Like I said in my previous post, it was moving too fast to be studied. It could have been anything.

Lord Storms

I'm glad to be rid of him. Why can't we get a good governor for once?

Lord Bunnies

I don't know. I found his trial hilarious, though.
I think this guy they have in for now is good.

Lord Storms

Who is it?

Lord Bunnies

I don't remember his name off hand. My grandma and I were talking about it earlier though on my way home from my guitar lesson.

General Ceyrox

You guys live in Illinois, huh? We got the good 'll Governator back here.

Lord Storms

Your governor can do anything but speak English.

Colonel Banryx

Alright, I'll start the conversation again. They CAN'T create antimatter. What you're implying is simply that protons can act as electrons in a proton cloud, while electrons can bonded with neutron. Here's the main problem. Electrons have 1/2000 the mass of a proton. Not only would the Protons collapse in on the Electrons, it would abliterate itself. Which may be what you're implying, BUT, we have never even seen the inside of an atom. We can only guess with outside observation what is within one. And since antimatter doesn't exist regularly on earth, what you're saying would be assembling subatomic particles on a subatomic level. This is simply impossible. Not only is it IMPOSSIBLE to have electrons make up the nucleus because of their inferior mass, but subatomic arrangement simply is eons away.

Lord Storms

But certain reactions (can't recall exactly what they were) can switch theCHARGES of the Protons and Electrons.

General Ceyrox

No... the mass would make it collapse. Maybe I'll ask my science teacher on Monday, she'd probably know.

Lord Storms

There is no difference in mass.

General Ceyrox

Yes there is! An Electron is approximately 1/2000th the mass of a Proton.

Lord Storms

I mean between antimatter and matter. The charges are different, not the individual particles.

General Ceyrox

That's the flaw. That couldn't have been an atom with Electrons for Protons, or Protons for Electrons, the mass is too different.

Lord Storms

THEY DON'T!!!

For the billionth time, they have positively-charged electrons and negatively-charged protons!!

Colonel Banryx

Ceyrox is right. Neutrons and Protons have the same mass, about the same mass at least, while an electron has 1/2000 of the mass. There is a HUGE difference. It is why the nucleus(Protons and Neutrons) is most of the mass while electrons are most of the volume in an electron cloud. We're studying this in Science right now, so don't say I can't recall it. We were just talking about this yesterday.

Lord Bunnies

You aren't listening to us.

IT DOESN'T HAVE ELECTRONS IN THE NUCLEUS. You don't switch the protons and electrons around themselves, just the charges. The nucleus would have the same mass, it just would be negative. The electron cloud (positron cloud?) would be the same too, just positive.

ANyway, they didn't get out there little tweezers and put some stuff together. They shot antiprotons at heavy elements. And sometimes when an antiproton got close enough to the atomic nucleus, it somehow (a.k.a. beta decay) created an electron+positron pair, and sometimes the antiproton would bond with the positron to create antihydrogen.

...Then it always killed itself, but it still happened....

Lord Storms

Somewhere they found a type of radiation that can contain it. However, this is difficult to use.

Also, antimatter also destroys itself when it comes into contact with matter because when together they have a 100% matter-to-energy conversion ratio.

Colonel Banryx

In 1995, CERN stated that they discovered and created particles of anti-hydrogen. Unfortunately, they were to excited to study. Because of this, they have no proof that antimatter came into existence from CERN. Of course, they did so-called create antimatter on a later not; obviously it was highly unstable. But antimatter, and positrons, are highly unstable, and according to baryogenesis, undetectable unless they annihilate matter. Thereby, the actual antimatter can't be studied until after it is destroyed, which in theory it is antimatter, they have no "proof", technically, only that it results from cosmic particles.

Lord Storms

What? They talked about containing it with radiation and studying it on the History channel show "The Universe."

Baron Loki

Off Topic!

Colonel Banryx

Obviously you misheard.

Lord Storms

No, other people heard it too. I didn't mishear.

General Ceyrox

My God... you heard it on the Discovery Channel, well now I don't know what to think. (Sarcastic)

Lord Storms

First of all, capitalize God, please. Second of all, they have a good record for accuracy.

Colonel Banryx

For one, he's not Catholic so he doesn't have to capatilize God. Two, it's pointless to debate this topic any further. Okay, Antimatter can be created and was discovered, but Dark Matter can't and wasn't. End of Story.

Lord Storms

Christians in general capitalize God.

And who said that dark matter was discovered? I never did.

Colonel Banryx

It was my mistake, I got the two confused. And we're not to strict in Christian code.

Lord Bunnies

oh, so we're done with this now? That's good, case closed?

Colonel Banryx

Yup. You're more correct than I am. I chose the losing side and I'm going to have to deal with that.

General Ceyrox

Banryx giving up an argument? Well that's just wierd.

Anyways shouldn't this topic be about the news. When is the main page going to get updated anyway?

Baron Loki

By the looks of it, never.