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informalmyx

05-11-2006, 01:09 PM

weird let xwing do it i got game going every kill fo rthe red leader i put a quarter towards my saber build acco8unt

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LAN-ED-TUL

05-11-2006, 07:05 PM

im stayin away, if hes radioactive, then he'll killya just gettin near him. lol

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-11-2006, 08:43 PM

Marty - " This is uh... This is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh... does it run, like... on regular unleaded gasoline? "

Doc - "Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - Plutonium."

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LAN-ED-TUL

05-11-2006, 08:55 PM

you mean, this sucker is nuclear?

it requires 1,21 jigawatts of electricity to power the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.

i made them a bomb using old pinball machine parts.

oh no, i dont know how they found me, RUN MARTY RUN!!!!

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james3

05-11-2006, 08:59 PM

Where's Firebird and one of those little smily thingies with a mushroom cloud?

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wood7588

05-12-2006, 02:18 AM

1.21 JIGAWATTS!!! 1.21 JIGAWATS!!!![:D]

xwingband

05-12-2006, 04:18 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by wood7588

1.21 JIGAWATTS!!! 1.21 JIGAWATS!!!![:D]
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Forget Jigawatts we need the gigaboar![:p]

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That's UF art students' version of grafiti.[:D]

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-12-2006, 06:41 AM

I actually think it's a mispronounciation of "Gigawatts"

I'm sure in 1985 you can get plutonium at any corner drug store, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.
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LAN-ED-TUL

05-13-2006, 02:33 PM

when this sucker gets up to 88 MPH your gonna see some serious s%&t!

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-13-2006, 03:26 PM

Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.

Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?

Dr. Emmett Brown: Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts. Come on! Let's get you a radiation suit. We have to prepare to reload.
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NooB1Kenobi

05-13-2006, 05:47 PM

Ok back on topic.. I think some radioactive matter in the blade on top of the led would work real good...... Should be good to go as long as it is contained... Besides I'm sure you can get black radioactive suits... Just think of how much you will scare people...

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-13-2006, 06:10 PM

In all seriousness, Just where the *fruitcage* do you think you're going to get radioactive material? You can't just run into a store and get it.

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vadeblade

05-15-2006, 03:14 PM

Just take the Tritium off of like 1,000 military watches.

http://www.lapolicegear.com/smithandwesson.html

Just don't do it near my neighborhood...

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Ambo

05-15-2006, 04:15 PM

Its on tonight on ABC....Back to the Future....its on tonight on ABC

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-15-2006, 04:34 PM

WHEN!!?

Oh,and Noob? Radioactive material only glows one color.....Green. No Blue, Red, Amber, Cyan, Purple, or any other colors in existence. Just. Green.

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xwingband

05-15-2006, 04:40 PM

ABC family 8PM. Normal ABC is not showing it.

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-15-2006, 05:14 PM

Damn! Damn Damn! That's now

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Do-Clo

05-15-2006, 05:21 PM

Got them on DVD watch them when ever I want.[:p]

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-15-2006, 05:27 PM

What's the licence plate on the Delorean say?

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Ambo

05-15-2006, 05:30 PM

outtahere

Edit: yeah wasnt quite sure....was reading this post when that scene came up(seriously) and all i was able to do was glance as he dropped the plate....

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-15-2006, 05:58 PM

outatime

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UltraSWG

05-15-2006, 07:41 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by vadeblade

Just take the Tritium off of like 1,000 military watches.

http://www.lapolicegear.com/smithandwesson.html

Just don't do it near my neighborhood...
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Tritium makes phosphor illuminate, so even with 1,000 watches, it would still be no brighter than EL.

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cyberjedi

05-15-2006, 11:29 PM

You tell them Ultra

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-16-2006, 04:50 AM

So, who's up for Cancer!?

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vadeblade

05-16-2006, 09:20 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by UltraSWG

Tritium makes phosphor illuminate, so even with 1,000 watches, it would still be no brighter than EL.

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Yeah, but you get rid of the batteries, 12 feet of wire with cladding, the inverter... and that annoying high pitched sound.
I heard the best way to do it is to suck out the tritium with one's mouth and blow it into the polycarb tube.
So, who's up for thrashing 1,000 $160 watches?

Or save your self the trouble and just buy a canister of tritium at your local drug store.

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UltraSWG

05-16-2006, 09:55 AM

But how would you turn off a tritium blade?

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-16-2006, 10:26 AM

Close your eyes. And when your eyelids fall off, cover it with your extremely blistered and bloody hand. If that fails, the brain tumor just over your vision center should take care of it.

Seriously, tritium would just make it glow in the dark. Anything radioactive only glows in the dark, it's not like in the Simpsons.

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Nightwing

05-16-2006, 10:38 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by WeirdoTransvestite

I actually think it's a mispronounciation of "Gigawatts"<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Actually, it's the correct pronouncation of "gigawatts".
It's fun to say... Giga. Giga. Giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga-giga...

Speaking of which, "What the H*** is a GIGAWATT?!?!?!?"

luis rojas

05-16-2006, 10:59 AM

But seriously...do you remember those toys that we first put near a light source and then inside a dark room for glowing? That can be used por a blade..don't you think?

Enolmano

05-16-2006, 01:18 PM

1 gigawatt=1000 megawatts (1 megawatt=1000 kilowatts, 1 kilowatt=1000 watts)

same thing as with the "bytes" in processors...[:D] (so yes, there is something called terrawatt)

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suit_man

05-16-2006, 03:08 PM

there is also a metric prefix called yotta. i thought it was funny because it is kinda like yoda [:p]

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LAN-ED-TUL

05-16-2006, 03:28 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by luis rojas

But seriously...do you remember those toys that we first put near a light source and then inside a dark room for glowing? That can be used por a blade..don't you think?
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yes i remember those. i have a 12 inch tall obi-wan that was a mail in special, i got, that is a glow in the dark sucker. looks cool in the dark. but i dont think it would hold up to dueling if you was able to get it in a 1 inch diameter rod to fit, or 3/4 for the el. or either for just a nonfunctioanl duealer.

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Enolmano

05-17-2006, 06:56 AM

yotta? is that 1000 gigawatts then, or what?

I'm a fourteen year old swedish teenager...so be patient...

Enolmano

05-17-2006, 07:53 AM

UPDATE:
found this on wiki...

yotta (1000 x 1 zetta-)
zetta (1000 x 1 exa-)
exa (1000 x 1 peta-)
peta hope you got it...
tera
giga
mega
kilo
hekto
deka

which means that a yottawatt is 1000x1000x1000x1000 terawatt (hope I got it right now)

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james3

05-17-2006, 08:52 AM

So...

I reckon then a yottawatts is a lottawatts?[:o)]

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-17-2006, 10:00 AM

1000000000000000000000000 Watts = 1 yottawatt

Now, If only I had a 1 yottabyte hard drive.

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Nightwing

05-17-2006, 10:32 AM

Heh. [8D] You could download the internet.

xwingband

05-17-2006, 10:56 AM

If you don't count downloads on server a few TB would be good. Wikipedia can fit in a GB...

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-17-2006, 11:24 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Nightwing

Heh. [8D] You could download the internet.
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You could be the internet

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Enolmano

05-17-2006, 01:25 PM

How abaout a yottabyte in RAM??? Lagging no more [:D]

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suit_man

05-17-2006, 01:36 PM

if you had that much ram, your computer would be able to do what you wanted before you even think it.

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LAN-ED-TUL

05-18-2006, 02:52 AM

then we might just have a terminator and judgement day, lol

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-18-2006, 05:55 AM

Good, lightsabers are quite handy against droid armies.

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xwingband

05-18-2006, 06:18 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Enolmano

How abaout a yottabyte in RAM??? Lagging no more [:D]

I'm a fourteen year old swedish teenager...so be patient...
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A lot of servers act that way. They have have very little HD space and a butt load of RAM (GBs).

It may take a nuclear reactor to power a yottabyte... so you may go radioactive.[:)]

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james3

05-18-2006, 08:36 AM

Well xwing at least the case would already light up and look cool[:p]

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Enolmano

05-21-2006, 10:40 AM

sooo...back on topic, what's this tritium stuff you guys have found?

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xwingband

05-21-2006, 03:22 PM

Isn't tritium heavy water?[?]

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SaberSentinel

05-21-2006, 05:54 PM

Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen. I believe it has two neutrons in the nucleus as opposed to Deuterium which only has one. Heavy water has an isotope of hydrogen instead of Hydrogen in its atomic structure. So tritium could be a componet of heavy water, but I think Deuterium is more common.

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shiky

05-21-2006, 06:19 PM

deuterium can be found naturally. Tritium however is NEVER found naturally. it will always be found in heavy water, which as stated before, is two tritium atoms, and one oxygen. called heavy water since the tritium is one proton and 2 neutrons, where deuterium is one proton one neutron, and regular old hydrogen is only one proton.

edit: we watch too much spiderman 2 don't we Xwing?

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xwingband

05-21-2006, 06:35 PM

Well, I remember it somewhat from chemistry that I ironically had just this last semester.[xx(] The memory of it was vague...[:p]

Come to think of it my best memories of it are from SG-1. That one jerk of a planet wanted it. The Jenai or something like that...

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WeirdoTransvestite

05-21-2006, 06:49 PM

The Heavy Water that everyone, who knows of it, thinks of is made up of two Deuterium atoms and one oxygen. It is not radioactive, since Deuterium is not radioactive, and is not harmful to humans. It is essentially a heavier version of regular water.

However I believe there is a Heavy Water made up of Tritium, and that is harmful because Tritium is radioactive

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Darth_Dadderall

05-25-2006, 11:20 PM

Why in the nether hells would anyone want a radioactive saber blade? Do you WANT to have little mutant babies? And you, with the glow-in-the-dark... It's not called glow-in-the-light, is it? How well do you think that would show up?

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Mor-El Kesav

03-11-2007, 09:43 AM

OK but how many millirads of energy would it take to power a lightsaber blade to the appropritate glow level? The dial of a watch is one thing, that much surface area is another. Remember you can't exceed a given amount of exposure (I think it is around 400 millirads per year) without introducing a serious health risk.

So the longer you are around your lightsaber, thusly powered, the greater the risk of radiation induced illnesses.

Dregan

03-12-2007, 02:52 PM

How about every police officer or citizen like myself who carries a weapon with tritium nightsights? It's not really a concern. The measurable radiant output in non-visable spectrum RF is in the micro-rad range. Barely discernable. I once ran my gun under a giger meter and barely got a single click.

Now, granted, tritium nightsights have about 2-3 mL of pressurized, vaporized material per tube, three tubes per system, so it's a small amount of tritium. you'd probably need almost half a liter to fill a PC tube, so the intensity would he higher, and the radiant energy as well, but I think that you'd have other challenges before radiation got to be a concern. Mainly, a filled blade, much less a heavy isotope gas, will be very heavy. And on the off chance that you did build one, dueling is out of the question for saety concerns. Imagine a tip flying off and spraying radioactive isotope all over your buddies. Fun! Lastly, even if you did make such a monstrosity, it wouldn't be very bright. Remember glow-in-the-dark toys from when you were a kid? About that bright, at best.

As a point of fact, regarding something else that was mentioned in this topic, a material can radiate any color of visible light. The nightsights on my SW99 are orange/green, as seen here --> Trijicon Dealer (http://www.gunaccessories.com/Trijicon/NightSights.asp)