college successfully keeps anything interesting away from campus in the interest of "atmosphere", so you end up with a commercial district a healthy hike away from campus, which is therefore spread out all across town
There are a few places in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed where Kira Yamato faces certain death, is presumed dead by all the other characters, then miraculously reappears in a later episode. I'm curious about one particular incident, for now: His duel with Athrun and the Aegis.
Athrun sets the Aegis to ...
meta thought I was a bot when making a new topic T_T
oh, of course after i make the topic i find the answer
@Mysticial I don't know much about search stats and such, but if you had the full question in the question body rather than the question title, would that not be just as helpful to search engine visibility?
it's similar in a lot of shounen though - even though you see the main character lose what looks like all of the blood in his body, he's still alive. you expect main characters to survive and it's a surprise when they actually die.
so in a war anime I don't expect many of the good guys to die even though they are at war
@atlantiza The main concern, of course, is that one of the 'good guys' will get twisted around into a villain. I always saw that as the main issue in the recent Gundam shows.
@jkerian yup, I've found some really awesome stuff there. I was so happy when someone sent it to me because it already had a great answer for a question I had been thinking about for a while.
I'd be very sad if it gets closed down but wouldn't be surprised
@jkerian Most of the 1%ers are shameless repwhores. I used to be the same. Then I stopped after about 30k because it wasn't good for my image and I was getting tired of it.
@atlantiza I don't think it will be. If you've listened to the SE podcasts recently, Joel has moved to being in favor of small SE communities, as long as they aren't actually full of spam or really rotten questions/answers.
There's really nothing wrong with JLU, other than a lower Q/d than they'd like to see
anime fundamentally belongs in that same category... so I'm very much in the mindset of "What problem are you trying to solve?"... and really this is more of a trivia site :)
what I'm saying is that, at the beginning, it's likely that a lot of people will ask obvious/major questions (not saying there won't be non-obvious questions). over time, more of these obvious/major questions will be posted so there will be less to post. and eventually, almost all of the new questions will be obscure questions. I just think that's the logical course but maybe it won't happen like that.
I couldn't think of any sample questions for area51 but I'm trying to find some now that we're actually in beta
So what you have now after 4 years is that the vast majority of the top voted questions on Stack Overflow are of the type, "Where is the bathroom?". Basic, but common.
I'm tempted to think the effect is slightly less on here and SciFi.
Speaking of which do we have anyone here who's been on SciFi since the beginning?
Isn't the point of alchemy is that you can only get as much as you give?
Yes it is. However, the point of the philosopher's stone is to pass that 'barrier' of having to give something in order to get something back.
How does that work?
Not quite sure. All I know is that it allows the u...
You know, that answer practically means nothing, there is a correct answer for it :P
@Mochan There's barely a hundred questions on the whole site. I probably go through about double that on SO every day. So you could just run down the entire list.
See, you can't split these atoms without having a considerable amount of energy, and you'd eventually need to use more energy than you gain, that's the law of energy conservation
@MadaraUchiha No. thanks to the second law of thermodynamics. It holds enough energy-equivalent to vaporise a good chunk of the Earth, but you can't actually turn it into that energy without serious work.
Electrons are also a form of energy. You can fire a stream of them on a slit in a wall, and they'll form diffraction patterns on the wall behind it - same as light would.
@MadaraUchiha Nothing much with the original 10^20. An average human body contains about 10^28 electrons already. You're adding a drop of water into the ocean.
@MadaraUchiha Static field of what? Electrostatic or magnetostatic, yes. Gravito-static, no; objects can only be torn apart by gravity field differences.
Anywhere inside the field. Though if you add non-insulating medium around them (like ... air, at over 10kV per metre), they'll get fried long before that.
Why would they be? They end at electric potentials, whatever they may be. For example, the electrostatic field between the plates of a capacitor ends at those plates.
Yes, the field would still stop at any sufficiently conductive wall (or object). Depending on the strength, even air can be "sufficiently conductive" - the higher the electric potential difference, the easier it is to stop it.
Of course ... the object would get some destructive effects from this, for example it would be heated up. Air turns into plasma almost instantly, which is more conductive, and forms the canals for lightning.
A thin sheet of metal would melt quickly, too. This is what happens then capacitors "burn out".
@MartinSojka So for instance, let's say I'm holding a 50C charge in my hand. My atoms have been working out, and do not melt. How widespread the damage would be?
Can I expect a large sphere of supercharged plasma around me?
Now, an electric field strong enough to turn atoms apart is also strong enough to turn "virtual particle pairs" apart - in pure vacuum. What then happens is that it creates matter in its area, becoming weaker until it isn't able to do so anymore.
50C is what you get when you draw 500mA from an USB connection (the max USB 2 can deliver) for 100 seconds. It's ... not very impressive, but it should give you a nice afro haircut.
It would also discharge into the air almost instantly, giving you a nice sparkling effect.
Higher charges, more sparkles (and more plasma around you), though at some point you'll have to deal with the fact that you're also being dragged along the magnetic field of your planet. :)
Isn't the point of alchemy is that you can only get as much as you give?
Yes it is. However, the point of the philosopher's stone is to pass that 'barrier' of having to give something in order to get something back.
How does that work?
Not quite sure. All I know is that it allows the u...
