OMG Firefox vulnerability????

[Losrase]

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I can understand light very well, and unless it's luminescent (curse you, Mhurron ), there is no possible way whatsoever for something to be pink and invisible at the same time, as being pink would disqualify the requirement of being invisible, and vive-versa: the two are mutually exclusive, no matter how you look at it.

No, you are still right Yellow Mage. For something to be invisible then light needs to either pass through it without reflecting, being absorbed, or it needs to bend around the object. Luminescent means light is being generate at low temperatures. If the object is luminescent then the object is a light source. The object will not be invisible since it is a light source and would emit light waves/particles (I dont remember if they ever proved if light was a wave or a particle because last time I checked, it behaved as both). If it is able to absorb its own light, then it would appear black (i.e. black hole which absorbs all light).

I hope the made sense, I always sucked at "proofs" in school.

[Feba]

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If you really want to debate the Invisible Pink Unicorn, at least look it up first so you see what it comes from.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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"Defeatism" certainly isn't what got us to the moon. Defeatists are quitters, and quitting, as Feba said, never got us to the moon.

What I object to is calling "defeatist" those objectively criticize--those who use analytical skills in conjunction with knowledge and understanding to probe weaknesses of new and even old ideas.

I'll be perfectly blunt; thinking that "burning water as fuel might work" is stupid.

The first thought of any intelligent person upon seeing that video should be: "What exactly is burning?" Everyone who had high school physics or chemistry would know that water is usually the end product of combustion, not the fuel. Heck, I learned that in elementary school. There's no excuse for responding with fanciful hope in situation where doubt is needed--ask for insight, plausible mechanism, and an account of the circumstance (e.g. energy input, in this case).

Pointed questions and doubts are good--defeatists are the fools who surrender their intelligence to settle for a "Well, that sounds nice." Wishful thinking is just another form of defeatism; neither was helpful in getting rockets to the moon.

As for wishful thinking, Feba said it's good . . . "up to a point." You're constantly assuming the crossing of said point.

Feba is the person who put up that water burning thread, thus crossed the point a long time ago, but that's neither here nor there.

So let up off of the cynicism, please?

There's a difference between criticism and cynicism. The former points out possible flaws and demand remediation, the latter assumes flaws exists and cannot be remedied for the most part.

[Yellow Mage]

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Post re-done:

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If you really want to debate the Invisible Pink Unicorn, at least look it up first so you see what it comes from.

Well, now I feel like an idiot, though I'm pretty sure that's what you intended; funnily enough, I did get the Spaghetti Monster reference.

There's a difference between criticism and cynicism. The former points out possible flaws and demand remediation, the latter assumes flaws exists and cannot be remedied for the most part.

That's correct. Knowing that, I ask you again to stop your cynicism.

[Malacite]

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=/ and here I thought I was being cute with that poorly edited pick (Photoshop on the fritz, had to use MS Paint)

[LilithAngel]

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Lol don't worry overmuch about it Mal, Ophelia and Reginald are both MS Paint byproducts as well (no PS to speak of at all here). However...

I'mma look up some more pics of Time Mages. I think there may be more Ophelia and Reginald some time in the future.

[Feba]

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The first thought of any intelligent person upon seeing that video should be: "What exactly is burning?" Everyone who had high school physics or chemistry would know that water is usually the end product of combustion, not the fuel.

However, that does not mean it is impossible to use as a fuel, obviously.

There's no excuse for responding with fanciful hope in situation where doubt is needed--ask for insight, plausible mechanism, and an account of the circumstance (e.g. energy input, in this case).

Yes, doubt is needed to approach anything rationally. That, however, does not mean you cannot be hopeful of it.

Pointed questions and doubts are good--defeatists are the fools who surrender their intelligence to settle for a "Well, that sounds nice." Wishful thinking is just another form of defeatism; neither was helpful in getting rockets to the moon.

Goddamn, you really strained to twist it that badly, didn't you? There's nothing defeatist about being interested in new ideas and possibilities. There's everything about it in simply giving up on ideas without exploring their research.

[Yellow Mage]

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I think there may be more Ophelia and Reginald some time in the future.

Well, considering their profession . . .