TET: Celebrating the day we stopped the alien invasion!

[Ethel mermania]

Why hasn't there been an NBA thread does nobody like basketball

No. No-one does.

Not enough to discuss it anyway

[Lordieth]

5 years in a little under two weeks. This site is the longest place online I've ever stayed after that, I think. Just.

I've been a member of the same Liverpool FC fan community across 3 websites for 8 years in December.

Kind of mad to think the internet can make up such a chunk of your life, but it does.

[Immoren]

Roof top solar would be a good democratization of power production, if nothing else.

[Laerod]

5 years in a little under two weeks. This site is the longest place online I've ever stayed after that, I think. Just.

Ten years in two months for me, and likewise.

I think my 11th anniversary is coming up?

Edit: So it is!

[Lordieth]

True, that's why thorium reactors, tidal energy and biodiesel are also important energy sources to develop.

No significant contracts, no interest on this end, I'm afraid. The big construction and engineering money is in oil extraction, wind farms and solar panel fields. Business shall bow to the expertise of science, here.

Or invested interests. Green energy is more of a PR move for a lot of the big Oil Companies. Doesn't make sense to reduce your most profitable resource.

[Laerod]

Roof top solar would be a good democratization of power production, if nothing else.

Depends on latitude.

[DesAnges]

Which should actually be an advantage, but Nixon agreed with you and shut down the thorium reactor development process.

I'm entirely for Thorium. As a fuel source the pros far outweigh the measly benefit of being able to weaponise its waste.

Cheaper, safer, more efficient, no need for years of decontamination and security watch. It's fucking ace.

[DesAnges]

I've been a member of the same Liverpool FC fan community across 3 websites for 8 years in December.

Kind of mad to think the internet can make up such a chunk of your life, but it does.

I joined a new one about 18 months ago but unfortunately that has died because the admins didn't have the time or money to keep it going.

The first community has been so unrefreshed by new users for so long everyone has become a dickhead. It's sad.

[Gallade]

No significant contracts, no interest on this end, I'm afraid. The big construction and engineering money is in oil extraction, wind farms and solar panel fields. Business shall bow to the expertise of science, here.

Wind farms must be popular on island nations, because if there's one thing an island always has available, it's wind.

Still have to be built at sea for the most part, people around here hate them more than incinerators. Shame, really. I think they're pretty. And, with Dad's house being under the shadow of a wind farm, I can attest to their damn near silence.

[Lordieth]

I'm entirely for Thorium. As a fuel source the pros far outweigh the measly benefit of being able to weaponise its waste.

Cheaper, safer, more efficient, no need for years of decontamination and security watch. It's fucking ace.

Let's start a Kickstarter campaign. Got room at your place for the prototype? I'll bring my spanner set.

[Lordieth]

Kind of mad to think the internet can make up such a chunk of your life, but it does.

I joined a new one about 18 months ago but unfortunately that has died because the admins didn't have the time or money to keep it going.

The first community has been so unrefreshed by new users for so long everyone has become a dickhead. It's sad.

I was a member of an MSN Community for several years, and left just before Microsoft started to end the service. I think they sold it on, but even that company shut them down in the end. They were good places to meet similar-minded people, but because they were headed by individuals, the power went to some of their heads. The schisms could get a bit unpleasant when someone decided they wanted to head their own community and start to siphon active users. Then there was the board rivalries...

Good times. Met some of the nicest, and most unpleasant people I could hope to meet. My first taste of internet life.

[Dyakovo]

Ten years in two months for me, and likewise.

I think my 11th anniversary is coming up?

Edit: So it is!

Your nation is almost old enough to have a nation of it's own that can participate on the forums...

[Gallade]

No significant contracts, no interest on this end, I'm afraid. The big construction and engineering money is in oil extraction, wind farms and solar panel fields. Business shall bow to the expertise of science, here.

Or invested interests. Green energy is more of a PR move for a lot of the big Oil Companies. Doesn't make sense to reduce your most profitable resource.

We don't extract the oil, mind, just build the rigs and refineries. Iirc, the Kazakhstan solar field contract years ago paid a hell of a lot of better than similar oil gigs.

[Lordieth]

I think my 11th anniversary is coming up?

Edit: So it is!

Your nation is almost old enough to have a nation of it's own that can participate on the forums...

Which opens up the horrible realisation that if this place lasts long enough, one of us could be posting alongside our kids.

Nope. nope. nope.

[Ethel mermania]

Your nation is almost old enough to have a nation of it's own that can participate on the forums...

Which opens up the horrible realisation that if this place lasts long enough, one of us could be posting alongside our kids.

Nope. nope. nope.

My kids Re old enough. Roan is pope joans kid.

[DesAnges]

I joined a new one about 18 months ago but unfortunately that has died because the admins didn't have the time or money to keep it going.

The first community has been so unrefreshed by new users for so long everyone has become a dickhead. It's sad.

I was a member of an MSN Community for several years, and left just before Microsoft started to end the service. I think they sold it on, but even that company shut them down in the end. They were good places to meet similar-minded people, but because they were headed by individuals, the power went to some of their heads. The schisms could get a bit unpleasant when someone decided they wanted to head their own community and start to siphon active users. Then there was the board rivalries...

Good times. Met some of the nicest, and most unpleasant people I could hope to meet. My first taste of internet life.

Hahaha that sounds like the original home for the community. Technically we were only one half, and left when one of the mods changed allegiances and another one started meddling in areas that weren't her jurisdiction. Plus the other half of that community were fucking arseholes.

[Lordieth]

Or invested interests. Green energy is more of a PR move for a lot of the big Oil Companies. Doesn't make sense to reduce your most profitable resource.

We don't extract the oil, mind, just build the rigs and refineries. Iirc, the Kazakhstan solar field contract years ago paid a hell of a lot of better than similar oil gigs.

I'm glad there's increasing investments in green energy, but in terms of bang for the buck, nothing beats oil, it seems. I've always quite liked the thought of owning a few small land rigs. Not sure why. Think I've played one-too-many RTS games.

I need enough resources to build my apocalypse tanks.

[The Serbian Empire]

Your nation is almost old enough to have a nation of it's own that can participate on the forums...

Which opens up the horrible realisation that if this place lasts long enough, one of us could be posting alongside our kids.

Nope. nope. nope.

And I could even on my scaled down transition plans be fully Marisa by that point.

[Laerod]

I think my 11th anniversary is coming up?

Edit: So it is!

Your nation is almost old enough to have a nation of it's own that can participate on the forums...

It will make ALL the newbie mistakes!

[Gallade]

Your nation is almost old enough to have a nation of it's own that can participate on the forums...

Which opens up the horrible realisation that if this place lasts long enough, one of us could be posting alongside our kids.

Nope. nope. nope.

March 18, 2029. Fear the day.

[Lordieth]

I was a member of an MSN Community for several years, and left just before Microsoft started to end the service. I think they sold it on, but even that company shut them down in the end. They were good places to meet similar-minded people, but because they were headed by individuals, the power went to some of their heads. The schisms could get a bit unpleasant when someone decided they wanted to head their own community and start to siphon active users. Then there was the board rivalries...

Good times. Met some of the nicest, and most unpleasant people I could hope to meet. My first taste of internet life.

Hahaha that sounds like the original home for the community. Technically we were only one half, and left when one of the mods changed allegiances and another one started meddling in areas that weren't her jurisdiction. Plus the other half of that community were fucking arseholes.

Yeah, personal communities can get dramatic. I don't miss those worries.

[Lordieth]

Which opens up the horrible realisation that if this place lasts long enough, one of us could be posting alongside our kids.

Nope. nope. nope.

March 18, 2029. Fear the day.

Should I be looking out for a sign? Earth opening up, that sort of thing?

[Hurdegaryp]

Wind farms must be popular on island nations, because if there's one thing an island always has available, it's wind.

Still have to be built at sea for the most part, people around here hate them more than incinerators. Shame, really. I think they're pretty. And, with Dad's house being under the shadow of a wind farm, I can attest to their damn near silence.

Here in the Netherlands we also have more than a few NIMBY-screaming malcontents when it comes to wind farms. It is unacceptable to let these people stand in the way of the Greater Good, of course.

[DesAnges]

Hahaha that sounds like the original home for the community. Technically we were only one half, and left when one of the mods changed allegiances and another one started meddling in areas that weren't her jurisdiction. Plus the other half of that community were fucking arseholes.

Yeah, personal communities can get dramatic. I don't miss those worries.

Then the anti-semites got a bit more traction there and the board was shut down by the owners - who just so happened to be the Liverpool Echo...

[Dyakovo]

Which opens up the horrible realisation that if this place lasts long enough, one of us could be posting alongside our kids.

Nope. nope. nope.

My kids Re old enough. Roan is pope joans kid.

Both my kids are old enough as well.