Alaska Chat II

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

Have to wait for it to brew Wouldn't want to go thirsty in the meantime. My mother-in-law purchased these for me, pomegranate is a fine fruit, but this is a wee bit different. Personally, I like the mountain berry flavoured ones better.

I'm curious, are you originally from Canada?

[HighlandLady]

No...Scottish here.

I have to celebrate...I finally figured out the complexities of manual transmission today

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

No...Scottish here.

I have to celebrate...I finally figured out the complexities of manual transmission today

Oh Scottish, cool. I just figured Canadian because it's the closest commonwealth nation.
I'm very liberal with spellings, it depends a lot on how I'm feeling, to whom I'm talking, and what I am talking about. I figure I can make my typing match my vague and unplacable accent.

[HighlandLady]

I have to watch what I type...there are words that come across as an insult or worse here. I am obsessed with my spelling, but have had to watch that also...schools here weren't very lenient to 'English' grammar/spelling.

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

I have to watch what I type...there are words that come across as an insult or worse here. I am obsessed with my spelling, but have had to watch that also...schools here weren't very lenient to 'English' grammar/spelling.

Really? That's too bad. I've never gotten marked down for throwing an "extra" u into my words occasionally. Sometimes the spell checker catches it, sometimes it doesn't.
For a while my spell checker got accidentally stuck in British English. Some people noticed, other people didn't. It was actually kind of funny.

[HighlandLady]

It didn't take me long to return to my own fashion. It tends to make the spell-check work overtime.

Did everyone take the eve off?

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

It didn't take me long to return to my own fashion. It tends to make the spell-check work overtime.

Did everyone take the eve off?

Geez, I guess so!

I'm trying to write this paper on nuclear fusion, and even though it's fascinating I'm just not feeling into it this evening. I think it's because this paper has to be in the simplest layman's terms and it's very difficult to write that way.

[HighlandLady]

Considering the topic, I can imagine the frustration. I am of no help, I'm afraid. If it were History, you'd be in better luck. How's the hot chocolate?

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by HighlandLady

Considering the topic, I can imagine the frustration. I am of no help, I'm afraid. If it were History, you'd be in better luck. How's the hot chocolate?

It was great. Unfortunately, because I'm trying to cut back I only ordered a small and finished it long ago.

Can you do me a favor? Read this and tell me if it's simply stated enough to make sense to a non-geek...

Originally Posted by Me

Although fusion reactions are generally exothermic, meaning they generate more energy than it takes to create them, it does require a significant amount of energy to start a fusion reaction. This is because protons are positively charged, and just like in a magnet two positively charged forces repel each other. However, nuclei are also very strongly attracted to each other by a force called nuclear force. Nuclear force is a strong enough attraction to actually fuse the nuclei together, but it only takes effect when they are already very close. So to start a fusion reaction requires a great amount of power to force these atoms close enough for nuclear force to smash them together, but once this happens the amount of energy released is theoretically much greater than the initial input amount.

[HighlandLady]

Well done...it is simple for the layman, but still technical enough to justify the subject.