Bad is a health risk, health risk is a hazard, hazards are dangerous.
Again: HMRC standard.
Might is synonymous with potentially.
That's like saying "ocean is synonymous with pond"--they are synonyms, but they imply different things.
Hmm let me see, how much energy do you think it takes to routinely heat a foot wide sphere by 1000 degrees? Let alone create an artificial dwarf star?
Depends on what's in the sphere. And I would like to point out that your artificial dwarf star thing is misleading, because that's not what happened.
Not to mention that I never denied that manipulators manipulated large amounts of energy. I was just pointing out that they...well...
manipulate the energy, rather than create it. Amps
amplify the energy, they don't create it.
Something bad might happen also applies to eating old expired foodstuffs that are normally refridgerated, but you know that "might" really means "almost defininately."
...No, it doesn't.
As for it not being routine, you basically put a tiny magical nuclear reactor into an alien device of unknown origin and with no idea how it actually functions. How the fuck is that routine?
That's not the routine part. The routine part is "Something bad might happen". If that's all you have to say about doing something...well...that's pretty true of anything you do IRL, and
very true of anything you do IER. It's butt-covering white noise.
Yes computers cant run without electricity, but the electricity aint the thing doing all the calculations.
And the calculations aren't what Grate wanted.
Manipulators run off of bottled space magic...
Then why do they need human presence or expensive automanip equipment? And why are they called "manipulators" if they don't manipulate stuff?
So when someone says "It might rain tomorrow." for you that translates to "It probably won't rain tomorrow."?
Yes. If rain is likely tomorrow, I expect people to say "It'll probably rain tomorrow".
Oh, and there are computers that can work without electricity, if we use the broad term for computer and not the computer = PC.
...which is irrelevant to the analogy we were making.
((Not mine, at least. Any recreated will have those same properties, and they'll get worse each moment.))
((Not so. Again, it's meta enough that I can just recreate it as it was before you did that crap to it.))
((Just take this to the OOC thread guys))
Alright.
((Nope, as it's meta enough that I can retcon your recreation of it - and I can continue this game of mules for longer than you can.))
Nope, you can't. Especially since I can just retcon whatever you did to it before I actually use it.
(No, don't bother taking it anywhere. Just shut up entirely until you two actually have something to say. That would be preferred.)
I'd like to make just one more point.