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[Deimos56]

1- Obtain large amounts of Gold, silver, and assorted gems.
2- Calculate so that when atom-smashed, it turns up in front of Toady's house.
3- Give the largest donation ever.

[Nivim]

Atom-smash Giant Space Spiders, much higher chance of survival, consider how much space there is...Or you could atom-smash enough quantum-piled rock to create another planet, then we might see where in space the smashing correlates to.

[Neruz]

Atom-smash Giant Space Spiders, much higher chance of survival, consider how much space there is...Or you could atom-smash enough quantum-piled rock to create another planet, then we might see where in space the smashing correlates to.

Wut.

[blah28722]

1- Obtain large amounts of Gold, silver, and assorted gems.
2- Calculate so that when atom-smashed, it turns up in front of Toady's house.
3- Give the largest donation ever.

I'd think you'd make more atomsmashing adamantine to your house, selling it to the government/whatever, and donating cash.

[Draco18s]

Reminds me that there is a (roguelike?) game out there where you play a grue.

Oh yes.  It is pitch black.  You are likely to eat someone.

[Neruz]

Reminds me that there is a (roguelike?) game out there where you play a grue.

Oh yes.  It is pitch black.  You are likely to eat someone.

Heh

[jaked122]

So you're suggesting that the bridge comes down so hard it bashes things off the universe?

If you consider that the dwarven atom smasher has infinite momentum and moves from up to down in a differential moment, it's completely feasible.

wait, doesn't that mean that the dwarven atom smasher is moving at light speed, and yet it takes 4-100 turns to close?

Screw america, go canadians and ninjas.
(Im a USA Resident by the way)

you aren't worthy of this title!!

ok, I'm going to mod a race of hot russian lesbians as pets. When you've done the equations, tell me and I'll start the smashing.

excellent, the equations are done, now all that remains is to put the lesbians into the atom smasher along with the entire planet's worth of rock.

[Draco18s]

Reminds me that there is a (roguelike?) game out there where you play a grue.

Oh yes.  It is pitch black.  You are likely to eat someone.

Heh

I played it just after posting, it's really hard!  After three games my best was 5 meals.  The biggest problem is putting out their light, otherwise you have to stand behind them and wait for them to walk backwards.  If you use your "where are people?" spell too much you don't have the 2 SP to cast Darkness.

[Neruz]

So you're suggesting that the bridge comes down so hard it bashes things off the universe?

If you consider that the dwarven atom smasher has infinite momentum and moves from up to down in a differential moment, it's completely feasible.

wait, doesn't that mean that the dwarven atom smasher is moving at light speed, and yet it takes 4-100 turns to close?

It takes 4 to 100 turns to recieve the input from the lever which makes it close, if you look at the actual drawbridge it goes from perfectly vertical to perfectly horizontal in a single turn; the smallest possible measurement of time in DF, ergo it has infinite momentum and is thus moving much faster than the speed of light, an infinite amount faster in fact.

[Itnetlolor]

I love how this went from a mere folklore theory into a whole Quantum Physics research thread.

I don't think we'll need the Large Hadron Collider; We've got drawbridges. The birth of existence, the beginning of days, was when God decided to atom-smash an entire universe. That must've been one hell of a bridge.

"It took him six days to build the bridge, and on the seventh day, he flipped the switch."

[Neruz]

I love how this went from a mere folklore theory into a whole Quantum Physics research thread.

I don't think we'll need the Large Hadron Collider; We've got drawbridges. The birth of existence, the beginning of days, was when God decided to atom-smash an entire universe. That must've been one hell of a bridge.

"It took him six days to build the bridge, and on the seventh day, he flipped the switch."

And then he swore profusely because Metatron had wandered under the bridge while he wasn't looking, desperate to get that =Rope Reed Sock=

[Machinesquid]

Nah, French are like elves.
(Pretty language, eat snails, sing a lot, run around naked)

I love my preconceptions of French people.

Hey, French are not like that...
...
At least, they don't all run around naked

(sorry guys, gotta say it)

Have you never been to a French beach?

So you're suggesting that the bridge comes down so hard it bashes things off the universe?

If you consider that the dwarven atom smasher has infinite momentum and moves from up to down in a differential moment, it's completely feasible.

wait, doesn't that mean that the dwarven atom smasher is moving at light speed, and yet it takes 4-100 turns to close?

It takes 4 to 100 turns to recieve the input from the lever which makes it close, if you look at the actual drawbridge it goes from perfectly vertical to perfectly horizontal in a single turn; the smallest possible measurement of time in DF, ergo it has infinite momentum and is thus moving much faster than the speed of light, an infinite amount faster in fact.

The dwarven space age will happen when someone leaves a captive on a closed atom smasher, inside a terrarium.

[jupotter]

Nah, French are like elves.
(Pretty language, eat snails, sing a lot, run around naked)

I love my preconceptions of French people.

Hey, French are not like that...
...
At least, they don't all run around naked

(sorry guys, gotta say it)

Have you never been to a French beach?

I'm French, so I can say that not every french run around naked...

...only most 

[ousire]

i cant beleive this discussion is still going on! 

but anyway, the answer behind the atom smasher is quite simple. the world of dwarf fortress and our world are really two closley interlocked parallel dimmentions locked in a infinite time-loop

heres how it works:

1: Toady invents DF
2: players atom smash elves, goblins, ect.
3: the creatures end up appearing in J R R Tolkeins back yard
4: Tolkein ends up writing the Lord of The Rings
5: LOTR inspires toady
6:Toady invents DF
7: players atom smash elves, golbins, ect.

so on, so forth. without our world, DF wouldnt exist. and DF ends up causing its own existance via elves being poncy bastards. thus we can say that Elves are the secret creators of DF! 

[Armok]

Horror of horrors! That is one thing frail apes were never meant to know!