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[Tarran]

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/video-during-ted-talk-kepler-scientist-reveals-discovery-140-exoplanets-are-earth
Earthlike planets!

YAY

...

Now how are we going to get to them?

[PTTG??]

It's my birthday!
Now I can (legally) drink in pubs and buy beer from shops!
I also acquired an electric blue Fender Jazz bass and a heap of CDs. I've also got a 75cl bottle of Chimay blue-cap in the cooler.(I bought it yesterday :3)

Hey, it's my birthday too!
 
Repr'zent!

[Tarran]

It's my birthday!
Now I can (legally) drink in pubs and buy beer from shops!
I also acquired an electric blue Fender Jazz bass and a heap of CDs. I've also got a 75cl bottle of Chimay blue-cap in the cooler.(I bought it yesterday :3)

Hey, it's my birthday too!
 
Repr'zent!

Happy 959'th birthday!

[ein]

Any what does this mean?

but only if you're somewhat familiar with the lore/acronyms.

[alway]

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/video-during-ted-talk-kepler-scientist-reveals-discovery-140-exoplanets-are-earth
Earthlike planets!

YAY

...

Now how are we going to get to them?

I was thinking a rocket engine powered by kid shoving.

[Tarran]

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/video-during-ted-talk-kepler-scientist-reveals-discovery-140-exoplanets-are-earth
Earthlike planets!

YAY

...

Now how are we going to get to them?

I was thinking a rocket engine powered by kid shoving.

...I don't know what to say.

[Solifuge]

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-07/video-during-ted-talk-kepler-scientist-reveals-discovery-140-exoplanets-are-earth
Earthlike planets!

Oh wow. See, I've been weighing where in Biology I'd like to focus, as I work toward my first degree. Though I'm fascinated by the study of Intelligence, and the prospect presented by the work into inter-species communication that's been done lately, the prospects of working in Synthetic Biology, alongside planetary Physicists, to try and sniff out physically and chemically Earthlike worlds is a fascinating one. This is extremely cool news.

[Akigagak]

Link related to planet building.

Also, awesomely nerdy, on a level above DF.

[sonerohi]

I might've already mentioned this, but it bears repeating due to how powerful the joy-osity of this is.

   

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

  My brother is 10 months older than me, and a lot of his friends have little brothers my age, so we all run as one big group. A couple nights ago, while we were all chilling out, someone just says "Hey, I have to go meet this softball chick at this upscale hotel. Her whole team is there if anyone wants to come with". By upscale hotel, he meant only two floors aren't executive suites, and ID's are checked at the entrance and all, and it is extremely pricy. We did not know this until we got turned away  at the door. Me being me, I found a door on the side of the building and managed to get it to unlock (didn't pick it. One turn of the handle it is locked, next try it opens. Go figure). Behind the door is a staircase for the maintenance people to access all the boiler rooms, and the pool at the top floor.

     We get all the way up, and are standing in front of the door to the pool. Locked, with no luck at opening. I was running on an adrenaline high and caught up in the excitement, so I had the greatest idea ever. I take a ladder up and over a wall section, and find myself on a 18th floor hallway balcony, with a ten foot drop that would land me right next to the railing. Naturally, me being me, I wussed out and got another kid to drop down, but then he got the door for us. We were in for real, and the softball team was all up at the pool. At risk of turning into a guido, shit was so cash.

     In our wanderings of the hotel and chilling, we ended up outside the reception hall, where a wedding reception was being held. To shorten a story, a drunk as hell attendee taught us some dance moves, was extraordinarily racist, and invited us on in. Then we had security called on us by a pissy staffer. We risked the electric slide, dodged a rent-a-cop (they are seriously lacking in mobility without segways), and snuck back to the girls hotel room before we realized we were out way past curfew. Numbers were exchanged rapidly as we hustled to get the hell back home before we were caught out too late, and everyone made it safe.

Best night of summer by far.

Sonerohi, that's the stuff of Movie Plots right there. That is the best shenanigan-filled girl-hunting adventure I've heard in a long time; major Kudos. You and your friends have some serious Sisu.

I don't understand what Sisu means, but thank you. It really was just ludicrously awesome. The hotel chain uses escalators in the lobby, so we hammed it up and did group poses like the guys from 21 and the Hangover. The security guy was awesome, by the way. He had a business suit on and wasn't really tall, or fat, or muscular in any way, but he had bright orange frames for his sunglasses. The shades portion was actually a little visor that could flip up for it to be normal glasses (Since several pages ago questions were asked).

[dragnar]

Sonerohi, that's the stuff of Movie Plots right there. That is the best shenanigan-filled girl-hunting adventure I've heard in a long time; major Kudos. You and your friends have some serious Sisu.

I don't understand what Sisu means, but thank you. It really was just ludicrously awesome. The hotel chain uses escalators in the lobby, so we hammed it up and did group poses like the guys from 21 and the Hangover. The security guy was awesome, by the way. He had a business suit on and wasn't really tall, or fat, or muscular in any way, but he had bright orange frames for his sunglasses. The shades portion was actually a little visor that could flip up for it to be normal glasses (Since several pages ago questions were asked).

Sisu is something somewhat similar to Bushido. It is determination, refusing to give up until you task is done, even beyond the point that completing it would have any meaning. Basically, you have Sisu if you will finish any task, no matter how trivial, no matter what.

Not the best way of describing it, but it's the best I can do.(unless I'm completely mixed up. I did learn the term from a webcomic after all.)

[Realmfighter]

Awesome

[MaximumZero]

Sisu is a lot different than Bushido in various aspects, though. Sisu is having superhuman determination to see something through to the end. It is stubbornness, doggedness, decisiveness against overwhelming odds and perseverance.

Bushido is a code of conduct that spans and pervades every portion of the Samurai's life, very much like Chivalry for Knights. It tells him how to treat people (especially masters and elders), what values to have, and basically how to live and die overall.

If you lose Sisu, that's ok. You're only human. It happens. If you lose Bushido, you get to commit seppuku, which is not as ok.

[sonerohi]

Ah, I see. I think the word might go a bit overboard for what we did though  . Sisu sounds like it would be more for some guy who saves a village singlehandedly by sheer determination, not like a horde of teenage guys hyped up on testosterone and wanting to hang out with some girls for the night.

[Solifuge]

Whenever my grandmother uses Sisu, it's closer to guts or tenacity than some kind of heroism, or Bushido. It doesn't matter how important the goal was, but you stuck to it, did it, and did it with panache. That's what matters.

[dragnar]

Yeah, the example I saw(from the comic "unicorn jelly"... it's not as stupid as it sounds) was a man simply delivering a message. A man with several broken bones, in the middle of a battlefield, hauling himself along with his one good arm simply to deliver this one, unimportant, letter.