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Nuremgard wrote:And we looove collecting tax in Nuremgard. All 61% of it. I'm pretty sure the civil servants at the Treasury use the country's tax receipts as masturbatory material.

I know I advocated for nuclear non proliferation, buuut *finger hovers over the big red button*

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:I know I advocated for nuclear non proliferation, buuut *finger hovers over the big red button*

Now this is a nuclear war I can really get behind

Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica

I'm starting lore now, if you haven't submitted your personal citystate/kingdom/duchy lore you still can but you're quickly approaching square status

Ok so this started as a small summary of the island's history and has sprung into a 1,000 word chronicle on the downfall of this precursor Empire

Jaslandia, Andromitus

Hello folks.

[spoiler=Today are:]

Today are:

- Alabama Day (Alabama, United States)

- Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day (Sengaku-ji, Tokyo)

- Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)

- Monkey Day

- National Bouillabaisse Day (United States)

- Roast Chestnuts Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 557 - Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.

- 835 - Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled

- 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.

- 1751 - The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

- 1812 - The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.

- 1814 - War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.

- 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

- 1836 - The Toledo War unofficially ends.

- 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

- 1900 - Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

- 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

- 1903 - The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

- 1909 - New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

- 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

- 1913 - Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

- 1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Fredrik Kaarle, renounces the Finnish throne.

- 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

- 1940 - Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

- 1941 - World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.

- 1955 - Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations.

- 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.

- 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

- 1963 - The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.

- 1964 - American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.

- 1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)

- 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

- 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.

- 1988 - The ET3 Greek television network is launched in Thessaloniki.

- 1992 - War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

- 1994 - Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

- 1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

- 1998 - Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.

- 2003 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

- 2004 - The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.

- 2008 - Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

- 2012 - Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1332 - Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia

- 1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer

- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist

- 1730 - James Bruce, Scottish traveller and travel writer

- 1870 - Karl Renner, Austrian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Austria

- 1895 - George VI of the United Kingdom

- 1914 - Karl Carstens, German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany

- 1946 - Jane Birkin, English-French actress and singer

- 1947 - Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil

- 1951 - Mike Krüger, German comedian and singer

- 1962 - Bela B., German musician, singer and songwriter ("Die Ärzte")

- 1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian race car driver

- 1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer

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Quote of the day

The key to success for everything in business, science, and technology is never to follow the others.

- Masaru Ibuka, Sony founder -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus

Represented and Written, a heavily updated version of my national overview is here!

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=andromitus/detail=factbook/id=644081

Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland

Kalaron wrote:A Lord of Cinder is, by necessity, one who has succeeded in Linking the ancient fire inside of Lothric/Lordran/The Profaned Capital

They are those who fight for their cause, knowing full well that whatever gain they make is transient and worthless in comparison to the -admittedly temporary- golden age that will follow in their death.

That said, they are only made when the First Flame is in dire peril, and even the Chosen Undead fail in their journey -though I suppose they did complete their part in the revolving prophesy a very long time ago- and are from then on defeated by the various Champions of Ash -themselves having failed to link the Flame in any meaningful way- such that the Age of Fire might be further prolonged.

Unfortunately, madness often takes a Lord of Cinder, and those who come back to once again be fuel for the fire must, often inexorably- be put down with Ash itself being returned to the thrones they once sat in.

To be a Lord of Cinder is to be willing to self-sacrifice in the most heroic of ways, not with stoicism, or dignity, or even with calm sometimes.

It is to feel dread and terror (and indeed determination) even as you fight the combined strength and tactics of all those who have come before you and succeeded, the finale enemy being an amalgamate of the Fire's fuels from the ages.

Conversely, to be a Lord of Hollows would be to reject the notion of there being an inherent, sovereign duty discharged upon the strong, and to instead steal the fires strength for what is -hopefully- all eternity as the King of all the darkness touches, and the conqueror of what little light remains, though, perhaps that is not as immoral as it might seem, seeing as the Fire itself has killed or Hollowed thousands just to stay alive against the abyss.

Thank you for finally responding to my query! Is this taken from a book or RPG or something? Or is this all lore you have formulated?

Mdogao wrote:Thank you for finally responding to my query! Is this taken from a book or RPG or something? Or is this all lore you have formulated?

That's all from Dark Souls.

Love the lore of that game, though :P

Yukona

Rogue One midnight release for me tonight, I'll let ya all know how good it is, no spoilers tho

Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica

Yukona wrote:Rogue One midnight release for me tonight, I'll let ya all know how good it is, no spoilers tho

kk

Yukona wrote:Rogue One midnight release for me tonight, I'll let ya all know how good it is, no spoilers tho

Thanks Brah

Latrovia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Kalaron wrote:That's all from Dark Souls.

Love the lore of that game, though :P

I must confess I am not familiar with that game. It sounds like a very rich world.

Kalaron

Mdogao wrote:I must confess I am not familiar with that game. It sounds like a very rich world.

from what i heard it's a very difficult game to complete.

Kalaron

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:from what i heard it's a very difficult game to complete.

Lord of Cinder, Bearer of the First Flame and soon to rise Monarch to the throne of want here.

It is :D

Mdogao wrote:I must confess I am not familiar with that game. It sounds like a very rich world.

Oh my, how it is.

Nothing better than dying thirty times to a scary spider lady, dodge rolling through her hit and finally killing her, only to discover that she's been killing all who come in a desperate search for "Humanity" (this is actually a healing item in the game, not the specie of which you are) so that she can try to heal and take care of her Sister, who, after leaving their home forever, was literally too kind, drawing the toxin and poision from the nearby blighted villagers into her own body so that other might live : ' )

Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:

Nothing better than dying thirty times to a scary spider lady, dodge rolling through her hit and finally killing her, only to discover that she's been killing all who come in a desperate search for "Humanity" (this is actually a healing item in the game, not the specie of which you are) so that she can try to heal and take care of her Sister, who, after leaving their home forever, was literally too kind, drawing the toxin and poision from the nearby blighted villagers into her own body so that other might live : ' )

http://reactiongifs.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/jim-carrey-liar-liar-oh-come-on-angry-its-enough.gif

Jaslandia

Kalaron wrote: she's been killing all who come in a desperate search for "Humanity" (this is actually a healing item in the game, not the specie of which you are)

I am actually a very intelligent dog. I can't speak because of my layrnx but I can type with a special oversized keyboard.

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Mdogao wrote:I am actually a very intelligent dog. I can't speak because of my layrnx but I can type with a special oversized keyboard.

That's so cool! I've never talked to a dog before. Do your owners know you can type?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao

Percyton wrote:That's so cool! I've never talked to a dog before. Do your owners know you can type?

Oh yea, just assume every dog has an owner

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Mdogao

I would like to ask is anyone could possibly endorse me, and I shall return the favor. :)

Mdogao

Percyton wrote:Do your owners know you can type?

Yes, my owners are experimental geneticists. They designed me using BARKR, which is like CRISPR, but for dog DNA. They spend most of their day working in the secret government research facility where I was born, so I spend a lot of time on the Internet.

My owners say that they smuggled me out of the lab because Trump administration will try to make me be their spy and assassin once they know I exist. My owners are very proud of me, because I am a good boy. My real name is Subject P-117, but they call me Spot for short. Also, I am a good boy.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Andromitus wrote:Oh yea, just assume every dog has an owner

I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to assume.

Mdogao wrote:Yes, my owners are experimental geneticists. They designed me using BARKR, which is like CRISPR, but for dog DNA. They spend most of their day working in the secret government research facility where I was born, so I spend a lot of time on the Internet.

My owners say that they smuggled me out of the lab because Trump administration will try to make me be their spy and assassin once they know I exist. My owners are very proud of me, because I am a good boy. My real name is Subject P-117, but they call me Spot for short. Also, I am a good boy.

Great to meet you, Spot! You sound like a very smart and useful dog. My name's Percy, and I'm a steam engine!

Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Jfc. Are these episodes of a kids show or 19th Century German nursery rhymes?

*pulls out old book of tales and speaks in German accent*

"There once was a boy who liked to suck his thumbs. His mother asked him to stop, but he wouldn't. So she cut off his thumbs. Now he has no thumbs. Good night."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OiYcq_vxQt4

Einsiev, Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Silver CTE'd

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus

Baxten wrote:Silver CTE'd

I saw that. While he was a hindrance at times, he was the one that started this whole thing back in the original NGA. Plus, it's always sad to see a long-time member go, especially from my perspective as a very long-time member. At the end of the day, I think I'm going to miss Silver.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:I saw that. While he was a hindrance at times, he was the one that started this whole thing back in the original NGA. Plus, it's always sad to see a long-time member go, especially from my perspective as a very long-time member. At the end of the day, I think I'm going to miss Silver.

As will I

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Silver CTE'd

What?! That's... impossible

Oh, Silver! We miss thee already!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Baxten wrote:Silver CTE'd

Oh sh!t. We need to consider electing a new founder

I nominate Unfallious

Sorry Unf, but I just couldn't help myself

Bearlong, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

So y'all, I've remembered a fun thought experiment that I came up with a while back.

Let's say that you have two planetary masses traveling away from each other at a great speed, and let us further say that the gravity of each has effected the other in this pair since their inception.

Now then, let us label one planet as "P1" and the other as "P2", having done that, let us state that it has been many years since the birth of these planets under these conditions, and a great rift has appeared as a result of their speed.

Knowing this, what would happen to the gravity influencing P2 if the total mass of P1 suddenly increased by 200,000 long tons?

Would the -admittedly minute- change in gravity occur near-instantaneously, or would it take a great many years to transverse the gulf separating P1 and P2 due to the speed of light being capped?

If, as Sulania has proposed, Gravity is instead a force from the laws that have it merely influence others, could it be that the force exerted would bypass the highest speed entirely, and if so, would that not represent energy and -arguably- information being exerted upon an object without regard to the limitation of the speed of light?

Kalaron wrote:So y'all, I've remembered a fun thought experiment that I came up with a while back.

Let's say that you have two planetary masses traveling away from each other at a great speed, and let us further say that the gravity of each has effected the other in this pair since their inception.

Now then, let us label one planet as "P1" and the other as "P2", having done that, let us state that it has been many years since the birth of these planets under these conditions, and a great rift has appeared as a result of their speed.

Knowing this, what would happen to the gravity influencing P2 if the total mass of P1 suddenly increased by 200,000 long tons?

Would the -admittedly minute- change in gravity occur near-instantaneously, or would it take a great many years to transverse the gulf separating P1 and P2 due to the speed of light being capped?

If, as Sulania has proposed, Gravity is instead a force from the laws that have it merely influence others, could it be that the force exerted would bypass the highest speed entirely, and if so, would that not represent energy and -arguably- information being exerted upon an object without regard to the limitation of the speed of light?

Whales are cool.

Einsiev, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica

Rogue One is the best movie since the originals. It's gritty, in depth and full of nods to fans. I strongly recommend it to even the most mediocre follower of the franchise. May the force be with you, I am the force.

Killdash, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Silver CTE'd

Eh, he comes and goes. I imagine we'll hear from again in the near future.

All the same, I'll miss him in the interim.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:So y'all, I've remembered a fun thought experiment that I came up with a while back.

Let's say that you have two planetary masses traveling away from each other at a great speed, and let us further say that the gravity of each has effected the other in this pair since their inception.

Now then, let us label one planet as "P1" and the other as "P2", having done that, let us state that it has been many years since the birth of these planets under these conditions, and a great rift has appeared as a result of their speed.

Knowing this, what would happen to the gravity influencing P2 if the total mass of P1 suddenly increased by 200,000 long tons?

Would the -admittedly minute- change in gravity occur near-instantaneously, or would it take a great many years to transverse the gulf separating P1 and P2 due to the speed of light being capped?

Wikipedia says the speed of the gravitational wave is equal to the speed of light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

Kalaron wrote:

If, as Sulania has proposed, Gravity is instead a force from the laws that have it merely influence others, could it be that the force exerted would bypass the highest speed entirely, and if so, would that not represent energy and -arguably- information being exerted upon an object without regard to the limitation of the speed of light?

I don't understand this part of the question. I think the definition of gravity as "a force from the laws [of spacetime] that have it merely influence others" is more or less correct, but a gravitational field is still governed by the rules of space, time, matter, and energy as we understand them. These rules (the theory of relativity) consider space and time to be a continuous "fabric." The effects of matter and energy weigh most heavily in a single point of spacetime, with the effects radiating away from that point.

Therefore:

Any sudden change in spacetime or a geometric product of spacetime (i.e. gravity) has to "ripple" through the fabric outwards from the point of the incident, travelling at the speed of light. To say a sudden in gravity would be suddenly and equally felt across all points of spacetime, without a ripple effect that takes time to travel, ignores this fundamental concept of spacetime. If you ignore this concept, you are making up your own physics as you go, so there is really no right or wrong answer. (Unless I misunderstood your prompt.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Spacetime_in_general_relativity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space

Mdogao wrote:Snip

*shrug*

Hell if I know (though I figured it would be as fast as light), but it is very interesting to think about.

Hello dudes.

[spoiler=Today are:]

Today are:

- 2nd Amendment Day (South Carolina, United States)

- Bill of Rights Day (United States)

- Cat Herders Day (United States)

- Homecoming Day (Alderney, Channel Islands)

- International Tea Day

- Kingdom Day or Koninkrijksdag (Netherlands)

- National Cupcake/ Lemon Cupcake Day (United States)

- National Wear Your Pearls Day (United States)

- Remembrance Day of Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty (Russia)

- Zamenhof Day or Esperanto Day (International Esperanto Community)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 533 - Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.

- 687 - Pope Sergius I is elected.

- 1167 - Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.

- 1256 - Mongol forces under the command of Hulagu Khan enter and destroy the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut Castle (in present-day Iran) as part of their offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.

- 1467 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.

- 1791 - The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood

- 1890 - Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

- 1905 - The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin

- 1906 - The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

- 1914 - A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

- 1917 - World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

- 1933 - The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.

- 1939 - Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

- 1941 - The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.

- 1945 - Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.

- 1960 - Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.

- 1961 - Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.

- 1965 - Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

- 1970 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet

- 1973 - John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.

- 1973 - The American Psychiatric Association votes 13-0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.

- 1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan

- 1981 - A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.

- 1989 - Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is created.

- 2000 - The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

- 2001 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.

- 2009 - Boeing's 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.

- 2014 - Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 37 - Nero, Roman emperor

- 130 - Lucius Verus, Roman emperor

- 1832 - Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower

- 1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto

- 1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília

- 1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect

- 1949 - Don Johnson, American actor

- 1955 - Renate Künast, German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens

- 1979 - Eric Young, Canadian-American wrestler

- 1986 - Kim Junsu, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

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Quote of the day

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

- Carl Sagan -

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Jaslandia, Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus

#Peng4WADelegete

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Solla Ultima

Congrats Latrovia on the win!

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Solla Ultima

Best of luck, to the incoming team that will lead are great region. :)

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Solla Ultima wrote:Best of luck, to the incoming team that will lead our great region. :)

Fixed. :)

Mdogao wrote:Wikipedia says the speed of the gravitational wave is equal to the speed of light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

I don't understand this part of the question. I think the definition of gravity as "a force from the laws [of spacetime] that have it merely influence others" is more or less correct, but a gravitational field is still governed by the rules of space, time, matter, and energy as we understand them. These rules (the theory of relativity) consider space and time to be a continuous "fabric." The effects of matter and energy weigh most heavily in a single point of spacetime, with the effects radiating away from that point.

Therefore:

Any sudden change in spacetime or a geometric product of spacetime (i.e. gravity) has to "ripple" through the fabric outwards from the point of the incident, travelling at the speed of light. To say a sudden in gravity would be suddenly and equally felt across all points of spacetime, without a ripple effect that takes time to travel, ignores this fundamental concept of spacetime. If you ignore this concept, you are making up your own physics as you go, so there is really no right or wrong answer. (Unless I misunderstood your prompt.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Spacetime_in_general_relativity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space

You do realize Wikipedia isn't exactly the most trustworthy site to get your info from, right? -_-

Post self-deleted by Andromitus.

Mdogao wrote:Wikipedia says the speed of the gravitational wave is equal to the speed of light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

I don't understand this part of the question. I think the definition of gravity as "a force from the laws [of spacetime] that have it merely influence others" is more or less correct, but a gravitational field is still governed by the rules of space, time, matter, and energy as we understand them. These rules (the theory of relativity) consider space and time to be a continuous "fabric." The effects of matter and energy weigh most heavily in a single point of spacetime, with the effects radiating away from that point.

Therefore:

Any sudden change in spacetime or a geometric product of spacetime (i.e. gravity) has to "ripple" through the fabric outwards from the point of the incident, travelling at the speed of light. To say a sudden in gravity would be suddenly and equally felt across all points of spacetime, without a ripple effect that takes time to travel, ignores this fundamental concept of spacetime. If you ignore this concept, you are making up your own physics as you go, so there is really no right or wrong answer. (Unless I misunderstood your prompt.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Spacetime_in_general_relativity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space

It is an incredibly hard question, and I applaud you for citing as much as you could, but Wikipedia has only given you half of the story

It's an incredibly misleading statement, so it's not you.

Gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light, so their detection by Earth-bound detectors is expected to correlate with the arrival of light from distant events assuming the source of light generation is identical (not spatially or temporally separated) to the source of the gravitational disturbance.

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:You do realize Wikipedia isn't exactly the most trustworthy site to get your info from, right? -_-

No, why do you say that?

Jk. Yes, I know. Everyone knows. But for a zero-stakes Internet discussion, I am just not going to do any more research.

Andromitus wrote:It is an incredibly hard question, and I applaud you for citing as much as you could, but Wikipedia has only given you half of the story

It's an incredibly misleading statement, so it's not you.

Gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light, so their detection by Earth-bound detectors is expected to correlate with the arrival of light from distant events assuming the source of light generation is identical (not spatially or temporally separated) to the source of the gravitational disturbance.

Thank you for the applause! I hope I'm not being thick, but I don't understand how what you said is different from what I said. Can you please explain?

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder117/500x/63495117.jpg

Vista Major, Yukona, Mdogao

Latrovia wrote:https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder117/500x/63495117.jpg

Hip hip, huzzah!

When will you announce your cabinet?

Latrovia

Mdogao wrote:Hip hip, huzzah!

When will you announce your cabinet?

I thought to make it a bit different this time. Cabinet will be announced really soon once I confirm and work on some plans with the cabinet members.

All I can say is that my cabinet will have new faces around and some known people of our great region. This time each cabinet member including me will take a public Oath of Office. :)

So it can be a ceremony/celebration. :)

Continental Commonwealths, Yukona

Post self-deleted by Andromitus.

Mdogao wrote:No, why do you say that?

Jk. Yes, I know. Everyone knows. But for a zero-stakes Internet discussion, I am just not going to do any more research.

Thank you for the applause! I hope I'm not being thick, but I don't understand how what you said is different from what I said. Can you please explain?

Think of it this way, G. Waves are travelling at the speed of light because they don't have mass, if you are studying a distant star, it's waves and light would be study-able at the same time, as long as they started at the same place [to put it bluntly]

Vista Major has reached 5 billion citizens on NationStates

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:Vista Major has reached 5 billion citizens on NationStates

congrats.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Cross and Davids Star, I've been meaning to ask, but what do you mean by "Tiberium-powerd Theocracy"

Andromitus wrote:Cross and Davids Star, I've been meaning to ask, but what do you mean by "Tiberium-powerd Theocracy"

A theocracy powered by the fictional element Tiberium from C&C

Mdogao

Unfallious wrote:A theocracy powered by the fictional element Tiberium from C&C

exactly, makking origion story soon.

Penguania And Antarctica, Mdogao

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Exactly, making origin story soon.

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Fixed. :)

:P

The United Providences Of Perland, Mdogao

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=739939 pt 1 and 2 finished.

Mdogao

Kudos to anyone who actually read both parts.

The United Providences Of Perland, Mdogao

How could this be? The World Census saying I'm the third-most average in the CoFN? AVERAGE!?! I'll have you know I'm an extraordinary and splendid engine, the least-average engine you'll see! No one's more red or more splendid than me!

Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Mdogao

Vista Major wrote:Vista Major has reached 5 billion citizens on NationStates

Congrats, Vista!

James The Red Engine wrote:How could this be? The World Census saying I'm the third-most average in the CoFN? AVERAGE!?! I'll have you know I'm an extraordinary and splendid engine, the least-average engine you'll see! No one's more red or more splendid than me!

If it makes you feel any better, James, I'm 20th, so I guess that means I'm pretty average too. We can be average together!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Mdogao

Percyton wrote:Congrats, Vista!

If it makes you feel any better, James, I'm 20th, so I guess that means I'm pretty average too. We can be average together!

No thank you, Percy! I'm not average at all, but it seems the foolish people at the World Census bureau just can't see that. Well, if they can't appreciate how splendid I am, that's their loss.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton, Mdogao

I am happy to announce, that tommorow, after speaking with my team members - The official second administration of the CFN will be released.

#CantWaitForIt

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton, Mdogao

Andromitus wrote:Think of it this way, G. Waves are travelling at the speed of light because they don't have mass, if you are studying a distant star, it's waves and light would be study-able at the same time, as long as they started at the same place [to put it bluntly]

Pardon my ignorance, but this seems to be the same thing I'm saying, with the added explanation that a gravity wave travels at c because it has no mass. Was I actually incorrect, or just incomplete?

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Kudos to anyone who actually read both parts.

You are a prodigious writer! Query: Why did the Jews convery to Christianity before founding the Theocracy?

Latrovia wrote:I am happy to announce, that tommorow, after speaking with my team members - The official second administration of the CFN will be released.

#CantWaitForIt

I am very excited!

The United Providences Of Perland

That moment when the region only has one guy in the government.

#IDidntWantItThisSmall

Jaslandia, Kalaron

Humpheria Major wrote:That moment when the region only has one guy in the government.

#IDidntWantItThisSmall

When you're a little bit salty.

#SaltIs4EggsNotPeople

Percyton

When hashtags are used unironically.

Bring us back to 2014 CFN pls

Jaslandia, Baxten, The United Providences Of Perland, Humpheria Major

Humpheria Major wrote:That moment when the region only has one guy in the government.

#IDidntWantItThisSmall

Perhaps the new President shouldn't take office immediately after elections close. What if there was a short transition period, as in the real world, during which the sitting government remains in power while the President-elect forms a cabinet?

In the process of typing up my lore for this RP (I did it on paper originally), 900 words done and viewable here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=739992

Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland

also if you haven't submitted your lore yet

you're now a square

But don't worry, the only significant players in the lore are [nation=short]baxten[/nation] and (soon-to-be) [nation=short]Andromitus[/nation]. Everyone else has a degree of freedom in what they decide to go with within the boundaries of this lore as it is very open-ended.

Jaslandia, Baxten, Continental Commonwealths, The United Providences Of Perland

Mdogao wrote:Perhaps the new President shouldn't take office immediately after elections close. What if there was a short transition period, as in the real world, during which the sitting government remains in power while the President-elect forms a cabinet?

In my opinion, I don't think that's necessary. While I can understand having a few days transition (which is basically what we've been in since Humph's concession), other than that, there are only a few things to plan out (mainly Cabinet positions, which candidates here often decide on ahead of time). Since this is just an online game, we don't need to worry about stuff like moving the old families out of the officials residences and moving the new families in, passing a bunch top-secret information to the next administration, having everyone come to the capital, etc.

The United Providences Of Perland, Mdogao

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:When you're a little bit salty.

#SaltIs4EggsNotPeople

Aww how sweet. If I get any salt, I'll let you know.

The United Providences Of Perland, Solla Ultima

In my research today on my families history, I found the furthest back ancestor I have found at the moment. Meet Sir Thomas Billing(s), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Born in 1395(ish) he died in 1481 after serving as Lord Chief Justice for 12 years. Woot

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major, Percyton

Au Minbo wrote:In my research today on my families history, I found the furthest back ancestor I have found at the moment. Meet Sir Thomas Billing(s), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Born in 1395(ish) he died in 1481 after serving as Lord Chief Justice for 12 years. Woot

That's dope

Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:In my opinion, I don't think that's necessary. While I can understand having a few days transition (which is basically what we've been in since Humph's concession), other than that, there are only a few things to plan out (mainly Cabinet positions, which candidates here often decide on ahead of time). Since this is just an online game, we don't need to worry about stuff like moving the old families out of the officials residences and moving the new families in, passing a bunch top-secret information to the next administration, having everyone come to the capital, etc.

This is all very true. There is also currently a sittting president with no cabinet. I feel... incomplete.

Jaslandia

Unfallious wrote:also if you haven't submitted your lore yet

you're now a square

But don't worry, the only significant players in the lore are [nation=short]baxten[/nation] and (soon-to-be) [nation=short]Andromitus[/nation]. Everyone else has a degree of freedom in what they decide to go with within the boundaries of this lore as it is very open-ended.

Yay, I'm significant

Einsiev, Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland

Au Minbo wrote:In my research today on my families history, I found the furthest back ancestor I have found at the moment. Meet Sir Thomas Billing(s), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Born in 1395(ish) he died in 1481 after serving as Lord Chief Justice for 12 years. Woot

Oh, right, and he is my 17th Great-Grandfather.

Humpheria Major wrote:That's dope

Ikr?

Einsiev, Penguania And Antarctica

Au Minbo wrote:In my research today on my families history, I found the furthest back ancestor I have found at the moment. Meet Sir Thomas Billing(s), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Born in 1395(ish) he died in 1481 after serving as Lord Chief Justice for 12 years. Woot

This guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Billing

Jaslandia wrote:This guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Billing

Mhm

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:When you're a little bit salty.

#SaltIs4EggsNotPeople

Salty? He's a really useful dockyard diesel.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/6/6e/Saltypromo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101005190717

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Percyton wrote:Salty? He's a really useful dockyard diesel.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/6/6e/Saltypromo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101005190717

Lol.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Percyton wrote:Salty? He's a really useful dockyard diesel.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/6/6e/Saltypromo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101005190717

http://i.imgur.com/3oGrQtA.gif

Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Humpheria Major wrote:Aww how sweet. If I get any salt, I'll let you know.

I've got your back hot stuff.

Killdash, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major

Einsiev wrote:I've got your back hot stuff.

#EinHumph

Percyton wrote:Salty? He's a really useful dockyard diesel.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/6/6e/Saltypromo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101005190717

that face is just ... ... eugh

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Einsiev wrote:I've got your back hot stuff.

Whoah, and I thought it was just my newly-bought curry that was spicy.

Einsiev

tl;dr on lore. Empire existed that included the whole island. The precursor to Baxten's people rose up and smashed it. Empire remnants fled and formed Andromitus on that island with the big mountain in the natural harbour.

Please let me know if you guys have problems with this

Jaslandia, Vista Major

Unfallious wrote:also if you haven't submitted your lore yet

you're now a square

But don't worry, the only significant players in the lore are [nation=short]baxten[/nation] and (soon-to-be) [nation=short]Andromitus[/nation]. Everyone else has a degree of freedom in what they decide to go with within the boundaries of this lore as it is very open-ended.

What is this RP

Please to help, have heap no desire to be squarical being.

Andromitus wrote:that face is just ... ... eugh

ey u talkin shid bout my bro?

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Percyton

Killdash wrote:What is this RP

Please to help, have heap no desire to be squarical being.

Medieval RP on fictional Island-ish map

Killdash

Baxten wrote:Medieval RP on fictional Island-ish map

Indeed? How does how get involved?

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:When you're a little bit salty.

#SaltIs4EggsNotPeople

Eggs are much too high in cholesterol to be salted.

*has eaten nothing but Cap'n Crunch all day*

Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Andromitus wrote:that face is just ... ... eugh

What about this one?

https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/21288774d5d41b37b55d00f998f3efdd6806db5d143d2f89c0ba4268411d8d7d_large

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Eggs are much too high in cholesterol to be salted.

*has eaten nothing but Cap'n Crunch all day*

At my friends "house" last night, (I say that, but it's difficult to call a room seemingly made of discarded Styrofoam cartons a house) I survived on Ghost Pops and chow mien from the Ming Dynasty.

So you will probably survive.

Killdash wrote:At my friends "house" last night, (I say that, but it's difficult to call a room seemingly made of discarded Styrofoam cartons a house) I survived on Ghost Pops and chow mien from the Ming Dynasty.

So you will probably survive.

I dunno, man. Define "Ghost Pops".

Killdash wrote:Indeed? How does how get involved?

you can telegram me info about your citystate/duchy/kingdom on this island and its general location on this map: http://i.imgur.com/i1JGxCN.jpg

I'll be making a formal thread and stuff later

Killdash, Vista Major

Percyton wrote:What about this one?

https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/21288774d5d41b37b55d00f998f3efdd6806db5d143d2f89c0ba4268411d8d7d_large

http://www.relatably.com/m/img/grossed-out-meme-face/21993-,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oreilly.jpg

Jaslandia, Percyton

Andromitus wrote:http://www.relatably.com/m/img/grossed-out-meme-face/21993-,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oreilly.jpg

https://youtu.be/WZbqDkC2wtU

Jaslandia

Andromitus wrote:http://www.relatably.com/m/img/grossed-out-meme-face/21993-,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oreilly.jpg

I take offense to that! Salty was one of my favorite Thomas and Friends characters as a kid!

(Not actually offended, but Salty really was one of my favorites)

Congrats, Peng! I look forward to working with you in the FA Department.

#Peng4WAD

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

New bill!

http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10086418/1/#new

Anybody wanna make a new party with me?

Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Percyton, Solla Ultima

Humpheria Major wrote:Anybody wanna make a new party with me?

Sorry buddy, but I don't exactly like parties at their best, so it ain't for me :P

I'm sure someone else wouldn't mind it though :P

Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland, Solla Ultima

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