Step 2:???

[Gizensha]

<!--QuoteBegin-NHJ BV+Aug 5 2004, 02:20 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (NHJ BV @ Aug 5 2004, 02:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-norsenerd+Aug 5 2004, 04:26 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (norsenerd @ Aug 5 2004, 04:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Bets on if they will actully suceed or not.  Odds are 3 to 1 that they succeed (minus my 5% commision). <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>10 that they won't even get that far (meaning they won't succeed due to something not going wrong, but not happening at all). My guess is Ozy will do some kind of Zen diversion the truck(driver) won't notice and just ignores Ozy completely <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Mm... That's one of two possabilities for the divertion I can think of. The other being that something similar to this happening:<br><br>Doctor: Excuse me, what's your attitude towards the nature of existence? For example, do you hold any theological opinions?'<br>Guard: 'I think you'll find that most educated people regard mythical convictions as fundamentally animistic... Personally, I find most experiences border on the existential.'<br>Doctor: 'How would you reconcile that with the empirio-critical belief that experience is at the root of all phenomena?'<br>Guard: 'I think you'll find that a concept can be philosophically valid even if theologically meaningless.'<br><br>At which, thankfully, the scene switched to what the doctor was making diversion for... And when we returned to it he was trying desperately to escape the conversation.

[kendrakirai]

I findit very interesting that they found a truck full of mercury thermometers that easily, considering the fact that, from what I've heard, they stopped making them years ago. They use something besides mercury now...I'm not at all sure what.<br><br>And as for the south park reference....I think that may be intentional. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--><br><br><br>As to weigh stations, they're all over the place...I believe it's because the heavier your load, the more wear you put on the roads, and the more often they'd need to be repaved, so they charge fees for semi trucks.<br><br>If your area is no longer a big trucking route (they change all the time as new distribution points and warehouses and stores are put up or closed down), then you'd have a bunch of largely defunct ones dotting the landscape.

[Gizensha]

<!--QuoteBegin-kendrakirai+Aug 5 2004, 09:16 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (kendrakirai @ Aug 5 2004, 09:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I findit very interesting that they found a truck full of mercury thermometers that easily, considering the fact that, from what I've heard, they stopped making them years ago.  They use something besides mercury now...I'm not at all sure what. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I think it's ethanol. However, if memory serves, they still make mercury thermometers because, while ethanol is alot safer, mercury is more accurate.<br><br>[edit - Just cleaning up a spelling so that if I'm spelling it wrong at least I'm consistant with myself in this post]

[VisibilityMissing]

<!--QuoteBegin-kendrakirai+Aug 5 2004, 04:16 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (kendrakirai @ Aug 5 2004, 04:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I findit very interesting that they found a truck full of mercury thermometers that easily, considering the fact that, from what I've heard, they stopped making them years ago. They use something besides mercury now...I'm not at all sure what.<br> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> The three most common types of thermometers are:<br><br>* Spirit thermometer: Basically the same as a mercury thermometer, but using alcohol instead of mercury as the liquid.<br><br>* Bi-metalic strips: Used in dial thermometers (like you'd hang outside on a wall), or in a regular thermostat.<br><br>* Thermistors: A piece of semiconductor that changes resistance with a change in temperature, also found in thermostats (high tech) and electronic digital thermometers.<br><br>To a lesser extent, you could also use a thermocouple, a bi-metallic arrangement that produces a voltage due to its temperature.<br><br>You can still get mercury thermometers, but they're rare and they don't have as good a range as any of the other more common thermometers. If you check a place like Fisher Scientific, you can order one over the internet, but it probably would run you around $30 for a laboratory thermometer, compared to $20 for a spirit thermometer.

[norsenerd]

I've used murcury themometers in school. I do think that they are goign more towards electronic thermometers. It is surprising that an ENTIRE TRUCK of mercury themoeters woudl be beign shiped. Probably a short hull form the factory to the wearhouse.

[Tavis]

There are also liquid crystal types that are put into mood rings, forehead thermometers, and fish tank sticker thermometers. The latter two actually have several different panels with different sensitivities that let you approximate the temperature by identifying which panels have changed color.

[VisibilityMissing]

<!--QuoteBegin-Tavis+Aug 5 2004, 05:06 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tavis @ Aug 5 2004, 05:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> There are also liquid crystal types that are put into mood rings, forehead thermometers, and fish tank sticker thermometers. The latter two actually have several different panels with different sensitivities that let you approximate the temperature by identifying which panels have changed color. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Forgot those. They're not nearly as accurate for numerical readings, but are good for rough and ready estimates!

[Salad Man]

Step 1: Collect underpants.<br>Step 2:<br>Step 3: Profit.

[norsenerd]

<!--QuoteBegin-Salad Man+Aug 5 2004, 06:52 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Salad Man @ Aug 5 2004, 06:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Step 1: Collect underpants.<br>Step 2:<br>Step 3: Profit. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> So THAT's where they went!

[Ozymandias]

If anyone here's into making gunpowder (and it wouldn't surprise me) all u gotta do is go to a chemist's and say u dropped a thermometer and need some sulphur. They'll give it to u, cos mercury is poisonous and all, and it goes to mercury sulphate or sulphife, i forget which, but thats completly harmless. Just going in and saying "Give me sulphur!" they'll most likely phone the police.<br><br>Digital thermometers are actually quite simple until u get onto the LCD screen (which was invented by a college friend of sum1 i know, inceidently). Its just potential difference, and u can build a really cheap one for ur PC with an LED that lights up when the inside is getting too hot, and if u use a variable resistor then u can set the temperature at which the LED comes on.

[NHJ BV]

You're aware that your local secret service is watching you now, after having confessed that you make gunpowder? <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[norsenerd]

<!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Aug 6 2004, 11:49 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Aug 6 2004, 11:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> If anyone here's into making gunpowder (and it wouldn't surprise me) all u gotta do is go to a chemist's and say u dropped a thermometer and need some sulphur. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I think at that point tehy'll ask if you why you had a mucury themometer. IT will still work but you'll probably have tp pay for it.<br><br>otherwise I've goten sulpher prety easaly in the past. You can buy entire sulfer rocks from wherever you buy rocks form (my favorite is pyrite). You woudl then have to grind it yourself.

[Ozymandias]

no such places over here, i think. I haven't really looked. I need to know where to get potassium nitrate from, and I can make some really good stuff, if I cake it and all. And loads of people have mercury thermometers. Its not like they're illegal or anything.<br><br>And I havent made any...yet.

[Gizensha]

No such place physically, I think. <br><br>..Most are mail order.

[norsenerd]

Over here most malls have soem stupid science shop and they sell all sorts of rocks. Mail order is also posible.