Game of Thrones begins....

[grumbler]

Well there you go. If grumbler agrees with me, there is no doubt. 

Even a Slargos is right twice a lifetime.

[Berkut]

Well there you go. If grumbler agrees with me, there is no doubt. 

Even a Slargos is right twice a lifetime.

And he is right this time as well. Your agreeing with him truly does leave no doubt...

[grumbler]

Well there you go. If grumbler agrees with me, there is no doubt. 

Even a Slargos is right twice a lifetime.

And he is right this time as well. Your agreeing with him truly does leave no doubt...

  He was right about the cold, and right about the effect of me agreeing with him.

Noble of him to use both of his opportunities to be right in one thread...

[Slargos]

Well there you go. If grumbler agrees with me, there is no doubt. 

Even a Slargos is right twice a lifetime.

And he is right this time as well. Your agreeing with him truly does leave no doubt...

So we're all agreed, agreed?

[Eddie Teach]

So we're all agreed, agreed?

You're all wrong. Not sure what it is you're wrong about, just that you're wrong.

[Slargos]

So we're all agreed, agreed?

You're all wrong. Not sure what it is you're wrong about, just that you're wrong.

Well, I think that's a matter of perspective.

[grumbler]

So we're all agreed, agreed?

You're all wrong. Not sure what it is you're wrong about, just that you're wrong.

Way to go out on a limb, there! 

[Sheilbh]

"Why do retards and Australians always seem to think that LOL WE GET CLOSR 2 TEH SUN IN SUMMR? "

I have corrected your post marti.

You repeat yourself.

I watched it and thought it was good.  The number of really good actors they've got, even in minor roles, bodes well for the less well-known ones.  Roger Allam and Donald Sumpter

[jimmy olsen]

No, no it's not.

http://img.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/04/20/is-game-of-thrones-racist.aspx?wpisrc=obnetwork

Time's TV critic James Poniewozik, noting that the Dothraki seem to be made up of a "grabbag of exotic/dark/savage signifiers," wondered if it was "possible to be racist toward a race that does not actually exist."

[HisMajestyBOB]

No, no it's not.

http://img.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/04/20/is-game-of-thrones-racist.aspx?wpisrc=obnetwork

Time's TV critic James Poniewozik, noting that the Dothraki seem to be made up of a "grabbag of exotic/dark/savage signifiers," wondered if it was "possible to be racist toward a race that does not actually exist."

Just like Geico is not only racist towards cavemen, but they advertise it and base their corporate image around it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

"Why do retards and Australians always seem to think that LOL WE GET CLOSR 2 TEH SUN IN SUMMR? "

I have corrected your post marti.

You repeat yourself.

I watched it and thought it was good.  The number of really good actors they've got, even in minor roles, bodes well for the less well-known ones.  Roger Allam and Donald Sumpter

I'm busy reading the books atm, having previously been unaware that they are a cut above the standard fantasy fodder. I'll probably get the boxed set of the show whenever that comes out (that is how HBO accesses the Hakluyt purse  ).


It's good that they have put the boat out and hired good actors.................a lot of the fun (so far, halfway through book 2) is in liking, despising or detesting the various characters.............indifferent acting would spoil that.

[Razgovory]

The real question is how 600 ft of ice remains standing after 14 years (or however much it was)of summer.

I wonder if a 600 ft wall of ice could even support itself.

[Martinus]

No, thermodynamics are not a matter of "how you look at it".

There is no way to look at it such that ice "puts out" cold. Being from the fucking arctic, you would think you would know that.

You are not entirely correct. If the air temperature surrounding the ice is constant, then you are right. But if it fluctuates, then if the temperature rises, ice will make it colder than it would be otherwise.

[katmai]

edit: sorry was directed at raz, not marti who was posting at same time.

[Martinus]

What? It's basic thermodynamics. When the winter comes, the temperature around the wall will decrease, which will cause the wall's temperature to decrease too - in layman terms you could say that the wall "accumulates cold" (although it is obviously not strictly correct as cold is the absence of heat, so in thermodynamics sense, it will really give out heat).

When the temperature around the wall goes up (i.e. summer comes), the warm air will cause the wall to melt, which will decrease the temperature of air around the wall, as the air will give away heat in the process of melting the well - thus, again in layman's terms, the wall will "give out cold" (i.e. accumulate heat, getting warmer in the process).

So, yes, Slargos was right that it's a matter of perspective, at least to the extent you describe the outward effects of the process, rather than the mechanics of the process itself.