>> ^messenger:

That was incredible. I thought it was just average until I realized that Ice Cube hadn't made it himself, that this was a fan mash-up from some movie of his. I only noticed because it fell apart at the end. Great job.


Yeah, it's from his movie Friday. Hence the use of the footage.

That was incredible. I thought it was just average until I realized that Ice Cube hadn't made it himself, that this was a fan mash-up from some movie of his. I only noticed because it fell apart at the end. Great job.

The song was trying to kill you. Be healed: http://videosift.com/video/Best-Version-of-Friday-Ice-Cube >> ^Fusionaut:

The other day I was singing this on my way to work. Then I almost ran through a red light. It was the song's fault!

I still like: http://videosift.com/video/Best-Version-of-Friday-Ice-Cube

>> ^robbersdog49:

It probably would do if he held it for long enough. When you pick an ice cube up it doesn't instantly all turn to water does it, and that's with your fingers 58°F warmer than the melting point of water. The the gallium you'd be barely above the melting point, so heat transfer would be a lot slower and it wouldn't melt, particularly if it was straight out of the fridge.


No, but ice does melt enough between my fingers that that it becomes slippery and hard to hold on to.

>> ^jimnms:

It says it melts at 86°F, so why didn't it melt in his hand? I just used an IR thermometer on my fingers and get 90°F.


It probably would do if he held it for long enough. When you pick an ice cube up it doesn't instantly all turn to water does it, and that's with your fingers 58°F warmer than the melting point of water. The the gallium you'd be barely above the melting point, so heat transfer would be a lot slower and it wouldn't melt, particularly if it was straight out of the fridge.

Whisky with ice cubes??? BLASPHEMER!!!

Whisky with ice cubes??? BLASPHEMER!!!

I long ago stopped trying to approach you with logic, dyst. After about the third iteration of the same old nonsense. It's like trying to put out the sun with ice cubes.

Perhaps my analogy led you astray, you don't get something out of nothing.

In fusion, a small amount of matter is converted directly into energy. It's a scientific theory that matter is energy, and in a small amount of matter there is a very large amount of energy.

For example, the sun is a nuclear fusion reactor. If it was burning chemically rather than fusing, it would have probably burnt out within a few thousand years (i've not bothered to do any maths on that). As it's fusing, it's probably got another 5 billion in it with 5 billion candles already on its birthday cake now.

If you burn a piece of wood, you get a certain amount of energy from it. If you converted a piece of wood directly from matter into energy, you'd get a rediculous amount of energy. Ice cube to a lake kind of proportions.

If you want to learn about fusion (it is interesting) then i suggest starting at the wikipedia page on it. It will explain that when you fuse two atoms together, you end up with something with less mass than its component parts, the mass lost is converted to energy (e=mc^2).

Read the second half of this about burning fuel. You get a feel for the numbers.
http://www.1728.com/einstein.htm

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>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Personally, I think a better way to go is turning every house into a power station. The bit torrent model if you will. If every house had a freeish energy generating ability, like cheap wind or solar cells, contained via some off the shelf hydrogen conversion storage unit, it would make for a much more self sufficient existence, and one with MUCH MUCH more redundancy than a central grid. My hope for the future is less the monolithic, single high power, power station, but the multitude of many small, low yield power stations. I think, like bit torrent, the sum will end up being more than the whole of its parts. (but fusion is still awesome

Whilst i understand what you're trying to say, nuclear fusion is more energy than you can possibly imagine if you don't understand how it works. It's like melting an ice cube and getting a lake's worth of water out of it. And it can be done using materials like water which we're in abundance of on this planet.

Forget putting up loads of windmills and solar cells, if you crack fusion then you crack every energy need we will ever have, ever. You can then start seriously talking about using electrical cars because the energy is essentially free, electricity would (should, but we know what energy companies are like) become so abundant that it's virtually worthless.

Not to even mention that if we can REALLY solve it - we're talking long term, or elegantly simple and small and easy - then you can use it on a moon base, space stations, space ships, you name it.

There literally is no better payoff than fusion for waste vs. benefit.

Who's the mack? is it some brother in a big hat
Thinking he can get any bitch with a good rap?
Rolling in a fucked-up Lincoln
Leaning to the side So it looks like he's sinking
Into that leopard interior
This nigga thinks every girl's inferior
To his tongue, get a dumb bitch sprung
As she's selling more butt
Don't even get a cut of the money
His name is Sonny
And he know the play
And hope to od that he don't find a runaway
That's looking to become a star
He'll have your ass in and out of every car
With every on and Rick, sucking every john's dick
Come short of the money, get your ass kicked
You don't like it but you still call him hunk
Last night the nigga put yo' ass in the trunk
You wanna leave but Sonny started talking fast
And it make you wanna go and sell more ass
He's getting rich, you his bitch and it's like that
Now ask yourself
Who's the mack?
Who's the mack?

It is that fool that wanna pump the gas
Give you a sad story and you give him cash?
He starts macking and macking and you sucking
Quick to say I'm down on my luck
And you give a dollar or a quarter and he's on his way
Then you see his sorry ass the next day
Are you the one getting played like a sucka?
Or do you say, "Get a job, motherfucker"?
Every day, the story gets better
He's wearing dirty pants and a funky-assed sweater
He claims he wants to get something to eat
But every day you find yourself getting beat
He gets your money and you run across the street don't look both ways
'cause he's in a daze
And almost get his ass hit for the crack
Now ask yourself
Who's the mack?
Who's the Mack?

Is it that nigga in that club asking
Have you ever been in a hot tub?
I know the game so I watch it unfold
When i see the boy pinned to your earlobe
He's talking shit and you crack a smile
When he tell you that he can go buck wild
For a girl like you and make it feel good
You know it's drama but it sound real good
He started dragging and hopefully he can start tagging
The pussy so he can keep bragging
He say, "I'm 'a leave baby, can you go with me?"
The pussy so he can keep bragging
You wanna do it but you feeling like a H-O-E
You grab his hand, you leave and it's over
'Cause the nigga ain't nothing but a rover
Ya knew the game and you still ended up on your back
Now ask yourself
Who's the Mack?
Macking is the game and everybody's playing
And as long as you believe what they saying
Consider the a M.A.C.K. and with no delay
They are gonna get all the play
But when it comes to me, save the drama for your momma
It's Ice Cube and you know that I'm a
Mack in my own right
When it comes to rhyme and rap
'cause all i do is kick facts
Unlike Iceberg Slimm
And all of them be claimin' be P.I.M.P.
No, I'm not going out that way
I'm just a straight up N I double G A
Next time U get over on a fool
And you did the shit like real smooth
Thank Ice Cube for giving up the facts
And ask yourself
Who's the Mack?

Ice Cube was always a joke. *promote

Ice Cube's a joke nowadays but this track still kills.