i found this forum on a page with a link to it...just thought i would introduce myself. im currently 15 years of age and go to high-school(sophomore) I live in Anchorage,Alaska nice cold,and dry:) . I read alot of science fiction,lots of stuff about nuclear war or at least things related to it. I draw plans and designs for things at school in my freetime. figure out how things would work and the likes.-Acerbus

Awesome. Welcome to the forums, Acerbus. I must admit, I've always wanted to move to Alaska. I'm thinking of doing some university study up there at the U of A, but I'd probably be destined for Fairbanks. What's life like up there? Do you really get a few days of total darkness during the year?

lol not this far south in alaska. right now though we get like 5 hours of real daylight a day though before the sun starts setting and the sky and clouds look like something out of a religious movie glowing and everything. In the summer, at night, it is like dusk with no sun. bright enough to see outside and walk around. The problem with that is, is that i cant use my telescope in the summer...no stars:( and in the winter its that bright cold type view of the stars and the moon is about the size of a silver dollar. Like i said though its cold,dry and well cold. I like it:Pi guess im just used to the cold,i go outside in my t-shirts and the cold doesnt bother me:)

Ah, to be anchored down in Anchorage.

Do you have polar bears as pets?...just kidding.
I ´m from the north of Sweden, where it´s also very cold most of the time, and get that question a lot. :D

Hope you will enjoy the nutty conversations here. :)

Welcome to the Sciforums Acerbus.
I know youll enjoy talking to all the members on this board. Everyone is quite friendly :)

The professor is the same person as Howard Stern, he just told me in a pm. :( So he´s not dead.

Be honest now, how many of you play several characters here?

Interesting to hear about other places in the world, and Alaska has always sounded to me like a super place to grow up, starless nights notwithstanding.

Took a look at your profile. What kind of inventions? --If you don't mind sharing? Pretty cool for someone your age to be actively tinkering. :)

Enjoy!

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Counterbalance

their are different things that I have thought up and "tinkered" with or that I have just figured out in my head a way that a thing might have worked:) I usually know a bit about whatever it is im makeing or thinking of a steam engine,crossbow,a type of baloon that runs on steam (from a steamkettle) and a small electric motor on a lego boat with it supported under the "gas" bag. I think about stuff that mostly interests me:) well I have to go to school now:)

Acerbus, be very welcome at Sciforums. It really is the nicest and biggest Forums I know and always good to hang around here.

I love Alaska, want to go there and take a good look around. Guess Nature and all is awesome out there.

Do you wear sunglasses if they Snow is blinding you? I would love to go there.
Same for Canada....don't have the money to do so. (sigh!);)

Hope you will enjoy Sciforums, can't be a problem...

I dont wear sunglasses since I am used to it but my mom does (her and my dad are from n.carolina) the snow is pretty bright if the sun is out. hehe, you would think we would like clear days for the sun? its colder when it is clear. when their are clouds then it is "warm" alaska is my favorite state, ive lived in Tennessee for a summer 2 years ago it was hot bright and humid :mad: most of canada in one word is: flat.(no offense) the areas bordering alaska are mountainous then its just undulating fields of dry yellow grass nothingness. oh and they have weird monuments: a giant easter egg made of wrought iron and aluminum panels(i think) and this big buffalo "sculpture" thing. the ppl though are pretty nice:)

Acerbus, now I really want to go to Alaska.:)

I envy you that you can see all this Sun upon the Snow and the beauty of Nature there. Have a great time living there. Can't be that hard to do.

As far as the cold concerns, I can't care less. I love the Sun in the Winter, shining on the Snow and love to walk in the Woods then.
I love the Woods any how and every where though, in what weather or what condition what so ever.:p

Have a nice time posting at Sciforums.

Welcome to Sciforums Acerbus,

your like me , I'm 15 too, and I live in a fairly cold and dry place, Calgary. But right now its nice and snowy. Almost time for skiing again.

Anyway, this place is addicting, if you stay here for a month or so, you'll never leave. Believe me. I stumbled across this page on a search for some physics info. Its hard to go a day without posting.

Just like drugs. the good kind.

I've spent time in Calgary, its nice. The Olympic park is pretty cool to, not to mention the Rodeo that they have.

I prefer the Elkan hwy through the Banff Rocky Mountains west.

Its so beautiful. I like the Yukon and Northwest Territories to. I spent time there in several places. The Dempster hwy North of Dawson was a nice adventure on a 300mile dirt road. Arctic Red river is very strange in the 98 days of 24hr sun, and silent except for the strange hum? The black flies and mosquitos are the unpleasant part. We lived in Fairbanks for awhile, I really liked it there. I didn't care much for Anchorage. We went down to Homer on the West side of the Prince William sound once. The sea and Marine life was spectacular. The Tanna, and Nanna river valleys are beautiful in the summers. The 24 hr sun is weird!

We had reindeer sausage at Denny's in Fairbanks, its very uneventful to say the least. The collage in Fairbanks is nice.

Lots of Bears, Caribou, Moose, and other large Mammals.

We went to the town Northwest of Fairbanks called Mentos, its a Athabaskan village. When we got fuel the whole town came to the store to see us. Very remote!

The Army Base in Fairbanks(FTWAINWRIGHT) is the home of the 171 snow division of the special forces. Talk about a rough training area?


bjl

Acerbus what site did you come from?

Oh by the way welcome to sciforums.

exit mundi of course:) its the best site I have found so far for end of world scenarios you can find it at: exit mundi (http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/exitmundi.htm)

well thanks everytone for welcomeing me to sciforums! this place rocks i can test my theories here and sound you guys out on idea:)

Now I've read the reply of Bobby Lee, I want to go immediately to Alaska. Right away if possible.

I want to see all these places and I want to go in the Snow and look at all Animals there and of course I am very curious how it is to live in a 24 hours Sun and you have 24 hours nights also. Isn't that right?

Tell me about that please, I am curious how it is to live that way.:)

What about the Aurora Light? You have that too over there?

Information please. ;)

farther north their is like 10 months of solid night then full daylight for the other months the sun never sets just goes in a circle:) ive never experienced it myself since i live farther south then that. Ive seen the aurora it has something to do with waves of radiation reacting with the upper ionosphere its really cool looking and you can only see it when its COLD outside. banshee how old are you btw? If you did come up here and came to anchorage we could meet or something.

I think everyone here wants to go and visit you, I hope you have a huge place!

Just kidding,
Welcome
Teri

sok, i dont think i could fit all of you in my house but theirs plenty of hotels up here:)

Acerbus, it really sounds great. I don't care about the cold, I want to see the Aurora Light.;)

Seems great to me, to be outside in the cold and look at all the beauty out there. I start feeling to go there immediately.

A little difficult without that rotten money to come there.:p

BTW. I am 41 years old, a little to old for you perhaps.
What has age to do with it any way?:)

I'll do a late welcome...

Welcome to Sciforums... may it hug to you like a fuzzy creature and make you warm through the coldest nights.

By the way I might be 24 in age, But I'm most definitely up for a snowball fight!!! :p

(Just one rule... no throwing Yellow snow :p)

both of you seem pretty cool:)

As long as we are talking new ones, I think I ghosted long enough.

So hi all, I'm slang.

Don't ghost, POST!

:D

Actually that could seem a little rude... Well I welcome you Slang to Sciforums, may your conscious voice grow stronger with every post, rather than hiding up.

(General note to all Ghosting:
I know alot of you ghost, pondering over wether you comment is worth posting or not, Just post... you shouldn't be worried about how we think of your posts as we all make spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes. Sometimes our whole posts can be in Err but that's the nature of humanity and the nature of discussion.)

Enjoy Sciforums.

hehe look at my posts most of its gibberish:) post away if someone calls you a "drunken redneck hobo" because they dont like your idea, well screw them! its your opinion not theirs that counts:D

Well, I do agree with you two, Stryder and Acerbus.

I put my sunglasses on especially to post here at Acerbus's nice Alaska.:p

Everybody has his/her own oddities so to say, but are all human and very welcome.

Welcome to Sciforums Slang, may you post for a long time and find out about all the different oddness in each one of us...;)

Have fun.

Acerbus, more about Alaska please...

well lately weve been haveing alot of ice-fogs..like for 2 weeks starting the tuesday 2 weeks ago we had a solid ice-fog for like 4 days. since then its been comeing and going its kind of creepy to go out in it in the morning imagine...

"You walk out of your house its almost pitch-black.The single street lamp throws a pool of light 10 feet in diameter(because the fog)the only light in the world it seems. You step off of your porch into dense ice-fog, it clings to your hair freezing it. The world seems so quiet. The only sound you hear is the sound of the ice crunching under your boots. You start down the street walking through the dense mist that pervades everything. It floats through the trees like some geist from long past. It moves in front of your moveing legs, swirling and seeming alive. When it touches your clothing it freezes to it creating a slight shimmering. As you continue down the street others open the doors to their homes throwing a breif light upon the outside world, they join you walking apart in their own sombre reverie. On your left, up a small slope, is the empty expanse of the football field enclosed by a chainlink fence.It seems unnerving to walk in such an open place and not being able to see. As you reach the corner and turn left into the parking lot you can see a faint aura of light in the distance, the feeble lights out side of one of the entrances to the school. Walking along the sidewalk toward the school you see other people getting out of their cars and heading toward the school also, they seem afraid to break the silence. you reach the school turning left and then right going around the building, to save time not walking through the halls. you walk up the slope of the hill and come on level with the main part of the school. you pull open the door to go inside and are hit by a wave of heat and noise..the ice clinging to your hair and clothes melt away..."

well i hope that gives a better picture of one of my morning walks to school.Ice-fog is very dense you can actually feel it pushing on your clothes as you walk:) if you want to copy this print it out ect.. just give credit. thanks.

Thanks for sharing the experience, one most of us will never know.

Again, thanks.

Acerbus, wonderful.

You tell it so beautiful, I can see you walking there in my head, wonderful as you tell it.

I know that kind of fog in a minor way you do probably, but in the Netherlands we have such icy fog also, your hair is really frozen if you get into town by bycicle in that weather, though don't you think it is wonderful, that sound of silence...

And that feeling that you are all alone in the world, because you can't see a thing.

I used to live in an appartment, 7th floor. It looked like we were floating in the Sky with nothing surrounding us. We couldn't even see the street below us.
And then my son had to take of for school. He loves it, I do too.

Seems wonderful to me, to walk out there in the icy cold. Just put on warm clothes and warm boots and go out in the silence and cold of the fog...wonderful, really.:)

Tell me more, better, write a book or a short story.
You write it down in a very clear manner. I really can see you walking just by the way you tell it...

More please... ;)