Heh... I prefer nybble. It looks cooler

My stopgap solution has a certain amount of science involved. I look at the spectral class of the star (just a single letter), and I guess a temperature from the spectral class. Then I guess the star's brightness (and this really is a guess ), and apply inverse-square law against the star's observed magnitude to estimate the distance. Last time I checked, the closest star to the sun was 1.7 light-years away (should be 4.3, for Alpha Centauri - I don't even know if it was the right star, and it probably wasn't).

Microsith Planet Exploder (the project with these stars in) has to be ready by the last day of term - I'm pretty sure it's early July. Maybe I'd better ask around on some newsgroups... Thanks anyway

Well I don't want to make a fus about your confussing bad English

Yep, MSPE will be uploaded here. BTW it's inspired by www.microsith.com. I've even got permission from the webmaster

Bdavis:
goodbytes:your theory is fine,but you probably wouldn't get in either.
12=TWELVE --->6
12=DOUZE --->5=>but because there are more ppl here who know some English i have to go for the English version.
(french part of Canada??)
Shade

I hate bilingualists. Je déteste des bilingualists.
Don't you hate bilingualists? Ne détestez-vous pas des bilingualists?
But even worse than bilingualists are trilingualists. Mais encore plus mauvais que des bilingualists sont les trilingualists.
And the worst of all are people that know more than three languages. Et de tous les plus mauvais sont les gens qui savent plus de trois langages. Y el peores de todos son la gente que sabe más de tres lenguajes. Und allen falschsten von sind Leute, die mehr als drei Sprachen kennen. Ed il più difettosi di tutti sono la gente che conosce più di tre linguaggi. E de todos o mais maus são os povos que sabem mais de três línguas. そしてすべての最も悪いの人々である3 つ以上の言語を知ってい
る。 그리고 모두의 가장 나쁜 것 사개 이상 언어를 아는 사람 이다
. 并且最坏全部是知道超过三种语言的人们。

Eh bien, a moins que la grammaire française canadienne n'est comme celle de l'anglais américain , soit le gardien ne sait rien, la conversation irait plus comme ça :
VOUS: Vous pouvez entrer dans la ville.
GARDIEN: Avez-vous aimé votre séjour en ville?
VOUS: Non. Trop de bilingues.
J'ai tort sans doute aussi...
CageCode : il n'existe pas le mot 'bilingualist', ni en anglais ni en français. En anglais c'est 'bilingual' (oui, c'est un nom; 'bilinguist' n'existe pas). En français c'est 'bilingue'.
Il faut dire : << Je déteste les bilingues >> et << ... sont ceux qui savent plus de trois langues >>
Hmmm... did you use an automatic translator?
Not that I'm pedantic or anything
[ May 25, 2001: Message edited by: bdavis ]

ok ok ok goodbytes you get in
You are very lucky if people are that kind of bilingual.Here in Belgium in Brussels it should be the same ,but it isn't(they would only know the French and not the Dutch )
The dialog would be something like this
G(only knows French) ouze
Y(refusing to speak French):vijf
G:????ne comprend pas.
Y(still refusing but now also showing the correct amount of fingers(this is so wrong)):vijf
G a little bit angered):qq tu dit?!Je ne comprend pas.
Y(seeing it won't help ,just try in your best French):cinq.
G(quite aggitated let's you in without saying a word ,only looking very pissed at you).
when you have entered the city you hear him talk to an other guard and you only hear some of what they say:
G1:...quel idiot...sais pas francais...
G2:...C'est vrai...tous ces idiot...
G1:...nous...Neerlandais?...whahaha
Shade
Could those multilinguists please stop,my head hurts.
A tous ces multilinguists,taisez vous svp.Mon tête fait du mal.
Kunnen die meertaligen nu effekes stil zijn .Ik heb koppijn.
Ceteri censeo cartaginem esse delendem,ac ipsos custodes de X-G te occident.(just kidding)
Könten die ...(i'm going to stop here my head hurts)

Yes An Ly gootbytes got the answer.he just has a little counting problem,probably tired or something(no offence)
ok here's a new one(very simple this time)
I V X L
Shade

C? Roman numerals...

Oh and bdavis, just to let you know, they're called "tetrads"(I had a good laugh out of this when learning about meiosis in biology class )

WHAT BELGIUM FRENCH SPEAKING!!!!
- did you think my french would contain mistakes if it were my native language???
ok let me explain:
In Belgium there are 3 official languages
-Dutch(also called Flamish)
-French
-German
In Flanders(where i live)we speak Dutch,that are only something like 6000000 ppl
In "La Wallonie" they speak French(or something like that),that is something like 4000000 ppl
Brussels=> lets just cal that a nightmare,it sould be bilingual but for official intsances that most of the times means French only.
And German is what is spoken in the'Oost kantons'(that's just a minority)
The first half of the century there have been a lot of problems in flanders because then Duch wasn't considdered an official language(although 5M ppl spoke it),there have been some riots most known is May '68.
In the beginning of the century all univerities and higher education in flanders was in french,luckyly that has changed,and it's all in Dutch now.(and something that might sound strange is that the germans in WWII have done a great deal for the flamish ppl)
... no more about that.But please never forget that french isn't the only language in Belgium.
C is the answer,roman numerics
gootbytes:i know i first thought i had misspelled 12 myself but the dictionary helpt me out=>i was right.
Shade

auch now you got me
(and i should know that,i have to do exam of that course in 10 days=> need to study)
note though that the kelvin scale is entirely experimental,so those constants can be chosen to fit,i should find out.1 thing i kinda like remember is that it's just coincidence that 1K=1°C.
(THermodynamics aren't that easy)
Quote from the professor that gave Thermo(about the sciences):
if it's living it's Biologie.
if it stinks t's chemistry.
if it does not work than it's physics.
Shade(me master? bwahaha tel my professors
)