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You don't even need to drill to the earth's core, somewhere around 3 miles deep is enough
Not exactly infinite energy, but one plant in New Zealand is outputting over 100MW continuously since +/- 1960, with no significant running costs.

Geothermal power for the win! My Dad is a project manager for power stations. Amazing how many are being built and how much they cost!

Bit silly when you spawn on a small map in front of a tank that will destroy you with 3 hits when it takes you 5 or more to destroy them. Could be a fun game though.

After reading this thread and those articles i have just realised how stupid the word "Lotus" looks.

Grand Prix 4

Quote from danowat :

Where has this been confirmed?, I am interested in reading it

From http://twitter.com/T4RG4 in response to this question

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http://twitter.com/Noelinho/status/25442999049

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@Noelinho Because we couldn't make them compete in Qualy this time out Looking to sort that though

The actual AI are good in the sense that they can race you. The fact they can't set times is completely stupid.

Quote from Joe93 :

I Bid you 2dowwa

That's racist.

I just received a key. Have little reason to use it. Will go to highest bidder!

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

No, it's the original and it's significantly different than AoE... for one thing it's turn-based. Essentially you have a world map, and you start out with one "settler" unit, which represents a tribe of people. You use this unit to start your first city, which can then manufacture both units (workers, settlers, scouts, and types of soldiers) and city improvements (aqueducts, granaries, libraries, harbors, etc). You build more and more cities and your nation grows as well. Each city has a domain of influence, and as you build more cities this domain congeals into national borders. Other civs are expanding at the same time, so you eventually border other nations, and start trading or warring with them. If your culture is greater than theirs, you can get border cities to defect to your civ without warring at all, though this sometimes pisses off the civ you stole them from.

Meanwhile you're climbing the tech tree from stuff like "animal husbandry" all the way up to "quantum physics" and beyond. Each tech advance allows you to build new types of buildings and units, and makes others obsolete.

It's an insanely in-depth game, and will steal your life. I haven't even started to scratch the surface of the game mechanics here.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_V

So more like rise of nations then.

Never played this series either. Im assuming just Age of Empires but better?

Quote from tinvek :

would be cool to turn up at a biker pub and say you've got one of "heinemann's scooters" , imagine the laughs, especially when you say your scooter is faster than their harley

Most scooters are

Haha i was sitting here wondering why all the finns were bashing Ferarri then i remembered....

Nico Hulkenburg should have been penalised. I don't see how running off the track 3 times can not be an advantage if he didn't lose any time. These tarmac run offs are shit.

Well thats just stupid. My avatar sums up my feelings.

I wanted to play skate 3 this morning and read there was a demo available. Loaded the PS3 went on PSN but could only find packs to buy for skate 3. Where is the demo? Kinda pissed me off! I see the UFC demo i downloaded awhile ago isn't listed anymore but its stored on my account and it appears i can download it again.

Anyway i can get skate 3 demo?

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http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2 ... rsal-tyre-for-f1-and-gp2/

Hope they do. Would make a lot of financial sense.

I like how we have just had ads going on about the flooding in New Orleans and nothing has really been mentioned about Pakistan being under water.

No we have 9/11 popping up again. God i hate america and the media.

Never been in an earthquake myself. Haven't watched the news lately either because there is only so much of one thing you can watch. Im not sure what dedicating half of the news to one event achieves.

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Quote from Shotglass :

not everyone is willing to sacrifice all their social life time and money to race in some amateur f3 series

trolling forums does not count as a social life.

Welcome to 6 years ago http://www.theproduct.de/

They even release a game which is better than most of the shit game studios release these days.

Quote from Velociround :

I have just no idea where you guys have seen any blue in this pic, I can only see orange, green and pink stripes...

When its zoomed out like on this page http://www.moillusions.com/200 ... ndy-stripes-illusion.html you can see blue. when looking at this http://www.moillusions.com/wp- ... /5848/candystripes8gh.gif its green.

GoPro HD. Just dont get the wide lens as it looks a bit silly (although might look ok mounted behind the front seats?)

Bicycles should be banned from this thread!

Even still Moto GP is meant to be the Formula One of bikes. Only being a couple of seconds slower than a world superbike is pretty poor. But they are going back to 1000cc in a couple of years so they will get faster but that doesn't change grid sizes and quality of racing.

From memory the fastest WSBK lap at silverstone was in the 2'05 range with the MotoGP fastest lap at 2'03.526. Imagine if Formula One had another series lapping a circuit this close to their times!

Watch a world superbike race then you will realise how crap motogp is. Especially when WSBK is less than a second a lap slower.

Crazy shit. My flatmate just asked me last night. "what happened to that kid in our high school class that raced cars". I told him he was racing in superleague formula now and has even won a race or two. Don't think he will be racing for awhile now!