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Well, other thought: Is a mathematical limit called a "limes" in english as well? eg. 1/2+1/4+1/8 etc. can never arrive or overtake 1. Could then a object with sufficient mass and kinetical energy "escape" the gravitation of our entire universe in the sense that the gravitation is that small and falling all the time so it will achieve such a limes in due time, never able to lower the speed of our object below a certain treshold?

Hmm...clutching at straws here. But that's a good thing, after all I don' believe in PMs

Necrophilia seems to be news to you

By Armok, stop it lads. I don't really see what you are fighting about. One is saying A+B = C, and the other C-B = A, to put it simple. I'm no full-blown physicist, but I think I understand enough of gravity to contribute to this thread. I also am very sure that a "perpetuum mobile" in the truest sense, a machine that gaines net energy, is fucking impossible. It's along the same lines as saying "1-1 is NOT 0". No. That you can't gain energy from nothing is a fact. For every idea that sounded impossible and turned out to be well possible, there are thirty that sounded truly fucking bonkers and still are. The world isn't standing on a turtle, there is no god in the sky above us, Santa doesn't bring us presents, etc.

Anyway, it's been 3 years since my last calculations with gravity and centripetal force, so could this be theoretically feasible:

2 objects of sufficient speed, completly frictionless, orbiting themselves in a stable orbit, which, assuming no outside interference at all, would be eternally stable. (I know not realistic - just a theroretical model). Or would entropy still win and those objects would, given enough time, still crash. If this is possible, then a "perpetuum mobile"-like-device could be constructed, it's just practically impossible instead of theoretically. Even then it would only be "moving without an end", however you still couldn't extract energy from this system.
(Strange Mood over - any comments?)

Turn immigrant cap lower in the raws. Or, military. Or, of course, magma is a valid solution as well....

I suggest cats, dogs, and turkeys. Turkeys give lots of eggs + meat, and cats/dogs have other uses.

The reason I suggest turkeys instead of cattle is because they don't need grass.

Yeah, the maximizer doesn't use cattle. Turkeys are a bit better then chickens it seems, but chickens are very decent as well, so i'll take both for 24 embark points. Build a nest box behind a door, lock it to let the hen hatch undisturbed. Then, after the young are born, lock all the males in a cage, label with season. Let them mature 2 years, then slaughter. Always when you feel you'll need another batch, repeat locking just after you noticed your hen claiming a box. If too many females, add female hens to the butcher as well, let young chicks mature in their place.

Good riddance I'd say.

I really don't understand people that (assuming a bit of expierience) only grow helmets. Farming other plants is not THAT difficult, and while the PHs are easy, they also aren't very valuable. And variety gives good thoughts, therefore quarry bushes, sweet pods and cave wheat are good! Also, having to process them first is dwarfy, only elves gnaw on uncooked mushroom all day long.

Lead gauntlet sounds like something out of Fallout, try beating giant desert scorpions with it