toilet

[mtm21]

Well this is the first time I ask for a suggestion to be put in. You eat your food but where does it go? We should be able to go to the toliet. Just a thought lol

[tiddy ogg]

Only eating 22g of meat a day, the Cantrian digestive system must be 100% efficient in converting food to energy. Thus no waste.

[Kreed]

I call for constipation and diarrhea!

[AzzY]

I call for illnesses, not only the famous "sneezes" or the "sleeping sickness"

What do the sneezes do anyways?

[Sho]

The sneezes cause tiredness - I think someone said it was 15% tiredness per sneeze. When first introduced the sneezing sickness could render a character effectively useless for a Cantr year or so; now, with tiredness just not what it used to be, the sneezing sickness is just a nuisance. Also it's nowhere near as widespread as it first was.

I don't like this idea. It would have a lot of interesting effects once pollution is implemented, but if implemented now it would just be a nuisance - creeping featurism at its best.

[wichita]

Toilets have been discussed in Resources Department and might go in as RP motivated furniture items. It is very low priority at the moment.

[N-Aldwitch]

Hehe, I'm actually laughing out loud IRL, can you imagine a newspawn thief running in while someone's on the toilet? XD

1111: 11.1 a man in his twenties enters Toilet House- Keep Out.
"Oh... right, er, yeah, I was just ... leaving."

1111: 11.1 a man in his nineties says
"Yeah, um, this is awkward, lad..."

Hehe. Implement. Now!

[fishfin]

You could dry the... a... um... poop and use it to cook meat!

[Scorup]

Delicious
I don't like the whole dried dung thing already...

[goitre]

I remember watching this documentary once. If you could convert matter to energy 100% efficiently, you would drive your car to the petrol station and ask for a drop of petrol. That drop would last the car for the rest of its life.

[Hellzon]

I remember watching this documentary once. If you could convert matter to energy 100% efficiently, you would drive your car to the petrol station and ask for a drop of petrol. That drop would last the car for the rest of its life.

That's pretty kickass. We are, after all, talking about transporting a ton of metal around. But I assume those numbers that say an engine is 80% efficient (usually compared to the human body's "engine" with a 25% efficiency) don't account for some stuff, then?

[Sho]

The usual efficiency numbers (25% or what have you - by the way, I thought the human body was more efficient than an internal-combustion engine, but I'm not sure) are relative to the chemical energy stored in the fuel - take the maximum energy theoretically obtainable by burning gasoline, compare to energy actually generated by the engine.
The figure Goitre refers to is based on full conversion of the fuel's mass to energy - Einstein's E=mc^2 equation. There is no known way of converting any significant portion of the mass of gasoline to energy (if half of it was antimatter, sure - but it's not).

To put it more simply. Hellzon's numbers are about converting chemical energy to mechanical energy. Goitre's numbers are about converting mass to mechanical energy. There's a whole lot more mass energy than chemical energy (over a thousand times as much, I think), thus the discrepancy.

[Talapus]

There's a whole lot more mass energy than chemical energy (over a thousand times as much, I think), thus the discrepancy.

Easily. The complete combustion of a mole of methane with the stoichiometric quantity of oxygen yields 890 KJ, while the complete conversion of just the methane into pure energy would yield 1.44 trillion KJ. That is greater then the chemical energy by over a factor of 1 billion, and if you were to include the oxygen used in the combustion reaction, it would be even greater. However, as Sho noted earlier, there is no way currently to convert any significant amount of matter into energy.

[goitre]

However in a chemical reation there'll be byproducts, although they may be gaseous.

*goes and suggests the addition of nuclear power plants to Cantr*
*adds in the phrase "This will open up Cantr to a wide range of possibilities" which is synonymous with "This does not fit in Cantr at all"*

1484-2.29: You see a man in his twenties pick up a chisel.
1484-2.30: You see a man in his twenties attempt to split the atom. He succeeds.
1484-2.31: Game over. Would you like to play again <y/n> _

[Pie]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!11