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Hi guys, Food and clams have been taken. Yumas are still reserved, but did not hear from the person. If I don't hear from him tomorrow I'll let it go to the next interested person. Rocks are reserved. Star polyps and hairy mushrooms available. Frag of yellow sun coral going at $8. PL lights still available. PM me if anyone's interested.

Hi AT, Heh... ...it really has been awhile, hasn't it. Nothing happened lar...life happened...hahaha...got married (ROMed lar but it's as good as married), bought a new flat, bought my ride, got a new job...all within 2 months.. . In fact I'm starting out at the new place next week already. I figured, you know, don't think I'll have the time to spend on the tank to maintain it, water changes and monitoring, so thought, argh, let it go first... ...I can always start out again when things aren't so hectic anymore. But wa...letting go of the tank quite heart ache...like break up with gf like that... Diving also has taken a back seat for now lar, last trip was Manado as you probably remember. Supposed to go for a Redang trip or any trip with kelstorm, but with the upcoming flat, I figure better put some attention to it... ...so we going to aim for Bali next June...hopefully that materialises...

Hi guys, For those who are coming to my place tonight, I arranged with you earlier today to come after 630pm, some of you were mentioning 7-8pm. Um...now change timing abit hor, gotta go pick up my wife. I'll only be back 9pm, so meeting can only take place after that, say about 930pm ok? I've already sent out the PMs earlier, I'm just posting here just in case you didn't see it. Just drop me a msg when you're nearby, so I can update you on my status lar ok?

Hi guys, Rock is reserved. Vincent, the PL I believe is 1x36w daylight, 2x18W 50/50 and the last one I'm not too sure what it is but it isn't blue lar. I'm letting go the PL and their timers for $80 if anyone's interested.

Hi Guys, Yumas are reserved. Hi Vincent, PL is for 3ft...hey I'll post more details later in the afternoon ok...I rushing off for lunch now...will tell you more later...sorry...

Hi Guys, Food has been reserved. I've got live rock remaining. There's some cyano on it, but some scrubbing will take care of it. I'll price that at $5 a kg. I don't have a weighing scale, but I'll make it worth your while if you're a serious buyer. I don't have much rock, I'd estimate it as 40-50kg. Best if you can take everything. Some orange yumas (14 pieces) going for $20 as well. A piece of star polyps going for $20. Oh ya, forgot to mention , have some green hairy mushrooms as well, that will go for $15. My PL lights will be up next, once the corals have been taken care of.

Hi guys, Clams reserved. Hi Sam, the yumas are fire orange, but they look less orangy under my lighting. But they've been in my tank for at least three months already. PM me if you're interested, ya? I've a camera phone, but trust me, the colour will look washed out if I take pics with it.

Hi everyone, I have not been visiting SRC for a very long long time. Too many things happening in my life right now.. ...and it is with a heavy heart that I've decided to let go of my tank. Sales will go slow for the moment, so that I can organise what sequence of items can be sold first. First up will be some homemade food I bought from henry before. I had bought the $50 pack from him last time, barely used at all, sold part of it before as well. I'd like to sell my remaining amount for $25. It's quite a lot, so I think $25 is a good price. I'll throw in my remaining mysis packs and dry food as well. I've also got some live rock to clear. There's some cyano on it, but some scrubbing will take care of it. I'll price that at $5 a kg. I don't have a weighing scale, but I'll make it worth your while if you're a serious buyer. I don't have much rock, I'd estimate it as 40-50kg. Best if you can take everything. Got two clams, one green and the other purple, nothing fancy, going for $20 each. Some orange yumas (14 pieces) going for $20 as well. A piece of star polyps going for $20. I've got no cam, so no pictures. (my cam died) Self collect in Punggol after office hours. PM me for my address and number. That's all for now, after I've cleared this, I'll put some more up for sale. Thanks.

here's another story you can all laugh at..hahaha... sometime last year, went to parkway parade. on the way up to the car park, I saw a BMW that had mounted the low concrete divider that separates the up-lane into the carpark and the down-lane from the carpark! the car was balanced on its undercarriage along its length! and in it was a little boy... HAHAHAHA!!! the cars on the way up and down had to drive a little slower and closer to their respective sides to avoid the beemer. on the way up I saw a woman talking rather dejectedly on the phone on the grass patch next to the up-lane...*laugh*...and in my rear view mirror? the tow truck. *snicker*

hmm...will try to see if I can distinguish it that way...but they look really really similar ley.. my tank too small to have 5 inside lar...haha...I just bought two only...if and when I finally figure out how to ###### them, I might trade one if I find I have two of the same gender. I was at the shop the other day looking at the show tank which had 5(I think) pyjamas in there...tried looking at the dorsal fin (for banggais the male has a longer dorsal fin), but all of them had roughly similar lengths of dorsal fins so I guess that may not be a reliable way.

Just out of curiosity...does anyone know how to ###### the pyjama cardinal? Would it be similar to the Banggai or are there other attributes?

WILLIAM HUNG!!!!!!!

no no no... ...those coming out from the rear end are the hydrogen bombs! (Actually more like methane, but explosive all the same kekeke..) 50 Megaton rating. you have been warned.

I got some clarification from the net: Uranium bomb The nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was a “gun” type bomb. By this I mean that a piece of U-235 was shot by a cannon at another piece of U-235; the combination was above the critical mass. The entire bomb, including cannon, weighed 4 tons. The energy release from the chain reaction was 13 kilotons of TNT equivalent. The day after Hiroshima was destroyed, President Harry Truman mistakenly announced the yield was 20 kilotons. This was the first uranium device ever exploded. It had not been tested. (The Alamogordo test was of a plutonium bomb.) The design was so simple that a test was decided to be a waste of uranium. After the bomb was dropped, there was not yet enough new uranium to make a new one, although the Oak Ridge plants were producing enough that a new bomb could be ready soon. Plutonium bomb are more difficult (see next section). For that reason, a bomb that uses uranium is the material of choice for a terrorist, since the design is so simple. But such a bomb requires highly enriched U-235, and that is not easy to make. When you dig uranium from the ground, it is 99.3% U-238, and only 0.7% U-235. It is only the rare isotope U-235 that can be used for a bomb. Separating this isotope is extremely difficult to do. When the United States defeated Iraq in 1991, one of the conditions that Saddam Hussein agreed to was inspections of his nuclear facilities. The U.S. discovered that he had developed devices to separate U-235 from natural uranium. But these devices, in stead of being the modern centrifuge or laser systems that we had anticipated, were Calutrons. This is short for "California utron", and it was the slow but sure method invented by Ernest Lawrence (after whom is named the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory). Lawrence had invented this method during World War II, and his system had separated virtually all the U-235 that was used in the attack on Hiroshima. Prior to the Hiroshima attack, a nuclear weapon had been tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. That was the first nuclear explosion. But the Alamogordo test did not use U-235. It used an isotope of plutonium, Pu-239. Plutonium bomb The bomb tested at Alamogordo, and the one dropped on Nagasaki, were both plutonium bombs, using Pu-239. Plutonium is relatively easy to get: it is produced in most nuclear reactors, including those intended to produce electric power, and then it can be separated using chemistry. However it normally has a high component of Pu-240, which is highly radioactive. This radioactivity tends to pre-detonate the bomb, i.e. make it explode before the chain reaction is complete. As a result, a special design had to be used: implosion. This is extremely difficult to design and engineer and build, and probably could not be built by a small organization such as a terrorist group. The resources of a full country (Pakistan, North Korea) are probably necessary. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki yielded 20 kilotons of explosion. It used only 6 kg of plutonium (about 13.5 pounds). That much plutonium could easily fit in a coffee cup. The higher yield per gram (compared to uranium) results from the fact that plutonium emits more neutrons in fission than does uranium, so the reaction goes faster, and we get a more complete chain reaction before the plutonium is blown apart. The plutonium is often arranged as a hollow shell, with explosives on the outside. The explosives drive the shell into a little blob, and compress it (even though it is solid). The compression pushes the atoms close enough together that neutrons produced in the chain reaction are unlikely to be able to leak in between them. Thus compressed plutonium has a smaller critical mass than uncompressed plutonium. The explosives often use a special kind of explosive "lens" (a special shape in the explosive that tends to make the explosion converge on a point). According to the chief nuclear weapons designer of Saddam Hussein, a U.S. trained physicist named Khidhir Hamza, the Iraqi bomb was not going to be a gun-style design. Instead, they would use uranium, but do an implosion in order to reduce the critical mass.[19] Thermonuclear weapon or "Hydrogen Bomb" In the hydrogen bomb, deuterium and tritium are heated by a plutonium or uranium fission bomb, to the point where they overcome their natural repulsion (the nuclei of both are positively charged) and fuse. This releases energy, and neutrons. The high energy neutrons cause fission in a uranium case (usually just U-238), and that releases even more energy. The biggest hydrogen bomb ever tested (they have never been used in war) released an energy over 50 million tons of TNT. That is million, not thousand! The "secret" of the hydrogen bomb, kept highly classified until just a few years ago, is that the plutonium bomb emits enough x-rays that they can be used, after bouncing off the uranium cases, to compress and ignite the tritium/deuterium combination. There is a second secret, although this has been public for a longer period. Instead of using tritium, the bomb can contain a stable (not radioactive) isotope of lithium called Li-6. This is a solid, which means that the material is stored at high density. The neutrons from the fission weapon break up the Li-6 to make the tritium. Thus the fuel is created in the same microsecond that the bomb is exploding. The fusion fuel is usually lithium combined with deuterium, called lithium deuteride.

A bomb that uses the energy of the nucleus to release energy can safely be called a “nuclear bomb.” President Harry Truman referred to the bombs dropped over Japan as “Atomic bombs.” This name is still used. The bomb based on fusion of hydrogen is often referred to as a “hydrogen bomb.” A name typically used by scientists is “thermonuclear bomb.” The word thermonuclear refers to the fact that the fusion takes place because of the high temperature (that’s the thermo part).