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Now open for commissions: [link]I wonder how many versions they had to go through to get the latest Portal gun?
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And also i tried duing with that concept but i just pushed me back out!
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I found this on Stumbleupon. XD This is wonderful.
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this reminds me of a Mortal Kombat 9 fatality...
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Actually the emancipation frills charge with every passing
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"We're not bangin' rocks together; we KNOW how to make a quantum space hole!"
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Cave Jonsen: Just a miner setback but science most continue and please tell me the devise is AOK?
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No, no, no. The Portal gun runs somehow on the power of a miniature inter-dimensional black hole.
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A black hole that require AA batteries.
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wat would happen if it hit a mirror and hit them
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Space paradox. It'd be like turning the Heart of Gold's infinite improbability drive on.
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Note to self: Charge portal device when I go to bed. X3
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The portals are completely safe. The device,however,is not.
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Pffft. Who ever reads the small print?
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it says not to put your face on the operational end. I guess it will realize chell is ugly, become self aware and kill her.
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Fun Fact: when playing Portal in commentary mode, the designer comments that they wanted players to feel safe inside a portal, so if a portal closes when something is inside it, it is pushed to one side.
Also, I bet the early Portal Gun designs would have had to deal with shooting one portal through another, which would add even more mayhem to the already-disorienting portal gameplay. Maybe the early test subjects who left clues for the later ones didn't make it to GLaDOS because the portalgun exploded or splinched them? I didn't see corpses or anything in the BTS level.
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They have an excellent cleaning crew at the facility to take care of corpses.
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Yet they leave the graffiti and empty boxes? I find it more likely that there's some weird sort of radiation present that breaks down the bones.
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The cleaning crew might just be picky that way.
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I have a theory for the portal gun's power source, but if noone asks, I'll just keep it to myself.
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I'd like to hear it. I know the portalgun violates the Third Law of Thermodynamics (it creates potential energy instantaniously) but I like hearing theories as to how it works.
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Well I hardly know anything about physics, so there's probably some fatal flaw in this.
If two small portals could be placed at the ends of a tube lined with copper wires inside the portal gun, then a magnet could be dropped into the tube and would act as a mini generator that could power the gun.
That or there's a massive portal device somewhere in Aperture with the tip sticking through a portal into the portal gun.
Like I said, there's probably something wrong here so kindly point it out.
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Very interesting, if portals could generate enough energy to sustain themselves, that'd be a better proof that they break the laws of thermodynamics than the "potential energy has to come from somewhere" argument. But the "giant device points through small wormhole" is the awesome part of your theory. I've been reading a book by Stephen Hawking, and I'm not sure I understand it all, but at one point he mentions that there are many more than the 3 spacial dimensions we observe, but most of them are curled up, in the same sense that a very long and thin drinking straw appears 1-dimensional from a distance.
So, my point is, what if the ASHPD is a 4-dimensional object with a 3-dimensional handle? You could carry it around and still have enough power stored in the 4D extension to open what GLaDOS refers to as "intradimensonal gateways." Actually, that makes even more sense, the portals are just miniature wormholes. Hawking's book implies that you could make portals, but you'd have to put energy into them to keep them open. Hence the 4D power generator. This also explains why the portals should close if the portal gun is turned off or runs out of power, as illustrated in the drawing. I think I'm looking too far into this.
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Wow did I write that? I think most of that was actually guessing on my part from having read maybe one or two articles with artistic metaphors for spacetime. I'm not sure how plausible the actual theory is...
But I still think it's theoretically possible to make a 4D object with a 3D handle... if we weren't tethered to three spacial dimensions like this. I'm sure we'll catch up to the fiction in another few decades, of course, if we don't blow ourselves up first.
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...unless you're the dude that got splinched. Thanks for the compliment!
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Fun fact: the Stargate is powered by the might of two thousand AA batteries.
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What if you shoot portals through stargate?
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It's like dividing by zero, but with a snappier theme song.
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LOL I hate it when electronics do that on me. That one must have been using a Sony battery.
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βAperture Science would like to remind you that you must clean up all messes you may leave behind in our testing facility. Death is not an excuse.β
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Wow. That's a pretty good GLaDOS impression. Sounds just like it!
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thats a very cheerful and non-violent comic ya got there
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Coming right out of Half-Life 2, I was looking for my energy bar in Portal. Kinda made me paranoid when I didnβt see it.
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