This is quite easy with the power of google. I feel ashamed because i know nothing without googling.

It did get me to lol a bit, You know you can draw something, on paint or w/e right?

I'd like to see a complete points tally, please.

Just this point earner round Or from the orginal one too?

It's not a real competition; just like the maths one, he just wants the GOG community to do his homework for him.

Nah, Its a real contest, if i wanted homework help theres ask.com :P


i am just trying out something new
Around summer time points are going to be redeemable

For the whole contest, so the original one too. That's why I said 'complete'.

Gotcha, Will try to get it up by this weekend

18th Century Steam Engine

The steam engine was the principal power source during the British Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. The steam engine opened a whole new world to everyone. The steam engine maximized production, efficiency, reliability, minimized time, the amount of labor, and the usage of animals. The steam engine in all revolutionized the Eastern Hemisphere, mainly European society. What does revolutionize actually mean? It means that something such as the steam engine brought about a radical change in something, and this something is the European Society. The steam engine specifically brought about a radical change in work, transportation of goods, and travel. The invention of the steam engine revolutionized European society by enabling tasks to be done quicker, cheaper, and more dependably.

The steam engine use throughout the several professions revolutionized numerous aspects of Western European Society. The first important use of the steam engine came in 1776. The steam engine was used to show the Cornish miners how successful it could be in removing the water from the mineshafts. This proved to be of great importance to the Cornish, because one of their biggest problems was the flooding of the mining shafts. (The Penetration of the Industry by Steam Power) The mine owners "worried...that the mines would have to be shut down unless water could be pumped out of the shafts." "The engine successfully raised water from the bottom of deep mines." (Siegel, 17) This saved the shutting down of the mines, which were essential to further the economy. Not only did the steam engine save the mines, it provided a method of mining that proved to be extremely quicker than the traditional techniques. One of the biggest incomes for the British was found in their textile industry. In the textile industry, the domestic system presented many problems for merchants. They had difficulty regulating standards of workmanship and maintaining schedules for completing work. Workers sometimes sold some of the yarn or cloth in their own profit. As the demand in cloth increased, merchants often had to compete with one another for the limited amount of workers available in manufacturing, which increased merchants' costs. As a result, merchants turned increasingly to machinery, which was powered by the steam engine, for greater production and also turned to factories for central control over their workers. (Johnson, 30) The steam engine proved to be a reliable investment for merchants of the textile industries not only because it wasn't accident prone like humans and increased production by unimaginable amounts, but it also moved the company into a factory, which helped to urbanize life to the way we live it today. The steam engine was also used on the farm for several purposes. It was used extensively for deep plowing, cultivating, mole draining and ground clearing. "Great advances were also made in agriculture with the engines enabling greater acreage to come under the plough and production increased by the use of machines to do tasks formerly done by hand or by horses." (Johnson, 39) These steam engines allowed farmers to grow crops in abundance with minimal manual labor, which was an increase in quantity and quality productions since a machine and not a human was doing the work. Another great contribution of the steam engine was made in the iron/coal industries. Since iron was starting to be produced so rapidly, more coal was needed to keep the steam engines running. Since the coal mining industry had to keep up, steam power was used for the mining of coal, which proved to be much faster than customary methods. Because the steam engine was used to mine coal, and because England had large deposits of coal to fuel the new steam engines.


Looked at it in a bit of a different way, instead of just a how it works thing.

This is the introduction to an engineering paper I wrote at end of first year university, not going to include the rest of it as it was pages long!

Let's write about both!!!!!

Steam can mean many things of course. The state of water in evaporation, most easily visable at temperatures upwards of 100 degrees celceus. The expansion rate of water to steam is somewhere around 1500 times in volume, meaning that with a low volume of water, you can create a large amount of pressure. Steam made the basis of most early engines, used for river boats and of course trains, usually heated by a large coal furnace and requiring several people to manage.

Because of the possible applications of the time in using steam, it was thought of what else it could be used to power. This brought way to what we think of as Steampunk in the 1900's, a culture and society based around the widespread use of steam in moderen application, usually also featuring style and design using piping of bronze or copper, and others, usually in large numbers or altering sizes. The first written detail of Steampunk occured in 1959, in the story "Titus Alone" which was written by Mervyn Peake. However, Steampunk didn't have a name until the 1980's/1970's, created by several other fictional authors who wanted a term to describe the style. The novels that these same authors presided on took place in Victorian era London (Which overlaps the industrial era of London). At this time, steampunk continues to be a popular inspiration of fiction in both written works and digital media.

Also of note is that there is steam in our computers. The process involves going through the internet tubes to reach a unique valve that allows free access to all who wish to use it. It then fills your computer with steam, which contained in it is digital programming from big name companies to relatively unknown creators. Accessing this programming however usually requires you to shove a credit card into your computer, and an angry mouse willing to cooperate long enough to push the card to the valve. An issue with this type of steam however is that it doesn't create power, rather it uses power, and even then at times can be prone to failure, being closed by the valve, being loaded with too many people putting steam into their computers, or just failure to have the right temperature, resulting in low quality steam. Also of aggrivation to users is that the steam in your computer has been filled with a unique monitering system straight from the valve, which at times causes the steam to break if you aren't attached to the valve at all times, resulting in inability to use the steam and the digital content. The valve also has a habit of ejecting those not worthy of it's steam, either through suspicion of illegally taking the steam for themselves, or sometimes by mistake. Sadly the man with the monkey wrench is slow to turn the valve to get it going again, and is usually asleep on duty when you need him, and the valve is... not exactly easy to talk to when it makes a mistake, because it's an inanimate object in a wall. If all goes well however, and the unique steam does work, with a cooperative mouse, without being ejected by the valve, and with the monitering system free about in your computer's hard drive, you will have access to high quality programming from... sometimes high quality steam out of a hopefully high quality valve. Now if only the valve was a bit better about giving people what they desired outside of steam, but that's for another discussion.

(I would have continued but I'm being kicked out of this room, so I'll be back to it later)

Now it took some thinking to invent what to write.
So we have to write about Steam Power. First I was thinking about writing about how Steam machines work. Or how they workED to be more correct. But would someone want to read that? Anyway those Steam-Powered machines do not really WORK anymore now... I mean they COULD work, if one wanted them to, but they do not want to. So they do not work. Yeah.
BUT. I am not supposed to write about steam. I am supposed to write about Steam Power. You know like GIrl Power only with Steam instead of Girl.
So the question is why do we still return to that evaporated water over and over again and is it a good idea?
Now in general Steam is a very good thing. If you have enough Steam you can have a . And bath is good, as it keeps you clean. And being clean keeps you healthy, and [url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QmIfyLxUP_k/Tz4LxkDGHmI/AAAAAAAAG4U/bWBsLZTSFXU/s1600/Bodybuilder+Wallpapers+Free+Download+HD+-+Gym1.jpg]powerful, apparently. So yeah Steam Power exists.
Now, if you had COMPRESSED Steam you could have a mechanism. And that would do work for you, thus you could enjoy your nice bath instead of doing hard work, stay healthy and be powerful. Once again - Steam Power at work.
Obviously to use the power of Steam you need something to pour it through. And that typically is a [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Centrifugal_governor_and_balanced_steam_valve_(New_Catechism_of_the_Steam_Engine,_1904).jpg]Valve[/url]. Now here comes a trick. Obviously Steam Valve is necessary and respected by everyone. But who would want Valve Steam? I mean, really, why oh WHY would you sell something and call it Valve Steam. It is just like saying "What you get comes at you hot, damaging, at high speed, dissipates in a matter of seconds, is irrecoverable and takes a TON of work to re-create". Would you want such a thing? I am not so sure.
Now to SteamPunk (here is one steamy punk, if you ask me). What is it that makes people come back to those BIG SHINY gears, polished copper cogs and steam-exhausting pipes? Is it just nostalgia about the "good old days"? Is it an attempt to reinvent what we have today? It is hard to say. One thing is for sure - Steampunk looks awesome and it is here to stay with us - in movies, books, videogames and all other forms of art. Besides, Steampunk, is good-looking, fun and just cool (or "hot", if you prefer). People like it. That is the way things are.
I myself am eagerly anticipating a game where I would finally be able to play someone, who officially has the same profession as me. Looking at that picture one could say - it is Mario on a whole new level. Obviously, Steam is getting more and more powerful (and many people complaing that is true for Valve Steam as well).
Now, as an engineer, I could actually go into different mechanisms, explanations and so forth. But seems like OP wants something more "fun", so I hope he likes this answer more. Also, to fully understand what I have done in this post, please, make sure you click all the links.

Steam, or more formally S.T.E.A.M is an elite criminal organisation dedicated to the destruction of gaming society.

Dividing into 5 subdivisions, they operate in a cell based system that reduces the ability of one division to comprimise the others. There are rumours of a council of elders representing each division of S.T.E.A.M led by a shadowing figure known only as Gabe...

Division one is known as 'Secure', a team hell bent on making all antivirus products consume PC resources at the most inconvenient times. Once Secure systems infect a computer they identify certain areas of disks that contain boss levels, and situations where you haven't saved in a long time. As these areas are accessed they execute what's known as a 'double security shafting' whereby first the user is beset by intense hard drive activity, as well as downloading a significant sized update in case of online play. Should the user still proceed to a near victory condition, the software will take focus of the screen to inform the user that there are no problems with the machine, while freezing the UI for the OK button for sufficient time that the background game has been able to change the flow of the game to its advantage. It is believed that Secure are the softening up division, leaving victims in a mentally fragile state, and open for subsequent action.

Division two, or 'Tenuous' have infiltrated most games companies and focus on leaving plots with such obvious holes that it becomes painful to hear people point them out. There are clear signs of 'Tenuous' involvement in games, whereby the character first develops overacted voicing, and attempts to use modern 'cool' phrases. At some point they will introduce an irrelevant sexual plotline intended to pass the victim into the hands of the 'Masters' (below). The main task of 'Tenuous' is to catch the user with the '50 hours for that!' ending. Often made more brutal by the time taken through actions of 'Secure', the user is left with an intense feeling of rage, but no way to release it, usually slowly transforming into dissalusionment, and eventually submission. Stockholm syndrome has been observed in those targetted with regular attacks, whereby the victims come to sympathise with the plot, and in some cases even write fan fiction of their own.

The 'Electronic' division are intent on ensuring that hardware functionality remains an inpenetrable mess. It is rumoured they possess the mythical '8 dimensional compatibility matrix' providing details of which games will work with various pieces of hardware. 'Electronic' ensures that no popular configuration will support the software. They are perceived as the weak link in the organisation, with one intrepid adventurer recently discovering that you could actually get Assassins Creed to run without crashing if you ensured you had a ZX82 Spectrum adapted to process every 2millionth operation.

'Arts' are possibly the most insipid of the divisions. They work on destroying a gamers loyalty to a brand through constant dilution of the credibility of the product, and through ensuring customers are treated with contempt and suspicion. They are of course behind most DRM schemes, though recently have aimed to break down their victims using the division of the product into 'Art' components known as DLC. The victim is deceived into thinking that they are buying a full product, when in fact 'Art' perform a 'Sims attack', whereby they re-introduce features included in previous games, then charge you for them. Despite their name, 'Arts' are dedicated to stagnation in the industry, aiming to force gamers into an ever repeating cycle of paying for what they played last year, but with a different label on the box.

Finally, the 'Masters' are manipulating the gaming community by distoring sexual and romantic relationships to the point that the modern gamer does not understand how to actually talk to the other sex, reduced to using cheap pickup lines and comparing Call of Duty achievements. Their goal is to play the long game, strike at the reproductive nature of a gamer, and there will be no-one to take their place when they are gone. The Masters are believed to be behind Nuts magazine, the modern lesuire suit larry remakes, and Megan Fox. Significant exposure to any of these can leave a subject unable to explain how reproduction could possibly work, as if cells divided it would leave both sides brain dead.

Beware this organisation.

That calls for an applause! Also did you notice how I managed to lure two more innocent people into the web of your nasty giveaway? ;)

I quite enjoyed writing it, I let me surrealist side loose, which is always relaxing.

I did notice your giveaway bump - thanks for that. We should have the numbers by saturday.

I found it very creative and amuzing actually. If I go surreal, it would be much more... surreal I am sure.

And yeah I give away my bump to your giveaway. ;)