The idea is that this is a truly halfbaked invitation to a halfcon, in Brisbane, Australia.
Heads up for anyone in the Brisbane area on Tuesday 19 June, 2012. There will be a halfcon in the lobby at the Brisbane Hilton Hotel.
Of course, this time may have already passed, in your part of the world, so you can think of it as a Heisenberg Halfcon, if that is the case.-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012 Ooooh, oooh! I think I can just make that one. You will recognize me as I won't be wearing a carnation in my lapel. [+]-- AusCan531, Jun 22 2012 Apologies, I won't be able to have made it.-- tatterdemalion, Jun 22 2012 I was there tomorrow, where were you guys?-- Alterother, Jun 22 2012 They would have been being happy at the likely participation of their online friends.-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012 You'll be laughing on the other side of your face in around six centuries' time when the Arabs have taken over Australia and there really is a halfcon there. I have no explanation for their adoption of Gregorian month names though.-- nineteenthly, Jun 22 2012 I plan to be dead in six centuries from now.-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012 //this time may have already passed, in your part of the world//
Nah. When it's 2012 in the UK, it'll still only be about 1957 in oz.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 22 2012 I'll make an effort to send some nutrinos that passed briefly through me in that direction. If I'm really extraordinarily lucky I might deflect one.
I'll also make an effort to pop some particles in and out of existence there that may or may not have any association with my person whatsoever.-- RayfordSteele, Jun 22 2012 Ah, you poor insubstantial and tiny person who is not a neutronium sphere a parsec in diameter, [RayfordSteele].-- nineteenthly, Jun 22 2012 Will Schrödinger be there?-- xandram, Jun 22 2012 Probably.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 22 2012 //'ll make an effort to send some nutrinos that passed briefly through me in that direction.//
Hmmm. Apparently the primordial neutrino flux is 3*10^12 (neutrinos per square centimeter per second. Or 3*10^16 per square meter per second. Presumably these are evenly distributed. Consider a sphere with the surface area (in m^2) of the neutrino flux (per sec per m^2). Each square meter of the surface will pass a neutrino from that central square meter on average once a second. Therefore, the range at which you can reliably emit a neutrino from a 1m^2 'source' to a 1m^2 target in a few seconds is: sqrt(3*10^16/(4*pi))=2.4*10^15 meters
UnaBubba, I'm sending you more neutrinos than you'll ever need. Use them wisely.-- Loris, Jun 22 2012 // UnaBubba, I'm sending you more neutrinos than you'll ever need. Use them wisely //
We're sending you a cat, a detector and a radioactive source in a sealed box. Second class. Via Bulgaria, Tristan da Cunha and Solihull. Don't open the box, it will probably smell baaaaaad ... but you won't know, unless you open the box.-- 8th of 7, Jun 22 2012 Bob-- UnaBubba, Jun 22 2012 //Seems wrong to me.//
_possibly_ fixed. Think I neglected a bracket in the written formula, so I put one in. I might have made other mistakes in the calculation (it took longer than I had to write the anno, so I was in a hurry). I've still not checked it properly though - hope to get back to it.-- Loris, Jun 23 2012 Do people from here meet up for halfbakedness or was this a one-off?-- Phrontistery, Jul 01 2012 Usually we just meet in small groups and laugh about those not in on the joke, [Phront].-- UnaBubba, Jul 01 2012 I can see why there aren't many.-- Phrontistery, Jul 03 2012 Sorry, were you invited?-- UnaBubba, Jul 03 2012 There's a certain satisfaction in seeing someone prove me right :)-- Phrontistery, Jul 03 2012 I wasn't there again, today.-- pertinax, Jul 12 2012 random, halfbakery