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Which egg-bomb will be used to bomb pandora?
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PNN Issue #2
Topic Started: Apr 7 2013, 02:52 PM (485 Views)
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Welcome to Issue #2 of the PNN. Created by the PNN team.

Hello and welcome one and all to issue #2 of the PNN! Today we have an interview of upcoming member Socrates, an all new crime investigation, and of course, new comics and article smarticle! Read and comment and please do vote in the poll.

So brace yourself.

INDEX (CTRL+F and type the code in the box to go there instantly)
1) FORUM NEWS [Page 1]
2) FORUM HEADQUARTERS [Page 2]
3) HOTTEST TOPICS [Page 3]
4) CONTESTS [Page 4]
5) SHOPS [Page 5]
6) RUMOR [Page 6]
7) COMICS [Page 7]
8) INTERVIEWS[Page 8]
9) CRIME INVESTIGATION [Page 9]
10) ARTICLE SMARTICLE [Page X]






FORUM NEWS
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We need more videos!

Want to give us a video at PandoraGN?

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IT'S SHOWTIME!

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PANDORA WEBSITE

Talk about the Pandora Network website here!

LINK'S MEW GIVEAWAYS!

How should Link give away more mews? Post your ideas here!





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We have some great topics to post in this week!

EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA!

Welcome Easter with with care, and talk about the Easter Hare!

GRAPHICS DISCUSSION

Revive the graphics discussion forum - post your awesome graphical art today!

GPX WARMING REQUESTS

Hey guys, I'm sure the GPX'ers will appreciate it a lot if you warm their eggs and feed their Pokemon on GPX!

50 SHADES OF PURPL3

They're back! Read how they enjoyed the last week together :D Again, not for the dirty minded...

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR BOMB THREAT

When the going gets tough...

WELCOME KIRU!

Kiru is an all new member, who is also an artist! :D

MEWTWO'S NEW FORM: MEWTHREE

Grotesque or fantastique? Tell us what you think about the rumored Mewthree!

PUZZLES? EXTREME PUZZLES!

This video is really fun :P

STARF'S STARS AND STRIPES NUZLOCKE!

Starf and his team defeated N! Now for the next part of the story...

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[VOTING]SOTW 60: ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Vote in the SOTW! This week's theme is St. Patrick's day!!

THE DAILY GQC!

Are you smarter than a Pandora Grader?

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PURPL3'S ART SHOP!

Purpl3 makes awesome hand-drawn art :) Time to dish out some cash... Wait.. ITS FREE :O

BLUE ESPEON'S ART SHOP

An awesome art shop to get your art supplies at a very reasonable price!






ENTERTAINMENT GALORE
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Rumours, games, entertainment and fun!





RUMORS!
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GForce said something about having Purpl3's photos in his mind...

You know, Purpl3's first train had been cancelled, so sh managed to get on another one. BUT obviously the trainer being cancelled was Mr. Gold's doing right?

Why was GForce afrais when Purpl3 was in the elevator. Another threat for Mr. Gold perhaps? OH NO! EVIL BECKONS SO QUICKLY!




TODAY'S COMIC! Page 7

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INTERVIEWS & RANTSPage 8

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Exciting interviews by our community and rants!

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Today we interview the awesome member, Socrates. He asks lots of questions, but now it's our turn! Augustus bring us this inside SCOOP!
1.) What is your first memory of Pokemon?

Ans: Ooh, my first memory of Pokemon would be getting my first Pokemon card. I got it at Valentine's day in first grade. It was a Magikarp, of course.

2.) How did you find out about PGN and what brought you here?

Ans: I found out about PGN from a link from Sam's twitter, I think... I saw it on the top left side of the blog. I don't actually follow his twitter, though. I wanted a shiny mew is what got me here, though. But the community really grabbed me.

3.) If you had one last meal before you died, what would it be?

Ans: I'd say Tacos. Double beef tacos, crunchy inside soft, with lettuce, cheese sauce, sour cream, mild sauce and ketchup, beef in both. My drink would be a Shirley Temple, or a cherry Sprite, and for dessert I'd have Hershey's cotton candy ice cream.

4.) What is your favorite movie?

Ans: Tough choice... I like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I'd say True Grit, honestly...

5.) What is your favorite song and music artist?

Ans: Really tough. I'd say Ode to Joy as my single piece, and Toby Keith as my artist, just cause.

6.) If you could have one wish, what would you wish for?

Ans: Other than the wishing for more wishes, for there to be a group of people I could talk to for ideas and plans and other good intelligent topics.

7.) If you had to lose either an eye, an arm, an ear or a leg which would you choose?

Ans: I'd say leg, because I have 20/15, or really, really good, vision, I can hardly function on two arms, thank you very much, and my ears are highly useful for many other things.

8.) Would would be your course of action in a zombie apocalypse?

Ans: First, I'd learn what the heck specifically Zombies are. Then, I'd learn sniping, because sniping is very useful. Thirdly, I'd formulate a more specific course of action based on how the previous one worked out. Plan, act, evaluate, repeat.

9.) Do you have any strange/unique talents or abilities that we do not know about?

Ans: I'm double jointed. This means that I can very easily freak people out by stretching unnaturally.

10.) If you could learn one skill set such as a martial art, sniping, etc. what would it be?

Ans: Sniping, as said above. But if I can't say that, I'd say perfecting my violin abilities.

Augustus' Special Reply





CRIME INVESTIGATION!Page 9

Mr. Gold has sabotaged the forum with a time bomb. And what's more, it is shaped like an egg! :O How will we find it among the hundreds of eggs that GF threw around to celebrate Easter?

STEP 1: Identifying the bomb!

Please vote in the poll on what YOU think is the bomb placed by Mr. Gold. Please do not vote for yourself.

MURDER CATASTROPHE!:

Someone is trying to commit crimes while the forum is distracted by the Mr. Gold bomb case!

The victim is Starf. He was found dead on his chair. He was killed just before he could post a new update to his Nuzlocke! Who could the killer be?

HINTS:

1) A rubber boot was found at the scene. The sort used in water-sports.

2) Oh, and the murder weapon was a board, which is usually used in a particular water sport which has U in it's spelling.

There is a set murderer here. PLEASE PM ME YOUR GUESS. DO NOT POST IT HERE.

The correct guessers will win 300$ and an exclusive interview with the PNN!






ARTICLE SMARTICLEPage X

Today's article talks about the amazing concept of 100% renewable energy. This article is from wikipedia. We do not own it.

The incentive to use 100% renewable energy is created by global warming and ecological as well as economic concerns, post peak oil. The first country to propose 100% renewable energy was Iceland, in 1998. Proposals have been made for Japan in 2003, and for Australia in 2011. Norway and some other countries already obtain all of their electricity from renewable sources. Iceland proposed using hydrogen for transportation and its fishing fleet. Australia proposed biofuel for those elements of transportation not easily converted to electricity. The road map for the United States, commitment by Denmark, and Vision 2050 for Europe set a 2050 timeline for converting to 100% renewable energy, later reduced to 2040 in 2011. Zero Carbon Britain 2030 proposes eliminating carbon emissions in Britain by 2030 by transitioning to renewable energy.

It is estimated that the world will spend an extra $8 trillion over the next 25 years to prolong the use of non-renewable resources, a cost that would be eliminated by transitioning instead to 100% renewable energy. A 2009 study suggests that converting the entire world to 100% renewable energy by 2030 is both possible and affordable, but requires political support. It would require building many more wind turbines and solar power systems. Other changes involve use of electric cars and the development of enhanced transmission grids and storage.

The Fourth Revolution: Energy is a German documentary film released in 2010. It shows the vision of a global society, which lives in a world where the energy is produced 100% with renewable energies, showing a complete reconstruction of the economy, to reach this goal. In 2011, Hermann Scheer wrote the book The Energy Imperative: 100 Percent Renewable Now, published by Routledge.

In 2011, the refereed journal Energy Policy published two articles by Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of engineering at Stanford University, and Mark A. Delucchi, about changing our energy supply mix and "Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power". The articles analyze the feasibility of providing worldwide energy for electric power, transportation, and heating/cooling from wind, water, and sunlight (WWS), which are safe clean options. In Part I, Jacobson and Delucchi discuss WWS energy system characteristics, aspects of energy demand, WWS resource availability, WWS devices needed, and material requirements. They estimate that 3,800,000 5 MW wind turbines, 5350 100 MW geothermal power plants, and 270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants will be required. In terms of solar power, an additional 49,000 300 MW concentrating solar plants, 40,000 300 MW solar photovoltaic power plants, and 1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop photovoltaic systems will also be needed. Such an extensive WWS infrastructure could decrease world power demand by 30%. In Part II, Jacobson and Delucchi address variability of supply, system economics, and energy policy initiatives associated with a WWS system. The authors advocate producing all new energy with WWS by 2030 and replacing existing energy supply arrangements by 2050. Barriers to implementing the renewable energy plan are seen to be "primarily social and political, not technological or economic". Energy costs with a WWS system should be similar to today's energy costs.

The only sources available to provide a majority of the world's energy are, in order, solar, wind, and geothermal. Geothermal can be treated either as a non-renewable resource, where the heat in the first two miles of the Earth's mantle contains enough energy to supply all of the world's energy for 100,000 years, although only a small percentage of that is technically available, or as a renewable resource, where the heat used is that which is replenished each year. Due to the radiation in the Earth's mantle, this is sustainable for about 2 billion years, and can supply up to a majority of the energy used in 2010. Most of the energy available is from the Sun, and about 1% to 2% is converted to wind energy, and about 0.01% to plants. Each year the sun provides 160 times the total energy that is stored in fossil fuels.

A 2012 study by the University of Delaware for a 72 GW system considered 28 billion combinations of renewable energy and storage and found the most cost effective, for the PJM Interconnection, would use 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of onshore wind, although at times as much as three times the demand would be provided. 0.1% of the time would require generation from other sources.

IRENEC is an annual conference on 100% renewable energy started in 2011 by EUROSOLAR Turkey. The 2013 conference is scheduled for June 27–29 in Istanbul.



Thank you for reading today's PNN everyone! :D Please comment on the various sections! :D

The PNN Staff

Edited by LuckBeatSkill, Apr 7 2013, 04:20 PM.
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Hey, great issue! I'll try to vote, and also to read the comic. Looks grand!
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love this issue! its great
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Awesome issue, LOVED IIIIT!! :D

Btw, I'll be giving you the reply Augustus gave to Socrates too! Just add that in, thanks Gossip! ^.^
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Hey guys! Please get your entries in for the crime investigation! 300$ isn't a small amount to win!
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I've been killed... waiting for people to ask questions for the Q&A.
Logical. I'm gonna guess Poledoo out of jealousy that probably doesn't exist i mean what

Also, we were voting for what egg bomb Mr. Gold was gonna use? I thought we were just supposed to pick the one we like best... (in which case, CHANSEY BECAUSE LOOK AT THAT LOOK)
Seriously though, you shouldn't use super huge images in polls and such a vague question. Without reading the PNN, no one would know the poll was for a guessing contest.
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Lol, I hadn't seen that question on the poll. XD

But shouldn't that be the point. Our PNN team works so hard on this. Shouldn't people READ the Pandora?

So, I think it should be fine. Call me egoistic, but, I think people should read if they want to participate and if they don't want to, they can ignore or do whatever they like. As simple as that. :)
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I'm not really saying that people aren't reading the PNN. I'm saying that the poll just seems like a funsy poll; at first glance, it looks like a fun poll, and with a question that doesn't immediately scream "READ THE PNN", it's really hard to see a link, imo. So while people probably should be reading the PNN, the poll doesn't make any sign that it is either necessary nor relevant to the content of the PNN.

My main gripe though is the images in the poll. They alone take up an eighth of the PNN.
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I think the murderer is... Sparki!
With his surfing Pikachu.
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Hmm.. I'll give a hint if no one can guess.
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@Starf: Oh... Yep! You're right there Starfy! :) We'll make sure to be more specific/ clear next time. ^.^ Thanks for pointing that out man! : D We'll keep that in mind.

More suggestions/ comments/ etc welcome! Thank you! :D
Edited by Master Snowy, Apr 8 2013, 02:59 PM.
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Did I get it right, Gossip? I PMed you my guess, like it said to.
Also, I didn't know there was a special reply... I just saw it. :P
What was freaky about it Snowy? I couldn't see anything freaky...
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Freaky? I didn't say anything was freaky? xD Nothing was, Socrates. :)

[rainbow]Hey wow, cool! Did you guys notice THIS? :D I LOVE IIIIT! ^_^[/rainbow]

Though it's not too good for the eyes. xD
Edited by Master Snowy, Apr 9 2013, 12:21 PM.
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Yuh-huh... You said it in the special reply, and you said, granted in strikeout, that it was freaky or something. I was only joking about asking anyway.
I know, right? [rainbow]RAINBOW![/rainbow]
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Freaky? I didn't say anything was freaky? xD Nothing was, Socrates. :)

[rainbow]Hey wow, cool! Did you guys notice THIS? :D I LOVE IIIIT! ^_^[/rainbow]

Though it's not too good for the eyes. xD
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Also, just wondering, did anyone actually read the article on renewable energy? Lol, I almost fell asleep.
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