Speculation with portals

Vagrantone0 · Test Participant Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 33

Isn't it great how everyone reads the first post before commenting?

msleeper · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

Do you have any idea how old or long this thread is? I haven't even read all of it.

rellikpd · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject:

blasphemy.
yeah but who the fuck has THAT kind of time.
but i think what he meant is the FIRST post, in that they say if portals could be used in the real world. NOT following the "hl2.exe" version rules

Vagrantone0 · Test Participant Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 33

Yeah i meant just the first post, which kicks off the discussion.
It helps to know what the thread is supposed to be about instead of reading the last post which could be horribly off topic.

rellikpd hit the nail on the head.

Hober · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:47 am Post subject:

rellikpd · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:21 am Post subject:

thegnomeisalie · New Employee Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

I've got some very important scientific questions about portals.

Such as, if Shroedinger's cat had possessed a portal gun, could it have escaped from the box?

Or, what if the portal was not in the shape of an oval, but rather the Mandelbrot set?

Okay, those were jokes but I've got one serious one.

If you have a portal in one area that is pitch black, and another portal in one area that has light, would the portal illuminate the dark area? I guess so, because light must travel though portals because otherwise you couldn't see out of them. I suppose it would look something similar the light inside of a building traveling through a window to partially light up the outside at night.

WackoMcGoose · Superior Participant Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

Yeah, and turret lasers go through portals just fine. And if you do the infinite-mirror portal, you can have a rocket turret do a very long laser beam.
And about reading a whole topic before commenting, I think that reading the first page and the last two or three pages in a 4+ page topic is sufficient. For a relatively new topic of three or fewer pages, it's a good idea to read it all.

Player1 · Test Supervisor Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 144

I can't fully recall when I was last on these boards, but I'm seriously impressed that this thread is still on top of the forum...

jrlauer · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:27 am Post subject:

Ricotez · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:29 am Post subject:

However, since the Source engine sucks with dynamic lights, it is not featured in Portal. That's why all test chambers are equally bright lit, I think, and there's also no shortage on light in the BTS areas, even though GLaDOS does not need the light there. I mean, she hasn't got cameras there anyway, now does she?

jrlauer · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

Ricotez · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

Yeh, but she can't do much about them, and why should she? They're just... standing there, falling appart.

However, the light requires electricity. Why have those lights on if you don't need them? You could save the power. (I presume the facility runs on some kind of private reactor, especially if Portal takes place after the Seven Hour War GLaDOS would have a hard time obtaining electricity)

zaldos · New Employee Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 17

Dude portals! you could have a nuclear power station below AS and have it linked with the sun. Smile

Mek · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:54 am Post subject: