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(idea) by everyone (3.3 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Tue Jun 13 2000 at 19:48:48

Small curtains between
windows and eyes,
the only thing that separates
you and me.
You and me,
we're a pair of stars
light-years distant
circling each other,
feeding off of each other,
catching planets and asteroids
in our wake.
I watch your light
from behind patterned cloth,
and through panes of glass
meant to keep the cold out
while letting your image through.
I wonder how cold you are
shining there outside my home.
I wonder if this orbit will decay,
if we will someday collide
and meld
and become too massive
and explode to shed off
unwanted weight
and collapse to form
some naked singularity,
hot and exposed
and pulling into us everything
that passes by.
They would call us black and nothing,
but I would know better.
I would see our light
shine through
far beyond the bounds
of our event horizon.
And the universe would watch
until they're blinded
by the glory
of what nothing can truly be.

The posting of this poem inspired, in no small way, by the recent postings of another everythingian


(idea) by cecil36 (2.1 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Apr 23 2002 at 0:43:15

A hybrid of the Same Game. Collapse was developed by Game House, and is available for play online at Yahoo!. For $20, you can also download a full version of Collapse with added features and be able to play offline.

Each level begins with blocks of different colors occupying the bottom of the screen. More blocks are added from the bottom, pushing the stack upwards. If the stack reaches the top of the screen, the game is over. The object of each level is to prevent the stack from reaching the top by clearing away clusters of blocks that are of the same color. Each cluster must have three blocks in it in order for the cluster to be removed. Big bonuses are awarded for clearing large clusters of blocks, and also for clearing the screen of blocks. Once the line counter of lines of blocks to be added reaches zero, the level ends. The player then recieves a bonus based on how low the stack is.

Tips for high scores
  • Use the bombs: Occasionaly, a bomb may appear in the stack. Detonate it to clear away a large group of blocks. Colored bombs will remove all blocks that are of the same color as the bomb.
  • Focus on a single color: Removing blocks by color will allow the blocks from above to fall into the gaps created by the removed blocks. This will create large clusters of blocks which can be cleared for massive points.
  • Wait before clearing: When starting a level, wait a few moments for the stack to build to increase the number and size of clusters to be removed.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:35:27

Col*lapse" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Collapsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collapsing] [L. collapsus, p. p. of collabi to collapse; col- + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.]

1.

To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.

A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.

2.

To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

 

© Webster 1913.


Col*lapse" (?), n.

1.

A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

2.

A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

[Colloq.]

3. Med.

Extreme depression or sudden failing o all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

 

© Webster 1913.


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