OT: Galactic sterilisation

[President_Elect_Shang]

It was originally about advanced life and black holes; he wrapped up his opening statement by saying that we are pretty lucky here on Earth. But isn’t that the truth in general? I mean our position around the sun, the type of life and wonder of diversity we have, the move to tool use and development of intelligence, and what about Goober Grape? Aren’t we lucky to have that to eat on bread? I love that stuff, and so does my son. I mean for heavens sake he will sneak the jar into his room and eat it straight from the bottle. Then he comes to me with it smeared on his face and asks for water because he’s thirsty. No doubt you are I would be too if I had just eaten half a freaking bottle in under 2.5 seconds. Give it a rest guy; I don’t want him to grow up with his mouth glued shut from peanut butter. What a mad man I have!

[Fyron]

Wow... I see statements of making fun of the military itself have (as probably should have been expected) been grossly twisted into making fun of specific people that died. So sad that you guys had to read what you wanted to read, not what was said. Making fun of the military does not constitute making fun of the soldiers that died in ANY way, shape, or form. "The military" IS an abstract entity, divorced from the soldiers in it. Mocking the military itself is ENTIRELY different than mocking the men and women themselves of the armed forces.

[Puke]

whoops, got that Last post in before reading the wind-down. ignore me, as usual.

so, if we wanted a burst of radiation to sterilize the planet, am i correct that we could only expect to zap one hemisphere of it? it wouldnt be all that hard to repopulate and keep the species going if we had a whole half the world to work with. Maybe JurijD would get lucky, and only the americas would be wiped out. Admittedly, that wouold not bode well for our nothern and southern neighbors, but acceptable losses, and all that.

[tesco samoa]

yes we would lose a few hockey teams.

But we would win the cup every year.

But I would not be able to travel to small american towns all over...

But the cup would be back here.

Then I guess Canadians would be considered bad. But I would rather see a donut shop all over the world than the golden arches

And no more of that ice tea problem.

Cause ice tea would be what it is ice tea... no strange brew tea and let it get cold to drink...

I think mostly i would miss the small brew pubs and micro brewerys.

And the fact I never saw California.

Oh and no SEV...


AT That is a good ship set.

[Fyron]

Cause ice tea would be what it is ice tea... no strange brew tea and let it get cold to drink...

Huh? What do you call iced tea?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*wander's off to get a 4-liter chocalate milk*

*wander's back*

[JurijD]

Originally posted by Puke:
whoops, got that Last post in before reading the wind-down. ignore me, as usual.

so, if we wanted a burst of radiation to sterilize the planet, am i correct that we could only expect to zap one hemisphere of it? it wouldnt be all that hard to repopulate and keep the species going if we had a whole half the world to work with. Maybe JurijD would get lucky, and only the americas would be wiped out. Admittedly, that wouold not bode well for our nothern and southern neighbors, but acceptable losses, and all that.

Well I did think about that. (already had plans on creating a black hole somewhere near us) Couldn't get the damn Tesla matter-energy transformer to work properly.
But the real problem is that these bursts Last for several decades and hehe the Earth tends to rotate every now and then (I read 24h somewhere... I don't know where Oleg, should you want my refrences again)

But seriously... this issue I raised that was directed against the US is the same as with that military thing you were talking about. And as Fyron pointed out: The US and its citizens are two different things. I got nothing against you poeple, I even got several american friends... heck my english teacher was American and we let her live.

I mean you people can't help it if you got leaders that have **** for brains.... I mean you tried to elect a better president (Gore got something like 63% of total cross US votes) but the courts didn't agree with you.. so lets hope you get democracy going again before the next election. Or at least deal with this silly electoral system before it bites you in the *** again.

Forget about each individual state and just simply add up all the votes cross country. Isn't that the most fair and democratic way? And besides everyone else is doing it

[ January 09, 2004, 00:09: Message edited by: JurijD ]