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Building the Enterprise D Out of LEGOs.
CleverNickName writes "A self-proclaimed "dork" has built one of the best models of Enterprise D I have ever seen (and I think I speak with some authority)...entirely out of LEGOs.
I can see my house from here!"
The only possible answer is that if you have to ask, you couldn't possibly understand.
Restating the obvious since nineteen aught five.
No, the Enterprise "D" was destroyed in 2372 by a Klingon Bird of Prey under the command of the Duras sisters. Don't you know anything? :) (I don't get many chances to out-geek anyone.)
OK, if you want to be hypertechnical, according to William Shatner in that oh-so-tragic SNL episode the whole Star Trek thing is make-believe. Many of us suspect that he is still under the control of the mind-control device in Episode #37.
Actually, people have been wasting time since prehistory. What purpose was served by the cave paintings at Lascaux? I'd assume that those folk were generally preoccupied with the question of continued survival.
Look at it this way--any time spent creating the spacecraft was not spent in procreation, though that may not have been entirely due to a proactive decision on his part. Consider the long-term resource savings!
other funny things from the faq Okay, I didn't mean to make my geekness such an issue, though it is kind of funny. Don't worry, I do leave the house, and I do many, many things besides Lego. like watch star trek, go to star trek conventions, play with my star trek action figure...you get my point No I don't need help finding a date. Yes, cute girls may still e-mail me, though I will surely question your attraction to a 24-year-old who plays with Legos. the real question here won't be why are you atracted to me but are you really a woman :)
but hey I'm a geek too and to be hounest it's a pretty cool ship I'd never do anything like it but thats just becuase it would mean I'd have to leave my monitor
Boll, and further, ocks.
The majority of humans on earth can find enough food quite easily. The exceptions are visible and pitiful, but they are exceptions.
The problem (depending on your point of view) is that for many of them there's little point in doing more work than is necessary to eat, because they don't have access to markets that provide the juicy consumer goods or expensive treat-the-symptoms pharmaceticals that we're lucky enough to have access to.
In other words, if you take a Yanomami and her 4 hour work / 20 hour leisure day in the rainforest, and transplant her to the city then she has to work 10 or 12 hours a day to pay for her apartment and refridgerator and save up for a TV. I'm not saying that's inherently bad, just that you shouldn't confuse lack of possessions with being on the verge of starvation.
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