Last summer, MSNBC had discussed the likely- hood of solar flares and coronal mass ejections in this, the year 2000- screwing up satellites and ruining everyone's day.
Hey, I wonder if we'll ever be able to manipulate the solar wind as a weapon? It would be a great planetary defense strategy: maybe for taking out an invading army's communication net. What structures would have to be in place for something like that?
Priorities do indeed change over time! The monks of the Middle Ages are credited by history books to have "preserved" the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome- classical drama and mythology, history poetry and all that other garbage that I couldn't personally give a flying you-know-what about. So, let's see, mathematical texts didn't make it on the list of things to preserve?! Who the f#!k made that decision? Or was this particular monk just ignorant? It didn't occur to him that "Hey! This thing is antique and it's written in Greek. Maybe it's...important?" Oh no! "Let's just go ahead and write our flaming little bullshit prayerbook and waste somebody else's work!" I hope that scroungy little e-wok died of the plague...and the rest of his monastery too! Die!
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Last summer, MSNBC had discussed the likely- hood of solar flares and coronal mass ejections in this, the year 2000- screwing up satellites and ruining everyone's day.
Hey, I wonder if we'll ever be able to manipulate the solar wind as a weapon? It would be a great planetary defense strategy: maybe for taking out an invading army's communication net. What structures would have to be in place for something like that?
Priorities do indeed change over time! The monks of the Middle Ages are credited by history books to have "preserved" the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome- classical drama and mythology, history poetry and all that other garbage that I couldn't personally give a flying
you-know-what about. So, let's see, mathematical texts didn't make it on the list of things to preserve?! Who the f#!k made that decision? Or was this particular monk just ignorant? It didn't occur to him that "Hey! This thing is antique and it's written in Greek. Maybe it's...important?"
Oh no! "Let's just go ahead and write our flaming little bullshit prayerbook and waste somebody else's work!"
I hope that scroungy little e-wok died of the plague...and the rest of his monastery too!
Die!