>> Does NASA (or any other US gov thing) have a special department that think up cool acronyms? > Yes, of course they do. The Best Retired Alumni Implimenting NASA Symbolism group (BRAINS).
Or perhaps the Wasting Taxdollars Foundation (WTF).
> How many nations have put rockets (with significant payloads) successfully into orbit?
Yes, that's part of the plan. It will be just like every military action the U.S.A. takes. We will handle it all, do it the way we want, make sure we benefit most in the end, and allow a few of our allied partners to get a few photo-opps in at the victory party. (France not invited).
China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA
USA: Ok, Ok, stop it! This is stupid! We're both pushing and it's not changing direction! I saw we both push AWAY, ok? China: Ok. USA: You first. China: You first.
USA: towards China China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA USA: towards China China: towards USA
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> If you say that, then you don't realize that PA was parodying the entire Wizard of OZ/Land of OZ series of books, with an adult twist.
No, I "get it". It still sucked.
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> It is easy to knock the guy if you think he is 100% Xanth
Funny you should say that. I read and loved 'OX' and rushed out to read 'Orn' and 'Omnivore'. I couldn't believe so many amazing ideas packed into one story.
Then, looking for more from this amazing writer, I read a Xanth novel. Oh well, anyone can make a mistake. Then I read another Xanth novel. I haven't touched Piers Anthony since. Stupid stories and characters who's sole reason for being in the book is to make a bad pun. What a waste of my time. Since I didn't know if the next Piers Anthony novel I pick up will be crap or excellent I gave up on him.
In the United States, soldiers take Metabolic Dominance nutraceuticals that dampen their pain sensors, raise the metabolism while maintaining lowered temperatures, and kick Mitochondria into hyperdrive.
> anyone potentially going after him is going to get out well before him...
Ok.... So if talking ape popped up within a lifetime of when the Lincoln Monument was built, do you suppose he would take over the world or more likely be dissected as a curiosity or burned as an abomination?
Back then they wouldn't have elected a non-white-non-protestant-non-male and you suppose it makes sense they elected a MONKEY as president?
> The only solution is to be able to take action against the people who advertise their products in this manner.
Then pranksters will send bulk spam to cause companies problems and lawsuits. Eventually companies will covertly hire people to do this to their competition.
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Sorry, I kan't put up with the krazy misspellings rekuired with KDE.
> prodigy guy, PhD at 15 and all. Success in business, [...] what to do next? > wants his place in history badly
It's a common thing for geniuses and almost-geniouses to flounder after their 'great moment' and inevitably turn to a "theory of everything".
Einstein, the highest genius of all, spent the rest of his life looking for a 'theory of everything'. Even Edgar Allen Poe, a gifted albeit twisted writer, spend the bulk of his life trying to invent a 'theory of everything' to prove he wasn't just a horror writer.
> And why did they use humans? Why not breed cattle or some other beast, and kill all the humans?
Because they are smart enough to know they may have missed some key element in their own design (ie: an evolutionary dead end) and that some day in the far future they may need humans for some unforseen circumstance. It's all about genetic diversity, baby. Same reason we want to save the rainforest now. Let's hope the machines do a better job saving us than we did with the rainforest.
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>> Does NASA (or any other US gov thing) have a special department that think up cool acronyms?
> Yes, of course they do. The Best Retired Alumni Implimenting NASA Symbolism group (BRAINS).
Or perhaps the Wasting Taxdollars Foundation (WTF).
> How many nations have put rockets (with significant payloads) successfully into orbit?
Yes, that's part of the plan. It will be just like every military action the U.S.A. takes. We will handle it all, do it the way we want, make sure we benefit most in the end, and allow a few of our allied partners to get a few photo-opps in at the victory party. (France not invited).
> Would it be possible to try and use this tech to build some distributed devices to resolve our immediate problems before focusing on asteroids ??
Sure! I can picture it now, millions of robotic MADMEN pounding S.U.V.s into scrap...
> You know its going to be Bush... He'll claim to have saved the planet from rogue asteroids...
Yes, but Al Gore INVENTED rogue asteroids!
> Does NASA (or any other US gov thing) have a special department that think up cool acronyms?
Yes, of course they do. The Best Retired Alumni Implimenting NASA Symbolism group (BRAINS).
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: Ok, Ok, stop it! This is stupid! We're both pushing and it's not changing direction! I saw we both push AWAY, ok?
China: Ok.
USA: You first.
China: You first.
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
USA: towards China
China: towards USA
> Microsoft has lost all my sympathy
You're new around here, aren't ya?
> If you say that, then you don't realize that PA was parodying the entire Wizard of OZ/Land of OZ series of books, with an adult twist.
No, I "get it". It still sucked.
> It is easy to knock the guy if you think he is 100% Xanth
Funny you should say that. I read and loved 'OX' and rushed out to read 'Orn' and 'Omnivore'. I couldn't believe so many amazing ideas packed into one story.
Then, looking for more from this amazing writer, I read a Xanth novel. Oh well, anyone can make a mistake. Then I read another Xanth novel. I haven't touched Piers Anthony since. Stupid stories and characters who's sole reason for being in the book is to make a bad pun. What a waste of my time.
Since I didn't know if the next Piers Anthony novel I pick up will be crap or excellent I gave up on him.
In the United States we will spend trillions of dollars to deploy radio frequency energy weapons to disable enemy satellites.
The Soviet Union deploy pebbles. Pebbles travelling at 17,000 MPH will do a better job.
And this related species of Marlaphant. Clearly this species could not survive on Earth!
NASA scientists have just reported receiving a shocking image of a Marlaphant!
In the United States, soldiers take Metabolic Dominance nutraceuticals that dampen their pain sensors, raise the metabolism while maintaining lowered temperatures, and kick Mitochondria into hyperdrive.
In the Soviet Union soldiers drink coffee.
I really hope this challenge will be televised in some way. Network, cable, streamed over the net, anything.
> anyone potentially going after him is going to get out well before him...
Ok....
So if talking ape popped up within a lifetime of when the Lincoln Monument was built, do you suppose he would take over the world or more likely be dissected as a curiosity or burned as an abomination?
Back then they wouldn't have elected a non-white-non-protestant-non-male and you suppose it makes sense they elected a MONKEY as president?
On a related note, I just went scuba diving as preparation for doing my taxes this year.
Any excuse will do.
> Planet of the Apes wasn't too bad of a film in itself;
No, the remake sucked, all by itself.
It built up to a climactic ending which made NO SENSE AT ALL.
Yes, it was made EVEN WORSE by the fact that the original movie had a climactic ending which was among the best and most shocking of all time.
> Sci-fi should have let Richard Hatch do his follow-up idea
No, I dont think THAT would be a good idea...
> Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code has been leaked to the internet.
Emergencies crews are working around the clock to clean up the most toxic leak since Exxon Valdez!
> Who are these mods?
Move along. These aren't the mods you're looking for.
> E3 is not the most potentially dangerous convention ever.
No, perhaps THIS is the most dangerous convention ever.
Or, depending on your point of view one of these may be the most dangerous convention ever.
> The only solution is to be able to take action against the people who advertise their products in this manner.
Then pranksters will send bulk spam to cause companies problems and lawsuits. Eventually companies will covertly hire people to do this to their competition.
Sorry, I kan't put up with the krazy misspellings rekuired with KDE.
> prodigy guy, PhD at 15 and all. Success in business, [...] what to do next?
> wants his place in history badly
It's a common thing for geniuses and almost-geniouses to flounder after their 'great moment' and inevitably turn to a "theory of everything".
Einstein, the highest genius of all, spent the rest of his life looking for a 'theory of everything'.
Even Edgar Allen Poe, a gifted albeit twisted writer, spend the bulk of his life trying to invent a 'theory of everything' to prove he wasn't just a horror writer.
Any more examples out there?
> And why did they use humans? Why not breed cattle or some other beast, and kill all the humans?
Because they are smart enough to know they may have missed some key element in their own design (ie: an evolutionary dead end) and that some day in the far future they may need humans for some unforseen circumstance.
It's all about genetic diversity, baby.
Same reason we want to save the rainforest now.
Let's hope the machines do a better job saving us than we did with the rainforest.