> After all, animals too were choked off at this point in history, with 2 of each kind and 7 of those that were considered clean (edible animals). So it doesn't explain it.
"Yeah! How come all us land animals get cut down to two specimens, but all the friggin fish get off with a free pass! And don't tell me that somehow us mammals deserved it, 'cuz God let all the dolphins off scot-free too!" - Some Angry Quadruped, ca. 6000 BC
> There are rumored to be, and my astronomy teacher claims to have seen, videos of the Soviets using language not "fit for print" as they watched their probe being eaten by the less then friendly atmospere (which contains noticible amounts of the multi-zillions dollar probe-eating compound sulfuric acid.)
I'd believe it - just imagine the look on the face of the first guy to get a temperature reading. "Naaw, that can't be a real number!"
ObVenus:
I'd like to see us plop a probe down around those "wind" features. I'm curious as to how long it's been since those volcanoes were active.
> There is one scene where a visitor "morphs" her mouth open to the point where her jaw is open about 4 or 5 inches and she eats a cat or something. It's great, it looks SO FAKE yet I guess it gets its point across: ALIENS IS MEAN!!!
When I said I wanted to see that hot alien chick eatin' some earth pussy, that's not what I had in mind!
> If you recall, we humans came up with this red dust stuff that killed the Visitors on contact...so they couldn't be on the surface of the planet--hope they answer that situation in the return.
If that's what it takes to get us to set up a colony on Mars, so be it.:)
> Not to mention, the WR always knows what he is catching. A piece of pigskin. With crazied EEE out there who the heck knows what we are going to get dropped in our laps.
Geez, you Martians should know better than us that the answer is "Yet Another Flaming Mars Probe!"
So anyways, now that we've got one of you posting here, can you tell us what Martian Rules Football is like?
> Now I've got the sound bite of him saying "Rubik" in that attempted-cute way stuck in my head. ARGH! Actually, kind of analagous to Pikachu saying his own name in delight and sense of accomplishment. But Rubik was worse. > > How am I supposed to go to sleep with that stuff in my head? Now I'll have to watch some porn or something...
Time for my bastardly deed for the day:
"Oh, Rubie! (clackclackRubik!clack) Yeah, Rubie, that's it! (Rubik!clackclack) Twist it there Rubie! Oh, Rubie, (Rubik!Rubik!) let me send you to the Fourth Dimension, Rubie! (RubikrubikrubufRUUUUUUUUUUUUBIK!!!!!!!!!)"
> Trying out for the Most Sensational Darwin Award Ever, are we? I mean... you wouldn't just ensure that you could never pass on your genes, but your actual DNA and even the base elements its made up from would largely be removed from the planet earth! Now that's what I call a _thorough_ Darwin.
Assuming there's no life currently on Mars, and assuming he did this near a source of water ice, (or better yet, a geothermal, er, areothermal energy source, if one exists) he may have leaked biomatter over a few hundred square meters by the time he dies. (And especially the 2-3 square meters where he falls when he dies!)
600,000,000 years later, Martian scientists will send probes to Earth, and wonder why the hell their DNA shares the same genetic sequences as the plankton that is Earth's dominant lifeform. They'll probably conclude that Earth life started as Martian bacteria that hitched a ride on Martian rocks that got blasted off Mars' surface by asteroid impacts. I mean, any other explanation would be preposterous, right?
Looks like a cross between an EE grad student's robotics project and something out of the Transformers.
Hook up a flamethrower to it, and we've got a mobile autonomous BBQ station. Where's Mark Pauline and Survival Research Labs when we need 'em? Bring on the Chickenators!
> If you want ultimate pixel counts, check out the T221 22.2" from IBM. For $8400, you too can have a native QUXGA-W(3840x2400) resolution. Dot pitch is a microscopic.1245
XGA, SXGA+, WUXGA, QUXGA, WTFUXGA!
For Chrissake, why can't flat panel and laptop manufacturers just say the goddamn screen is "640x480" or or "1024x768" or "1280x1024" or "1400x1050" or whatever the fucking resolution is, rather than inventing a new resolution for every oddball configuration the latest LCD screen happens to be.
(I hate shopping for laptops on sites that just list the acronym and not the damn resolution!)
> > [...] > If I take 'Debbie Does Dallas 24' from a DVD, add some interactive components, like some sort of with-your-mallet-hit-the-boobs thing, can I suddenly go out and sell it to minors? > >
Hence why the law was struck down on the fact that it also outlawed violence. The judge (imo correctly) ruled that violent images are not obscene, and thus protected by the 1st amendment.
So the solution to the poster's problem is not to make a game of "with your mallet hit the boobs", but "like a mallet, hit things with the boobs."
Super Mario playing whack-a-mole with a mallet on Fay Wrae's b00bies after rescuing her from Donkey Kong - obscene!
Lara Croft using her pair of s00pa-b00ba 48-BFTs to club Donkey Kong like a baby seal, while Mario kicks back in anticipation of Lara and Faye whomping each other with their b00bies in the bone-us round - cool!
> Rosetta, Mars Express and Venus Express use/will use the same platform and control system, Rosetta and Mars Express share the same Flight Control Team and support staff. > >This may not sound like a big deal, but it can really cut down on the cost
Wonder if NASA ever heard of "economies of scale".
The damn test data they did have was a 3-cubic-inch chunk of foam, which was nowhere near the size of the chunk they knew had fallen off.
Hindisght's 20/20, but surely someone at NASA could have said "Boeing's test data is wholly inadequate for the regime we're worried about this weekend. Can't we at least ask the Smithsonian janitor's kid to fire his biggest spud gun at the Enterprise so we're at least a couple of miles closer to the ballpark than Boeing was?"
> > any resource-rich, low-population, but otherwise harsh environment practically necessitates the development of certain cultural norms > >Yeah - conformity, absolute adherence to authority and suppression of individualism amongst them. > >
Not that the Moon is a "resource-rich" environment, of course.
Nevada and California during the Gold Rush were bastions of conformity, absolute adherence to authority and suppression of individualism?!?!
Hell, I wouldn't say that about Utah in that timeframe, and it was colonized by Mormons!
> What is the oddest thing to me is that compared to the tech industry they are paupers. The tech industry is very responsive to customers, because if they don't someone else will. Yet even with this, it seems the entertainment industry has a lot more political clout. What's wrong with this picture?
Comes down to lobbying power.
Suppose you're a senator. What set of tits would you rather nuzzle your nose between when snorting your line of cocaine? Titney's perky silicone Spears? Or Steve Ballmer's hunky manboobs?
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"Yeah! How come all us land animals get cut down to two specimens, but all the friggin fish get off with a free pass! And don't tell me that somehow us mammals deserved it, 'cuz God let all the dolphins off scot-free too!"
- Some Angry Quadruped, ca. 6000 BC
Yeah, but since it's a genetically-modified (GM) product, the EU "pure food" nuts will just ban the rabies-curing tobacco as "unsafe".
(The lung-cancer-causing variety, by comparison, must be good for ya, 'cuz it's "natural" :)
I'd believe it - just imagine the look on the face of the first guy to get a temperature reading. "Naaw, that can't be a real number!"
ObVenus:
I'd like to see us plop a probe down around those "wind" features. I'm curious as to how long it's been since those volcanoes were active.
When I said I wanted to see that hot alien chick eatin' some earth pussy, that's not what I had in mind!
<reference mode=obscure>must examine funny little bumps!</reference>
If that's what it takes to get us to set up a colony on Mars, so be it. :)
Geez, you Martians should know better than us that the answer is "Yet Another Flaming Mars Probe!"
So anyways, now that we've got one of you posting here, can you tell us what Martian Rules Football is like?
>
> How am I supposed to go to sleep with that stuff in my head? Now I'll have to watch some porn or something...
Time for my bastardly deed for the day:
"Oh, Rubie! (clackclackRubik!clack) Yeah, Rubie, that's it! (Rubik!clackclack) Twist it there Rubie! Oh, Rubie, (Rubik!Rubik!) let me send you to the Fourth Dimension, Rubie! (RubikrubikrubufRUUUUUUUUUUUUBIK!!!!!!!!!)"
Assuming there's no life currently on Mars, and assuming he did this near a source of water ice, (or better yet, a geothermal, er, areothermal energy source, if one exists) he may have leaked biomatter over a few hundred square meters by the time he dies. (And especially the 2-3 square meters where he falls when he dies!)
600,000,000 years later, Martian scientists will send probes to Earth, and wonder why the hell their DNA shares the same genetic sequences as the plankton that is Earth's dominant lifeform. They'll probably conclude that Earth life started as Martian bacteria that hitched a ride on Martian rocks that got blasted off Mars' surface by asteroid impacts. I mean, any other explanation would be preposterous, right?
"Darwin" Award indeed :-)
As someone else pointed out from the "hot sauce" thread: "Man is the only animal stupid enough to eat scotch bonnet peppers."
(Stupid bugs, they don't know what they're missing either :)
Somebody bring me a live spammer!
Looks like a cross between an EE grad student's robotics project and something out of the Transformers.
Hook up a flamethrower to it, and we've got a mobile autonomous BBQ station. Where's Mark Pauline and Survival Research Labs when we need 'em? Bring on the Chickenators!
XGA, SXGA+, WUXGA, QUXGA, WTFUXGA!
For Chrissake, why can't flat panel and laptop manufacturers just say the goddamn screen is "640x480" or or "1024x768" or "1280x1024" or "1400x1050" or whatever the fucking resolution is, rather than inventing a new resolution for every oddball configuration the latest LCD screen happens to be.
(I hate shopping for laptops on sites that just list the acronym and not the damn resolution!)
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> Heh, file swapping with a modem? He deserved to get nailed!
Yeah, but it's a 56k modem. Even limited to 53K by FCC regs, that's equivalent to more than 177 separate 300 baud modems! Talk about mass piracy!
(P.S. Yo, WTF's up with the big fonts, Slashguys? Am I the only one seeing the sans-serif fonts as huge?!)
And what the hell is with that colossal font size=4 stuff in the sans-serif font in the article titles? Looks like ass, guys.
Me too.
First-person-shooters are for wimps.
Let's hear it for turn-based strategy games! Body counts in the billions!
>
> Hence why the law was struck down on the fact that it also outlawed violence. The judge (imo correctly) ruled that violent images are not obscene, and thus protected by the 1st amendment.
So the solution to the poster's problem is not to make a game of "with your mallet hit the boobs", but "like a mallet, hit things with the boobs."
Super Mario playing whack-a-mole with a mallet on Fay Wrae's b00bies after rescuing her from Donkey Kong - obscene!
Lara Croft using her pair of s00pa-b00ba 48-BFTs to club Donkey Kong like a baby seal, while Mario kicks back in anticipation of Lara and Faye whomping each other with their b00bies in the bone-us round - cool!
And now the Supreme Court agrees with me!
Not quite. The adolescent tends to stop when he wraps his first two or three cars around trees.
> Beagle: You are on the way to destruction.
As opposed to:
Generic NASA Mars Lander: We are on the way to destruction.
>
>This may not sound like a big deal, but it can really cut down on the cost
Wonder if NASA ever heard of "economies of scale".
*sigh*
RTFA? I didn't even have to bother reading past the <TITLE> tag to award it an automatic (+5, Funny).
<AOL>Me too</AOL^>
"Mouse? Oh, you mean the thing I use to figure out what xterm I want to type in."
(Cripes, even the FVWM screenshots on the almost-slashdotted page look almost too glitzy for my tastes ;-)
Which really makes you wonder.
The damn test data they did have was a 3-cubic-inch chunk of foam, which was nowhere near the size of the chunk they knew had fallen off.
Hindisght's 20/20, but surely someone at NASA could have said "Boeing's test data is wholly inadequate for the regime we're worried about this weekend. Can't we at least ask the Smithsonian janitor's kid to fire his biggest spud gun at the Enterprise so we're at least a couple of miles closer to the ballpark than Boeing was?"
>
>Yeah - conformity, absolute adherence to authority and suppression of individualism amongst them.
>
> Not that the Moon is a "resource-rich" environment, of course.
Nevada and California during the Gold Rush were bastions of conformity, absolute adherence to authority and suppression of individualism?!?!
Hell, I wouldn't say that about Utah in that timeframe, and it was colonized by Mormons!
Comes down to lobbying power.
Suppose you're a senator. What set of tits would you rather nuzzle your nose between when snorting your line of cocaine? Titney's perky silicone Spears? Or Steve Ballmer's hunky manboobs?
There are some things even a Senator won't do.