Let's assume you're right, and all of these societies were corrupt.... (for the sake of argument...) What possible moral code would justify sending in an army, killing everything except the preteen girls, slaughtering the livestock, women and children, INCLUDING INFANTS, and taking said preteen girls back to your camp to be raped? (excuse me... 'married.')
And it's the CAANANITES that were corrupt?
How about Sodom? 'Oops... these people aren't bowing down and grovelling before my all powerfulness... and they're doin icky things with their slippery bits. Guess I'm going to have to drop a mountain on them. (After all... I'm all powerful and I can do that sort of thing.... this God job has some fun perks....) Yes I know it'll kill all of the women and children too... too bad. I guess they should have been born someplace else into different families. (Never mind that as an all powerful God I was the one responsible for having them born there in the first place...) Too bad. Oops. I guess I can't kill EVERYBODY.... this one guy is grovelling enough for my tastes. So I guess I'll send down a flunky or two to get him and his family out of the city before I murder everybody else in it. No problem. It'll make for good press. Of course as an omniscient God I know ahead of time that his wife won't grovel enough... I'll just have to think of some novel way to get rid of her. Hmm... *munches on pretzels* AH HA!!!! SALT!!! Very cool. Sometimes I amaze even myself. And of course I also know that this one righteous man is going to proceed to have a drunken orgy with his own daughters afterward... but hell... he grovels. No problem. I'll overlook it. After all... I'm boss, remember?'
Your precious moral code gives a sociopathic tyrant free reign to do whatever the hell he wants. The sooner we as a society cast off the superstitions of a bunch of illiterate goat herders who respected only power and military strength, the better.
This, of course, COMPLETELY ignores the fact that if a new master alien race had the technology to thaw you out... they wouldn't NEED you as manual labor... they'd already have cheaper and easier automated systems.
The mammalian brain is built with multiple redundant backups. You can actually have an enormous amount of damage done to your brain and barely notice it, if you notice it at all... if it's serious enough for you to actually lose function or memory, it's not uncommon to regain that function or memory as time goes by... since your brain begins to use the existing backup.
That having been said, vitrification, (already mentioned previously) provides an elegant way around the problem of ice crystals. No crystals? No problem.
Yup.... that's right. It takes SOOOOO many 'resources' to keep a fucking thermos bottle cold.
If you don't like it, why don't you give up YOUR share of 'resources?'
You can also make the skin have a different charge from its surroundings. Do you 'create' charge? No. Does gravity actually exist? Not according to Einstein. Does any of this fucking matter? No. Touch a Van de Graaf and your hair will still fucking stand up, jump out a window (please... do us all a favor) and it will still hurt.
Nitpicking doesn't change this fact, buttmunch.
Either that or they're generating a substantial electrostatic charge to create a repulsive force against whatever charge happens to be in the area. Remember that at higher altitudes static charge DOES become an issue. Clouds have them, for example... and considering the current found in a lightning strike... it can be considerable. Is it efficient? Who knows... static isn't all that hard to generate.
Yes... we're hated because there are some words we actually take seriously.... like 'we hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certian inalienable rights.'
Notice that this does not say that 'all AMERICANS are created equal...'
We took the stand 200 years ago that regular folks actually had rights. If you disagree with this then fsck you. You're supporting the kind of tyranny we fought a war to get out from under, and if other people need support to get out from under the same tyranny, we're willing to give it.
Yes you annoying little brat. We DO know better. We HAVE found a better way. Get over it.
It isn't arrogance if you can back it up.
We haven't had an internal military conflict in about 150 years.
Can YOUR country say that?
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Let's assume you're right, and all of these societies were corrupt.... (for the sake of argument...) What possible moral code would justify sending in an army, killing everything except the preteen girls, slaughtering the livestock, women and children, INCLUDING INFANTS, and taking said preteen girls back to your camp to be raped? (excuse me... 'married.')
And it's the CAANANITES that were corrupt?
How about Sodom? 'Oops... these people aren't bowing down and grovelling before my all powerfulness... and they're doin icky things with their slippery bits. Guess I'm going to have to drop a mountain on them. (After all... I'm all powerful and I can do that sort of thing.... this God job has some fun perks....) Yes I know it'll kill all of the women and children too... too bad. I guess they should have been born someplace else into different families. (Never mind that as an all powerful God I was the one responsible for having them born there in the first place...) Too bad. Oops. I guess I can't kill EVERYBODY.... this one guy is grovelling enough for my tastes. So I guess I'll send down a flunky or two to get him and his family out of the city before I murder everybody else in it. No problem. It'll make for good press. Of course as an omniscient God I know ahead of time that his wife won't grovel enough... I'll just have to think of some novel way to get rid of her. Hmm... *munches on pretzels* AH HA!!!! SALT!!! Very cool. Sometimes I amaze even myself. And of course I also know that this one righteous man is going to proceed to have a drunken orgy with his own daughters afterward... but hell... he grovels. No problem. I'll overlook it. After all... I'm boss, remember?'
Your precious moral code gives a sociopathic tyrant free reign to do whatever the hell he wants. The sooner we as a society cast off the superstitions of a bunch of illiterate goat herders who respected only power and military strength, the better.
Just ask the Caananites.
Or the Jebusites.
Or the Sodomites.
Or the first born sons of the Egyptians.
Shall I go on?
Does anyone else see the irony of this post coming from an AC? ;)
This, of course, COMPLETELY ignores the fact that if a new master alien race had the technology to thaw you out... they wouldn't NEED you as manual labor... they'd already have cheaper and easier automated systems.
That having been said, vitrification, (already mentioned previously) provides an elegant way around the problem of ice crystals. No crystals? No problem.
Yup.... that's right. It takes SOOOOO many 'resources' to keep a fucking thermos bottle cold. If you don't like it, why don't you give up YOUR share of 'resources?'
You can also make the skin have a different charge from its surroundings. Do you 'create' charge? No. Does gravity actually exist? Not according to Einstein. Does any of this fucking matter? No. Touch a Van de Graaf and your hair will still fucking stand up, jump out a window (please... do us all a favor) and it will still hurt. Nitpicking doesn't change this fact, buttmunch.
Semantics. Put a generator in one of these things and you 'create' charge. Nitpicking doesn't change this fact.
Either that or they're generating a substantial electrostatic charge to create a repulsive force against whatever charge happens to be in the area. Remember that at higher altitudes static charge DOES become an issue. Clouds have them, for example... and considering the current found in a lightning strike... it can be considerable. Is it efficient? Who knows... static isn't all that hard to generate.
Yes... we're hated because there are some words we actually take seriously.... like 'we hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certian inalienable rights.' Notice that this does not say that 'all AMERICANS are created equal...' We took the stand 200 years ago that regular folks actually had rights. If you disagree with this then fsck you. You're supporting the kind of tyranny we fought a war to get out from under, and if other people need support to get out from under the same tyranny, we're willing to give it. Yes you annoying little brat. We DO know better. We HAVE found a better way. Get over it. It isn't arrogance if you can back it up. We haven't had an internal military conflict in about 150 years. Can YOUR country say that?