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I want lightsabers, so I can maim asshats who annoy me.
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Da_bang80
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That's what a sack full of doorknobs is for.
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I always thought it was a burlap bag full of wood nails.
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Da_bang80
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A sack of nails won't cause quite as much pain me thinks. Seeing as most of the nails would be parallel with the side of the bag, and those few that poke through wouldn't do much damage seeing as there's nothing behind them to drive them into your flesh. Besides, nothing beats blunt force trauma.
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quote:Originally posted by Sean: Then again, do you think scientists would actually do something that they know or even speculate could destroy the planet or the universe?
I think it was Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the author of "I am become Shiva" quote from the Manhattan project that had speculated before the first test of an atomic bomb that it might very well start a chain reaction in the atmosphere. The result of which would NOT have been good.
AND it is FAR better to use a Cat-o-nine tails with all the embedded little shards of glass and metal tied into the ends.
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Well, I guess I give the Manhattan Project guys a little lee way on the whole " we might destroy the world thing". Afterall, they were trying to make a super weapon to end a war. THis, however, is like a giant 8-billion dollar history/science project.
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quote:Originally posted by Sean: Well, did Nostradomus predict this? He was right about pretty much everything else...
Then again, do you think scientists would actually do something that they know or even speculate could destroy the planet or the universe?
Point one, not everything Nostradomus "predicted" was right. He couldn't even spell Hitler right.
Point two, the scientists who are doing this experiment DON'T suspect there's any possibility of what their critics are saying coming true. Problem is there's probably only about a dozen people on the planet qualified to know which theory is probably right, so our opinions don't really matter.
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I don't know if Nostradamus could spell "Hitler" right, but he spelled "Hister" correctly.
Also, while the sentence "not everything [he] 'predicted' was right" is technically accurate, I would argue that the better sentence would be "nothing he predicted was right".
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Sean, we can twist his vague prophecies to fit a lot of things, so, ya, he was right in a vague sort of way.
And, yes Sean, Wiz is right, they did make the bomb, and test it, with mild concerns that the atmosphere would burn away. On the plus side for that though, it would have ended the war a lot sooner if it had.
Rev, publicly anyway, who knows what they are saying amongst themselves.
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I am reminded of the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye" where they witness the first experiments into matter/antimatter production on that planet.
When I first read about it - I had a thought in the back of my mind along the same lines of the critics warnings... trying to recreate the conditions from around start of the universe... on the surface of the Earth? Shit!
Hmmm when does this large Hadron collider go-online? It's not Dec 22nd 2012 is it?
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Charles Capps
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Destroy all of humanity in a gigantic space kablooie caused by nothing other than our own curiosity about how the universe works? Sounds like a plan to me.
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quote:Well, did Nostradomus predict this? He was right about pretty much everything else...
No, he was vague enough that people managed to apply his prophesies to "pretty much everything else". What could have been said of this prophesy-wise? "A great light consumes the world". Ooh, the atomic bomb or Edison's lightbulb? "Darkness will spread in a flash from the last empire". Is that the cultural revolution in China, mecha-Putin's rise to power or perhaps a sudden decision by Microsoft to release Windows Vista for free?
Regarding this test, I'm more worried that reaching the absolute zero temperature would make earth freeze over in a millisecond. I mean, if it's been fighting us to stay out of reaching it as hard as it has, for as long as it has.
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Of the alleged 946 predictions attributed to Nostradamus, only about 70 are considered to have had some kind of fulfillment. That works out to less than a 7-percent success rate. However, regarding the �successes,� M�Clintock and Strong�s Cyclop�dia comments that many are considered to be the �bold forgeries� of his interpreters, including the prediction of his own death. Others were �composed after the events to which they seem designed to refer.� Some are �strained� in their application and some are shown to have �fulfillments� in a number of different events.
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