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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#41 - 2013-04-27 22:04:19 UTC
Rain6639 wrote:
hah. have you seen the comic/heard the logic that alcohol kills the weakest brain cells of the pack [therefore, drinking serves to make my brain more efficient]?

it's good

buffalo theory via urban dictionary


I like this theory Shocked

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#42 - 2013-04-27 22:09:28 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
If Pluto were dragged within the orbit of Jupiter, it would begin falling apart and evaporating like a comet, eventually vanishing.

It may be a planet-sized object, but it's not really a viable planet.

We just need a new word for these loosely formed large objects.


how about "planetoid?" Cool


Still doesn't work. That just means small planet, which they are 'not'.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#43 - 2013-04-27 22:19:04 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Concurssi Mellenar wrote:


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*True conservative - as in "get governent the hell out of our bedrooms, our marriages, and out of every other place we can chase them." Small government is good. Government that can regulate who gets to screw or marry whom is not small. It's big and intrusive.
That's libertarianism, is it not?

Not hardly. Libertarianism takes it to a ridiculous extreme and is entirely too optimistic about human nature. Conservatism doesn't think people are altruistic angels. It just doesn't think that people need to be coddled, or wrapped in cocoons, either.

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This is another such case. The zealots are digging in because they know they're surrounded, outnumbered, and that there are no re-enforcements coming. You can argue, you can point out cases and say I'm wrong (the zealots desperately pray that I am), but I've already pulled a hat trick, and I'm pretty damn sure I'm headed for a four-bagger. This one will take a bit longer, I anticipate, and it won't be without some setbacks, but the tipping point is past and we're on the down-hill run.
I wouldn't call them surrounded or outnumbered, when 80% of Americans call themselves religious.

Common mis-perception by folks as think they understand America (including some Americans, sadly). There's religious (such as I), and then there's reactionaries and zealots. Reactionaries and zealots are a pretty small minority, and getting smaller every year.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2013-04-27 22:24:10 UTC
silens vesica wrote:

Common mis-perception by folks as think they understand America (including some Americans, sadly). There's religious (such as I), and then there's reactionaries and zealots. Reactionaries and zealots are a pretty small minority, and getting smaller every year.


They'll all be midgets soon Bear

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#45 - 2013-04-27 22:25:03 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

Common mis-perception by folks as think they understand America (including some Americans, sadly). There's religious (such as I), and then there's reactionaries and zealots. Reactionaries and zealots are a pretty small minority, and getting smaller every year.


They'll all be midgets soon Bear

THAT will be fun!
Twisted

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2013-04-27 22:47:02 UTC
silens vesica wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

Common mis-perception by folks as think they understand America (including some Americans, sadly). There's religious (such as I), and then there's reactionaries and zealots. Reactionaries and zealots are a pretty small minority, and getting smaller every year.


They'll all be midgets soon Bear

THAT will be fun!
Twisted


Yup, then we all take jobs as grocery store managers and keep all the toilet paper on the top shelves... sand paper can go on the bottom ones

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#47 - 2013-04-28 02:35:36 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
silens vesica wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

Common mis-perception by folks as think they understand America (including some Americans, sadly). There's religious (such as I), and then there's reactionaries and zealots. Reactionaries and zealots are a pretty small minority, and getting smaller every year.


They'll all be midgets soon Bear

THAT will be fun!
Twisted


Yup, then we all take jobs as grocery store managers and keep all the toilet paper on the top shelves... sand paper can go on the bottom ones

Damn. That's evil!
I like it!
Twisted

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#48 - 2013-04-28 04:42:51 UTC
silens vesica wrote:
Concurssi Mellenar wrote:


Quote:
*True conservative - as in "get governent the hell out of our bedrooms, our marriages, and out of every other place we can chase them." Small government is good. Government that can regulate who gets to screw or marry whom is not small. It's big and intrusive.
That's libertarianism, is it not?

Not hardly. Libertarianism takes it to a ridiculous extreme and is entirely too optimistic about human nature. Conservatism doesn't think people are altruistic angels. It just doesn't think that people need to be coddled, or wrapped in cocoons, either..



You're talking about an American conservative block that doesn't exist.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.

silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#49 - 2013-04-28 05:35:19 UTC
Angelique Duchemin wrote:
silens vesica wrote:
Concurssi Mellenar wrote:


Quote:
*True conservative - as in "get governent the hell out of our bedrooms, our marriages, and out of every other place we can chase them." Small government is good. Government that can regulate who gets to screw or marry whom is not small. It's big and intrusive.
That's libertarianism, is it not?

Not hardly. Libertarianism takes it to a ridiculous extreme and is entirely too optimistic about human nature. Conservatism doesn't think people are altruistic angels. It just doesn't think that people need to be coddled, or wrapped in cocoons, either..



You're talking about an American conservative block that doesn't exist.

Oh no. We exist - in larger numbers than you'd think.
The problem is that our very nature means that we tend to say quiet - we don't like messing' with other folks business. But we are out here, and we do vote - We're often mistaken for the 'centrist independents' in the poling data.

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Alara IonStorm
#50 - 2013-04-28 06:25:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
silens vesica wrote:

Oh no. We exist - in larger numbers than you'd think.
The problem is that our very nature means that we tend to say quiet - we don't like messing' with other folks business. But we are out here, and we do vote - We're often mistaken for the 'centrist independents' in the poling data.

A news camera is like a guided missile that continuously homes in on the loud and the stupid. The more someone makes sense the less media back and forth slap fights and the less partisan it sounds.

You're a racist, you love abortions, the government wants to enslave us by taking our guns, Wall Street is Satan. Every single one of us has one or two different extreme views in them but since these become great stages for painting opponents they get the most attention and when they get attention all the hard core rah rah go team folks pop up everywhere to be public.

I find when I look at the meat of liberals and conservatives they have a lot in common in many area's and where they are fundamentally different there is little right and wrong and a lot more opposing but viable styles of governance being argued. It is the diehard Birthers and Binders of Women people and those that tack on social agendas that make politics ridiculous.

If you disagree with this post you are literally the same as Hitler btw. Ugh
Cam Mikaels
Infinicraft Industries
#51 - 2013-04-28 06:44:03 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
If Pluto were dragged within the orbit of Jupiter, it would begin falling apart and evaporating like a comet, eventually vanishing.

It may be a planet-sized object, but it's not really a viable planet.

We just need a new word for these loosely formed large objects.


how about "planetoid?" Cool


Still doesn't work. That just means small planet, which they are 'not'.


Actually, it's not far off from the actual scientific term, which is "Dwarf Planet", and is used interchangably within the scientific community with "Dwarf Planet"....of which we have about a half dozen so far discovered in our solar system, which are Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.

A Dwarf Planet is, for the record, an object that meets the first two of the three criteria for being a planet:

1 - Large enough for the force of it's own gravity to shape it into a sphere
2 - Directly orbiting a star
3 - Having an orbit clear of other objects of comparable mass, excepting its own satellites, making it gravitationally dominant.

Were those five objects gravitationally dominant in their respective orbits, like, say, Earth, they would be "true" planets in their own right. So it wouldn't be entirely wrong to say that the solar system has 13 planets, rather than 8.

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Alara IonStorm
#52 - 2013-04-28 07:41:05 UTC
Cam Mikaels wrote:

Actually, it's not far off from the actual scientific term, which is "Dwarf Planet", and is used interchangably within the scientific community with "Dwarf Planet"....of which we have about a half dozen so far discovered in our solar system, which are Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.

A Dwarf Planet is, for the record, an object that meets the first two of the three criteria for being a planet:

1 - Large enough for the force of it's own gravity to shape it into a sphere
2 - Directly orbiting a star
3 - Having an orbit clear of other objects of comparable mass, excepting its own satellites, making it gravitationally dominant.

Were those five objects gravitationally dominant in their respective orbits, like, say, Earth, they would be "true" planets in their own right. So it wouldn't be entirely wrong to say that the solar system has 13 planets, rather than 8.

This is a good video for that.
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#53 - 2013-04-28 10:26:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Kirjava
Alara IonStorm wrote:

This is a good video for that.


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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#54 - 2013-04-28 11:35:00 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
imo opinion, many stars out there, perhaps even most, have tons of leftover junk floating around in the outskirts of their gravitational range. just how it works, i think.


Gravitational range of a star is a lot further than you think

Our nearest neighbour is 4.2 light years away
it disturbs the orbits of the proto-comets in the oort cloud
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#55 - 2013-04-28 18:27:13 UTC
Kitty Bear wrote:
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
imo opinion, many stars out there, perhaps even most, have tons of leftover junk floating around in the outskirts of their gravitational range. just how it works, i think.


Gravitational range of a star is a lot further than you think

Our nearest neighbour is 4.2 light years away
it disturbs the orbits of the proto-comets in the oort cloud



In fact, I thought even Newtonian mechanics stated that every object in the universe affects every other object.

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stoicfaux
#56 - 2013-04-28 19:18:38 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:

In fact, I thought even Newtonian mechanics stated that every object in the universe affects every other object.

Newton was wrong. (But correct enough at short distances and at low speeds.)


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Reuben Johnson
Gal-Min Industries
#57 - 2013-04-28 21:53:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Reuben Johnson
Science in Europe. Europeans are so logical and methodical.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#58 - 2013-04-28 22:09:35 UTC
Reuben Johnson wrote:
Science in Europe. Europeans are so logical and methodical.


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Commissar Akiga
Perkone
Caldari State
#59 - 2013-04-29 06:53:39 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Yes, a 4th grade class at a private religious institute constitutes the knowledge of science in the USA Straight


The fact that children are allowed in this environment is borderline child abuse.

A school should be about critical thinking and learning what is right and being able to understand and determine for yourself WHY it is right... Not "This is right. There's no proof and science, the platform of all advancement of our species to date, contradicts religious theory at every given opportunity with facts, but you know, don't question what we tell you, because it IS right."

People shouldn't have religion introduced to them until they're adults and free to make up their own mind, of course that's never going to happen and it's logistically impossible no doubt, but can you imagine how few people would still be religious?

I think it's beyond disgusting that it still affects politics and often times in a negative way. Kids have died because their parents chose to pray instead of seek medical attention, and the law in their state permitted it... It took two dead children before the government stepped in and deemed them unfit parents. One was too many, two is a tragedy.

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Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#60 - 2013-04-29 06:57:48 UTC
if I was a rat aboard a ship, now would be the moment I abandoned it