Comment Could be worse. A lot worse. (Score 1) 147
In terms of possible web pages you could have linked to via a misspelled http://bit.ly/ address, a man in a tutu is pretty tame in comparison.
In terms of possible web pages you could have linked to via a misspelled http://bit.ly/ address, a man in a tutu is pretty tame in comparison.
Whereas with PayPal, a real live human will be on the phone within moments to inform you how fucked you are.
What's the big deal? They're part of that huge Time Warner conglomerate -- they should have plenty of...
Ohhhhhh....
Millions? Really?
ProTip:
Er, oh behalf of which profession are you speaking?
No capes!
Not that door. There's a reason it's labeled "Exit Only".
Neo: If you're fired in the Matrix, are you unemployed here?
Morpheus: The body cannot receive a paycheck without the mind. Well, except government jobs, but you get my point.
Thank you. I was having trouble grasping the situation before your car analogy made everything clear.
Nice. It's even got that new car analogy smell.
Would have been more deliciously ironic if the message had been "First Post!"
Conventional rockets are a waste anyway.
What do you suppose is going to create a post-apocolyptic USA?
You know, I was originally leaning towards Theora as the better codec. But your brazen anonymous cursing has turned me right around on this issue. Well done, sir.
An asteroid on a collision course for Earth would be a pretty obvious threat.
Not necessarily so. A preventable collision requires an object far enough from the Earth so that it wouldn't be visible to the naked eye. It's not like we're going to see a second moon-sized object until it's too late.
Of course, the object would be visible by telescope and it's trajectory could be plotted. So a small subset of people could see it.
But that raises an important question -- do we trust the people telling us the world is going to end?
Consider:
* This "Near Earth Object" might not even exist.
* Or, say it does exist, the likelihood of it striking the Earth is infinitesimal.
* I've read on a blog that it's really just the size of a grapefruit, so there's really no consensus on the so-called danger. It's really much closer and smaller and most professional astronomers can't discern the difference between small and far away.
* Are we really trusting these "scientists" to handle facts, figures, and calculations? It's like a religion, I tell you, where we're being force-fed their point of view.
* Astronomers are just creating a panic to ensure they have more funding. Most observatories are run by universities and that's how academia works.
* This whole project to "save the Earth" is just another political boondoggle to take money out of the hands of hardworking taxpayers to prop up an ailing aerospace industry.
* And even if we are doomed, it's not as if we could do anything in the face of such a impossible task.
* I'll be dead by the time it hits the Earth anyway...
Or else you have Daryl Hannah trying to break your neck between her inhumanly powerful thighs.
Mmm...acrobat attacks.
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