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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
05/05/09

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.9999 = 1
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jerrymedina
05/04/09

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Great Scotts! 2.2 Gigawatts!?!?

If Doc had a Boner with 1.21 Gigawatts, I simply can't imagine how he will foresee 2.2 Gigawatts D:
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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
05/04/09

@jerrymedina:

Good comment!

And wow, the azure F is back! Thank god.
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Nick
05/04/09

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will someone ask Leroy about aliens. i don't wanna do it myself.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
05/04/09

@Game On_Nick: You mean was the other Astroman who came out and said they were real "correct"?
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Nick
05/04/09

@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: precisely. oh, and ask him about diapers.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
05/04/09

@Game On_Nick: They are not diapers. They are advanced waste gathering items. It's basically a micro-sandwich - a high-efficiency filter and heat-exchange system. The skin-contact layer's porous. Perspiration passes through it, having cooled the body in a near-normal evaporation process. Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. With a space "diaper" in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of Tang an EVA.
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DustyButt™
05/04/09

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All Imma say is...

2012
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
05/04/09

@DustyButt: What about it? Besides it's the year the Mayan's would be switching over to the next "page" on their calendar. Or do you freak out whenever your calendar nears the end....
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
05/04/09

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That being said, in the case of the "WOW" signal, could it have been like that other space movie, The Arrival, where the signal bounced off a radio station or whatever lead Charlie Sheen to Mexico.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
05/04/09

@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: It's a good thing we're labeled as mostly harmless.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
05/04/09

@LabCoatWanting_GitEmSteveDave: Mostly I'm pretty convinced that the first signal we receive from aliens will be their version of the Jerry Springer show.
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Technologic
05/04/09

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"The filament was discovered only recently, on October 20, 3003"

so we havent even discovered this yet??
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zenpoet
05/04/09

@Technologic: Don't you pay attention to the news? They used the LHC to rip a hole in the time/space continuum, to see what we know if the future.
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Hello Mister Walrus
05/04/09

@zenpoet: And we could even use the LHC to rip a hole in the space-time continuum to see what we will discover through the LHC when we use it to rip a hole in the space-time continuum to see what we will discover through the LHC when we use it to rip a hole in the...
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zenpoet
05/04/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: So, do our discoveries get smaller and smaller as we look at them, like looking at our reflection, while standing between two mirrors?
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zenpoet
05/04/09

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Judging by the fact that I am continuously amazed and freaked out by new things happening on this very planet, I take it as no surprise that the rest of the Universe may just be as messed up as good old Terra Firma.
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Kaiser-Machead
05/04/09

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It's a sad thought to think that maybe most signals we ever get from an intelligent source sends it out long after its extinction, since distance and a limited lifespan/set of resources makes interstellar travel a bit of a burden (for now)

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

~Douglas Adams
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OMG! Bacon!
05/04/09

@Kaiser-Machead: "It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. "

1) So he says that the number of worlds is infinite.

2) Then he says that some part of that is inhabited.

3) Then he says that the number of inhabited worlds is finite?

0.000001% of infinity is still infinity tyvm....

Nothing against you Kaiser, you bring a huge amount of class to this joint.
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Geisrud
05/04/09

@phoenix27: You dare question what the great Douglas Adams (may he rest in peace) says?

Begone, you...ummm...doubter. Or something. And may your Preparation H get mixed up with your shampoo, and shrink your head to the size of a mushroom.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
05/04/09

@phoenix27: But, x/infinity = 0.

C'mon, don't bring down Douglas Adams.
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Kaiser-Machead
05/04/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Let it be known that all "reasoned" arguments against the Douglas quote will be disregarded as nothing more than textual poo-poo, as it's meant for humor, not to discuss theory. However much or little sense it makes is irrelevant.
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Voohoo
05/04/09

@Kaiser-Machead:

"Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds."

Huh, you can't have an infinite number of uninhabited worlds AND an infinite number of inhabited worlds?
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Kaiser-Machead
05/04/09

@Voohoo: Jesus Cristos, have any of you guys read the book? It's a joke!
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switchblade saints
05/04/09

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wow at $150/word you are rich.
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Nick
05/04/09

@switchblade saints: they could have paid me in newports. wait for it . . .
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marm0lade
05/04/09

@Game On_Nick: You know, I come across you comments a lot, more often than I would like, actually. And about 73% of the time I have no effing clue WTF you are talking about. Like omg. Newports? Are you stretching at an Obama joke?
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Kaiser-Machead
05/04/09

@marm0lade: Riddick paid a doctor 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shinejob on his eyeballs, so I'd cut Nick some slack.
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