Doom Shepherd

http://www.abevigoda.com/ And of course, it's hard to spend any time at the SCP Foundation without realizing that it's pretty damn weird. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-series Also, my favorite feminists. http://www.heartless-bitches.com/

I bite the ends off my hot dogs before consuming the middles. I collect Star Trek books, I have one copy of each book ever written. This in itself is a collection of around 600 books. To another extent, I collect Science Fiction books, with an emphasis on Alternate History. I have more books in my collection than I can count - several thousand, at least. Same with DVDs. I also have Transformers. 53 variations of Optimus Prime alone. Several shelves of other transformers. I collect rule34 images of Marvel and DC comics characters.

Wayne Douglas Barlowe.

One summer, my family drove out from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, in one giant loop around the country. Saw White Sands, Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, Vegas, Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, Devil's Tower, Dinosaur Monument, Cheyenne Mountain, and a load of other places. We also stayed a week at Philmont Boy Scout Ranch, where I climbed a mountain, went on a 50-mile hike, panned for gold, shot real black-powder rifles, and got eaten by mosquitoes (but fortunately not a grizzly bear.)

But bronies are like that guy Picard was talking about in the TNG Episode "Timescape."

Where's the list for "People who really don't give a crap either way, but are annoyed by the people who take it too far (like the people who are turning MLP into the next Twilight with their saccharine adoration, as well as the people who consider MLP to be a threat worth "fighting" against), and who hope that there IS a civil war - in which they will decline to participate - so that once both sides have decimated each other's ranks, they can seize power in a final burst of ultraviolent bloody massacre and rule over the physically shattered and mentally broken remains of both camps, enslaving them all to do my bidding in shocked and horrified silence forever?" Because I want to be on that list.

My school had gifted classes, but NO idea how to actually deal with gifted students - especially when some of us were smarter than the teacher - so their educational philosophy was "pile more work on them, till they can't stand up and cause trouble." Meanwhile, they expended SCADS of resources trying to teach the kids who considered it a major accomplishment if they tied their shoes right.

Dang lag. Um, no, we're philosophically incompatible, and I don't work based on "sexiness." Same question as I asked above.

Probably not. A hostile civilization would likely have destroyed themselves once they harnessed the kind of power required to travel between the stars. What was the last book you read and thought " what a complete waste of my time"?

I love the fact that I finished school while most of the people here were still in diapers, or just potential beings. I hate the fact that I WORK at a school now (college), and now have to deal with the same sorts of idiots i had to deal with when I was in school, but now those idiots can get me fired if they cry loud enough to the right people. *stabstabkillkill*

Yep, it's an extremely common phenomena. My father actually demonstrated it to me once. You have a conversation with someone, where you mention something that never actually happened. Much later, you revisit the topic, and the person will have generated their own, false, memories of the event. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens often.

I think math makes perfect sense... It's physics that is totally screwy. I can't know a particle's position and Momentum at the same time? WTF is that about? (of course, physics is derived from math, so...)

I've eaten, on separate occasions, a grasshopper and a stinkbug. Neither were entirely on purpose. When picking and scarfing wild raspberries, it always pays to keep your eyes on what you are stuffing into your mouth.

1. I'm not sure you have an idea of the amount of debris in our solar system. Let me give you some idea: In a 1km-diameter nickel-iron asteroid, there is around $1.8 trillion of metals. There are between 1.1 million and 1.9 million asteroids larger than that in our solar system. (this is NOT counting the oort cloud, rings of the jovians, moons of planets, or planets themselves. We also have a giant fusion generator that should continuously run for several billion more years, and pumps out far more energy than 300 Earths could utilize. 2a. Clearly, we don't have to relocate the ENTIRE population of Earth to have a more sustainable population. 2b. So we settle elsewhere. We may not be able to significantly reduce Earth's population throuugh migration, but we can certainly make the growth less than it would have been had everyone stayed home. And of course, there's the fact that if we DON'T utilize space, we're sitting ducks for the next asteroid, comet, flare, or other global disater that comes by. There's the old saying about eggs and the wisdom of having multiple baskets. Now, there are people who would be happy to see the human race die off. To them I say: "Lead by example. The cyanide pill is right over there." And of course, stone-age living was "sustainable..." if you were willing to live miserably and mostly die by age 50. (Another thing the Gods should defend us from, idealists with some romantic notion of the Idyllic Noble Savage. I've done the "survivalist, living in the woods with no gear" thing. Stone age living is NOT fun, and anyone who finds such a state desirable in the long term is, in my opinion, clearly unbalanced.) Space travel is not easy or cheap. NOW. But it's been getting steadily easier and cheaper, which is why countries like China and India are joining rich countries like the US in putting objects and people in space, and planning more expansive programs. It's why Space Tourism is now viable enough that industrialists are spending their fortunes designing and building passenger-worthy spacecraft. Once, vehicular and air travel was not easy or cheap, either. That's the great thing about civilization: we can accomplish things.

Putting the difficulty, danger and expense aside is this really a solution? Yes. resources which are, for all intents and purposes, infinite. And yeah, just by doing that I refute Jensen's primary premise. Game already over. Utter balderdash. When we can do all our mining OFF the Earth, in places that have NO environment to damage, and materials that aren't under ANYBODY'S land, because there's no life there, when we can even move our population OFF the planet. HOW does that damage Earth? It does the opposite. Lots of flaws in just the first few minutes. He thinks stone-age cultures didn't pollute? Archaeologists learn most of what they learn about ancient cultures by digging through their piles of trash.

Maybe I'd go back 64 million years with a nuke and blow up the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, just to see what would have evolved.

I know that the "World War Z" movie is going to suck.

Well, not necessarily. Those of us who are interested in actually solving the problems are often those of us who are also very interested in space travel, which would let us get off the earth and harness vastly greater resources. And if you think civilization is bad... what are you doing on the internet?

It's good (and smart) to be very clear about that particular point. After all, the US does not exist in a vacuum. Everybody meddles.

That's what makes one an hero.

"Sandman," Issue #43. Neil Gaiman knows the Truth. That's why we recruited him.

Not as its defined there, I don't think so. Or maybe, but only a very limited version. I can't identify notes by ear, my singing sounds like a cat being molested. But when I was in the band in school, I could learn a tune (on the instrument I play) about as fast by listening to it being played as most other kids who played my instrument could by reading the music. (We'd all have to practice over and over again before we got it perfect, though.) I have a couple other "talents" of a sort... [*]I have never given a backrub to a woman, and then not slept with her shortly thereafter. [*]People seem compelled to tell me their life stories. Especially when I am not interested. [*]I can do voices. Many people have told me I should try to be a cartoon voice actor. (Used to great effect back when I was a children's librarian.) [*]I'm authoritative. The story goes, "If you don't know, ask [Doom Shepherd]. He either knows, will know a moment after you ask him, or will make up something convincing enough that you and your boss will both accept it." [*]I can turn myself invisible. Or more accurately, unnoticeable. (It's really just a matter of looking like you know where you're going, - especially if you also look like you're busy/in a hurry - and carrying the right accessory. Anyone can do it.) [*]I can read most people's handwriting, even doctors'.

"There are not many of them, all things considered: the truly old. Even on this planet, in this age, when people consider a mere hundred years or a thousand, to be an unusual span. There are, for example, less than ten thousand humanoid individuals alive on this planet today who have personal memories of the saber-toothed tiger, the megatherium, the cave bear. There are today less than a thousand who walked the streets of Atlantis (the first Atlantis. The other lands that bore that name were shadows, echo-Atlantises, myth lands, and they came later.) There are less than five hundred living humans who remember the human civilizations that predated the great lizards. There are roughly seventy people walking the earth, human to all appearances (and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available), who were alive before the earth had begun to congeal from gas and dust. How well do you know your neighbors? Your friends? Your lovers? Walk the streets of any city, and stare carefully at the people who pass you, and wonder and know this: They are there too. The old ones."

Why does everyone always fall back to the damn Disney cartoon? I want to meet the one from the original story, the one that granted infinite numbers of wishes, and had no limitations. *SLAP* Underling! What makes you think I wasn't referring to the original??? Now, put some ice on that.

Pony tits or GTFO. OP is an hero.