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Typo posted:that book sucked idk how anyone can like it 
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lmao at the idea of anyone being so angry about Hitchhiker's Guide that they'd have some sort of weird backlash
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eonwe posted:my favorite thing about the democrats are their relentless purity tests and their willingness to say someone is a bad person when we disagree on even a single issue slightly Republicans care a lot about purity tests and came up with "RINO" and did that whole tea party coup on their party. They are just better at purity tests.
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euphronius posted:It's not that big calm down nerd
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Apr 13, 2017 16:19
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euphronius posted:Space is big but you gotta go fast The Sonic Principle
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Apr 13, 2017 16:19
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aliens dont talk to us because we dont have cool poo poo.
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FactsAreUseless posted:lmao at the idea of anyone being so angry about Hitchhiker's Guide that they'd have some sort of weird backlash Don't make me come over there. 
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Apr 13, 2017 16:18
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Paul Ryan is an alternate universe doppelganger of Ron Paul who has come here to kill everyone's parents
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Apr 13, 2017 16:19
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which of these two responses is normal: "do you remember that book that was popular in the 70s, I enjoyed it" "do you remember that book that was popular in the 70s, well, I loving HATED IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
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Apr 13, 2017 16:19
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Oh Jeffery, oh boy!
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There's a small group of ex-SETI dudes called METI that are actively trying to contact aliens by pushing signals at known goldilocks regions. Their old SETI buddies are pissed and say they could doom the species.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:19
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listen, im a space man, i read enders game. space is NOT nearly as big as some people have claimed
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Typo posted:that book sucked idk how anyone can like it that part about god vanishing in a puff of logic is the answer I usually see people coming up with Bbbbut fauxton it's such an elegant and brutal own I need to work it into casual conversation when Mom takes me to Sunday school
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itt nerds desperately trying to prove to themselves that they've grown up
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paranoid randroid posted:aliens dont talk to us because we dont have cool poo poo. And also because we'd shoot them the instant they appeared. I wouldn't talk to us either
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Apr 13, 2017 16:19
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FactsAreUseless posted:which of these two responses is normal: sorry dude lots of books they made us read in hs sucked i really liked ender's game though
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Apr 13, 2017 16:20
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Schnorkles posted:yeah, this is a good point, though i think goldwater is a little unique based on where he fell in a historical context not really? like Al- pointed out, trump is probably the quintessential case study where he said gently caress you to norquist's tax pledge and basically told everyone he was only signing up to other pledges or tests for the optics. the religious nuts who were pro-trump didn't hold it against him that he didn't really know what a bible contained or how to use one. the only people with actual purity tests were various shades of #neverttrump shitheads who were all left by the wayside if anything, purity tests indicate ONLY resistance to a candidate as people try to find morally justifiable reasons to not vote for that candidate. nixon in '72 didn't get purity tests thrown at him and he skated to a landslide, while mcgovern was flayed by every group with an agenda as not an ideal candidate for them in politics, you don't really want fervored interest because it creates positive political expectations that the faithful will hold you to in both word and deed (howard dean lol). you want more of a gestalt acceptance of a candidate's aesthetic, like the whole "nixon will bring law and order" or "george w bush is the kinda guy to have a drink with" or "trump is a no holds barred rear end kicker". that's why hillary tanked in the general - she focused on navigating purity tests (very competently!) but never created a singular aesthetic to rally behind, creating far too much space to debate the details of the answers to those tests. the democrats' primary creating a huge swath of politically engaged individuals (and their legion of bespoke purity tests) rather than A Consensus Candidate With An Approachable Message was what turned a landslide into a catastrophe
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euphronius posted:So ? I'm sure some if the dinos became space faring when their bodies were launched into orbit by the asteroid
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My favorite is THe is the alcubierre drive, which could work as a warp drive but you need exotic matter in with equivalent energy of the observable universe and it would destroy everything in its path.
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FactsAreUseless posted:itt nerds desperately trying to prove to themselves that they've grown up despite being married and apparently having responsibility i refuse to actually believe that i have any maturity
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http://www.thewrap.com/chris-christie-eyed-to-replace-sports-radio-host-mike-francesa/quote:New Jersey Governor Chris Christie could soon be making the jump from politics to the airwaves — and constantly have a mic in front of him to share his opinions.
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FactsAreUseless posted:which of these two responses is normal: trick question!!!!!!!!! Which one is hitler saying??
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magiccarpet posted:There's a small group of ex-SETI dudes called METI that are actively trying to contact aliens by pushing signals at known goldilocks regions. Their old SETI buddies are pissed and say they could doom the species. the SETI guys are right
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holy poo poo
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FactsAreUseless posted:which of these two responses is normal: Do you remember that president that was popular in the 80s, he sure has some fuckin' obsessive fans
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magiccarpet posted:There's a small group of ex-SETI dudes called METI that are actively trying to contact aliens by pushing signals at known goldilocks regions. Their old SETI buddies are pissed and say they could doom the species. is it nanowrimo already
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first contact would be like some green dudes with antennae landing in Nebraska, taking off their designer sunglasses, going "Good lord, Reginald, how provincial. Do they even have a Glartsby and Hrmnmnrn's boutique? Oh, sod this, let's just vacation on Plantifex 3 again this year." and then leaving
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FactsAreUseless posted:lmao at the idea of anyone being so angry about Hitchhiker's Guide that they'd have some sort of weird backlash i don't think about stuff I hate from last week, much less stuff from before i was born
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Apr 13, 2017 16:21
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Do you remember Hitchhikers guide??? Well suck a whole egg because Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a better book!!
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Actually my real answer to the Fermi paradox is everyone who gets to a certain level of civilization uploads themselves into technological immortality and "live" on servers stored in gravity wells
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Apr 13, 2017 16:22
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FactsAreUseless posted:which of these two responses is normal: I've never read the book but, people are free to not like thing.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:23
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mormonpartyboat posted:not really? actually i was just remarking that "goldwater" would be a good nickname for Our Piss-based President
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FAUXTON posted:Do you remember that president that was popular in the 80s, he sure has some fuckin' obsessive fans
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bustin' makes me feel good
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euphronius posted:We would not be able to detect a human level intelligence unless they were broadcasting at us. True . Radio does degrade but we could transmit now to the nearest stars Travel around and colonize? Reality isn't Star Trek. The closest star to us is Alpha Centauri. It's four light years away. If we had the ability to make a space ship that could travel at half light speed, which be the greatest engineering feat ever, it would take eight years to get there. Building a space ship that could safely transport a group of humans large enough to have a sufficiently diverse genetic pool for a succesful colony for eight years through space between stars would be the greatest engineering challenge mankind has ever faced, times fifty. A one way trip to the closest star would be the most difficult challenge humanity has ever faced. And a second trip to another star wouldn't be much easier. The idea that if aliens existed they would surely be doing that regularly is born purely out of science fiction Typo posted:so the great filter basically, either we are past it (and will prob go colonize space) or we aren't (we'll blow ourselves up just like the millions of other civilizations which existed since the universe was young) THE GREAT FILTER IS BULLSHIT. THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE FOR THE GREAT FILTER. It's just some poo poo a sad European in early atomic age nihilism said, and people repeat it because the dude was smart about other stuff
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what im saiyan is aliens arent sending us their best, theyre sending us their equivalent of Jared and the Jareds
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Chris James 2 posted:http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...ention-canceled 
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mormonpartyboat posted:not really? i don't disagree with any of this, but i'd also argue that presidential elections are very different from others.
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paranoid randroid posted:first contact would be like some green dudes with antennae landing in Nebraska, taking off their designer sunglasses, going "Good lord, Reginald, how provincial. Do they even have a Glartsby and Hrmnmnrn's boutique? Oh, sod this, let's just vacation on Plantifex 3 again this year." and then leaving God i hate the space british
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