[UFOs] watch Mellon start an intergalactic war

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Inspector Hound: Jul 14, 2003

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

In Zeta Reticuli born and raised
buzzin' 'round earth was hanging out with the greys
Chillin' out probin' lights strobin' all cool
And all projecting good feelings at some kids in a school
When a couple of greys tried to make a big show
flying too wild out in New Mexico
they got in one little crash and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with Sandia to a secret mountain lair'

# ? Nov 18, 2021 15:21

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# ? May 27, 2024 15:03

Azathoth: Apr 3, 2001

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

In Zeta Reticuli born and raised
buzzin' 'round earth was hanging out with the greys
Chillin' out probin' lights strobin' all cool
And all projecting good feelings at some kids in a school
When a couple of greys tried to make a big show
flying too wild out in New Mexico
they got in one little crash and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with Sandia to a secret mountain lair'

# ? Nov 18, 2021 15:36

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

skewetoo posted:

Edit: I dunno what happened. Pretend I empty quoted the kickin' rad aitee rap.

# ? Nov 18, 2021 15:42

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZceqzM231lU

# ? Nov 18, 2021 15:53

Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

In Zeta Reticuli born and raised
buzzin' 'round earth was hanging out with the greys
Chillin' out probin' lights strobin' all cool
And all projecting good feelings at some kids in a school
When a couple of greys tried to make a big show
flying too wild out in New Mexico
they got in one little crash and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with Sandia to a secret mountain lair'

The Mesa Blorpbillies!

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:05

Vernii: Dec 7, 2006

I kinda wonder how well nukes would work to clear out orbital lanes in the event of Kessler syndrome.

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:15

endocriminologist: May 17, 2021; SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

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Vernii posted:

I kinda wonder how well nukes would work to clear out orbital lanes in the event of Kessler syndrome.

you break satellite in two. You now have two satellite

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:16

Blarghalt: May 19, 2010

Vernii posted:

I kinda wonder how well nukes would work to clear out orbital lanes in the event of Kessler syndrome.

if we used them all on earth, we wouldn't have to even worry about kessler syndrome anymore

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:18

Pryor on Fire: May 14, 2013; they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

I think the poster is imagining that a nuke evaporates everything it touches instead of just making the pieces smaller

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:46

Rah!: Feb 21, 2006

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

In Zeta Reticuli born and raised
buzzin' 'round earth was hanging out with the greys
Chillin' out probin' lights strobin' all cool
And all projecting good feelings at some kids in a school
When a couple of greys tried to make a big show
flying too wild out in New Mexico
they got in one little crash and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with Sandia to a secret mountain lair'

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:56

Rah!: Feb 21, 2006

fresh p'nti of bird lair

# ? Nov 18, 2021 16:58

nebby: Dec 21, 2000; resident mog

I beamed down to the desert bout seven or eight and
Saw some guys in some lab coats and said �word up , I�m from Zeta�
Wow what a shithole, I�d traveled so far
Just to live in a cave with some dude named Lazar

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:06

poisonpill: Nov 8, 2009; The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.

If anything I could crash this craft in a bunker
But I thought "Nah, forget it, Lue, disclose it to Tucker!"

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:25

Rickshaw: Apr 11, 2004; just a coconut going for a stroll

Pryor on Fire posted:

I think the poster is imagining that a nuke evaporates everything it touches instead of just making the pieces smaller

To be fair, it's how explosions worked in Worms

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:27

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

peanutty rap is canon now

also Lue is kicking around my neck of the woods, wonder what he's up to
https://twitter.com/LueElizondo/status/1461336544975867906?s=20

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:28

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

Rickshaw posted:

To be fair, it's how explosions worked in Worms

i dunno about all u nerds but i learned about explosions from Scorched Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMzemVO2CH0

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:33

Azathoth: Apr 3, 2001

That game was so drat awesome back in the day

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:34

The Saucer Hovers: May 16, 2005

Azathoth posted:

That game was so drat awesome back in the day

used to murder scrub smurfs on kali.net a million years ago...makes me want to play it again

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:41

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Congress is throwing $TEXAS at this now
https://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson/status/1461341149088604160?s=20

# ? Nov 18, 2021 17:58

Objurium: Aug 8, 2009

I didn't get a chance to braindump my thoughts on consciousness when that conversation was more prescient but gently caress it here goes:

Whatever consciousness "is", I find it interesting that psychedelic experiences undertaken as more of a spiritual endeavor (versus hehe funny colors) have left me with this profound feeling of connectedness to all things - almost a sort of quantum animism where nearly all matter "has" or interacts with the field of consciousness, but most things aren't complex enough to be aware of that fact (even if that sounds reductive I apologize to all inanimate objects struggling to self actualize).

Those themes from that NDE post a few pages back are familiar too. There's this distinct sensation that whatever "I" truly am, it is much older and larger than the temporal meat shuttle I currently reside within. Each time I have these "aha!" moments it's always accompanied by this warm familiarity of "...but you knew that, you just forgot."

Connecting to the larger mycelium network that entangles disparate dimensions or stupid monkey experiencing divine psychopathy as a way to attach a narrative to meaningless chemical interference, I don't know and I don't particularly care. It's a neat sensation all the same okay thanks for coming to my TED talk 🦜

# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:15

The Saucer Hovers: May 16, 2005

Objurium posted:

animism

# ? Nov 18, 2021 18:29

D-Pad: Jun 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1461395374074064899?t=1tZV3CnykXo6LinxM9ryVw&s=19

# ? Nov 18, 2021 19:16

Jazerus: May 24, 2011

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

In Zeta Reticuli born and raised
buzzin' 'round earth was hanging out with the greys
Chillin' out probin' lights strobin' all cool
And all projecting good feelings at some kids in a school
When a couple of greys tried to make a big show
flying too wild out in New Mexico
they got in one little crash and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with Sandia to a secret mountain lair'

# ? Nov 18, 2021 19:17

Marzzle: Dec 1, 2004; Bursting with flavor

D-Pad posted:

https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1461395374074064899?t=1tZV3CnykXo6LinxM9ryVw&s=19

the "extraterrestrials" in the report are just "what if the USSR takes over space and uses it to invade the USA". tremendous cold war fever dream energy

# ? Nov 18, 2021 19:33

my bony fealty: Oct 1, 2008

D-Pad posted:

https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1461395374074064899?t=1tZV3CnykXo6LinxM9ryVw&s=19

haha yes!! hell fuckin yeah!

# ? Nov 18, 2021 19:36

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

D-Pad posted:

https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1461395374074064899?t=1tZV3CnykXo6LinxM9ryVw&s=19

For anyone thinking "I don't want to read that" this is the loving abstract

# ? Nov 18, 2021 19:56

Inspector Hound: Jul 14, 2003

What in the hell

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:11

skewetoo: Mar 30, 2003

Inspector Hound posted:

What in the hell

Space war

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:14

Marzzle: Dec 1, 2004; Bursting with flavor

I read like half of it and it's just about space war with the soviets if the soviets take over mars/high orbit and what the USA needs to do to head them off so we don't end up with a dreaded space colony gap

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:16

Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

skewetoo posted:

Space war

the few. the proud. the space marines

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:17

Rickshaw: Apr 11, 2004; just a coconut going for a stroll

Objurium posted:

Whatever consciousness "is", I find it interesting that psychedelic experiences undertaken as more of a spiritual endeavor (versus hehe funny colors) have left me with this profound feeling of connectedness to all things - almost a sort of quantum animism where nearly all matter "has" or interacts with the field of consciousness, but most things aren't complex enough to be aware of that fact (even if that sounds reductive I apologize to all inanimate objects struggling to self actualize).

Extremely same, except I think everything is consciousness. What does your mind look like from the outside? It looks like a brain.

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:34

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

poisonpill posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZceqzM231lU

Lol what is this original clip from? Some kind of alien blooper reel or something?

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:38

global tetrahedron: Jun 24, 2009

Objurium posted:

I didn't get a chance to braindump my thoughts on consciousness when that conversation was more prescient but gently caress it here goes:

Whatever consciousness "is", I find it interesting that psychedelic experiences undertaken as more of a spiritual endeavor (versus hehe funny colors) have left me with this profound feeling of connectedness to all things - almost a sort of quantum animism where nearly all matter "has" or interacts with the field of consciousness, but most things aren't complex enough to be aware of that fact (even if that sounds reductive I apologize to all inanimate objects struggling to self actualize).

you might enjoy this david graeber piece which speaks about this. i think about it all the time

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun

# ? Nov 18, 2021 20:49

Shifty Nipples: Apr 8, 2007

Spergin Morlock posted:

me too

same

# ? Nov 18, 2021 21:17

goochtit: Nov 2, 2021

GWBBQ posted:

that's racist

woops I had no idea lmao

Azathoth posted:

As a bonafide 1/8th Irishman, I'll allow it.

thank u

Shifty Nipples posted:

same

whom amongst us

# ? Nov 18, 2021 22:03

goochtit: Nov 2, 2021

Objurium posted:

I didn't get a chance to braindump my thoughts on consciousness when that conversation was more prescient but gently caress it here goes:

Whatever consciousness "is", I find it interesting that psychedelic experiences undertaken as more of a spiritual endeavor (versus hehe funny colors) have left me with this profound feeling of connectedness to all things - almost a sort of quantum animism where nearly all matter "has" or interacts with the field of consciousness, but most things aren't complex enough to be aware of that fact (even if that sounds reductive I apologize to all inanimate objects struggling to self actualize).

Those themes from that NDE post a few pages back are familiar too. There's this distinct sensation that whatever "I" truly am, it is much older and larger than the temporal meat shuttle I currently reside within. Each time I have these "aha!" moments it's always accompanied by this warm familiarity of "...but you knew that, you just forgot."

Connecting to the larger mycelium network that entangles disparate dimensions or stupid monkey experiencing divine psychopathy as a way to attach a narrative to meaningless chemical interference, I don't know and I don't particularly care. It's a neat sensation all the same okay thanks for coming to my TED talk 🦜

Same, but my sensation was "dark" somehow. Instead of feeling unity, the impressions I got of life and consciousness were of a video game played on a tiny CRT. I don't think my ego liked it. It felt like it was an absurd conspiracy of people being put into bodies and forgetting for some reason but also there are all these little things around that let you catch a glimpse back past the fourth wall. This cosmology came across as a cruel prank somehow. All I could keep asking is why. Maybe I'm friends with those NDE pranksters from that post. Fuckin jerks

# ? Nov 18, 2021 22:40

Mr. Barnesworth: Jun 28, 2008; I said GOOD DAY, sir!

endocriminologist posted:

you break satellite in two. You now have two satellite

and you've just added a whole lotta delta-v.

I've seen EM nets proposed back in my R&D days. Basically a couple of satellites on each end of a long conductive net, as they orbit through the Earth's EM field it generates a current which could be used in addition to solar to power ion thrusters for station keeping.
https://www.space.com/12819-space-junk-cleanup-giant-net-tether.html

Another option is a big reflector sweeping out lanes and imparting small amounts of momentum from light to very slowly deorbit small junk, not terribly feasible and to work you need to focus the light for more momentum, and that creates fun disaster scenarios when it goes haywire and starts sweeping across continents.

The best solution is prevention, which at this point means going around to each satellite individually and tethering/light sailing it into a decaying orbit, at the cost of the taxpayer of course.

Really there are no good options right now, which makes blowing up satellites a really poo poo move.

# ? Nov 18, 2021 22:44

Think Less: Dec 29, 2016

blowing poo poo up is totally badass though. i think that should be factored in

# ? Nov 18, 2021 22:47

Inspector Hound: Jul 14, 2003

Practice asteroid mining on all the satellites

# ? Nov 18, 2021 23:07

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Dr. Jerrold Coe: Feb 6, 2021; Is it me?

It'd be cool if the reason no regular Star Trek type aliens have visited us is that everyone eventually kesslers themselves and is stuck on their homeworld ...

until they achieve bird level technique

# ? Nov 19, 2021 01:27

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