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[Sowelu]

Huh, for some reason I heard the moon was actually losing a couple inches of altitude every year...

[Micro102]

either way we are in toruble, as the moon also heats up the earth with the friction of the entire earth bending as it circles it

[Sowelu]

o_o

[Sordid]

either way we are in toruble, as the moon also heats up the earth with the friction of the entire earth bending as it circles it

Since that has failed to have a significant impact in the past four and a half billion years, I'm not worried.

[andrea]

the problem is that, by taking away an heat source, Earth would cool. not much probably.
and way too late to help with global warming.

i just got a dwarven idea! instead of fixing our problems here, to fight global warming lets push the moon away!

[Sean Mirrsen]

How about we push the Earth away instead, so that we collect less heat from the Sun? It worked in Futurama...

[andrea]

we could do both

[Sordid]

Meh, that's far too boring, not much would visibly change. A more interesting idea would be to put a huge shade in orbit at Earth's L1 point, to literally blot out the sun. Cave adaptation? No problem, just close the shutters!
Extra points for making it freely configurable and raise money by renting it out for advertising, so that you could have a giant burning Apple logo in the sky one day and a Coca Cola the next.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I don't exactly remember, are L-points more or less likely to have asteroids passing through them? I suspect the latter, since they're points where gravitational forces are equal in all directions..  Therefore, I give the giant advertisement project a go-ahead, if the government promises to remove ads from TV.

[Sowelu]

You'd get these epic Burma-Shave ads that went on for five days.

[Sordid]

Eh, I don't think they have a greater chance of asteroids passing through. They do have stuff accumulated in them, though, in Earth's case it's just some dust but Jupiter has entire asteroid fields moving in front of and behind it on its orbital path. -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Trojan

[Micro102]

lets strap unfeasibly large rockets to the earths surface and light all the gasoline in the world on fire so we can fly to another galaxy

[Tormy]

'Spore' Spawns 100 Million Creations
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=62239

Since launching the Spore Creature Creator in June 2008, Spore fans have created and uploaded 100 Million creations - an average of more than 307,000 daily - on the Sporepedia, the Spore library of user-generated content. The 100 Million represents a variety of uploaded creations including 31,017,761 Spore creatures - more than 19 times the number of known species on Earth. The creator of the 100 millionth creation may receive a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT graphics card, Spore and the upcoming expansion pack Spore Galactic Adventures. The 100Millionth creation and the entire collection of player-generated content can be seen at the Sporepedia.

[Micro102]

guess they forgot to mention that no matter what their creature is the game will be the same

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeah, it's like the Sims, except instead of adding hair and eyeglasses you add arms and jaws.