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[Urist Imiknorris]

And getting excess shit from people that you can then turn around and sell for some of the money you used to buy other people stuff.

[Descan]

All we need to do to fix the economy is dual-ad-blast of guilt-tripping people into splurging on buying a bunch of shit for other people, and of saying "Hey, psst. That crappy thing they bought you? Just sell it, man. They won't care."

All the money changing hands will make the world come up sunshine and daisies! ... Well, it's winter, so maybe not the best analogy. But still!

[Flying Dice]

I'm trying to come up with a polite way to tell everyone who cares about me that they shouldn't spend much/any money on me, because I'm a) not really interested in affection via materialism and b) have almost no money that isn't already destined for more mundane matters.

[Descan]

Kon just posted again. This is the test. I hope I have managed to bring the thread of American Politics back to sanity.

God be with us.

[kaijyuu]

I believe in you Descan. We can do it. We can bring sanity back, and start talking about gays or something.

[Flying Dice]

Don't worry. Libertarians are allergic to silliness and mutual respect.

[Aklyon]

American Politics

sanity

Eh?

[Descan]

Ahah! He's triple-posting! I knew it, he's getting desperate for attention.

Back, BACK, spawn of insanity! We know thy tricks, and we know thy true name! Thee are Evil One, the one who will bring the world to it's knees! Thy name be... Ayn Rand!

[kisame12794]

American Politics

sanity

Eh?

Does not compute.

[Flying Dice]

Word on the street is that American politics are actually a physical representation of the network of relationships between the Great Old Ones.



By the way, if you really want to solve the power crisis, there's a simple solution:

1. Hook Ayn Rand's corpse up to a turbine.
2. Turn the US into a social democracy.

Any bets on that also being the key to cracking the FTL problem?

[Descan]

Well, we just need POWAH and exotic matter for the FTL problem. What with warp drive being theoretically possible AND practical.

Hey, that interferometric space-warp experiment... Has that happened yet?

[Bauglir]

Re: politics thread - keep it in that thread, guys.

[MaximumZero]

Well, we just need POWAH and exotic matter for the FTL problem. What with warp drive being theoretically possible AND practical.

Hey, that interferometric space-warp experiment... Has that happened yet?

I haven't seen anything, but I'm holding out hope.

[Mego]

more relevant image for my previous post:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EDIT: also, I've accepted that in all likelihood, if we do explore out of our system, it'll be via generation ships or, if possible, cryostasis.

A friend of mine pointed out a flaw with generation ships that I never thought of before. By the time the ship reached it destination, or at least by the time the colony was able to send people back for trading, the colonists would have diverged evolutionary so much that they might not be recognizable as human. Humans evolved to live on a rotating planet with gravitation acceleration equal to 9.81 m/s/s downwards at sea level, and gradually decreasing as altitude increases. We did not evolve to live on a spaceship, potentially with artificial gravity that would not imitate Earth's gravity well, but probably with near-zero gravity, flying though space, not rotating. Just those differences alone would create some distinct adaptations in the people on the generation ships.

And then there's the fact that they will inevitably be horribly inbred, unless occupants are carefully selected to ensure that the gene pool is as diverse as possible. But, that would cause other problems, namely the fact that the occupants' life partners and future families are being picked for them, instead of by them. People tend to not like that.

[Hanslanda]

well, I had a conversation with my friend about the warp drive.

to alter space-time, you can just use gravity. this means that if you could find some way of producing higgs bosons, you could do one part of the bending space-time.

if you then use dark energy to bend space-time the other way, if it works like that, you could, potentially, get a warp drive.

but there's probably something shitting on my theory.

Do you have any idea how fucking cool your post sounds if you read it out loud?

Also, this is a bit... NSFW? My LF told me today that I have, 'A firm ass.' Then she was like, "Can I feel it?" It was a strange day. This is one of many things she said today that messed with me.