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Mar. 28th, 2003 06:39 am
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Maybe it's just me, but these "die-ins" are pissing me off. In my opinion, they don't revere those who are dying, they mock them.
Mar. 28th, 2003
Because I'm bored, and likely to be so for the rest of today (at least until late afternoon) . . .
Ask any question (about me or my opinions) and I'll answer it. I'm not going to lock this thread to the All Access filter, but if questions are asked that would qualify for that filter, I will answer them completely honestly here -- even if it's embarassing or uncomfortable for me.
Of course, I've just guaranteed there will be no questions that really interest me. Ah well. You can try to prove me wrong. please try to prove me wrong. Someone must be curious about me.
The first person to ask a silly nonsense question gets something unpleasant done to them.
Editted 1:12pm: Removed extraneous comments
Ask any question (about me or my opinions) and I'll answer it. I'm not going to lock this thread to the All Access filter, but if questions are asked that would qualify for that filter, I will answer them completely honestly here -- even if it's embarassing or uncomfortable for me.
Of course, I've just guaranteed there will be no questions that really interest me. Ah well. You can try to prove me wrong. please try to prove me wrong. Someone must be curious about me.
The first person to ask a silly nonsense question gets something unpleasant done to them.
Editted 1:12pm: Removed extraneous comments
Mar. 28th, 2003 08:21 am
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I was enjoying the crap out of this story until I realised it came from that paragon of Men In Black reporting, The Weekly World News.
Still . . . I keep thinking "you can't prove a negative." For example:
Stephen Hawking says there is categorically no possibility of time travel. His reasoning is that "if time travel were possible, we'd be inundated with tourists from the future."
Um, Stephen? How do you know we aren't?
Robert Aspirin's Time Scout series is a pretty good model of how Time Tourism could conceivably work. After all, time tourists wouldn't want to reveal they're from the future, now would they?
I don't like saying anything's impossible, too often someone comes along and proves it isn't. Remember that in 1959, a respected scientist said in the New York Times: "Regardless of any future scientific advances, mankind will never set foot on the moon."
Shortly after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, in the early days of aviation, a US Army General said "A popular fantasy is that airplanes could be used to drop dynamite on the enemy."
Much is improbable, nothing is impossible.
Still . . . I keep thinking "you can't prove a negative." For example:
Stephen Hawking says there is categorically no possibility of time travel. His reasoning is that "if time travel were possible, we'd be inundated with tourists from the future."
Um, Stephen? How do you know we aren't?
Robert Aspirin's Time Scout series is a pretty good model of how Time Tourism could conceivably work. After all, time tourists wouldn't want to reveal they're from the future, now would they?
I don't like saying anything's impossible, too often someone comes along and proves it isn't. Remember that in 1959, a respected scientist said in the New York Times: "Regardless of any future scientific advances, mankind will never set foot on the moon."
Shortly after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, in the early days of aviation, a US Army General said "A popular fantasy is that airplanes could be used to drop dynamite on the enemy."
Much is improbable, nothing is impossible.