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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Goodbye Planet Earth...
Note the second to last sentence especially.
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Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle |
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09-21-2006, 08:23 PM
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Domesticated Swing Babe
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Heh! Just makes me think of a cool Duran Duran song......
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09-21-2006, 08:37 PM
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The Black Númenórean
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I'll jump in if they take volunteers. Get my ass outta here!
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. |
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09-21-2006, 10:19 PM
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Elf Lord
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." |
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09-21-2006, 10:25 PM
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Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih... |
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09-21-2006, 11:30 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle |
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09-21-2006, 11:58 PM
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Dreamweaver
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yeah...i just happened to take a bill murrey line...(ghostbusters)
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Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih... |
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09-22-2006, 03:09 AM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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If this was a book from Preston and Child there would for sure go something horribly wrong with this experiment. Still, it's 'comforting' to know that they took the danger of destroying the earth into their risk calculations.
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09-22-2006, 03:46 AM
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Elf Lord
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So, they are "truly journeying into unknown territory", yet they know the probability of a catastrophic adverse event to 40 decimal places...
And I'm guessing their marketing people got them to prop it up on its side so it looks like the portal out of Stargate.  |
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09-22-2006, 04:11 AM
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Science: Accidentally destroying the world in pursuit of knowledge since 2006.
Is it weird that I laughed at the part where they calculated the chance of accidentally destroying the planet? Because... I did. Hee.
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09-22-2006, 09:15 AM
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Dreamweaver
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building a portal to the unknown: 1000000000000000000000000000000000$
hiring the crew and team to work on it: 1000000000000000000000000000000000$ money given to world hunger: 0 knowing that we only have a -10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance of all being destroyed...priceless.
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Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih... |
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09-22-2006, 09:49 AM
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Elf Lord
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09-22-2006, 02:11 PM
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the Shrike
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Jeez louise, buncha farts. I think it's freakin' cool.
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09-22-2006, 02:30 PM
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Elf Lord
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It is really funny
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." |
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09-22-2006, 03:35 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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"Science: Accidentally destroying the world in pursuit of knowledge since 2006."
Actually, they said next year. But that is totally going in my sig.
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Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle |
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09-22-2006, 03:48 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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So do I. Except for the whole chanceofaccidentallydestroyingtheplanet thing.
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Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle |
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09-22-2006, 04:04 PM
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The Lovely Hobbit-Lass
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I cannot express in any words I know how funny and hopelessly... hopeless that whole thing is. *shakes head in wonder* Yes, very interesting and all that... mini big bangs, etc. But really, they're trying to explain how the supposedly original Big Bang happened when they can't even prove that that is how the universe was--AND I QUOTE!!!!--"created". Scientists really throw me into a state of unbelief. How can you sit there and make this amazingly powerful machine to create miniscule versions of what you term 'the big bang', and then say that this 'Big Bang' just... happened. *is clueless*
Anyway, I hope they find an answer to all their questions. I agree with the 'destroy the world' ratio. Holy Crap. That's like something directly out of Spiderman. Swedish Doc Oc. (Or were they Swedish?) Not to mention... *shakes head* I will never understand folks like this. They really know nothing, but they can quote figures and charts like they have the answers to life, the universe, and everything. You know, that whole thing sounds like something Garth Adams would have come up with for Hitchhikers. It's that corny.
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
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09-22-2006, 05:35 PM
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09-23-2006, 07:09 PM
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I think she meant a Swedish version of Doc Oc. But aren't the scientists in the article Swiss?
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