Please stay off topic!

[Samantha_Kent 0]

Rennaissance festivals in the pouring rain are kind of amazing.

[Torre Ze'Rea 0]

lol, you went to one in the rain? ::is glad Seattle is sunny right now, and wishes she could go to another renaissance festival::

~Zaz

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Anyone know what the two candidates' position is on NASA and establishing a Moon Colony and eventual Mars mission?

 

...and I know that this will make a HUGE impact on the outcome, which one should STSF.NET endorse?

 

 

::waits for Atragon or Kansas to open up a can of whoop on your *** ::

 

::looks at Atragon:: Shouldn't we be getting a bonus check for this weekly Board Whoop *** Patrol thing?

 

Only when the political comments go from informative into stupid personal ranting territory so people can just hear themselves type. This doesn't happen often on these boards, thank goodness, and most people have a clue to keep a conversation interesting rather then rant.

 

A Moon Colony? I don't think so, not in this century at least (just my opinion):

 

- The technology really isn't at the high level point for the NASA administration to attempt any sort of Moon Base; as it stands now, the astronauts on the space station have to return every few months so their muscles don't go into full on atrophy. The body just can't take the conditions of space, and the survival and colonization technology needs to move into the more advanced stages before a Mars mission or Base is attempted.

 

- Money? Resources? Major Moola Moola!

 

- By some tech miracle if a moon colony was formed within the next fifty years or so, it would at least need to be staffed in the initial launch stage and set up stage by trained astronauts or military personnel. Forget civilians going, because a civvy would not have the mindset to be stuck on a ball of rock sealed inside a flimsy plastic steel barrier or whatever. The civilians would need to be trained in order to colonize, so you're looking at some pretty high level training that would cost money and resources that could probably be better used if routed elsewhere.

 

- Chances are this fictional base colonization program would be looking for single participants in the initial stages. An entire colonization family on the moon base? I don't think so. If five year old Sally May accidentally gets exposed to vacuum or sucked into an intake valve, there goes the back fund money to deal with the lawsuit.

[will_marx 0]

There's egg and bacon, egg and sausage, egg and spam, spam egg sausage and spam, spam spam spam spam tomato and spam...

[Aliana Lucindak 0]

And now for something completely different....

~Ali

[Sumo 0]

Rennaissance festivals in the pouring rain are kind of amazing.

 

 

Did that Once.. The one here is CO is on the side of a small East Coast size mountain. All Dirt + Rain = instant Mud Slides.. and not the tasty ones.

[TMir 0]

And now for something completely different....

~Ali

 

Fascinating. :P

[Images 0]

Why can't I just like Metallica? I have no clue. I just don't.

 

 

...the randomness must not end.

[Le Morte 0]

"Kentucky rain keeps pouring down"....:Doing best Elvis singing voice:

[Aliana Lucindak 0]

Your in kentucky? Or was it just a random break-out in song?

~Ali

[Samantha_Kent 0]

Could also just be that it's raining. ;)

[Ezri Max 0]

Which would you rather be? A Roman Emperor or a Chinese Emperor?

 

Roman as I am not into eating rice ;)

[will_marx 0]

Roman as I am not into eating rice ;)

 

Bah, rice is good for you. Especially when fermented into sake.

[Ezri Max 0]

Bah, rice is good for you. Especially when fermented into sake.

 

That is sure off topic ;)

[will_marx 0]

That is sure off topic ;)

 

There is no topic to go off topic on. ::smirks::

[Ezri Max 0]

There is no topic to go off topic on. ::smirks::

 

Really ... so I can talk about YEAST INFECTIONS

 

;)

[will_marx 0]

Really ... so I can talk about YEAST INFECTIONS

 

;)

:wub: :wub: :wub: :blink: :blink:

 

A little decorum goes a long way, however

[Samantha_Kent 0]

::much prefers the ;) smiley::

 

:wub: :wub: :wub: :blink: :blink: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :wub: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

 

 

EDIT: Sadness! This board has a smileys limit!

Edited October 28, 2008 by Samantha_Kent

[Aliana Lucindak 0]

I know, it is most annoying.

~Ali

[Ezri Max 0]

I know, it is most annoying.

~Ali

 

;) :wub: :wub: :wub: :blink: :blink: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

[Samantha_Kent 0]

Oh God, what have I started?

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Really ... so I can talk about YEAST INFECTIONS

 

;)

 

This definitely would fall under the TMI umbrella, even in the Off Topic Topic.

 

I myself always liked a boards smiley (which I cannot locate now, and it was under a different board control panel/skin or whatever) that started out with a smiley face, then the smiley face turned into a Vampire Bat. ::grins::

 

Fable 2: for all you RPGers out there. Fun game, I recommend. Ignore any complaints about the glitch factors. I have lost several hours of my life at this point, so the game is engrossing enough. And as added gameplay mechanics, you can do real estate (and make money), marry, and have kids. Of course, I chose the Evil path for my first run through - Mirror Universe factor, say what?

[Kansas_Jones 0]

Check these out: the teeth thing is cute, and the funked out paragraph is a classic:

 

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Six Truths of Life ......

 

1. You cannot touch all your teeth with your tongue.

 

2. All idiots, after reading the first truth, will try it.

 

3. And discover that the first truth is a lie.

 

4. You're smiling now because you're an idiot.

 

5. You soon will forward this to another idiot.

 

6. There's still a stupid smile on your face.

 

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Only great minds can read this

 

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

 

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

 

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

 

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Now, I am curious; if you are able to read the funky paragraph, does this signify anything? Are we hardwired different then others? I've seen this paragraph before, and I can read it, I've just never heard of an explanation as to why some of us can read it and not others. :-)

[Samantha_Kent 0]

My understanding was that it was a more universal trait than the second sentence would seem to imply. Indeed, the longer paragraph seems to suggest that the study is indicating a universal truth rather than a rule of exceptions.

 

...I play a science officer. Way too much. Can you tell? ;)

[Grom 0]

Now, I am curious; if you are able to read the funky paragraph, does this signify anything?

 

It signifies you've been simming for too long, having read every kind of text posted to screen imaginable. ;)