Posts by ghstwolf
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The one line story
(Message 331705)
Posted 9 Jun 2006 by  ghstwolf
Post: I forget if this has been done here before, so for the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen this before: It's really simple, add 1 line to the story. A couple extra rules: 1)please keep it within the guide lines 2)in the case of multiple posts, continue from the first one posted. To start: I got home from work and logged on to my computer. |
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Word Association Game
(Message 331692)
Posted 9 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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funny |
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Word Association Game
(Message 331685)
Posted 9 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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Affair |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330566)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: fly basket |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330450)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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Shrimp |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330355)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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(that's just wrong, I love it) Joy, joy (and now the drugs to kill that stupid song) |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330345)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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angry (may contain offensive material) |
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karaoke Nite at the Cafe
(Message 330261)
Posted 7 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: Plateu- Meat Puppets Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateu some belong to strangers and some to folks you know Holy ghost some talkshow host some planted in the sand Beautify the foothills shaped by many hands There's nothin' on the top but a bucket and a mop and an illustrated book about birds see a lot up there, but don't be scared who needs action when you've got words When you've finished with the mop then you can stop And look at what you've done The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen And the work it was fun Nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop And an illustrated book about birds You see a lot up there but don't be scared Who needs action when you got words Many hands began to scan around for the next plateau Some say it was Greenland and some say Mexico others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330239)
Posted 7 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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(this could get ugly) Handcuffs |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330227)
Posted 7 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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straight jacket |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330208)
Posted 7 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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Baseball |
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Word Association Game
(Message 330083)
Posted 7 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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Birthright |
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Your Most embarrassing Experience EVER!
(Message 326833)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: Maybe I just put things in a different perspective, or maybe I'm just lucky. I've got a pretty funny story that maybe I should be embarassed about, but I laughed so hard at the time I almost drown. So my and a few friends were camping (illegaly of course), or better described as drinking out in the woods. We picked a small island on a quiet lake. To set the stage, it is a beautiful sunny day mid 90's for temp. I decide to take a swim, extremely drunk I grab a lifevest (hey safety first), and to avoid the unplesentry of sobering up proceed to load every pocket. Floating around (I had finished off a couple of pockets), it had gotten a bit too bright. In an act of sheer drunken resourcefulness, the swim trunks became a hat. Now I cannot say how, whether I simply wasn't paying attention or if I passed out, but a retired couple paddled right next to me. No way they missed the chubby I was sporting (I'm not bragging about my tuna can, they were just that close). Drunk or not, it wouldn't have been embarassing. I'm just not wired that way, hell I didn't bother losing my "hat", I just had a good laugh (with the elderly couple). It's not like I knew them, and really I didn't care what they thought about me. I think getting caught fishing for trouser trout, is 100x's worse (as if that's never happened to me before). |
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Privatizing Space Exploration
(Message 324026)
Posted 2 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: Gee I guess I've got a bit of ground to cover here. Enigma- It may be a base instinct, but reseting to that gives us a pretty good starting point for our societal evolution, certainly much better than having to start from where we are now. And away from the protection of Earth, that "dire" situation may just be perminate enough to have the lasting effect. The wheel vastly predates Roman government, we still use it, because it works. BTW, I'd prefer small crews on highly automated rigs, not too disimilar to mining as practiced on Earth. Enzed- Seems pretty power dependent to me. Unless I'm misreading it, there's a lot of power used for fairly minimal lift. Maybe there is something there, I"m kinda focused elsewhere so I could easily miss it (although I can see where it might be pretty handy in some low orbit situations). Robert Brooke- I definately have wondered about that. Looking at various cultures, sometimes it seems so obvious. |
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Nuclear Energy Debate
(Message 322529)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: Different point here; It's wise to point out that the Government run plants of eastern europe and Soviet Union use entirely different designs than the plants used by private profit seeking firms in the US and elsewhere. They did this because of lack of funds! The wealthier nations' rich private sector can afford to build a type of plant that is extremely safe. I don't know the technical details but Soviet style plants don't use a gravity protected core like western countries use. In the west the core will drop due to gravity in order to prevent a Chernobyl. Chernobyl resulted from a total disregard of safety. From the corner cutting design, lacking many safety provisions already common at the time. Through the substandard construction (built out of tolerences, with low grade concrete, and even more it was often dry poured). In the best of circumstances, this would have been manageable, but there was not a culture of safety among those operating the plant either. More or less what happened is this. The reactor was being taken down for service. Somewhere at the plant level, it was decided that this was an ideal time to test the backup cooling systems. Now would be a good time to mention, this type of reactor becomes unstable below a certain threshold (several have this problem, but they have many provision in the design to account for it). The thing nearly went out, and in attempts to keep it going they pulled every control rod out. The reactor was still well under the threshold, steam built in the reactor. Now water is pretty good at absorbing neutrons, steam isn't. The reactor spiked, maybe as much as 1000x it's rated capacity. And we have the worst nuclear accident in the world. |
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Privatizing Space Exploration
(Message 322183)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
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Philosophy or new reality, which ever term you prefer (I like a bit of philosophy, but IMO this is a bit more concrete). The "practical" examples (yeah the sort of thing I'm talking about does happen here on Earth) are hardly utopian. Think platoons on sweep missions, or technical climbers: it's the extreme situation that brings it out in us. Look at how everywhere (except New Orleans), when disasters strike people come together to make it through. I think our main difference is when we "require" this change to happen (you looking for it before, me accepting it along the way). Maybe it's that I don't believe it can happen without that kind of adversity, but I know we do have it in us.
I think the first step is launching successful mining rigs. Until we find (build) a better way to get stuff from here to up there, we'd be much better off if we could just start with it already up there. Because of size and weight limitations (never mind cost to orbit/lb), a real space station (the type promised in Sci-fi) is just a pipe-dream. It is a big dream, I'm just trying to break it down to the smallest of steps (still a work in progress, if I really did have the answer this whole thread would be different). |
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karaoke Nite at the Cafe
(Message 321936)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: Here's a blash from a truely different time (a day when MTV actually played the whole video, even if it was Rock). Why don't you sit right back And I, I may tell you, a tale A tale of THREE little pigs and a BIG, BAD, WOLF well The first little piggy he was kinda Hippy, spent most of his days just a dreaming of the city and then one day he bought a guitar moved to Hollywood, to become a star but living on the farm, he knew nothing of the city built his house out of straw, what a pity then one day, jamming out some chords along came the wolf, knocking on his door little pig little pig let me in,not by the hair on my chinny chin chin (x2) I'm huffin and puffin' , I'll blow your house in (x3) well the second little pig he was kinda stoked, spent most of his days just a ganja smokin' huffin' and a puffin down on venice beach getting paid money, for religious speech built his shelter, from what he garbage picked mostly made up of old cans and sticks then one day he was cranking up on Marley along came the wolf, on his big bad Harley little pig little pig let me in,not by the hair on my chinny chin chin (x2) I'm huffin and puffin' , I'll blow your house in (x3) well the third little piggy was a grade A student, his daddy was a rockstar Dain Pig Newton got his masters degree, from Harvard college built his house from his architect knowledge a tri-level mansion, hollywood hills daddy's rock stardom, paid for the bills then one day came the old house smasher the big bad wolf, the little piggy slasher little pig little pig let me in,not by the hair on my chinny chin chin (x2) I'm huffin and puffin' , I'll blow your house in (x3) well the big bad wolf, well he huffed and he puffed all that he could lo and behold, the little piggy house stood "it's made out of concrete," the little piggy shouted the wolf just frowned as he pouted so they called 9-11, like any piggy would they sent out RAMBO, just as fast as they could "yo wolf face, I'm your worst nightmare your ass is mine" (gun fire and explosions) now the wolf fell dead as you can plainly see and thats the end of the story for you and me still give a listen, and you just may hear the big wolf and little piggy say little pig little pig let me in,not by the hair on my chinny chin chin (x2) I'm huffin and puffin' , I'll blow your house in (x7) and the moral of the story is: that bands with no talent can usually amuse idiots with a stupid puppet show |
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Privatizing Space Exploration
(Message 321754)
Posted 31 May 2006 by ghstwolf
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This does play a part. No one has yet pretended we're going to another "Earth", a planet so similar we can simply show up and live there. That means we'll be relying on rebreathers, EM radiation shields, and probably dozens (or more) hands on processes we take for granted here on Earth. When the guy next to you is keeping you alive (and you the same for him), that one for all stuff isn't quite so whimsical. My biggest question is if the "roughneck"/explorer period will be long enough to change human behaviour?
I'd love to think that the type of modus operandi we've seen and are lamenting, very simply doesn't work in the new enviroment. That the connections between us all become so very obvious, and that we finally see we truely better ourselves when we better those around us. I truely believe there is no way to survive out there, unless we do learn that. But I don't think that lesson is well taught here on Earth. |
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Privatizing Space Exploration
(Message 320062)
Posted 29 May 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: NOW I feel like crying: how will mankind ever get out of this ridiculous destructive pattern of greed and stupidity?!? Someone greedy AND powerful always has to come along and frak things up. Greed for all the bad associated with it, is not a major problem to this. Space offers limitless oppertunity, there's far more than anyone could hope to capitalize on in a dozen lifetimes. The only real limit we face, is our lack of technical prowess. Why would one take by force something as easily achieved at the next astroid? The thinking of us Earth bound people doesn't really hold up well. Here there are so many limits to what and where, out there we can mine tonnage at will in numbers that are easier to write by saying how many zeros are in them. Iron, nickle, titanium, even gold and platinum lose their value. Their value would exist only in delivering contracted quantities in a timely fashion, that itself a huge shift. edit: I'm not sure anything can be done about stupidity. Hopefully, the dangerous nature of space, and the intelligence required to survive it, will bear out the principles of Darwin. That may be the only solution. |
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Privatizing Space Exploration
(Message 319506)
Posted 28 May 2006 by ghstwolf
Post: Enigma- I doubt that a global government, even a very "good" one is really the answer. Then again I don't think governments have been the answer since we moved away from city-states. That only gets truer in the isolation of space. All politics are local, and a global government would be no better than the England/American colonies relationship. I doubt the new colonies would endure for long before rebellion happened. This is true of both government solutions and under Corperate leadership. The only answer I see working long term, is truely independant colonies. Colonies on a single planet would likely combine under a single government, but the "floating" bases would likely retain the city-state governments. The "floaters" will likely form a confederation, if for nothing more than to establish trade standards and for the inevitable need for protection (pirates are a certainty). Both Earth and the stations are better off without each others politics. |
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