AloneSoul
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posted on 29/1/2003 at 09:07 AM |
They also say that our moon is moving about a quarter of a inch per year
(correct me if i'm wrong), imagine what would happen with no moon.
I never heard of the sun reversing it's polarity or anything to that
nature. I say just relax and wait for it to become a white dwarf or black
hole. ____________________
 but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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bettie_x
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posted on 30/1/2003 at 12:48 AM |
ah hell, chances are if it happens, I'll be drunk at the time, so BRING IT
ON!
Hey, at least I won't have to pay my bills anymore. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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AloneSoul
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posted on 30/1/2003 at 04:53 PM |
| I hate doing tax returns, that will be something which I will not miss. ____________________
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Ironboots
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posted on 30/1/2003 at 06:08 PM |
No luck, guys. The sun won't turn into a black hole. Its too small; doesn't
have enough gravity.
It'll just turn into a stupid white dwarf, which means we'll all slowly die
(About a month or two, methinks...)
And even if the sun -did- become a black hole just right now, we'd continue
orbiting it normally until our orbit degraded and we spiralled in. So
still, a few months to a year.
Which leaves plenty of time for Mr. Taxman to collect, sorry Alone and
Bettie.
Here is where I got my information. I just
love this forum. It gives me so many fun things to look up on the internet.
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bettie_x
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posted on 30/1/2003 at 10:01 PM |
God and you KNOW that they'd still try to collect on it too....fuckers.
I'd quit my job and live on welfare.
Are you sure it'd be a white dwarf? It could also turn blue, irradiating
our planet in ultraviolet light and frying everything on it to a crisp.
I just saw an episode of the new "outer limits" where a kid working on a
college project about sun flares picked up a radio signal from a solar
system, and everyone under the age of 20 or so would hear "music" in the
white noise, be enthralled by it, and want to share it with ANYONE...but
the sound would mutate them, cause their bodies to create a metallic alloy
and erupt like sores on their skin. The same kid noticed that the sun in
the system that the sound came from had turned from a yellow dwarf to a
blue dwarf, so he tested the "music" on plants and animals then irradiated
them with ultra violet light, and only the ones that were subjected to the
"music" didn't die.
SOOOOOOOOO...in essence the race on the other planet knew that their sun
was changing, and that they'd die if they didn't adapt, so found a way to
change their bodies to survive...and noticed our sun was doing the same
thing and sent the "sound" as an act of mercy.
So everyone that changed turned this cool shade of metalic stuff so they
could survive the change...and those over 20 could get hormonal injections
to allow the sound to change them as well, or they could choose to NOT
change and just spend daylight hours indoors. Plus the sound irradiated
all the planets animals and plant life, so nothing else died.
WIERD!
That'd be cool to be all metalic looking, all reflecty like those things in
the bottom of the ocean or in the desert. ____________________
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AloneSoul
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posted on 30/1/2003 at 11:43 PM |
Neat site Boots!
Aye but the sun will atleast turn into a red giant before it becomes a
white dwarf. heh. So this place will be taken out sooner than later...
And hey, there's always a nice big comet or meteor that will withstand our
atmosphere.
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Starlight
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posted on 31/1/2003 at 01:08 AM |
I saw that episode too Bettie...I think it was a year or two ago when I saw
it myself, but I so completely and totally loved it! I was thinking of it
when I started reading your post and then I thought no way, she's not
talking about that episode, but you were. *VBS* I just thought it spoke of
so much in the way of people thinking all change is bad, and oh look, it's
the only way to survive.  ____________________
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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Starlight
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posted on 31/1/2003 at 01:20 AM |
| Well Ironboots and Alonesoul, I think that Betty is right on the tax issue.
I can just picture it all right now. Here we are, our sun is a black hole,
we're being slowly spiralled into it, with a giant doomsday asteroid
trailing us closely, all on April 1st. Then here comes this announcement
somehow, that we'd better hurry up and get our taxes filed, only 14 more
days left. I can see it, and it's just sick I tell you. ____________________
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've
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tried before." ~Mae West
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Dolorosa
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posted on 31/1/2003 at 10:56 AM |
I think the world would be so much more fun if we were just knocked back
into the stone ages. Tribal Societies, nifty legends, a simpler, more
primal life. I for one would love it...Humanity would find it's soul again,
and we'd get to play on all kinds of neat ruins and stuff...I'm in for a
big catalcysm that wipes out a good ninety percent of humanity...it'd be
nice.
Personally, as far as current events are going...I don't think it's as big
a deal as it's being made into. Sure...it could be disasterous...but it
really doesn't feel that way, I dunno' how exactly, but it just doesn't
anymore.
I think we're a ways off from the apocalypse...I wish we weren't...but I
think we are.
Although, damn it would be fun to be Mad Max. ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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Zander
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posted on 31/1/2003 at 12:30 PM |
I would love it if the world ended like in the bible with horsemen and
knights and a lord of the rings type of battle. Thousands of people on a
feild going at it with swords, flails and axes. I wouldn't care weither I
was fighting for satan or for god, if either of the two actually exist. But
I don't think the world is coming to an end in that fashion.
I think we have 66 days left from today. jan 31 friday.
According to a priest on the radio we are headed towards certain doom. ____________________
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
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bettie_x
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posted on 1/2/2003 at 05:15 PM |
Well if it came to armagedon, all I can say is that if "god" let it get
THAT far out of hand, his mom shouldn't let him have pets anymore, because
he obviously can't take CARE of them.
I know which side I'm on. Yeah, based on the bible we always lose, but eh.
I've always rooted for the underdog.
"There's a man, goin round, takin names
and he chooses who to free, and who to blame
and nobody will be treated all the same
when the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
one hundred thousand angels singing
multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum
voices callin voices crying
some are born and some are dying
it's alpha and omega's kingdom come"
~the man comes around-J. Cash
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Zander
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 posted on 10/2/2003 at 10:13 PM |
| I've gone crazy... Abandon ship. ____________________
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Dolorosa
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posted on 11/2/2003 at 11:11 AM |
You know, I got this crazy idea for an experiment regarding an anthill near
my house. Take a few of them in, dig up their queen and make a lil' world
for 'em...then in about a year, I dump a cup of water in there...and three
years after that, I'll set the whole damn thing on fire. I wonder if
they'll see it coming? I do realize however, that weither they se it coming
or not...it will damn sure be fun.
If God or whatever is anything like me...we're fucked...
I really don't think we need to worry about destruction on a cosmic level.
Our moon isn't going to whisk off and vanish anytime soon, if it did,
their'd probably be some bitchin' storms and stome unusual environment
changes as our weather patterns screw themselves. But that wouldn't kill
us...Humans are like roaches, we'll hide and survive, then reproduce and
explode back onto the surface of the earth in a horde. If the Sun started
flipping out and disco-ballin' well...yeah, we'd be screwed, unless we
figured a way to make a new one. "Mankind has tamed the sun." I forgot who
said that...but I remember they said it near the end of WWII...I don't
doubt that if an impending Solar event threatened all existance...somebody
wouldn't figure out a way to jump start the damned sun. As Stupid as people
are...were damnably clever sometimes.
I think we just have to worry about various nations nuking the shit out of
eachother. which in all cases is more lethal.
Mutatins are cool though...I would love to have tentacles, or acid spit or
something...stick on walls like a gecko, yeah. I'm a big fan of
post-apocalyptic novels and stories myself, James Axler's Deathlands series
is pretty good.
What would happen if a philosiphy evolved and manifested into our demise?
Like the platohedron or thought-is-time stuff? Hmm...monkeys. ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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dead-cell
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posted on 14/2/2003 at 02:43 PM |
| Hey why do the post-apocalyptic authors never tell the story from the
mutant side of things? Mutants saying something like "hey man we're just
trying to survive." Besides solar cataclysm, try galactic cataclysm. That's
right our little Milky Way in googolplex (yes its an actual number) years
will collide with another galaxy. Not only will worlds and stars collide,
but the two black holes will form one super massive black hole. However
knowing mankind (if we even exist then) will come up with an anti-gravity
machine, and obliterate the opposing black hole. ____________________
co-worker: "Your gay!?"
myself: "Didn't you see my rainbow pin?"
co-worker: "I just thought you liked skettles."
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Zander
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posted on 18/2/2003 at 11:01 AM |
I have always wanted to write a post apocolyptic vampire story.
If any one is aware of an already existing vampire story such as this
please tell me.
There has been a lot of meteor talk lately.
Scientists say that they wouldn't inform the public of a threat such as
this.
I hope I die listening to a Cocteau Twins song at a drunken orgy.
If this were the roman empire there would be no gay bashing.
And other random thought that have nothing to do with each other. ____________________
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bettie_x
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posted on 20/2/2003 at 02:39 AM |
actually our ingenuity has continuously decreased over the last couple
hundred years or so...our ability to problem solve, as it were. Why?
Because we no longer require those skills for the most basic functions of
life, and they are no longer life or death.
How to provide shelter.
How to provide ourselves with food.
How to provide ourselves protection from predators and other members of our
species.
Notice how there is nothing really...well...new. Improved, yes, GREATLY
improved, but new? Life changing? Civilization enhancing?
Our ingenuity and massive brain power is what allowed us to create a world
where life is easy, and in that same act, that easier life our genious
allowed us to LIVE in stripped us of that.
Early man, should he understand and comprehend an oncoming asteriod or
impending doom, would most likely grab some food and such and go as far
away or as far underground as possible and well...wait it out.
Modern man would freak...and then struggle for a way to fight the asteroid
or impending doom, control it, understand it....and promptly waste SO much
time that he'd be incinerated whilst fiddling with his calculator.
I side with "primitive" man. I am currently assessing my situation in the
world (ie: impending war/terrorism/natural disaster as I live right near a
fucking volcano that merely LOOKS like a treacherous ski resort...but is
quite active..I hear volcano sirens every so often echoing over the
foothills near my house, and that friends is creepy) and trying my best to
prepare. I am creating an emergency stockpile in a small concrete room
right behind my woodstove (of numerous things, but then again, Ive but just
begun *muahahah*) and when I can AFFORD another car payment on my budget
I'm buying a truck or a jeep.
Paranoid? YES! Very! And for good reason. And believe me kids, I
already know my doomsday emergency route that leads straight up into the
mountains (a mere 20 min drive) that will leave me and my husband and
whoever comes with us utterly isolated if it comes to that.
All my paranoia and resulting "preparations" just very likely may amount to
shit when the same said shit hits the fan for real. But I tell you,
knowing that I'll have a full storage and a plan of action (read:
caveman=grab your shit and git) makes me sleep better. ____________________
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Zander
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posted on 21/2/2003 at 03:06 PM |
The sheep that was cloned had aurtharitus and other problems common of
old age.
The cloned sheep died at a very young age which provides support to one of
my theories.
A creature is meant to take only so much time and space through out the
time-space continuem, therfore when a creature is cloned the life span of
both lives is greatly shortened.
A pill that keeps people healthy and young has been on the market for a
few years now and perhaps our use of this wonder drug which extends life is
accummulated into an attack on our country.
I believe America made a mistake attacking a millitary target which turned
out to be a civillian village. Thousands of innocent people died and if you
believe in karma than that's alott of death un-accounted for and just
hanging over our heads.
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Schizo
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posted on 22/2/2003 at 04:54 AM |
Do countries amass collective karma, or is karma only a matter for the
individual? I'd hate to think that some mistake by some big brass general
somewhere is going to dump a load of shitty karma on my poor innocent head!
No fair!
In reality, countries only exist on paper and in people's minds. Can a bit
of paperwork and a figment of our imaginations collect negative karma?
This is why I favor assasination of nasty world leaders over attacking
their countries. Why attack a bunch of people only associated with the bad
guys by geographical location and some documents they didn't even sign? I
say, get sanction from the United Nations, and send in the hitmen. Or just
send in the hitmen. Let's get some good Mission Impossible shit going here
- "If things go wrong, this conversation never happened..."
If we tore down all national boundaries and just became Earth, pure and
simple, would the karma earned by the stupid general who ordered the attack
(although, I suppose in that situation he would be a stupid policeman) fall
on the entire world?
If karma is earned by countries, does that mean that those who died in
9-11, however innocent themselves, were bearing the brunt of the bad karma
earned by certain other Americans who indulged in greed, vanity,
self-importance, and all the other sins deemed "typically American" that
makes other nations hate us?
Or was 9-11 not an act of karma, but the act of a certain group of very
nasty people that had nothing to do with fate or cosmic punishment or just
deserts or anything of the sort? Just one of those awful things that
happen because there are awful people in the world who like to do those
things?
Oh, and a thought about clones - did the original of the cloned sheep show
any ill side effects from producing a clone, or does it seem to be living a
normal sheepy life? If your theory is correct, its life ought to be
shortened by the length of the life of its clone. ____________________
"You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"
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dead-cell
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posted on 22/2/2003 at 10:23 AM |
| Its been done Zander. The end of the world vampire story. Its a book called
I Am Legend, good book and movie. As for the clones well its a Catch 22
thing. See telomeres at the end D.N.A. strands cause ageing. So when they
cloned dolly, the cell they used was old, or dolly's age (however you want
to put it). Thus the clone grew faster than normal. However if you were
cloned before birth that clone may have the same life span, give or take a
few variables. ____________________
co-worker: "Your gay!?"
myself: "Didn't you see my rainbow pin?"
co-worker: "I just thought you liked skettles."
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Zander
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posted on 22/2/2003 at 04:12 PM |
I don't know for sure but I believe that the sheep they extracted the
strands for the clone from got sick and died. I may be wrong about that but
I'll have to look it up to be sure. The major problem with cloning is
people would look at clones as human crops to extract organs from and send
to war. While some people might say we're saving lives we're actually
destroying a life for each life we're saving.
As for saddam I don't think destroying only him will help Iraq because
there will always be a re-placement tyrant. Let's consider what happened at
the end of the first gulf war.
America encouraged a Rebellion and factions of shee-ite and muslims rose
against saddam while America snuck out the back door and stood by to watch
the rebellions crumble. Senators argued that they let the rebellions get
slaghtered because they wanted a unified Iraq, does this mean they don't
care if Iraq is unified under a tyrant or not? Now all of the innocents of
Iraq hate America, when the space shuttle dissolved Iraq'ees cheered
promulgating that god was on their side.
Saddam tried to assasinate the leader of Iraq at age 21 by spraying his
car from all sides. Saddam was shot in the leg by his accomplice on the
other side of the car so he tried again a year later. Saddam took the
president and his family to a tv station and riddled their bodies with
ammo. After the assasination was completen saddam turned the cameras on and
held up the lifeless head of the president to let everyone know who was now
in control.
Saddam is a cold-hearted thug whos favorite movie is the godfather, he
likes to dance to Frank Sinatra too. I heard somwhere that there are three
saddams.
My point is... saddam knows that half of the world wants him dead and he's
not going to be easy to kill.
Saddam was told to disarm and he's not doing so, at the same time our
government is searching for a political rout to take trying to avoid war.
While we're trying to find a way not to fight saddam he's going to launch
missiles at us.
If you tell a child NO! and he does it any way, you have to punish him or
he'll think it's alright to keep going.
We need to stop sitting on our ass and attack saddam, and if we attack
innocent iraq'ees than we'v aligned ourself with him because that's what
saddam has been doing this whole time.
I have to go because I just heard a loud boom outside and my eye's are
burning out of their sockets, and my skin seems to be melting off and...
oops ____________________
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