[QUOTE=Sad But True;17541228]I'll come back as a dung beetle, when I get up there and God just looks at me and goes "ha" and I'm all like "well, s[size=2]h[/size]it".[/QUOTE]

you think that's bad? I'm coming back as a little tiny shrimp that lives a mile and a half under the ocean and feeds on dead matter that floats down to the bottom. My life sucks. I basically scuttle around looking for food and I am constantly hungry because there isn't enough of it, and I'm so stupid that I go for any little thing that floats around, even if it's a monk fish or an angler fish or something trying to lure me in... so then I get eaten, which sucks, and reincarnated as a plankton. Bummer.

As for god, well I'll say this. One day, mankind will invent computers that are so fast that they can solve any problem and create any solution... we'll share our thoughts, emotions and feelings digitally. Eventually, we'll leave our physical bodies behind, and all join as one entity that consists of the combined knowledge and thought of every person, existing within a massive diamond computer. This solar powered computer will use the power of the tiny start that sits burning at the center of the earth in order to turn the entire planet into information, transforming all matter to zeroes and ones inside a massive diamond, until earth is just a floating computer made of diamond orbiting around the sun.

We'll send diamond shards to every planet in our solar system and every asteroid, and eventually, the powerful digital entities that exist within these crystals will spread mankind to the far reaches of the galaxy. Through faster than light speed travel and communications, we'll scour the entire universe and discover all information that has ever existed throughout all time in all space and with this understanding, we will become all-powerful, until all light in the universe begins to burn out and all matter begins to decay... and we will create the universe anew, marking ourselves officially as a god, and we shall be worshiped for all eternity

[QUOTE=Modern Iconoclast;17541287]Pretty much everything in that book is a good point. I don't see why people think he treats people like idiots, is smug, or whatever. I think the humor he uses in the book is funny most of the time. Once you've educated yourself enough and realize how illogical the idea of religion is it's hard not to look at religious people and think "are they really that retarded?". I can't even listen to a non-hardcore Christian talk about that stuff without snickering at least once anymore. Dawkins even talks about theories that are different than what he believes in that book and he doesn't say "lol that theory is retarded", he just describes them respectfully because they're logically sound for the most part.[/QUOTE]

There are a lot of points in there that were basically really nicely worded versions of what I already knew and felt, then there's the re-iterating points from before in slightly varying contexts. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it but sometimes his overwhelming sense of smug self-righteousness reminded me of fundamental theists, but he 'distances' himself from them by making an almost mocking 'but I can't disprove their theories so whatever'.

[QUOTE=GorgeousGabe;17541296]you think that's bad? I'm coming back as a little tiny shrimp that lives a mile and a half under the ocean and feeds on dead matter that floats down to the bottom. My life sucks. I basically scuttle around looking for food and I am constantly hungry because there isn't enough of it, and I'm so stupid that I go for any little thing that floats around, even if it's a monk fish or an angler fish or something trying to lure me in... so then I get eaten, which sucks, and reincarnated as a plankton. Bummer.

As for god, well I'll say this. One day, mankind will invent computers that are so fast that they can solve any problem and create any solution... we'll share our thoughts, emotions and feelings digitally. Eventually, we'll leave our physical bodies behind, and all join as one entity that consists of the combined knowledge and thought of every person, existing within a massive diamond computer. This solar powered computer will use the power of the tiny start that sits burning at the center of the earth in order to turn the entire planet into information, transforming all matter to zeroes and ones inside a massive diamond, until earth is just a floating computer made of diamond orbiting around the sun.

We'll send diamond shards to every planet in our solar system and every asteroid, and eventually, the powerful digital entities that exist within these crystals will spread mankind to the far reaches of the galaxy. Through faster than light speed travel and communications, we'll scour the entire universe and discover all information that has ever existed throughout all time in all space and with this understanding, we will become all-powerful, until all light in the universe begins to burn out and all matter begins to decay... and we will create the universe anew, marking ourselves officially as a god, and we shall be worshiped for all eternity[/QUOTE]
I was going to mock you for massive the misunderstandings that starts out with but to be honest I kind of enjoyed the imagery I created to go with it so I'll let you off.

[QUOTE=GorgeousGabe;17541296]you think that's bad? I'm coming back as a little tiny shrimp that lives a mile and a half under the ocean and feeds on dead matter that floats down to the bottom. My life sucks. I basically scuttle around looking for food and I am constantly hungry because there isn't enough of it, and I'm so stupid that I go for any little thing that floats around, even if it's a monk fish or an angler fish or something trying to lure me in... so then I get eaten, which sucks, and reincarnated as a plankton. Bummer.

As for god, well I'll say this. One day, mankind will invent computers that are so fast that they can solve any problem and create any solution... we'll share our thoughts, emotions and feelings digitally. Eventually, we'll leave our physical bodies behind, and all join as one entity that consists of the combined knowledge and thought of every person, existing within a massive diamond computer. This solar powered computer will use the power of the tiny start that sits burning at the center of the earth in order to turn the entire planet into information, transforming all matter to zeroes and ones inside a massive diamond, until earth is just a floating computer made of diamond orbiting around the sun.

We'll send diamond shards to every planet in our solar system and every asteroid, and eventually, the powerful digital entities that exist within these crystals will spread mankind to the far reaches of the galaxy. Through faster than light speed travel and communications, we'll scour the entire universe and discover all information that has ever existed throughout all time in all space and with this understanding, we will become all-powerful, until all light in the universe begins to burn out and all matter begins to decay... and we will create the universe anew, marking ourselves officially as a god, and we shall be worshiped for all eternity[/QUOTE]

do you fap to transhumanism or something

Yeah. That's how I see it. It's the jet engines pushing the plane foward. The wheels just spin. So in relation to the air that the engines are pushing, the plane will get foward momemtum and will take off.

But I wonder how fast the wheels are able to spin in relation to the backwards moving ground before friction makes them blow out?

Addendum: It's an F-35, LOL!

No, I fap to tentacle porn, but... close enough, I guess.

Come on, one day the earth is going to be destroyed for some intergalactic highway anyways.

[QUOTE=Sad But True;17541281]
A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). Can the plane take off?

I got it wrong at first but after some reading and ignoring common intuition it's quite simple.[/QUOTE]

If the conveyor is long enough. Otherwise the plane might go out of control and crash when it reaches the end of it.

I thought they tried that on mythbusters

I don't know if it was on Mythbusters, but I know I've seen it tested on a small scale before. It is entirely possible that it was on Mythbusters.

lol
of course the plane takes off
the wheels just spin faster,

its tough to believe that that is even a myth

in the future, ALL planes take off from conveyor belts

whats with all the tl;dr a few posts back

mostly crap max, mostly crap

yeah I would just read mine if I were me

or... if [i]you[/i] were me

if I were you, I would be kissing dudes in the name of rock&roll

are you saying you [i]wouldn't[/i] kiss me in the name of rock & roll?

sorry Gabe, maybe buttsex, but a kiss is just too romantic

it's not when I punch you in the mouth first

Oh jesus stop that I'm gonna....wait no too late. Great, now I have to shower and change.

I hate it when you feel comfortable going into a test. I mean seriously, my teacher gave us a list of about 30 things (some containing more than one thing -- usually definitions) and I can pretty much go over it and give you almost everything he wants. Not to mention the test is a mixture of short answer, math, T/F, fill in the blank, and multiple guess questions.


I just feel like I'm going to blank on something really simple stupid. Like what NIOSH or DHHS means.

i know what you mean, i'm always paranoid about tests even when i'm prepared.

in other news, i skipped my cost accounting class this morning cos i stayed up until 2am watching the new tranformers movie (better than i thought it would be). all he did in that class today was hand back our tests from last time, so i figured i'd just swing by his office and pick it up later. but apparently the class was pretty split, 1/3 got A's and B's, and 2/3 got D's and F's so now i'm really paranoid and want my test now.

So the test pretty much turned out to be 90% multiple guess. I *think* I got all the multiple guess right, came down to 5 fill in the blanks which I didn't know. So I reckon I got like a B on the thing. I really would have loved an A, but meh. There were only 40 questions, and he didn't really lay out the format of what each was worth. Some of them had "2 pts" next to them and some of them didn't. More so the ones he told us "this will be on your test, know it" were worth 2 pts.

I *think* I got one of them right, then the other four I'm pretty sure are wrong. Well, one of them is half right. It was a two word title, and I couldn't remember the first but I got the second right. I doubt that will count though. =/

Now I'm finishing up the 4th season DVDs of How I Met Your Mother, going to find food, and pass out. Enjoy my Fall Break by doing the three hws I have due next monday, the one I have due next Wednesday, studying for my test next Monday, and possibly working on either of the two projects I have currently to work on.


P.S. - "Fall Break" = Thursday and Friday of the week before mid-terms week off, "to study for midterms." Though I have no mid-terms, even the test I have on Monday was originally scheduled for last Friday, but we were just too far behind to have it then.

good to hear your test wasn't hard haha.

i got my cost test back, 92% A, yay.

next week is gonna suck. well, this week and the begining of next week, really. monday i have a presentation in my commercial law class that has to be like an hour long presenting a chapter in the book with my roommate (who is a major slacker, but the king of winging things in legal classes so this could go either way). and tuesday i have two essays due in my seminar class. seriously, fu[size=2]c[/size]k seminar class, who's great fu[size=2]c[/size]king idea was it to require all seniors to take some bullsh[size=2]i[/size]t ethics english class. i'm a business major so i dont have to write essays, goddamn.

so I've been missing my ex a lot. tried with a couple of other girls since, but nobody I've met has 'done it' for me since her. she's been talking to me a lot. I think I'm gonna try to get a proper job and buy her a really nice guitar

Switched from Axe body wash/deodorant to Gillette body wash/deodorant... still getting use to it. Gillette seems to last a little while longer than Axe on the whole scent thing, but then again Axe only lasted like an hour. Gillette I'm thinking 3 hours tops before it is pretty much gone.


Now I'm trying to find the motivation to do one of four things while enjoying my Fall Break:
1. Home work
2. Go to Barnes and Noble. Been itching for a magazine or new book.
3. Clean the apartment
4. Go buy food/drinks

now it is official, the lod is LFD's livejournal =/

To be blunt, I never read his posts. I tried at first, I really did, but they're all about boring s[size=2]h[/size]it like his body spray or his math class in the morning or whatever.

In other news, this is entertaining me for a very long time:

[url]http://www.lamebook.com[/url]

My guitar player took acid without me yesterday. I stayed in and made some important phone calls and spent a couple hours recording a short song, just acoustic guitar and my voice. there are some things I gotta re-do- I might put it up here

he talks to me that night and he's like, "DUDE! we have to do all these crazy things next week that I saw in my head! we HAVE TO! DUDE!"

LOL YEAH GABE!


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