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08 Feb 2011, 2:53 pm

I'd choose you. Well, why not? :lol:

Same question.


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08 Feb 2011, 3:00 pm

Same question.

I suppose I'd like to walk in the shoes of Tallyman for, he seems interesting..


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08 Feb 2011, 6:51 pm

I like non-linear senses of order. This relentless marching on isn't very exciting or surprising. It would be good to go sideways for a while and let me catch up.




Would you rather be made of molten metal than mushy, greasy, carbon deposits?



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08 Feb 2011, 7:35 pm

No, especially if you're referring to the human body as the "mushy greasy carbon deposits" which totally obfuscates actual design features of the human body in favor of some rhetorical imagery of people with poor hygiene.




If you were given a computer which can process information at a rate of a combined processor speed of a quadrillion Hertz and store over 250,000 GB of data, would you be thankful for the opportunity to have and use it?



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08 Feb 2011, 8:12 pm

I'm already linked into it.

Do you think mankind will burn itself out before managing to colonize another planet?


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08 Feb 2011, 8:24 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Do you think mankind will burn itself out before managing to colonize another planet?
A- I think mankind will burn out before they get a chance to colonize the moon :P.

Q- If you were given a really nice mansion with the perfect interior to your tastes, but the exterior looked like a circus tent... would you live in it and why?


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08 Feb 2011, 8:25 pm

That depends, in my opinion, how far the idiocy of mindless multiculturalism will continue to be observed as politically correct.




Do you think that there will be any likelihood of the possibility that there may be a chance, slim though it may be, that perhaps, although improbable, for a run on sentence to last multiple pages so that it looked like a paragraph and therefore be passed over by the inept faculties of those who grade college papers since they have too much to do and don't really read what you write anyhow, just so long as it passes through Microsoft's spelling and grammar review and otherwise is virtually unnoticeable to those who don't give a damn what their students write so long as they are paid at the end of each week?



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08 Feb 2011, 8:27 pm

Lace-Bane wrote:
Q- If you were given a really nice mansion with the perfect interior to your tastes, but the exterior looked like a circus tent... would you live in it and why?


I would live in it, perhaps sell some of the stuff in it and turn the exterior into a monolithic dome - similar to the dwellings of the spacers in Asimov's Caves Of Steel.



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08 Feb 2011, 8:41 pm

Had to find an example for the run-on sentence. :lol:
It's not over multiple pages but it would certainly be a contender in a race for that distinction.

These are the opening paragraphs from "Dickens in America" by, er, Charles Dickens.
He seems to warm up in the first paragraph, and really lets rip in the second.

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I shall never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a 'state room' on board the Britannia steam-packet, twelve hundred tons burden per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty's mails. That this state-room had been specifically engaged for 'Charles Dickens, Esquire, and Lady,' was rendered sufficiently clear even to my scared intellect by a very small manuscript, announcing the fact, which was pinned on a very flat quilt, covering a very thin mattress, spread like a surgical plaster on a most inaccessible shelf.
But that this was the state-room concerning which Charles Dickens, Esquire, and Lady, had held daily and nightly conferences for at least four months preceding: that this could by any possibility be that small snug chamber of the imagination, which Charles Dickens, Esquire, with the spirit of prophecy strong upon him, had always foretold would contain at least one little sofa, and which his lady, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in some odd corner out of sight (portmanteaus which could now no more be got in at the door, not to say stowed away, than a giraffe could be persuaded or forced into a flower-pot): that this utterly impracticable, thoroughly hopeless, and profoundly preposterous box, had the remotest reference to, or connection with, those chaste and pretty, not to say gorgeous little bowers, sketched by a masterly hand, in the highly varnished lithographic plan hanging up in the agent's counting-house in the city of London: that this room of state, in short, could be anything but a pleasant fiction and cheerful jest of the captain's, invented and put in practice for the better relish and enjoyment of the real state-room presently to be disclosed:- these were truths which I really could not, for the moment, bring my mind at all to bear upon or comprehend. And I sat down upon a kind of horsehair slab, or perch, of which there were two within; and looked, without any expression of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board with us, and who were crushing their faces into all manner of shapes by endeavouring to squeeze them through the small doorway.

Hmm. Standards seem to have changed considerably since his day... 8O


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09 Feb 2011, 1:20 am

English is for the masses. I would do away with all punctuation and replace them with emotes.


If you could download the contents of your brain into a futuristic computer and keep on living after your body has run its course, would you? Could you live happily as a thinking being without the benefits of everything we use the body for?



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09 Feb 2011, 1:41 am

No.



If you could have the right genomic sequences activated for the continued production of telomerase, allowing the cells of your body to reproduce and repair themselves indefinitely and allowing you to live on in your own body for the same length of time as such a computer aforementioned, would you?



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09 Feb 2011, 1:54 am

I don't know if I would. I don't think the Human brain can handle centuries of memory. It would be kind of interesting to live forever but I can imagine all kinds of issues arising relating to memory or constant feelings of deja-vu, or some other kind of depression from outliving everybody you know, assuming they haven't gotten this treatment. And then there is also the other side of that last thing I mentioned, the people you dislike probably will live forever too. The world would never change, just the same old crap over and over again. Younger generations will hyper resent the super centenarians for not allowing them to assume leadership in their prime (imagine being 105 and having your 503 year old dad still treating you like a child- also, your mom is only 138, so everybody calls her a gold digger) 8O lol

Do you think there is biology on Europa, Enceladus or any of the moons suspected of having sub-surface oceans?


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09 Feb 2011, 2:39 am

No, I think there may be complex chemistry but no impetus for it to form.



Would a long lived alien, where his seconds were centuries to you and me, recognize us living beings or dismiss us as some complex series of reactions innate in water chemistry, particularly if the alien could repeat it in the lab?



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09 Feb 2011, 2:54 pm

Would a long lived alien, where his seconds were centuries to you and me, recognize us living beings or dismiss us as some complex series of reactions innate in water chemistry, particularly if the alien could repeat it in the lab? Good question, as I really don't know an exact answer to this but, probably would not have any recognition...


Do you feel history repeat though not in the exact manner, i.e place,person,events?



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09 Feb 2011, 6:16 pm

I think there are a limited number of possibilities that the human mind is capable of entertaining. In the end, people end up doing the same things over and over again.


If everyone started speaking in soliloquies like a Shakespeare play would you want to punch them or give them a hug?



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09 Feb 2011, 6:24 pm

Well, since it wouldn't really work at a supermarket checkout I'd probably feel like punching them there. Can you imagine being served by Richard III? 8O
Otherwise they'd (possibly) be hugged. Shakespeare wrote some beautiful things.

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