Randomness thread, part two.

[bigspenda73]

any time through out history or into the future, also, let's say you're 25years old the entire time

[boost]

can your 70 years be cut short?

[bigspenda73]

too many variables I guess, just pick a 70year stretch where you would have liked to seen 1st hand what the fuck went on

[Lukie]

probably extinct :-\

Unfortunately, I think it's a distinct possibility, although I wouldn't say it's a forgone conclusion or even likely. It would take something very large (astroid impact, massive nuclear war) or very small (runaway nanotechnology, genetically engineered super-virus) to do it. And if it does happen, I bet it will be the latter.

Of course that's all in the context of 2009. In the future (and probably much faster than people realize, do to the exponential increases in computing power over the last many decades), there will be technologies that are unthinkable now. For example, a weapon that makes current nuclear weapons look like a firecracker in comparison.

[Lukie]

Has anyone read Physics of the Impossible?

[Warpe]

if you could live for exactly 70 years (consecutive) throughout earth's existence, what 70 years would you pick?

The next 70.

[UG]

holy shit you guys are like my goddamned kids at school

I ask a question of the day every day to start class. It gives them something to do while I'm taking roll, but they enjoy it because we have fun with it. My kids sometimes kill me, though, with the "what if this" "what if that" nonsense you see up there. JUST ANSWER THE GODDAMN QUESTION YOU LITTLE BASTARDS! lol


to answer the question, Spenda, I don't know which 70 years I'd want to live during, but I know it'd be in the past. I'd want to be around for some of history's biggest moments, just traveling the globe and watching stuff....I'm not sure if I'd fuck with anything and change history, but it'd be neat to be able to see the things I teach on a daily basis firsthand.

[a500lbgorilla]

I'd rather see some of history's biggest moments of the future

[Galapogos]

if you could live for exactly 70 years (consecutive) throughout earth's existence, what 70 years would you pick?

JUST ANSWER THE GODDAMN QUESTION YOU LITTLE BASTARDS! lol

Spenda, I don't know which 70 years I'd want to live during

[UG]

haha, well played sir!

[wufwugy]

Without thinking too much about it, I'd want to be in some Native American tribe about 70 years before the white man showed up

Something like Apocalypto, just not during a time or in a place of that kind of oppression. Living a simple life, in a simple tribe, with a simple family, and simple pleasures has got to be better than anything anybody could ask for

[DiscinFrog]

isnt the world supposed end dec 31st 2012?

i think it wont last that long if we keep screwing up our enviroment

[wufwugy]

As for what life is going to be like in the year 4000

If humans aren't extinct it will be because AI didn't ever feel like acquiring our resources at the cost of our lives. Nobody can even come close to predicting the characteristics of AI, however. Humans will be cyborgs though. Perhaps not all humans. It's entirely possible that there will still be a huge enough gap between rich and poor.

There will be no galactic travel. Physics just don't allow it; time, space, energy, etc constraints. At the very least there will be some habitation on the Moon and Mars, and probably some attempts to terraform that went awry. Terraforming is theoretically possible, but economically ridiculous, and I think it's a several thousand year process. Instead of terraforming, space life would involve elaborate ship-biospheres. This is also economically ridiculous, but is what would happen if Earth was no longer a viable place to live. Colonizing other planets isn't much of an option because finding the perfect one and getting there would be silly when we could just live in a biosphere, not to mention that a planet good enough for humans will also have its own indigenous life which we would have to largely destroy if we were to take up residence

We will likely have discovered many strains of life in our solar system, but the xtians will ignore it like they ignore everything

Science will be pretty much figured out. There are always things we won't figure out, but the more nuanced those things are, the more impractical to our lives they become. We may not know what's outside of the Universe, but that won't change any of our practical tech. The entire human body will likely be understood. We will be somewhat ageless, disease-free, and super smart simply by manipulating genes and hybridization with machines.

Hopefully sometime before then they'll have good enough sex-bots so I don't have to put up with dumb bitches playing their dumb games thinking they're doing anybody a favor


Or everything will be for naught due to global warming. Logistically speaking, we are going to contact catastrophe; we just don't know exactly how bad it's going to be. I personally think that if we're unable to develop extremely powerful tech to actively suck GHG from the atmosphere and oceans, we will eventually reduce in population size by >80%, but possibly even >99%. People don't realize that Venus is the way it is due to climate and geography, it was once similar to Earth, and it's not impossible for Earth to go in a similar direction. In Earth's history, it's been both a snowball and a ball of noxious gas, and I think that we're going to find that the logistics of suddenly releasing GHG that has been gradually stored over hundreds of millions of years is going to create another one of those extremes if we're not able to turn it around via artificial sequestration

[boost]

you worry me sometimes wuf.. like in a "oh man, hes gonna find himself a nice perch in a clocktower one of these days.."

[Warpe]

his manifesto will be 1,000+ pages

[spoonitnow]

Here's a before and after on a girl that just really made me legitimately sincerely sad last night. Before: http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_i...957288386.jpeg and after: http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_i...093896496.jpeg

[Chelle]

god thats horrible.

[swiggidy]

god thats horrible.

Yeah, gingers are scary.

[Chelle]

thats not what your mother told me last night

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.gorillamask.net/gm_media....&page_id=27564

[Warpe]

http://www.thefuntheory.com/

[JKDS]

thats pretty crazy rilla

[wufwugy]

the fun theory is one of the coolest things ive ever seen

[a500lbgorilla]

The fun theory is brilliant.

[givememyleg]

wow fun theory is awesome.

[kiwiMark]

'Cause I can't sleep I just invented a new game, called Holding My Drink Bottle Above My Mouth So The Water Drips into My Mouth Then Moving my Drink Bottle Progressively Higher and Higher So It Becomes Harder To Still Accurately Drip.

My face and pillow are quite covered in water.

[UG]

STONE COLD SAYS YOU DID NOT INVENT THAT GAME



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[boost]

hahahha..

the image didnt work george, but it was still hilarious.

[Chelle]

fuuuuuuuuuckkking christ!

[wesrman]

STONE COLD SAYS YOU DID NOT INVENT THAT GAME



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Neither did Austin. He was in ECW for a short time as Stunning Steve Austin, and stole his character from the Sandman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etF5Y...eature=related

[a500lbgorilla]

http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob

Best man secretly equips newlywed's bed to report to twitter when the couple is doing it.

[givememyleg]

haha that's incredible!

[givememyleg]

Why is joining the army, marines, etc, treated as the most honorable thing you can possibly do? It confuses the hell out of me when people default to "thanks for serving our country!" or "I'm proud of you!" A kid I know posted a pic of himself on fb in Iraq and it was flooded with these phrases.

Also I wonder what percentage of people join to "serve our country" compared to "free college". Probably something like 5 - 95, but I'm just making a guess.

[Warpe]

Christmas Light Hero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjbMIZzAgs

How he did it:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200...ight_hero.html

[wufwugy]

Why is joining the army, marines, etc, treated as the most honorable thing you can possibly do? It confuses the hell out of me when people default to "thanks for serving our country!" or "I'm proud of you!" A kid I know posted a pic of himself on fb in Iraq and it was flooded with these phrases.

Also I wonder what percentage of people join to "serve our country" compared to "free college". Probably something like 5 - 95, but I'm just making a guess.

According to the definition of propaganda, one of the factors in influencing a populous to do what you want is instilling unnecessary patriotism. The political right wing has been doing this at their best for quite some time

[a500lbgorilla]

Why is joining the army, marines, etc, treated as the most honorable thing you can possibly do? It confuses the hell out of me when people default to "thanks for serving our country!" or "I'm proud of you!" A kid I know posted a pic of himself on fb in Iraq and it was flooded with these phrases.

Also I wonder what percentage of people join to "serve our country" compared to "free college". Probably something like 5 - 95, but I'm just making a guess.

According to the definition of propaganda, one of the factors in influencing a populous to do what you want is instilling unnecessary patriotism. The political right wing has been doing this at their best for quite some time

You can love it or leave it, hippies!

[bigspenda73]

GMML Theorem #2 - If it's funny and found on FTR, it will inevitably be seen on Carl's facebook page.

[givememyleg]

GMML Theorem #2 - If it's funny and found on FTR, it will inevitably be seen on Carl's facebook page.

cmon it's a black kids desk, that's ultra funny!

[givememyleg]

also i believe i missed the first theorem, what is gmml #1?

[Ash256]

Man, I love revising old classics: http://spectrumzero.com/dj_trainwrec...eck_story.html

[kiwiMark]

You all don't get my randomness because I'm too retarded to figure out how to use these crazy phpbb tags to post an image that's resized and so doesn't take up like fifty times my screen.

[bigspenda73]

GMML Theorem #2 - If it's funny and found on FTR, it will inevitably be seen on Carl's facebook page.

cmon it's a black kids desk, that's ultra funny!

actually I might change this to Will641 theorem, he steals more shit from here than you do

[Xianti]

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=210475787749

[a500lbgorilla]

[BooG690]

Is it just me or are Asian languages the most annoying languages in the world? They're so goddamn whiney.

[wufwugy]

honestly, i think japanese is the coolest language on the planet

just go through a list of famous japanese people, pronounce the names correctly, and you'll see why

toshiro mifune
megumi fujii
makoto nagano
kazushi sakuraba

way more awesome than shit like

will smith
george clooney
bill clinton

[wufwugy]

Thanks, I'm gonna hafta use this

[givememyleg]

that pic is epic

[boost]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWlhO...ayer_embedded#

wtf..

[dsmrolla06]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWlhOYGXAuw&feature=player_embedded#

wtf..

Good luck getting your hands on one if youre not a business customer. Im so sick of att's service. damn you iphone...

[givememyleg]

the quality of the projector on the wall was horrible

also, someone gets "poked" on facebook and sues - http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...+by+grand+jury

[Warpe]

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/im...m?imageId=3777

[a500lbgorilla]

Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/17...causes-ma.html

[a500lbgorilla]

Learn to love all over again.

http://www.mykarmasutrabuddy.com/

[BankItDrew]

Learn to love all over again.

http://www.mykarmasutrabuddy.com/

LMFAO

SNAP COPY PASTE FACKEBOOKING

[Chelle]

HOLY CRAP ITS SUPPOSED TO SNOW UP TO 12 INCHES!!!

[UG]

Winter Break is here, wooooooooot!

[UG]

over/under on how many hands of poker I will play over break?

16 days

gogogo me!

[BankItDrew]

omfg i cant stop watching the midget male do the bent spoon to the fatty chick

[Lukie]

the quality of the projector on the wall was horrible

also, someone gets "poked" on facebook and sues - http://www.tennessean.com/article/20...+by+grand+jury

I don't see anything about a lawsuit in the link, only a restraining order. Depending on the specific circumstances, it could actually be pretty reasonable.

[a500lbgorilla]

omfg i cant stop watching the midget male do the bent spoon to the fatty chick

Fat dude failing at sex has to be a great motivator for weight-loss.

[a500lbgorilla]

lol I actually played some poker instead of going out. That was a mistake.

[Chelle]

I made sugar cookies, yay!

[BennyLaRue]

I made sugar cookies, yay!

Consider cinnamon sugar cookies. It takes things to another level.

[boost]

I made sugar cookies, yay!

Consider cinnamon sugar cookies. It takes things to another level.

yes, a lower, less tasty level.

[Chelle]

I made sugar cookies, yay!

Consider cinnamon sugar cookies. It takes things to another level.

yes, a lower, less tasty level.

i'll have to agree with boost on this.

[flomo]

snickerdoodles are good.

[boost]

snickerdoodles are good.

ya, but sugar cookies have awesome simplicity. Also a snickerdoodle is a far different cookie from a sugar cookie with cinnamon added. Snickerdoodles are actually more like a mini cake.

[wufwugy]

i made boost a cinnamon cookie but i eated it

[givememyleg]

i baked home made cinnamon rolls today, they were pretty bad ass

[UG]

it's awesome to have great friends, I can only hope that my impact on them is somewhat close to the impact that they have on me

no poker tonight (had a few beers, not going down that road again), but I have fifteen days left to play............maybe.

[bigred]

awesome desk spaces

http://lifehacker.com/5428746/most-p...spaces-of-2009

[swiggidy]

This is fun
http://www.mykarmasutrabuddy.com/vid/?vid=SLARMC

[givememyleg]

i hope no one on ftr starts a thread about brittany murphy

/who cares

[givememyleg]

This is fun
http://www.mykarmasutrabuddy.com/vid/?vid=SLARMC

dun work 4 me