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Post by SSJRuss on Oct 11, 2014 0:28:45 GMT
So here is a random thought...would the community here use Mumble if we had one? I've been using one off and on with my RP guild on SWTOR and I quite enjoy it's layout. It's also can be a much funner way to communicate with each other than just text.
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Post by Ruinus on Oct 11, 2014 8:31:17 GMT
If people want Photoshop to be illegal for models, shouldn't makeup be illegal for women?
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Post by DamagingRob on Oct 12, 2014 13:50:37 GMT
No? Not quite the same thing, in my opinion. Makeup wouldn't make me look like Brad Pitt, for instance(had to Google Mr. & Mrs. Smith, since that name just didn't want to pop into my head...).
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Post by g4hardcore on Oct 14, 2014 0:49:32 GMT
No? Not quite the same thing, in my opinion. Makeup wouldn't make me look like Brad Pitt, for instance(had to Google Mr. & Mrs. Smith, since that name just didn't want to pop into my head...). Make up turns people into Brad Pitt! |
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Post by DamagingRob on Oct 14, 2014 11:31:04 GMT
 Also, made a meme, about one of my cats:  |
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Post by g4hardcore on Oct 15, 2014 2:10:07 GMT
I was just thinking. If we're sending people to Mars to begin colonization there, wouldn't it be the best if we terraformed it first? I mean, stations are cool, but home is where it's at! Because changing the atmosphere on Mars to have oxygen (and just this, not counting for how you'd give Mars a magnetic fields to defend against asteroids and block deadly radiation or heat it up to levels capable of sustaining Earth plant and animal life) would take forty thousand years. Or, if we wanted to terraform Mars in the coolest way possible we could slam asteroids into it! Except we'd have to get 10 billion ton asteroids strapped with nuclear engines that would move the asteroid for 10 years towards Mars and slam it into it to melt away all the ice and ammonia to make water and greenhouse effects on Mars. If we had "several" of these missions over 50 years, we could expect to terraform Mars in 50 years... except that all the asteroids we dropped and all the dust in the atmosphere would make Mars uninhabitable (but terraformed!) for "centuries". I honestly think 40,000 years is a massive overstatement. The link you provided brings up a plethora of good points, however they are not taking into account the fact that our technological advances are developing rapidly. We constantly update what we have in an endlessly accelerating cycle, constantly growing like the entropy of the universe itself.
Now, perhaps terraforming Mars is a human lifetime away. (I'll point out now that a human lifetime, once consisting of about 50 years more or less, has changed. It's been projected that the human who will live to be 150 has already been born, multiplying our lifespans by a factor of three in a few mere centuries) Perhaps it is ten lifetimes away. If, by the end of my life, scientists cannot hypothetically cut that 40,000 year estimate by an appreciable time frame, well, I'll eat my hat. The road blocks of today become the ramps from which we launch ourselves and fly tomorrow.
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Post by treacherous1 on Oct 15, 2014 3:17:02 GMT
Shouldn't models be illegal for regular people?
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Post by SSJRuss on Oct 15, 2014 15:28:40 GMT
Shouldn't models be illegal for regular people? #Yes |
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Post by Ruinus on Oct 16, 2014 1:43:10 GMT
I honestly think 40,000 years is a massive overstatement. The link you provided brings up a plethora of good points, however they are not taking into account the fact that our technological advances are developing rapidly. We constantly update what we have in an endlessly accelerating cycle, constantly growing like the entropy of the universe itself. Now, perhaps terraforming Mars is a human lifetime away. (I'll point out now that a human lifetime, once consisting of about 50 years more or less, has changed. It's been projected that the human who will live to be 150 has already been born, multiplying our lifespans by a factor of three in a few mere centuries) Perhaps it is ten lifetimes away. If, by the end of my life, scientists cannot hypothetically cut that 40,000 year estimate by an appreciable time frame, well, I'll eat my hat. The road blocks of today become the ramps from which we launch ourselves and fly tomorrow. Yes, technology marches forward and blah blah blah, I agree. But your initial question was why don't we terraform Mars before sending people there. While this is possible, if we sent von Neumann machines to Mars to do all the work while we sit back here, it's unlikely that NASA is looking at Mars and planning the terraforming before "How do we land people there?". |
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Post by Ruinus on Oct 16, 2014 1:46:43 GMT
No? Not quite the same thing, in my opinion. Makeup wouldn't make me look like Brad Pitt, for instance(had to Google Mr. & Mrs. Smith, since that name just didn't want to pop into my head...). People say that Photoshopping models is false advertising because it gets rid of age lines, blemishes, etc etc. Yet that's exactly what makeup does with people.  |
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Post by g4hardcore on Oct 16, 2014 1:52:11 GMT
I honestly think 40,000 years is a massive overstatement. The link you provided brings up a plethora of good points, however they are not taking into account the fact that our technological advances are developing rapidly. We constantly update what we have in an endlessly accelerating cycle, constantly growing like the entropy of the universe itself. Now, perhaps terraforming Mars is a human lifetime away. (I'll point out now that a human lifetime, once consisting of about 50 years more or less, has changed. It's been projected that the human who will live to be 150 has already been born, multiplying our lifespans by a factor of three in a few mere centuries) Perhaps it is ten lifetimes away. If, by the end of my life, scientists cannot hypothetically cut that 40,000 year estimate by an appreciable time frame, well, I'll eat my hat. The road blocks of today become the ramps from which we launch ourselves and fly tomorrow. Yes, technology marches forward and blah blah blah, I agree. But your initial question was why don't we terraform Mars before sending people there. While this is possible, if we sent von Neumann machines to Mars to do all the work while we sit back here, it's unlikely that NASA is looking at Mars and planning the terraforming before "How do we land people there?". I see what you're saying, and I agree. Even if we minimized that time to, say a single lifetime, (being extreme) I can't see every human alive now willing to pass all the glory to the next generation when we don't have to terraform the planet simply to live there. Human nature; the lock and the key. |
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Post by DamagingRob on Oct 16, 2014 1:55:01 GMT
Ruinus: So, that's photoshopped? I'd be pretty amazed, if she can change it that much, with just makeup.. But while making it illegal, sounds kind of silly, the point I wanted to make, was that with makeup, they actually have the potential to look like that. To me, it's not "fake." But with photoshop, it very well could be, since there may be nothing they can do, to make themselves actually look like the image that was photoshopped.
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Post by Nova Prime X on Oct 16, 2014 2:19:25 GMT
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Post by g4hardcore on Oct 16, 2014 10:45:30 GMT
The only difference is eye shadow, and she's animated. Flawless skin from the beginning.
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Post by DamagingRob on Mar 26, 2015 23:46:42 GMT
Drama in Bufu, Illinois.. Had some new neighbors buy the house next to us, recently. 3 guys in their twenties, from what I've been told(why are 3 guys in their 20s living together? Don't ask me). Today, they shot a squirrel in our yard. My parents feed these things, so of course, they had a fit. And proceeded to start shit, by calling the cops. So if I disappear at some point, I was killed in my sleep.  Idiots hid like pussies when the cop came, though. But they left their windows open, with the evidence in plain view. So he took pictures of the BB guns. Lol. |
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