Cancer Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And probably they wouldn't need to worry much about goats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You kiddin'?! The whole country's crawling with 'em!, I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK, for a while it was shoot 'em and eat 'em on sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, no! Goat BBQ! Raw goat tastes like sheep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK, shoot, cook, and eat on sight. That assumes you have a cook fire, but usually you can get one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Or a gas-powered BBQ grill. One of those monstrous ones that require a semi to move about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I thought the usual practice for making those was to find a neighborhood inhabited by the ethnic persuasion you don't like and set it on fire.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This is Sweden -- we don't have ethnicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER * Cancer whistles the Swedish Chef song * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... He has a song? Apart from "Hourdy hourdy muck muck!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This is Sweden -- we don't have ethnicity. There is no strife between the platinum blonds and the golden blonds, while the strawberry blonds wait in the wings waiting for the day they'll be embraced? American media has lied to me again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You surprised? Thought not. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The question is: did they intentionally feed us an untruth, or did they just make up (or heard from someone who made it up) something they thought sounded good and didn't bother checking facts? Coin toss, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The question is: did they intentionally feed us an untruth, or did they just make up (or heard from someone who made it up) something they thought sounded good and didn't bother checking facts? Coin toss, I think. I usually try to stick with "Never assign to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity". Though I'll certainly admit that I don't always succeed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Ah, well, as long as you tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And, of course, it could always be both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Stupid maliciousness or malicious stupidity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Malicious while stupid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Stupidly malicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Something like that, but involving the word "delicious", was once an advertising tag for some product. A candy bar, I think, but I can't dredge it out now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Advertising, huh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Something like that' date=' but involving the word "delicious", was once an advertising tag for some product. A candy bar, I think, but I can't dredge it out now.[/quote'] "Magically delicious", the (at least one time) advertising slogan for Lucky Charms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Bingo. Amazing how much one's memory fills with such drivel, even for products I never liked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER There is no strife between the platinum blonds and the golden blonds, while the strawberry blonds wait in the wings waiting for the day they'll be embraced? American media has lied to me again! If any Strawberry Blonde Lady would like to be embraced, I'll do it for free! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Went to an interesting talk last night. Lots of ideas about the origin of life. Hydrothermal vents on the sea floor (the Lost City kind, not the "black smoker" kind) and the FeS deposits that precipitate out and build up around them are the key site. The deposits have lots of small voids that can contain any organic molecules that form there, and the FeS itself has very interesting catalytic properties for making organics from inorganic carbon (CO2). The pH imbalance between the sub-surface water still in the crustal rock (alkaline) and the oceanic water above (neutral or slightly acidic in the Hadean era) is also important. That environment is NOT dependent upon sunlight: since the heat is geological (therefore, gravitational) and the chemistry doesn't involve light in any way, this sort of site could be possible on the floor of any liquid water ocean. If this is right, then the Drake Equation's fℓ could be as large as some of what I've regarded of ridiculously optimistic values. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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