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Re: More space news!

Re: More space news!

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities You lock the front door to show nobody's home. You leave the back door unlocked in case someone needs to get in.

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities There are good guys out there. There are also violent scumbags. Look at the domestic violence statistics. Far, far too many women (and for that matter Gay men) seem unable to tell the difference.

Re: Hulu: An evil plot to destroy the world, Enjoy. What do you mean, "Would" and "if?" It is.

Re: Jokes I think the only WV joke I've ever heard is how do you know the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?

Re: Alternate Sexualities in Champions and Supers settings Archie Andrews as Pureheart the Powerful? Being kissed by a girl would neutralize his powers briefly.

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Re: Infertile Half-Breeds? Thanks to my witness for his expert testimony, rep when I'm able, and Respondent rest.

Re: Infertile Half-Breeds? I could, and probably should, just say that I have never felt diminished by not standing at stud, but conceded I have known others who did, and agree to disagree. We all know that's not going to happen, right? Lots of points in your last post, probably will not have time to get to them right now, reserve the right to circle back. Which brings us back to free will vs. determinism. If the reproductive drive is that strong, once the parents start lusting after each other, offspring are the inevitable result, no matter the consequences, not their fault. Conceded. Withdrawn! It's called "being a parent." That's the job description, making big decisions on behalf of your children, biological or otherwise. People do it all the time, and the tragic/ironic/farcical aspect is that most of the time they do not realize that's what they are doing. I would rather put it "the child will probably find joy in their life, even purpose, and perhaps meaning, even thought they will never know the specific joy of having their own biological child." The alternative is to say life is nasty, brutish, and short, and the ONLY thing that makes it worthwhile is the chance to inflict that all-but-meaningless existence on another generation, which is also making a big decision on behalf of their children. What he said. More later, to the surprise of no one I'm sure.

Re: Infertile Half-Breeds? We evolved with a very strong drive to reproduce. It is an important part of life. It is not THE most important part of life. It is not more important than all other parts of life put together. If an infant had a birth defect or genetic abnormality so they could never reproduce, would you suggest euthanizing them so they didn't suffer the emotional pain of being sterile? If not, and I certainly hope not, why would it be evil for their parents to give them life, the ability to enjoy what they could of life, even if that does not include the possibility of procreation?

Re: Infertile Half-Breeds?

Re: Power Suits Remote Assault Drones What they said. Separate characters.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? Yep. Why I also oppose doing anything like dropping it into the Marianas Trench or for that matter melting it into a salt dome.

Re: More space news! Why does everyone say that?

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Small bag of holding, 25,000 gp Portible hole, 20,000 gp A 20 foot wide hole in the side of Orthanc, priceless!

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Re: More space news! Crew studies the science of deep space dining Big news here is NASA is getting serious about the "six people share an efficiency apartment they aren't allowed to leave" situation that I always thought would be the biggest problem on a crewed Mars mission. The Russians have been working on it for some time.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Yeah, I can think of at least three occasions when my D&D characters would have been willing to sacrifice the said magic items. Not to mention just the cool factor of aiming this at, let's say, the front door of Orthanc. "The wizard's indestructible tower now has a ten foot hemisphere missing from its foundation. Sucks to be your doorman."

Re: Jokes Budreaux (boo-dro) the Cajun has a wife, and one day she got her heart set on having some alligator shoes. Budreaux told her "Woman, we can't afford no alligator shoes!" But she got her heart set and she tell Budreaux "You gonna gets me them shoes, and I don't care how!" So as Budreaux drive to town he see this gator cross the road. Quick like a bunny he hop out of the car and he on that ole gator like a duck on a junebug. They wrassel, go round and round, gator almost make it to the bayou, but finally Budreaux got that gator pinned and takes a good look at him. "Don't that beat all! All that work for nothing! No shoes!"

Re: Space plane spends 15 months in orbit, mission still secret. There are two mutually exclusive needs at work here. Governments sometimes need to keep things secret. Democracy only works if the voters are informed, which means transparent government For too long Americans were willing to give the benefit of the doubt to their government when they said "we need to keep that secret." In my youth, it came out that the government had abused that privilege, kept a lot of secrets for far less noble purposes than national security. Thus some people now have the knee jerk reaction to question the need for all secrecy by the government.

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Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? Until it runs out of organic matter, or water, or we open the doors and let the vacuum in. Or if we do need to nuke it from orbit, no collateral damage.

Re: Space plane spends 15 months in orbit, mission still secret. Well, yeah, there is that.