Randomness, The Sequel

[Mad78]

Those are brilliant results Kryt!!!

[Eagle]

For all Vista Users:

Servicepack 3 makes WinXP faster than Vista

[Mad78]

Now thats what i call good news!!!

[Krytos]

Thanks all

Now for something interesting - like sliding rocks

 

p.s. Def: I've been working on your ship every now and again - I think I'm going to restart it from scratch though, the way I've done it just screws up too much when smoothed.

[Lord_La_forge]

My poor little country!

It doesn't even exist!

http://www.indavideo.hu/video/Szoszi_es_Budapest

 

She may have something like this in hear head:

http://www.dodgyspace.com/uploads/americanworld.jpg

[ElvisMiggell]

Oh. Dear.

[Mad78]

I'm sure not all americans are that ignorant.

[Defender_16]

*Beats head against desk.*

 

I swear I got stupider just watching that thing.

 

Various Metal Gear based 'game over'

http://mgfox.ytmnd.com/

 

http://mgpicard.ytmnd.com/

 

http://metalgearwonka.ytmnd.com/

[Eagle]

Can you grow Cress in a keyboard?

[Lord_La_forge]

Can you grow Cress in a keyboard?

 

I like the last photo. Not a Geek, not even a little bit

[Darth_Rob]

MY RESEARCH PAPER IS FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jahled]

MY RESEARCH PAPER IS FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Woo Rob!

 

http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1188252605/megentasaber.gif

[Defender_16]

Sorry Rob I dont happen to remember. What was it on?

 

 

Where's Luke?

 

M/S Explorer crashes

 

Please Hold!

[Krytos]

Sad and wrong

 

And, now my best to retell a story I was today.

 

A friend of a friend's parents, brother ... maybe sister (I wasn't paying much attention at this part of the story ) ... well, it's kinda irrelevant really. A guy and girl living together in their own house a few weeks ago had to take their pet snake to the vet. Now my friend knows this, because he use to go to the house a lot. The snake was treated more like a dog, I guess, than a snake. It would slither around the house by itself and curl up on the bed at night. It was friendly and this guy never minded the snake even though this is a really big snake. The couple had it for over a year and never had problems.

Anyway, back to the story. The guy and girl took the snake to the vet because it hadn't been eating for quiet a while and they were getting worried. The vet checked out the snake, ran some test and found nothing wrong - so in the end he just told them to bring it back if it hadn't started eating within a week.

The week goes by and the pair are back with the snake still not eating. Again, the vet runs his tests with no clear answer. So he asks them if there's been anything different, if anything had changed? The guy responds with nothing had changed except it had stopped eating.

The lady said the same, then added that a while ago she'd woken up during the night and noticed that the snake was lying perfectly straight, parallel with the bed and in between herself and the guy.

The vet looked at them with a stark face and simply said, We've got to put down your snake.

What? They replied obviously shocked.

We've got to put the snake down.

Why?

You don't want to know.

Why!?

Really, you don't want to know.

The bloke at that stage got a bit pissed off and raised his voice wanting to know why he wanted to kill his pet snake of over a year.

Finally the vet responds - because it was sizing you up. It was going to eat you.

 

My mate who use to go to the house is still freaked out and wont go back.

[ElvisMiggell]

Is that really true?!?

[Darth_Rob]

Sad and wrong

 

I was just watching this show on NGC yesterday about people who escape North Korea and flee to China or Sourh Korea. One guy was a guard who had escaped (him and his friend had both escaped, but his friend got caught on an electric fence and was killed) and now lives in South Korea. But the sad thing is that the chances are that his entire family was executed. When the reporter asked about his family, he just said "id rather not think about that."

 

@Def: My paper thesis actually ended up changing as I did more research, and in the end I made the argument that the United States (JFK in particular) was more interested in going to space for political reasons (to best the Soviet Union) than for scientific purposes. It centers around the orbital space flight of Yuri Gagarin, and how that was sort of the "last straw" for the US. Its due in two weeks, but I handed it in to my professor yesterday, and hopefully I will get it back next Monday and have that week to edit it based on his comments.

[ElvisMiggell]

Rob, although i haven't paid enough attention to the thread to know what your context is, the view of the USA's space race being a political activity is certainly one which i think bears serious merit. Certainly i've seen it discussed in many programmes before now, and i think it's a generally accepted view.

 

That and the American public appeared to have been whipped up into a hysterical state by the media. It's an older trait than most people realise sometimes!

[Mad78]

@Kryt: That is freaky!

 

@Rob: Sounds like a terribly interessting subject. Could you let us read some of the best bits?

 

Some have been celebrating too much again!!!

 

Everything

 

A very versatile word

[Darth_Rob]

Rob, although i haven't paid enough attention to the thread to know what your context is, the view of the USA's space race being a political activity is certainly one which i think bears serious merit. Certainly i've seen it discussed in many programmes before now, and i think it's a generally accepted view.

 

That and the American public appeared to have been whipped up into a hysterical state by the media. It's an older trait than most people realise sometimes!

 

 

Mind you, my research centered on the year 1961, when the decision to go to the Moon was reached after Gagarin's flight. If anything, the media whipped the American government into hysteria. From what I found, the American people didn't really care too much in the beginning. Most either accepted it, or merely waited for the U.S. to match the Soviets. It was mainly the media, who kept talking about world-wide prestige in the midst of the Cold War, that influenced the government. Which is why I saw it as more of a way of restoring prestige and gaining a political victory over communism rather than a scientific endeavor.

[Eagle]

I like the last photo. Not a Geek, not even a little bit

Maybe one of Tofus mates?!

 

@Kryt

Unbelievable and shocking!

 

Reminds me of this again.

[Defender_16]

Krytos, while that story's kinda freaky I also found it kinda hilarious. Though I'm sure the people with the pet hadn't though so.

(Was waiting for the vet to say it'd eaten the neighbour's dog... or kid.)

 

 

Secrets of the prequel movies.

 

Stephen Colbert in Team Fortress 2?

 

Fry is up to no good

[Evaders99]

My paper thesis actually ended up changing as I did more research, and in the end I made the argument that the United States (JFK in particular) was more interested in going to space for political reasons (to best the Soviet Union) than for scientific purposes.

 

That's probably why we don't have the flurry behind going to the moon (and then to Mars) now. Who is going to beat us to the moon? Wait.. we already went there. Mars... is any nation going to beat us there right now?

 

China does have ambitions to the moon, whether they can pull off things to get their and to Mars, we'll see. It could energize a new space race, but I don't see that happening at the moment.

[Darth_Rob]

I know Bush had plans to land on Mars in 2000, which is why I was enthusiastic about voting for him (plus I fear Al Gore). But I think the war on terrorism made him scrap that plan, which is sad. I wish people were more interested in space exploration. Its essential to do it now. The world population is expanding, and in the distant future we will need to start colonizing other planets. Best get a head start on that now. Also, we need more advanced rocket ships in order to repel an eventual alien invasion.

[Lord_La_forge]

I know Bush had plans to land on Mars in 2000, which is why I was enthusiastic about voting for him (plus I fear Al Gore). But I think the war on terrorism made him scrap that plan, which is sad. I wish people were more interested in space exploration. Its essential to do it now. The world population is expanding, and in the distant future we will need to start colonizing other planets. Best get a head start on that now. Also, we need more advanced rocket ships in order to repel an eventual alien invasion.

 

Sounds still a bit too futuristic, don't you think?

[Darth_Rob]

I said the distant future...