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August 8th, 2003, 07:11 PM
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Re: Does Life Exist
Re-discovered another good link from NASA on FTL travel and the challenges it poses.
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August 8th, 2003, 07:20 PM
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Re: Does Life Exist
Side tracking slightly to our earlier chat about ET's and all that, I always recall a really good short cartoon story in 2000AD (a great comic over here in Blighty).
Basically, NASA are shocked when an observatory spots flying saucers. All telescopes are tracking the ET's and they see them fly to the dark side of the moon. Over the next few weeks, blinding light is seen from the dark side of the moon, and a shuttle is prepped to go up there and make contact.
The shuttle launches and gets to the moon to see the ETs flying away. It goes round the dark side of the moon to see what is happening there and is shocked to find a great big sign, kind of like a road sign that says no parking or whatever.
The gallant astronauts manage to decipher the sign and are shocked when it turns out as saying "WARNING, IRRESPONSIBLE RACE IN CHARGE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AHEAD"
Laugh? I thought it was
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August 8th, 2003, 07:24 PM
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Re: Does Life Exist
jurijd, communism didn't fail because of enemies 'abroad and within'...
it failed because it absolutely relies on the 100% trustworthiness of people running the system to not take advantage of it...
since humans are animals, this will not happen
in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... in practice however, its HUGE
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August 8th, 2003, 07:36 PM
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Re: Does Life Exist
Quote:
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in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... in practice however, its HUGE
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That's damn quotable.
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August 8th, 2003, 08:13 PM
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Re: Does Life Exist
Quote:
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quote: Originally posted by Cirvol:
in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... in practice however, its HUGE
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That's damn quotable. It already is a quote. I am not sure when, but I have heard it many times before. I *think* it may be Einstein.
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August 8th, 2003, 08:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Slick:
quote: Originally posted by Loser:
quote: Originally posted by Cirvol:
in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... in practice however, its HUGE
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That's damn quotable. It already is a quote. I am not sure when, but I have heard it many times before. I *think* it may be Einstein.
Slick. Actually, Yogi Berra...?
[ August 08, 2003, 19:36: Message edited by: geckomlis ]
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August 8th, 2003, 09:15 PM
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Re: Does Life Exist
I have found links giving credit to that quote to Yoggi Berra, and to JAN L.A. VAN DE SNEPSCHEUT, a
Dutch-American computer scientist and educator (1953 - 1994)
Have not determined difinitivly if it's either of them, or someone else entirely.
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