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Istancow

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meow _________________ Good day, good people! |
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Istancow

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ytpingas _________________ Good day, good people! |
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Darqcyde

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WheelsOfConfusion

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Moor

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Okay, it's not Youtube, but is anyone else laughing at the Twitch Plays Pokemon thing?
It's hilarious both how successful they have been and how unsuccessful they are. |
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CalmBlueSea

Joined: 12 Apr 2013 Posts: 166 Location: Massachusetts
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DEMOCRACY
It's never not the time to use the Helix Fossil. |
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Darqcyde

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http://vimeo.com/87916326
Quote: | There were 200,000 people who applied to participate in a project called Mars One. It’s a private enterprise to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars and film a reality show along the way. The idea is to go in crews of four starting in 2024. The thing is, right now the technology can only get them there. "Mars One Way" documents the thoughts and theories of Five hopeful Mars One astronauts as they contemplate the reality of leaving planet Earth forever, for a new home on Mars. |
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Sam

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mars one is so indescribably dumb and so are most if not all people who in all seriousness sign up for it |
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WheelsOfConfusion

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Sam

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As I think I've mentioned here before, Mars One is such a terrible business and exploratory plan to the extent that even a little bit of research into their proposal should leave one recognizing that on the off (very off) chance that it actually results in a one-way colonization shuttle departing for mars, being aboard it is essentially signing your death warrant for a fiasco of a business/scientific venture. One which even they cannot and have not explained how it will work, because they do not even really know. The proposers cannot survive scrutiny, hell, they haven't even survived a Reddit IAMA.
Even assuming it was not a terrible proposal, it represents a bunch of rubes signing up and paying them money over the grossest of personal overestimations of confidence: believing they can do something that they absolutely will not be able to handle. The psychological stresses and demands inherent to the task at hand means that 99.999999% of people saying that they love to go would ... absolutely not love it and would be an almost guaranteed psychological liability.
It is a bad idea wrapped in a bad idea. And yet people are lining up to toss money at these fucks. |
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Darqcyde

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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Sam wrote: | It is a bad idea wrapped in a bad idea. And yet people are lining up to toss money at these fucks. |
Ironically, their demonstrated eagerness to throw away money is really the only positive thing out of all of it. I mean, it's a stretch, and doesn't negate anything else, but proving that people are interested is good, even if they're effectively pissing into the wind. _________________ ...if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.
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Darqcyde

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Darqcyde

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ShadowCell
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hey i was feeling like my Desire to Punch Joe Scarborough in the Face rating was starting to dip to dangerously low levels and then there's that video to bring it right back up, thanks man |
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Darqcyde

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