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Space Exploration
#11
RE: Space Exploration
I heard somewhere that we know more about space than we do our own oceans? Something like we're only aware of 3% of what the whole ocean has to offer, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, someone.
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#12
RE: Space Exploration
I have an idea... let's put all the religious on a rocket and aim it somewhere (doesn't really matter where). God will look after his own surely, and anyway, if they die they will go to heaven, so we would be doing them a favour.
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#13
RE: Space Exploration
Ahhh that oh so refreshing humor dripping with hate... Big Grin
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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#14
RE: Space Exploration
(May 25, 2010 at 1:35 am)Watson Wrote: I heard somewhere that we know more about space than we do our own oceans? Something like we're only aware of 3% of what the whole ocean has to offer, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, someone.

Well, 3% sounds awfully low to me- we do know a lot about the oceans, albeit mainly about the continental shelves (the shallower parts). Anyway, I can't really see how you can put a number on it, since we don't know what it is that we don't know.

What is true is that amazing discoveries continue to be made in the deep oceans. For example, the first black smokers (a variety of hydrothermal vent), with their amazingly weird ecosystems, were only discovered in 1977. New areas of hydrothermal vents are still being found, and their chemistry and therefore biology vary significantly from each other.

Black smokers are weirdly beautiful:

[Image: pic17UnderseaBlackSmokers.jpg]

And the life that they harbour is even weirder. This is the Pompeii Worm, discovered in the 1980s. It can live in water thats 80 degees C (176 degrees F) Confusedhock:

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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
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#15
RE: Space Exploration
(May 25, 2010 at 1:28 am)superstarr Wrote: Though, I still think that we should first investigate the oceans a bit further, since we haven't seen the deepest ends of it.

That is dangerous! We might find R'ley and wake sleeping Cthulu.
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#16
RE: Space Exploration
(May 25, 2010 at 10:51 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:
(May 25, 2010 at 1:28 am)superstarr Wrote: Though, I still think that we should first investigate the oceans a bit further, since we haven't seen the deepest ends of it.

That is dangerous! We might find R'ley and wake sleeping Cthulu.

So what if we do?

Quote:But Johansen had not given out yet. Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler could not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where - God in heaven! - the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.
From: The Call of Cthuhlu by HP Lovecraft

Cthuhlu is a wuss. He gets beaten up by an old steamship. He'd have no chance against modern weaponry.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
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#17
RE: Space Exploration
That was probably just one of his spawn. Cthulu is much harder to kill, I know this because Nyarlathotep told me in a dream of unknown Kadath. You have to believe in Cthulu to understand. Smile
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#18
RE: Space Exploration
(May 25, 2010 at 7:39 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: That was probably just one of his spawn. Cthulu is much harder to kill, I know this because Nyarlathotep told me in a dream of unknown Kadath. You have to believe in Cthulu to understand. Smile

Yes, there are a lot of people out there that call themselves "atheists" but they are just in denial of great Cthulhu. If you open your heart (literally) to Cthulhu then he will enter and enrich your life (before driving you insane).

By the way, i notice you spell Cthuhlu incorrectly. Please don't tell me you are part of the "Reformed Church of Cthulu"... that is a heretical path and does not please our lord and master.

Still, better than the so-called "Friends of Kthulhu".... splitters!

Big Grin
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#19
RE: Space Exploration
Well, the truley enlightened realize that any spelling is simply a representation of the unpronouncable name. Cutlu is a closer phonetic spelling although it is easy to ignore the necessary glottal stop that the th represents in my prefered spelling so I leave it in. Your spelling has an unnecessay h that would potentiat an elongation of the u sound and could present difficulty on the day of summoning. So for that reason, die you heretic scum.

Thank you for reading,
Rhizo
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#20
RE: Space Exploration
Speaking of which... you ever notice the similarity between the big C and the FSM?

FSM Grin

Ok, have we derailed this topic enough yet?
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