I don't have silent velcro, so it doesn't count.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2005 8:50:35 am PDT #7408 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 06, 2005 8:50:35 am PDT #7409 of 10001
What is even happening?
As opposed to the way much larger sums of money being spent to kill folks in Iraq?It was in response to an article on this comet experiment, right?
The thing about spending money on pure science is that you can rarely predict where things might lead, and an awful lot of beneficial stuff has come from the side tracks of such research.Absolutely. And people are always quick to criticize space programs in particular, and a lot of the advances, particularly in medicine, have resulted from space program related research.
DXMachina - Jul 06, 2005 8:56:10 am PDT #7410 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It was in response to an article on this comet experiment, right?
Yup, my feeling is that it would be better to fund stuff like the comet expedition, while instead taking the much larger amounts of money we're spending not very effectively to defeat Iraq, and use that for the needy.
Gudanov - Jul 06, 2005 8:56:30 am PDT #7411 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
As opposed to the way much larger sums of money being spent to kill folks in Iraq?
Isn't the cost of Iraq is about $300 billion now?
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2005 8:58:22 am PDT #7412 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Isn't the cost of Iraq is about $300 billion now?
Yeah, I think so. Which means Operation Comet Spank cost about 1/1000 of that.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2005 8:59:57 am PDT #7413 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Isn't the cost of Iraq is about $300 billion now?
Yes, but the important thing is that we've completely eliminated terrorism and that country is now a model of middle eastern democracy.
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2005 9:01:23 am PDT #7414 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yes. Also, freedom is on some sort of march.
Lee - Jul 06, 2005 9:02:21 am PDT #7415 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
When I was visiting my mother and her sister a few weeks ago, Mom was talking about the comet project and how it was kind of exciting that they really had no idea what would happen when the comet got hit. I responded "you mean there might be aliens inside who get very very angry".
Sadly, Mom wasn't sure I was joking.
-t - Jul 06, 2005 9:02:28 am PDT #7416 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The insurgency is in its last throes.
(eta: Just think how brilliant you would have looked if there were angry aliens, Perkins)
Tom Scola - Jul 06, 2005 9:02:51 am PDT #7417 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yes, but the important thing is that we've completely eliminated terrorism and that country is now a model of middle eastern democracy.
Not to mention destroying all the weapons of mass destruction they were threatening the world with.