P'shaw. I think all of the power resides in ita. Not the clone. How will we know without experimentation???
Um, please don't kill me with your pinky, ita.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cass - Apr 30, 2010 8:51:04 pm PDT #26653 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Trudy Booth - Apr 30, 2010 8:57:09 pm PDT #26654 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
There is someone here who looks ASTONISHINGLY like ita.
Does she have a goatee? Be careful if she does.
Atropa - Apr 30, 2010 8:58:57 pm PDT #26655 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You are mighty cavilier about this experimenting with potentially lethal force when you're not here. IJS.
(And let's face it, neither the StuntHusband or I are particularly butch.)
-t - Apr 30, 2010 9:13:29 pm PDT #26656 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But you're very charming. Capture with charm!
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2010 9:14:40 pm PDT #26657 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, go on. I promise that you will come to no harm at the hands of my clone.
I have recently been made aware that a former best friend tried out for a reality show where prize was a trip to the moon on s Russian rocket. She didn't win. It was also a bogus reality show. All time I was going to school with John Rogers and Colin Ferguson I was going to school with this flake. In fact, she was tight with John--they were in Physics together. However have we gone in such different directions, and hers TO THE FAKE RUSSKY MOON???
What the hell was she thinking? Then she said that was okay, because the reality show her friend got into -- boys who love boys and girls who love them -- was an epic clusterfuck. Really? Couldn't see that coming?
But the first friend has spent much of her free time in the past 20 years trying to get into space. And, uh, failing. She's done Mars Camp in Arizona, and went to the Antarctic to pretend to be on Mars. NASA turned her down. Does Canada have a space program? They certainly said no. If they have a British one, she asked. Nope.
I told her about Lori and she was very "oh, whatever." BEEYOTCH, Her handiwork stalks the red planet even this day. Bow down before her, wannabee,
It's possible K and I have issues, and that I am having beer with ice cream.
Atropa - Apr 30, 2010 9:21:32 pm PDT #26658 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, go on. I promise that you will come to no harm at the hands of my clone.
How gullible do I look?
... wait, don't answer that.
Cass - Apr 30, 2010 9:27:13 pm PDT #26659 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
You are mighty cavilier about this experimenting with potentially lethal force when you're not here. IJS.
Distance makes me bold.
Explains a lot of my romantic life, actually.
How gullible do I look?
You look skeeeeerrry and fierce. Swears.
Atropa - Apr 30, 2010 9:47:25 pm PDT #26660 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You look skeeeeerrry and fierce. Swears.
The StuntHusband laughed at that. Somehow, I don't believe you.
billytea - May 01, 2010 4:28:31 am PDT #26661 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Now up to the Chisellers. The beaver hole investigation is fascinating as ever. He's onto the mole rats now. One of the benefits of being back at uni is that I can access the databases of academic papers, and it's not limited to my field of study. Here are some fun facts I've picked up from searching for papers on naked mole rats:
- Naked mole rats have two genes that act to inhibit cell growth. Humans only have one. The result: naked mole rats never get cancer.
- Naked mole rats are the longest-lived rodents in the world, living up to 28 years or so. Their life in colonies underground is particularly well-protected - they barely need to make contact with the above-ground world at all.
- A naked mole rat's somatosensory cortex (the part of the brain devoted to its senses), devotes nearly a third of its capacity to its front teeth alone.
- They do not feel pain from acid or from capsaicin.
A world of awesome right there, my friends.
DavidS - May 01, 2010 4:40:46 am PDT #26662 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Naked Mole Rat Man would make an excellent Batman villain.