Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Zaius Ex, Feb 28, 2012.

  1. Damion Sparhawk

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    What you call isolation, I call 'weekend'. Can I please have some more? :p
     
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  2. SheepHugger

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    Just a quick question:
    Is the purpose to design most lethal pathogen ever?
     
  3. Lardaltef

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    Yes. Bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite, a few other types as the base.
     
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  4. Lardaltef

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    So upgrading my gardens fencing. Damn birds get berries before we do. Also deer. There is a previous image on here somewhere. But now 6 foot high chicken wire with bird net on top (and sunshade thing later once it starts getting hotter. But I have 18 tomato plants, 4 cucumber, 5 blueberry bushes (1 is new and in one of the pots), 10 blackberry bushes (2 in pots) consisting of 7 varieties. Each of the blueberries is different. and a lone raspberry bush. Also bush beans (green beans). And I think 20 strawberries elsewhere not in the garden. Yes I know the pvc pipes are not straight vertical. IMG_20200425_123456.jpg
     
  5. Hollister

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    If you have the time the work this guy does to con scammers is hilarious.

     
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  7. Damion Sparhawk

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    Yeah, I'm good with that. Maybe just nuke the city they found 'em in.
     
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    Odd how a hornet native to china East Asian region of the world has some how found itself in the USA.

    Odd in the same way with how the russian boar is now a massive invasive species in the USA that causes around 4 billion dollars a year in damages to food crops.
     
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  9. j.p.

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    Not really. Heck, we've been here for thousands of years and we had to walk the whole way.
     
  10. Damion Sparhawk

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    I mean, it wouldn't be hard for a hornet species to end up here by accident. People get bit by poisonous spiders in Alaska every year but there are no species of venomous spider that can survive there. They get there by mail.
     
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    "Woohoo my sword shipment arrived"

    *Opens box, instead of cool new sword it's filled with hornets*

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  13. j.p.

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    Some guy on YouTube fed every AC/DC song through a Markov chain and this is what it came up with.

     
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  14. Damion Sparhawk

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    There are... so many things wrong with this, it's amazing.
     
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  15. j.p.

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    Back when MMOs were basically text adventure games, I once wired a Markov chainer up to one and fed it a corpus of Bible verses and Lewis Carroll books. The output was sheer unadulterated madness, but you'd be amazed how many people thought it was an actual person.
     
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    Do not miss the door on the right.
     
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  17. Hollister

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    I have no idea why this annoys me so much.
     
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  18. Lardaltef

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    Is this a shower? If so, how is the water supposed to get to the drain? Now i'm questioning if the is even a drain pipe under that.
     
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  20. SheepHugger

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    Nowadays that's 200km of sea ice on a good year, assuming you've gotten to the optimal starting position and can head straight in the optimal direction and so.

    On a bad year it won't freeze over and even on a good year you might run into trouble such as falling into the ice or just never making it in time, considering there's literally nothing to eat or drink and you've got that dreadful flatland with punishing ocean wind going on that goes as if through your clothes. People with modern gear get themselves killed doing such trips with all the preparation and after receiving training on how to cope with the dangers.

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    When people walked to Americas it was a whole different story 30 to 10,000 years ago. There was life throughout the journey, there was a landpath and it was possible to sustain yourself and make camp and rest while hunting and foraging. Animals too would find things to eat through the warmer summer period.

    The big difference is that then it was crossable during summer and you could live on the track to Americas. Nowadays you'd have to wait for the coldest winter which means nothing to eat or forage for humans or animals up there and cross the sea, which is a major strain. It takes a ton of energy and a right kind of a creature to even be able to survive in such colds, energy that isn't available for the crossing.
     
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