Nerds who petitioned the White House to "Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016" were dealt a massive wedgie by Paul "Darth" Shawcross Friday. The Chief of the Science and Space Branch of the Office of Management and Budget posted a
We've had so much good luck tinkering with the environment on this planet that it's time to move on! And if the little experiment doesn't work, we could use the resulting ruin as a replacement for that Yucca Mountain storage site Harry Reid is so opposed to. No electoral votes from Mars Base!
What? Over? Did you say the thread is over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor with their death star?
Speaking of p-ness; are those things like green stamps? If I collect enough of them can I trade them in for a pony? Or maybe a Wonket coffee mug... Better yet, a pony that's been trained as a barista- one of those and I could probably get up early enough to post at the top of the thread.
Science guys are going to find an Earth-like planet with sentient life on it very soon. Will organized religion have an effective response to this discovery?
NOT UNLESS WE BUILD THE DEATH STAR, obvs. God <i>DAMN </i>the United States and its atheist-muslin socialist intergalactic peace-creep &quot;president.&quot;
Back in the good old days of the Cold War, before hippies destroyed our military capability with collectivist ideas like &quot;counter-terrorism&quot; and &quot;nation building,&quot; we used to keep two or three nuke-you-lar submarines, bristling with MIRV-warhead ICBMs, hidden under the polar ice caps or maybe in the Marianas Trench. These subs could stay submerged for six months using their nuclear power systems to generate oxygen from sea water by hydrolysis; the only real limit on how long they could stay down was the amount of isolation their carefully-selected crews could bear. Every so often the subs would come near enough to the surface to listen for a simple signal saying &quot;tutto bene,&quot; or some such coded message. If they didn&#039;t get that signal: wargasm.
That&#039;s close enough to a Death Star for me.
They might still be down there, come to think of it; weejee probably knows for sure. Some humorist named this strategy &quot;Fail Safe.&quot;
&lt;nerd&gt;I&#039;ve been looking for years for a game like that! There used to be a screensaver called Gravitation that would let you do the same thing, though limited. Thanks!&lt;/nerd&gt;
No Death Star? This is the kind of &quot;retreat&quot; Fred Hiatt so wisely <a href="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/fred-hiatt-the-price-for-americas-global-retreat\/2013\/01\/10\/31918eb6-5b6d-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_story.html" target="_blank">warned</a> us of. Clearly this is the doing of Hagel and the Obama apology tour appeasement cabal. If the US does not signal that it is perfectly happy blowing up planets, we may expect to be attacked by jihadists from Neptune.
oh my! that little marshmallow nerd is just a darling!
&quot;Now Gilligan, if we could just get these two coconuts into orbit...&quot;
We&#039;ve had so much good luck tinkering with the environment on this planet that it&#039;s time to move on! And if the little experiment doesn&#039;t work, we could use the resulting ruin as a replacement for that Yucca Mountain storage site Harry Reid is so opposed to. No electoral votes from Mars Base!
This is really bad news. We all know that the best way to stop a bad guy with a death star is a good guy with a death star...
imma start a petition to build the millennium falcon now.
or possibly a tardis.
What? Over? Did you say the thread is over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor with their death star?
Speaking of p-ness; are those things like green stamps? If I collect enough of them can I trade them in for a pony? Or maybe a Wonket coffee mug... Better yet, a pony that&#039;s been trained as a barista- one of those and I could probably get up early enough to post at the top of the thread.
I&#039;d shoot torpedoes down her thermal exhaust port.
Who is going to fly down that tunnel thingy to find her core?
Science guys are going to find an Earth-like planet with sentient life on it very soon. Will organized religion have an effective response to this discovery?
NOT UNLESS WE BUILD THE DEATH STAR, obvs. God <i>DAMN </i>the United States and its atheist-muslin socialist intergalactic peace-creep &quot;president.&quot;
Back in the good old days of the Cold War, before hippies destroyed our military capability with collectivist ideas like &quot;counter-terrorism&quot; and &quot;nation building,&quot; we used to keep two or three nuke-you-lar submarines, bristling with MIRV-warhead ICBMs, hidden under the polar ice caps or maybe in the Marianas Trench. These subs could stay submerged for six months using their nuclear power systems to generate oxygen from sea water by hydrolysis; the only real limit on how long they could stay down was the amount of isolation their carefully-selected crews could bear. Every so often the subs would come near enough to the surface to listen for a simple signal saying &quot;tutto bene,&quot; or some such coded message. If they didn&#039;t get that signal: wargasm.
That&#039;s close enough to a Death Star for me.
They might still be down there, come to think of it; weejee probably knows for sure. Some humorist named this strategy &quot;Fail Safe.&quot;
&lt;nerd&gt;I&#039;ve been looking for years for a game like that! There used to be a screensaver called Gravitation that would let you do the same thing, though limited. Thanks!&lt;/nerd&gt;
*cough*What time&#039;s the game on?
Piers Morgan? He&#039;s not an engineer.
And &quot;Wink of an Eye,&quot; wherein Kirk boinks the hot green alien in speeded-up time, was the best episode.
Or maybe that one with the first inter-racial kiss on network teevee, where the &quot;evil&quot; aliens make him smooch Uhura.
&quot;A sizeable fortress inhabited by venomous space elves of some sort.*
Maybe not a charitable description of Karl Rove&#039;s American Crossroads, but an accurate one.
No Death Star? This is the kind of &quot;retreat&quot; Fred Hiatt so wisely <a href="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/fred-hiatt-the-price-for-americas-global-retreat\/2013\/01\/10\/31918eb6-5b6d-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_story.html" target="_blank">warned</a> us of. Clearly this is the doing of Hagel and the Obama apology tour appeasement cabal. If the US does not signal that it is perfectly happy blowing up planets, we may expect to be attacked by jihadists from Neptune.
Hubba hubba. She is some death star. I&#039;d hit that like a womp rat in my T16.