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SkepticJ replied to a thread who would own a flying saucer that landed on Earth? in Off-Topic Babbling

It's wise to treat beings with respect if they can *bleep* you up. Obviously, anyone with interstellar travel capability could *bleep* humans...

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2018-Sep-14, 01:06 AM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Marketing Spin in Off-Topic Babbling

The Lipton tea commercial where their "factory" is a tea plantation. Yeah, and a tree farm is a lumber mill.

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2018-Sep-14, 12:56 AM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Reinvention in Off-Topic Babbling

Would the Disaster allow some preparation beforehand to preserve knowledge? Think packing foundational STEM textbooks, how-to books on "primitive"...

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2018-Sep-09, 10:45 PM

SkepticJ replied to a thread ET UFO's in Conspiracy Theories

If you travel substantial fractions of c, time passes substantially slower for you. The end effect is that although you can't travel faster than...

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2018-Sep-09, 06:48 PM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Would a vegetable flavoured chocolate box work, do you think? in Off-Topic Babbling

Presumably raw. Nothing can come back from being cooked to death.

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2018-Sep-09, 05:21 PM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Advice on Fantasy Novels for my mother. in Small Media at Large

She might like Dune. It's normally classified under sci-fi, but to me it feels like it's in a gray area between what is typically sci-fi and...

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2018-Sep-09, 05:31 AM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

The original novel was a paean to mostly 1980s pop-culture. The movie broadened the references quite a bit. You're underestimating younger...

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2018-Sep-05, 12:53 AM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Do you ever look at your internet wire and think of all the stuff that hs passed thru in Off-Topic Babbling

Is holding the card in place using a piece of masking tape an option? Assuming you don't want to hold it in there permanently with cyanoacrylate.

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2018-Sep-02, 05:48 PM

SkepticJ replied to a thread Do you ever look at your internet wire and think of all the stuff that hs passed thru in Off-Topic Babbling

Fiber optic cables, the pipes of the internet, are actually very impressive bits of materials engineering. Copper wire? Yeah, not so much.

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