Day 63 - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like 'A Christmas Carol', Prolific Proficiency, Mr. Brown Is Preggers, Queens of Mississippi, Batman Of The Antarctic, And You Oort To Know Astronomical BS When You Hear It

12:57 PM Mr. Yellow

I am just stewing about being called Scrooge because I do not want to go into debt buying a ton of people gifts for Christmas

12:58 PM Mr. Gray

Yeah, that’s called logical and rational. Don’t expect a woman to get that

12:58 PM Mr. Yellow

I f-ing Hate Christmas. Too crowded everywhere you go, most people act worse over the holiday then any other time of the year, and we all go into debt buying junk for other people that we think they want

12:58 PM Mr. Gray

yep

12:59 PM Mr. Yellow

So she says “Fine, no gifts, we all go to church for Christmas”. I jump in quick and say “Hell yes”

Yes I said, “Hell yes”

And then she tries to add in “and we'll keep going every week”

I am like “No way, that was not the deal”

“You made the deal. I am fine with it for one day of church, and Hell, I will give you one day every year for no gifts at Christmas”

She is like: Well then, you have to explain to the kids they are not getting any gifts”

I said “Easy. Kids, your mom said we are not going to buy any gifts at Christmas. All she wants us to do is go to church Christmas Eve. Sorry kids, I did not propose this deal so blame your mom.”

1:02 PM Mr. Green

LOL

1:02 PM Mr. Yellow

I have no intention of spending a ton of money on Christmas

We can get a small gift for 6 other kids and spend like $200 to $250 on our kids, and that is it. No more than $310, and I would love to come in at $260

1:08 PM Mr. Silver

(Brady Warp) "We spent $2000??? On What?"

8:37 AM Mr. Blue

Who's the most proficient writer ever?

8:53 AM Mr. Silver
Proficient?

8:54 AM Mr. Blue

Who wrote a lot

8:54 AM Mr. Silver
Prolific

8:54 AM Mr. Blue

Yeah

8:58 AM Mr. Silver
http://www.trivia-library.com/c/20-most-prolific-authors-and-writers-in-literary-history.htm
9:02 AM Mr. Silver
And I can't finish 2

9:05 AM Mr. Blue

What do you mean you can't finish 2

9:05 AM Mr. Silver
I've never finished writing my second book

And currently believe I will never see the first in bound form

9:06 AM Mr. Blue

Oh

Quantity =/= quality

9:11 AM Mr. Blue

Mr. Brown is in the ER

9:12 AM Mr. Silver
What happened to him?

9:14 AM Mr. Blue

Possible appendix thing

9:26 AM Mr. Silver
Alien impregnation...got it

9:37 AM Mr. Blue

"Mississippi Queen", sounds like a gay anthem

9:37 AM Mr. Silver
I'll have to look it up.

9:37 AM Mr. Blue

Probably not

9:40 AM Mr. Silver
Like I quote lyrics properly given any license at all...it'll be a gay anthem before I'm done.

12:44 PM Mr. Blue

it's weird that they're filming the Batman movie now, since the script calls for a winter setting

http://www.wpxi.com/index.html << pictures there

12:44 PM Mr. Silver
They hate extras and actors, so they bundle them up for winter in a heat wave

12:45 PM Mr. Blue

They're putting down fake snow and stuff...seems like a waste

They'll probably have to digitally add frosted breath and blue-greyish tints and stuff too, and they also have to make sure not to get any deciduous trees in the picture.

I can see shooting day for night, but shooting summer for winter seems time consuming

1:10 PM Mr. Silver
Yup, it seems rather silly
1:13 PM Mr. Silver
Reminds me of the Monty Python: "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch
Filming “Antarctica” on the beach at the height of summer, people swimming
"Well we have 30000 gallons of white paint, and 1000 square yards of snowtex foam rubber that looks more like snow on camera than snow."
1:17 PM Mr. Silver
All broke down in contract negotiations with the star when the news crew pointed out that Captain Scott couldn't fight a lion barehanded because there aren't any in Antarctica.
So they changed it to "Scott of the Sahara", but kept all the fur coats and dogsleds and added a giant electric penguin.

1:24 PM Mr. Blue

Heheh

(Decided to look it up, hehehe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVc0EZl3AfU – Mr. Silver)

3:19 PM Mr. Blue

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/04/mars-may-have-salty-water/?hpt=hp_t1

3:31 PM Mr. Silver
"What makes these new observations so interesting is they occur at much lower latitudes where temperatures are much warmer and where it’s actually possible for liquid water to exist"
Actually, that is what makes it uninteresting
"Wow Phil...so water might exist where it would. Damn!"

3:33 PM Mr. Blue

I'm not sure I get where the water is coming from.. it's not falling from the sky

3:33 PM Mr. Silver
Well...native sources. It's been there for billions of years.

3:34 PM Mr. Blue

Underground?

3:34 PM Mr. Silver
There's some factions that suggest we got a lot of ours from comets. And Mars has comets go past too

3:35 PM Mr. Blue

I thought we got water from comets hitting us, not just passing by

3:35 PM Mr. Silver
Yes

3:35 PM Mr. Blue

Large, mostly ice, comets

3:36 PM Mr. Silver
I'm somewhat dubious of that since everything else in the solar system managed to collect where most appropriate, including here on Earth where there is a lot of water.
If we're in a "water" orbital band of the dust cloud theory, we could have just been floating through a torus of steam and ice particles and chunks until we cooled off long enough to condense the stuff. Then it fell and stuck to Earth like a cool glass draws it out of the air

3:39 PM Mr. Blue

But it could be that everyone had water

3:39 PM Mr. Blue

Like on Mercury and Venus it boiled up...on Mars it got blown away by solar winds

3:41 PM Mr. Silver
I have my doubts there.   I'm suggesting something much simpler.
(Here follows a more complete description of something I rattled out roughly in about 4 lines before sending this home - Mr Silver) 
If you think of comets as just water asteroids instead of rock or metal ones, they had to collect in such massive sizes by the same rules as the others and just escaped getting sucked into the "big balls" at the formation of the planets the same way, and the comets are just flying around like any other space rock, but look fancier when the solar wind hits them. The mere size of the things suggests the water was all roughly at the same “mostly water” orbit in space to collect so much in big chunks. So, which is more reasonable? An unproven, undetected Oort Cloud at enormous distance, occasionally pooping out a comet that occasionally hit the Earth, like an unaimed bullet shot randomly in the dark, conveniently more often than any of the other terrestrial planets with the result that we have so much water? OR The Earth and a bit of Mars were in the "water band" and Earth scooped up lots of the water bits and asteroids and Mars got a little too?