7:02 AM Mr. Silver
yawn
7:03 AM Mr. Brown
I slept well last night, but most likely I will get tired.
7:03 AM Mr. Silver
I went caffeine-free this morning.
7:06 AM Mr. Brown
Well I started drinking decaf coffee in the morning
Then I'll have green tea later.
Then just tea after that
7:07 AM Mr. Silver
Then espresso...then No-Doz at bedtime.
7:08 AM Mr. Brown
lol
7:34 AM Mr. Silver
7:35 AM Mr. Silver
“The North Anna plant, which was near the epicenter of Tuesday's quake, is reportedly located on a fault line. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rates the plant as the seventh most likely to receive core damage from a quake. But they say the chances of that are only 1 in 22,727.”
I think those odds have changed a bit, considering they were probably based on the likelihood of there ever being an earthquake there at all.
7:36 AM Mr. Brown
Chance is bullcrap at times.
You know it will happen sooner or later
We have been overdue for quakes in this area
8:03 AM Mr. Silver
So we're all doomed in the earthquakapocalypse.
8:05 AM Mr. Silver
I'd think "on a fault line" would be grounds for not building a nuke plant at a location.
8:05 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, well building whole cities on top of a fault line is a bad idea too.
8:07 AM Mr. Silver
Generally speaking, fault line geology came well after cities and well before nuke plants. But yes.
8:08 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, that is true.
But you think we would do something about it by now.
Like shut down the plant and build a new one somewhere else.
8:27 AM Mr. Silver
(Realtor) "Well, technically, at any moment this particular property could split in half, demolishing anything on it."
"Any way of predicting it?"
"Not really, just statistical guesses, but it's certain to go some day."
"Land cheap?"
"Heck yes! No one would build anything important here."
"Random inevitable regional doom...but its cheap...I think this sounds like a good option."
And a nuke plant costs many billions. You can't just move them or throw down a spare, Mr. Brown.
8:29 AM Mr. Mauve
If the cost is so high, all the better reason to put it in a sound location initially.
8:29 AM Mr. Silver
Yup
8:29 AM Mr. Mauve
Seismically sound... yeah that's it.
^ I love alliteration
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
Then you should A'love Alliteration.
8:30 AM Mr. Mauve
Haha! I see what you did there.
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
A'love A Little Alliteration
8:31 AM Mr. Mauve
Whoa, whoa, stop... my brain might orgasm!
And that's how earwax is made
Well, maybe not earwax... Wrong consistency... I’m going to stop now.
8:34 AM Mr. Silver
Please
12:55 PM Mr. Blue
So. All the people in the USA that felt that the earthquake yesterday was a message from god or a sign of the apocalypse. If they all dropped dead today, would the world be a better or worse place?
1:10 PM Mr. Silver
For the world a better place question...
You're suggesting a not inconsiderable number of superstitious apocalyptics just leaving the roles, eh?
Honestly? Better.
A few reasons.
1:12 PM Mr. Blue
They're wastes of air and resources - don't need much more than that.
1:13 PM Mr. Silver
Oh, I'm not saying some innocents wouldn't go, but you picked the set
1:14 PM Mr. Blue
You have to crack eggs in order to make an omelet.
1:14 PM Mr. Silver
One: Like any swooping plague, there'd suddenly be a ton of resources and work.
Probably enough to finish off the whole "unemployment" and “resources” questions entirely.
1:15 PM Mr. Blue
Unlike a plague though, which targets the poor but not necessarily the non-contributing or non-intelligent, wiping out all the religious extremists would dump almost entirely idiots.
1:15 PM Mr. Silver
Believing such things doesn't make one an extremist or a total moron.
1:15 PM Mr. Blue
I mean, people that think that a mild earthquake is god's way of telling Washington DC that he doesn't like our policy on gay marriage, or Israel, or whatever.. that's a dim bulb.
You're either extreme or you're extremely stupid.
1:16 PM Mr. Silver
Well regardless, the extremists would go, and they're poisonous to societies and always have been.
Voice gone...votes gone...good riddance.
1:16 PM Mr. Blue
They don't think much, and when they do it's wrong, and when they talk they're loud.
This would be BETTER than a plague, but a plague would be good too, for humanity.
But that would risk the lives of people that I might know and care about.
1:17 PM Mr. Silver
We're playing a game, not judging society.
You asked for the results.
1:17 PM Mr. Blue
Yes, but now I’m entertaining the idea of a massive plague.
1:17 PM Mr. Silver
I had such great hopes in my youth for such. I really didn't want to see the world go feudal again, which is where it seems to be going.
2:47 PM Mr. Blue
"She will boast the only clothing line in history that has a best-by date AND needs refrigerated."
2:48 PM Mr. Mauve
"Hey mom, did you see my Lady Gaga meat dress? I can't find it in the fridge."
2:52 PM Mr. Apple
lol
2:52 PM Mr. Blue
Cover yourself in glue, roll around on the floor of an abandoned house, call it the latest Gaga outfit.
Heck, roll around anywhere!
A gravel driveway, a corn field
2:53 PM Mr. Silver
A million seller! Just comes in a big pot with the Elmer's Glue trademark under her picture.
3:18 PM Mr. Blue
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/24/the-coolest-objects-yet/?hpt=hp_c2 Only on the first paragraph, but I wonder if a cold sun could support life on its own surface?
3:20 PM Mr. Silver
A difficult prospect.
I wonder how many gravs one of those pulls.
3:21 PM Mr. Blue
I guess stars don't really have a surface as we know it, not sure about cold ones though.
3:22 PM Mr. Silver
You'd need some sort of...boat
3:22 PM Mr. Blue
I dub this brown dwarf Gary Coleman
3:22 PM Mr. Apple
lol
3:24 PM Mr. Silver
It's in the Arnold System: a binary with a larger star called Willis
Mr. Silver
That sucks.
3:41 PM Mr. Blue
I probably wouldn't have done much better.
"Nurse, get me an ice-cream scooper. And a waffle cone."
3:42 PM Mr. Silver
"Excellent. Skull's open. So...that's a brain."
"Yes, Doctor Blue."
(Hehe...I was gonna do the ice-cream scooper next line.)
3:43 PM Mr. Blue
Debated on that or melon baller.
3:43 PM Mr. Silver
Yup, me too.
"A melon-baller for this man's melon, please, nurse."
"I don't have one, Doctor Blue!"
3:44 PM Mr. Blue
"Well, I don't see any tumors, but I sure can't close him up empty handed..."
3:44 PM Mr. Silver
"The patient can wait til you get one...try the cafeteria. Take 5 everyone."
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