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Can't buy me love  

40Deuce 46M
4633 posts
9/7/2018 6:28 pm

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9/8/2018 7:56 am

Can't buy me love


Despite my best efforts people still say "Money can't buy happiness" when they SHOULD say "Money can't buy happiness . . . just kidding" .

But consider this , people who make less than $35,000 a year are 50% more likely to commit (BANNED TOPIC) . And people on government assistance are 100% more likely .

40 , you're doing that thing you always rail against - you're implying a causal connection based off only a correlation - it's just as valid to assume that the same things that contribute to (BANNED TOPIC) such as mental health issues also contribute to lower salaries .

You've bested me again .

People usually know that the sun is VERY large and VERY far away , but what they don't usually consider is that the sun is also VERY loud . It's an atomic cauldron you know , nuclear reactions are happening there on a massive scale constantly . But as we all know sound waves can't travel though the vastness of space so here on earth we don't hear the screaming fury of the mighty sun . If we could even as far away as we are we'd be constantly blasted with 120 decibels - which is the same as a thunderclap .

And so , we must ask ourselves , if space did consist of a medium that could carry soundwaves would the sense of hearing have evolved on earth life ? My initial thought is no - I the sound of the sun would be so loud a sense of hearing would be useless . But upon further reflection not so sure . For instance if you just measure light it doesn't seem like it would be useful - there's tons of light all the time right ? But life evolved to use the light bouncing off other things to learn all kinds of stuff . Maybe sound would be the same . Maybe we wouldn't hear the way we do know but it would be more like echolocation - tuning in the way certain sounds were coming at us . Which probably could be turned into a form of speech/communication right ?

Which begs this question - if we all communicated by bouncing soundwaves off each others tits would we all speak a universal language ? I mean our visual "language" is the same right ? Donnie Yen and I might call a cat something different with our verbal language in this paradigm but when I see a cat he also sees a cat - he doesn't see a dog . So if your method of talking was based on feeling sound would it all be the same ?

Remember that episode of TNG where Riker killed all those clones and for some reason everyone jut shrugged ? I do . At least Star Trek is consistent though because in other episodes people murdered clones and it was also fine . Which doesn't seem very Star Trekky - they're supposed to be more evolved right ? Anyway , in that episode they also decided that Geordi because of his visor could tell when people were lying to him .

Which was never mentioned again because it's a real issue for the writers . If Geordi can tell when people are lying , even if it only applies to humans , he should be on the bridge every time they talk to anyone . But that's not even the worst of it - his Geordi's visor can tell when people are lying surely the computer can do the same thing - so they should always know when people are lying . Which makes plotting out a story much harder so they just ignored it .

Which is why you should have a show bible - up front you need to decide what everyone can do .

Which brings us to Counselor Troi - I never realized it until I started watching the series back through but she's missing from a TON of episodes . There's 178 episodes of TNG and she's in barely over 100 of them . For the same reason . They made her half-Betazed to reduce her powers but the writers still couldn't deal with having a psychic on board . And even when she was around they ignored her powers half the time . She could sense ships several sectors away . She could sense individual people on planets with billions of beings . Like Geordi she could tell when people were lying , and just how they were feeling in general . She should have been one of the MOST useful crewmembers .

But of course the character who's abilities are ignored the most is your favorite and mine Commander Data . The dude has super speed . Literally . All the various times other people were caught off guard he should have been all over that shit . His reaction time should be unbeatable . All the times people got kidnapped off the bridge ? No . Instead Data . I know his job wasn't technically security but he should have been a part of every security detail - he's got the strength of 100 chimpanzees and he's more or less invulnerable . All those times the security losers got tossed around by the alien of the week ? No . Instead Data . And why did he bother using the manual interface with the computer ? Why wasn't he jacked in all the time ?

On the other hand since the show was written in the early 90s his supposed processing power is inferior to the OS of your smartphone . So maybe they were right on with their portrayal .

Poor dumb Data .

That would be an interesting character , a dude who's got all these super powers but isn't smart enough to really do much with them .

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
9/7/2018 6:29 pm

I just realized the other day that the lady who plays Domino in Deadpool is the same lady from Atlanta . She's killing it right now .

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Blackiron35 40M

9/7/2018 6:49 pm

no one can


vanbumlvr 57M  
392 posts
9/7/2018 10:16 pm

Money can't buy happiness. But people can.

As for the bouncy bits, reinventing sonar methinks. But unless everyone uses the same receiver frequencies it's apples and oranges and we're back to square one.

All in the knees my boy, all in the knees.


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