Thrawn's Revenge
Off Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Meyer on August 11, 2007, 12:59:40 PM
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If you would now hear that world would end in one week, what would you do?
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How would it end. That would make my decision for me.
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Leave with my thumb drive that contains the mod and my computer.
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Does it matter how? I don't mean that some war between two countries who both have nukes.
Let's say that something from space. Asteroid or radiation or whatever there is that could wipe life from this miserable little planet.
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If it was an asteroid, I would hide underground, hoping that I would live.
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Let's assume nothing can save us.
I think I know pretty well what would happen in Finland.
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Leaving and heading for Gliese may.
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I would get married, and eat ice cream. But all of this is irrelevant, the world will end in 2012, or so says a bunch of crazy people.
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you mean Incas? or was it Mayas? I don't remeber but it was either Mayas or Incas who declared that world would end in 2012.
"Leaving and heading for Gliese may."
Why would you do that Arbiter?
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Mayas, and Nostradamus, and the bible code and the oracles and everyone else some people are crazy enough to believe.
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Well let's hope that won't come to true.
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my dad and i always joke, the world will end in 2012, better get ready.
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Well have to wait and see.
But if they give a warning that it is possible due to some reason, Finland will quickly become the happiest country in the world.
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Why??
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because everyone will be drunk for that last week. As soon as they would give the annoucement everybody would storm to Alko and ge every bottle they could. After that they jsut sit, drink and wait the world to come an end. some may even go to their summer cottages and go to swim and sauna.
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I don't think that surprise's me.
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and why is that? ;D ;D
Do you think that most finns are drunks?
Because if you do, you are bsolutely right. ;D ;D :laugh: :laugh:
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I didn't mean that, but if it is true, ok
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??? ??? What did you mean then?
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If the world ends, get drunk. What is the legal drinking age in Finland??
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18. Not that it stops kids whose age is 16 to drink.
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Dang. Over here it is 21
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Personally i hate beer, i just dont like it
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:laugh: :laugh: too bad for you. I began my drinking when I was 16. And it is good. 21. poor bastards. Doesn't your government trust you when they have set the age so high up.
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I've never had it.
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Personally i hate beer, i just dont like it
How long have you been drinking it. And if you don't drink beer, what then? Cider
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I've only tried it, i dont like it,
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the best there is. If you don't count booze that has more %s. Me and my friends would drink those but they are harder to get. Beer you can't get from every little shop and kiosk.
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you have beer kiosks, we have pop kiosks. dang
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kiosks don't only sell beer. there is all kinds of stuff. candy, cigarettes and toilet paper. And what is a pop kiosk?
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pop is the weird northern word for coke products and the like
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a stand that sells soda/pop/coke. they are all around amusement parks. Any beer there in finland?
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beer in where?
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amusement parks with roller coasters and stuff.
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let's get back to the end of the world.
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we can discuss beer and other alcoholic products in diffrent topic if someone makes one.
At the end of the world all catholics will go to Vatican and all muslims will go to Mecca.
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don't make fun of Catholics, if you are, most would go to their church. I don't know abut Muslims though.
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I don't make fun of them. Alothought I think catholisism a way to destroy this planet. Watch Dogma. But I just think that many catholics would go to either a church or in Vatican to listen what pope is saying.
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I doubt theyd all go to the vatican, maybe those close in Europe, not really anywhere else
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you're right. unless they are really cracy in their belief.
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if it was something from space take over U.S. nuclear command and shoot nukes at every country so the end would come sooner
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I doubt that. I tell you the best solution is to get drunk. And I mean really drunk. Would you rather die happily when your drunked and don't realize what is happening or do you seek refuge from somewhere and hope you might get lucky. You are that lucky only in movies.
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Meyer, what are you?
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what do you mean.
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what religion?
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officially I'm Lutheran. Not that believe in god. why do you want to know.
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just wondering. The Lutheran Church broke off from th e catholic, they are similar.
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yep we broke out. and are quite similar, exept we don't have pedophil priests like catholics.
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I'm gonna venture a guess and say it's about the pedofile priests. It's true, a lot of priests are pedofiles and drunks and the like. It's really not all that funny. They're supposed to set an example and then they go and do stupid stuff like that. One of the reasons why I hate religion.
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I have a new thing that i would do at the end. I would hijack a space shuttle and escape to a far away place. Or the international space station.
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So you could sit cooped up for maybe 2 months before either starving or suffocating?
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But it is 2 months longer than everyone else.
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2 months longer is better than nothing.
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Doing what?
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Absolutely nothing.
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I'd rob Wal-Mart.
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Wal-mart? come on, wal-mart?
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You can live in a Wal-Mart, hypothetically speaking here if the world was to end, I would have to put on my Batman costume, And pretend I am the Dark Knight in the final hours...And right when it happens I'll scream "RUSTED METAL!"XD
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hm id hijack the last water plane (planes that land in water actually in very few left) and id land it in someones pool
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I would storm into Alko and get drunked and die happily without even realising that I'm dying. I could even rob some stores if I can after all that drinking.
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hm i suppose thats good too
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Best way to spend the last week on Earth.
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no wait i got one
steal a space ship and go to the space station after robbing a bank
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That is probably the best thing that I have heard in a long time!
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How would you learn to steer your stolen space ship? besides you need support staff to launch it, you can't do it alone. And what would you do with the money as world is soon to become end.
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And you think with the world coming to an end they wont be guarding their spaceships?
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Hire a support staff and a band of mercenaries.
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I still doubt you would make it. besides I would rather die with the rest of the world than live 2 months in solitary waiting to die.
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I would get as many people together all over the world and have the largest chicken dance ever before right before it all goes down
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That would be fun, and disturbing.
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But it would be so cool
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I doubt that many people would join your dance.
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Would you?
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No. As I said I would get very drunk, I mean wasted. ;D
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That would be fun, and disturbing.
No, just disturbing.
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I don't think anyone would care.
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hm thats probably true
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i would go to the gun range and die destroying paper targets whith me colt saa
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I would die destroying happy meal toys with an M-16.
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I would propably be passed out when the end comes.
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hm doubt it
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The world would go into chaos, riots everywhere
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hm doubt it
why do you doubt it.
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well why would you pass out
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Hes completely drunk, didnt you read his other posts?
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oh eah i forgot aabout that
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Apparently thats what hes going to do, get drunk
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yeah but i didnt link the posts together
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Apparently thats what hes going to do, get drunk
And I can't see why nobody else is getting drunk.
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Me, cause i hate beer
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drink booze.
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Meyer, I think you should talk to a counselor.
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agreed
but would we really know when the end is near
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If the end of the world was near, i might join Meyer for a few drinks.. Vodka and Orange please :P
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id go for a strong bacardi and coke
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lot's of vodka and other strong booze.and beer. And why should I see a counselor. My drinking is quite normal for a finnish people of my age. Hell I'm part of the "light drinkers".
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i haven had a drop in three years
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and how old are? if you are above 16 and haven't have a drop in three years, then you should go to see a counselor.
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im 18 and im the designated driver im not about to get 6 of my freinds killed drinking is somthing i dont do much meyer
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??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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what is you confused abot
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I don't plan to drive car when drunk. I don't even take my bicycle then. getting drunk doesn't mean you have to fool around. you can still use your common sense.
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i loose it when im drunk
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you should learn to control yourself even when drunk.
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i mean i lose my common sense if i had more russdian in me i could hold my booze but 12% russian
40% apace in dian the rest i a mix from all over europe
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100% finnish and I can hold my sense very well even when drunk. one thing common in borth russians and finnishs people is that we both can take a lot of drinking before passing out.
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Don't forget the irish.
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Don't forget the irish.
Not so sure about them.. dont forget about all the rubbish about leprachauns and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow, that must be drink related :P
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That is what I mean, if they are drunk enough to see stuff and not pass out, they can hold their liquor.
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Agreed
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Bona Dea, my mistake. Of course I should have mentioned Irish.
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well my german freind can hold liquor like its water
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well he is must be from Bayer.
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probably
lol my dad talks like a woman when hes drunk
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Next year to Oktoberfest!
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Oktober fest ive heard of it but refresh my memory of what it is
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a beer-festival. One of the things I want to do in my life is to go and take part of Oktoberfest.
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your crazy but ok
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topic people
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Will there be oktoberfest at the end of the world?
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Gliese, Suppost to be an Earth Replica or something.
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Gliese, Suppost to be an Earth Replica or something.
say what?
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Is that where people are supposed to go?
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Gliese, Suppost to be an Earth Replica or something.
What?
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Kalo your post doesn't make any sense at all.
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Kalo your post doesn't make any sense at all.
God i hate the fact that im used to Modify being NEXT to quote instead of visa versa...
Anyway, YES it does, Maybe if you did some research or re-read it a bit.
Gliese was a Planet discovered that VERY MUCH replicates Earth, Has an Atmosphere and might just have Water, meaning a more inhabitable Planet.
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well maybe little more explanation would have helped.
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well it does exist but it is hundreds of lightyears away
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and I don't see
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neither do i
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Will survivors live there? Or is that where the aliens come from that will kill us?
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How are you so dense...Its where i'd try to go if WORLDS END Was upon us.
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Oh ok, I over examined the topic.
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and how in the Zeus buthole would you get there?
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You didnt say exactly WHEN the world would end :).
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In exactly 7 days.
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oh plese we wont be around to see the worlds end
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opefully not. but you never know, do you?
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Don't you know, the worlds already ended ;) we just havent found out yet :D
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And you are dead. you just haven't stopped breathing yet. OK and let's stop this right now.
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What, this topic?
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no that death and world is destroyed yet thing. otherwise it would spread and soon someone from the mod team comes and banns us.
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Arbiter bans people from heaven for spamming! :police: :police: :police:
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Starting with you for reviving a topic after 25 days..
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I thought the limit was 40.
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well I though so too. but maybe we were wrong.
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Meh, technicality technicality.. :P
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I've decided the world can't end, Master Chief will save us
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Masterchief_800x600-1-.png)
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Then he kills himself.
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The chief is to good for that
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Who is he meant to be??
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You dont know Master Chief?
Hes the main kickass character of the bestselling game series of all time, Halo
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No i dont know it (it is a fictional thing from a game therefore does not deserve a gender :P)
And i dispute the point about Halo being kickass - IMO its overhyped mediocracy..
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finally someone who agrees, anywho back on topic
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I still say he wouldn't let the world end
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I doubt it would have any say in the matter, if it actually existed - which it doesnt :P
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Sure, he'd stop anything from killling us off through invasion or probably from killing ourselves
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topic....
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i am on topic, im saying the world wont end because of him
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We will be hit by an asteroid. Or we will just see it as it goes between us and communication satellites in 2028. So it might be the end, or not.
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time will show. but I say we die when some alien race comes to destroy Earth because it's on their way when they try to build a by-pass road.
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Or when some bright spark decides to drill to the centre of the earth, somehow causing mass destabilisation thus wiping out everything on the planet surface - which is why we need a colony on the Moon (and then Mars) asap..
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bases on moon and mars sounds good idea.
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And then the moon and Mars colonies get mad at Earth for controlling them and nuke us
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but moon is too far to be hit with nukes. unless you put giant extra fuel tanks whixh will slow the missile and it can be shot down.
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There is no friction in space. Once you get going you cant stop until you are forced in the opposite direction.
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and i was saying the moon would nuke earth, and yeah, big fuel tanks wouldn't slow it down, you wouldn't really need to use fuel much once you're on your way
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You would, otherwise your nuke could be affected by complex gravitational forces, possibly pulling it off course..
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exactly. and without power it would be easy to shoot down.
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What complex gravitational forces? theres only two that will affect you, the moon and Earth, and if they can figure out how to keep a satellite in orbit without engines, i think they can make a missle actually fall
And no missle is easy to shoot down, they still have speed, just not constant engine
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but satellites won't have to travel to moon and back. they're very close to Earth. if you would send a satellite to the mid-distance between Earth and Moon, it wouldn't stay on there.
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The satellites are as said, in orbit, therefore the gravitational forces applied to them remain constant. When an object moves through space the gravitational forces change with distance to the respective gravity source.
There isnt just the Earth and Moon's gravitational forces to consider, there is also the Sun, and every other planet in the Solar System (although these have a weak influence at such great distance).
Most satellites do have engines, which are used to maintain their orbits (all satellites orbits decay with time due, and thus they need boosting back into position, or to speed them up to maintain relative position). The ISS is boosted by the Shuttle every now and again, otherwise its orbit would decay and it would start re-entry.
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Well the missle is kinda supposed to go down to Earth
And if they can bring a rover, living quarters, landing module, food and oxygen enough for three people to the moon, im sure bringing a nuke to the Earth from the moon would be a piece of cake
complex or not, gravitational pulls aren't random, they can be calculated for without much time
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Yes they can be calculated, but you'd still need engines on the nuke to maintain the correct trajectory towards its target..
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Im not saying there wouldn't be engines, i never said that, you guys are making it out like it would have to be a mile high and still only maybe get there
Im saying it really wouldn't be horribly difficult
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I say it wouldn't be so easy. I mean those gravitational pulls in the space sift every second. so you can't calculate them so easily. but because we don't have colonies on moon this conversation is kinda futile.
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Not yet we dont..
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They dont sift every second, you think the planets just decide to change their mass in the blink of an eye?
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well planets move constantly and at very great speed.
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They dont sift every second, you think the planets just decide to change their mass in the blink of an eye?
No, for the matter than they dont 'decide' anything - they are inanimate objects..
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yep they just follow the laws of gravity.
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but once again, planets dont move randomly, they move in patterns that are calcultaed for
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All the planets in the universe all revolve around things with a strong gravitational pull, an example the Sun(a star) has a strong gravitational pull and is keeping us in orbit due to its size, same thing with the moon, it orbits us and we call it a geosynchronous orbit.
Thats the end of my scientific plop. >_>
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but those planet orbits aren't nessecarily stable. they can shift. I don't know if it happens often but it is possible. and even an few inches can make all calculations futile.
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orbital shifts take thousansds of years
And They've gotten things to the moon with people on board, they've sent stuff to Mars, i think they can handle it, its not very difficult when you look at sending an explorer to Jupiter
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well I ain't a rocket scientist so I don't know how easy is it. but I wonder why haven't someone made a nuclear powered space vessel?
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well I ain't a rocket scientist so I don't know how easy is it. but I wonder why haven't someone made a nuclear powered space vessel?
Because if there is some gravitational turbulence leaving earths atmosphere you go BOOM!.
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how do you figure that?
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A nuclear powered space vehicle would require greater equipment and shielding, therefore would be much heavier and thus need much more fuel to get it into space from earth..
PS, check out this article on sending man to Mars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7021303.stm
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but nuclear powered vehicle wouldn't nessesarily be heavier. it doesn't need so big generator, a small one produced all power it needs.
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But because it is nuclear powered, there needs to be much more shielding for the crew, which adds to the weight, and a nuclear power source is much more complex than other generators.
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what do you mean much more shielding? it doens't need to be so much more than it already is.
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Shielding against the radiation produced from the nuclear reaction.
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well it doesn't add much weigh. surely not so much that it comes harder for the ship to leave earth and travel to space.
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Extra equipment and hardware = greater mass = more fuel needed to lift off.
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Why would they make a nuclear powered space craft, whats it gonna do, power a propeller? you forget that a nuclear engine wouldn't create any thrust
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:P Probably use nuclear power for on board electricity for the long trip.. Going to Mars would be damn hard with only a couple of batteries..
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solar power, a nuclear engine would be too big for the power needs of a spaceship
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Extra equipment and hardware = greater mass = more fuel needed to lift off.
What do you mean "extra equipment and mass"? If you use nuclear power for power source they would naturally take off the systems they now use. that would balance it. and solar power is't very useful if you are going outward of the sun as the solar rays don't come there so much.
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Extra equipment and hardware = greater mass = more fuel needed to lift off.
What do you mean "extra equipment and mass"? If you use nuclear power for power source they would naturally take off the systems they now use. that would balance it.
Yes, but i am assuming that a nuclear power source is larger/more complex than a standard power source, therefore it would have greater mass..
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and solar power is't very useful if you are going outward of the sun as the solar rays don't come there so much.
They come there plenty, all you need is a few solar panels and maybe a small genrator, a nuclear power source would be way to big and complex
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nuclear generator would be big all right. but you can also build bigger ship. why send a three man team to explore Mars? they can go there and come back. what's the point of that? build bigger ship, send more men to explore and get more and better knowledge.
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who said extra?
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my mistake. I answered to one of Slornies comments on the page 13.
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k, just didnt know where you were coming from
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neither did I but I modified my post.
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nuclear generator would be big all right. but you can also build bigger ship. why send a three man team to explore Mars? they can go there and come back. what's the point of that? build bigger ship, send more men to explore and get more and better knowledge.
because bigger ships means a hell of alot more money
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and isn't usa supposed to be very rich?
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Yeah, but we're talking trillions, too much that the government wants to spend
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who said that it has to be only american project? why can't other countries get involved?
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exactly such as china europe russia
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Because theres too many problems with the project they're working on right now
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and what is that project?
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Shuttle replacement? Or the return to the Moon..
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why bother? who wnats to go to moon when the trip costs 100 million
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NASA is planning to use a moon base for a possible mission to mars. China just wants to prove that they can get there.
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I was refferring to the ISS, all the trouble they're having with exploding shuttles, smoking vents, and failing computers
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Which is why they want to replace it with the new launch vehicle they're developing (i forget what its called)..
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that still doesnt help the smoking and computers failing
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american tehcnology. phy.
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Actually the whole computer failing was a Russian thing....
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says who? let me guess: american news. very reliable info and I'm sure russians blamed americans.
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Oh that trouble.. I thought that was all fixed?
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It is called International Space Station. We can blame it on everyone.
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Why would the Russians blame Americans when only the Russian built segments of the station went offline? in this case it was entirely Russian fault
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I hope we can keep this conversation clean. and here my answer: Who do you know it was the russian built part of the station alone that went offline?
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The fault that caused the problem was traced by the crew of the ISS to certain Russian components. Im sure the crew knew what they were doing and were more concerned with fixing tracing and fixing the problem before they ran out of air/power than thinking up an excuse to blame it on the Russians :-\
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i know if sections of my space station had no oxygen i would be too busy trying to fix it rather than blame people for it (unlike most politicians)
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(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r222/Ukeboi88/Elrond.jpg) Of course the Gassers will blame the first person there finger rest near it their job i HATE POLITICIANS i do however think that no blame shoud be cast its not the end of the world the comonauts and astronaughts know what their doin
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Why should no blame be cast? Its always someones fault, but the guys up there don't really care, as long as the can fix it
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well I think it was noone fault. sometimes technology just fails. it could have been happened to us made part too.
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But if you test technology enough it shouldn't fail, it doesn't 'just' fail
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Yes, sometimes it does on no fault of anybody. There are always reasons, just not necessarily good ones. Anywho, locked. This has gone way off topic....