time to buy stock in scuba gear companies

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:58 pm

Sortelli wrote:OH MY GOD ALL THE WATER IN THE PLANET WILL EVAPORATE

Well, yeah.

But the sun will probably be well on its way to red giant phase to cause that to happen and we have several billion (that's US "billion" 10^9, not that other "billion that's 10^12) years to prepare.

Of course, knowing the human race, we'll probably wait until it's a week from next Tuesday before we begin.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:08 pm

You think humans are gonna' survive that long?

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:13 pm

I plan to.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:41 pm

dburkhead wrote:
Sortelli wrote:OH MY GOD ALL THE WATER IN THE PLANET WILL EVAPORATE
Well, yeah.

But the sun will probably be well on its way to red giant phase to cause that to happen and we have several billion (that's US "billion" 10^9, not that other "billion that's 10^12) years to prepare.

Of course, knowing the human race, we'll probably wait until it's a week from next Tuesday before we begin.

We must act now! Everyone, quickly sign these Sortelli Protocols to stop the sun from devouring the earth. Now, I'll admit that I'm not quite sure how much of a material impact this will have on our planet--possibly only slowing the sun's alarming escalation by .0017 percent over the next several billion years--but basically if all the countries in the world don't start sending me Sun Credits valued at $100 billion each we're all going to die.

We must find an alternative to the sun before it kills us all.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:13 pm

Sortelli wrote:We must find an alternative to the sun before it kills us all.

Two words . . .

CREAMY

NOUGAT

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:17 pm

DELICIOUS

TheBladeRoden2 · Post by **TheBladeRoden2** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:44 pm

looks like I'll be safe for a few thousand years.

ShineDog · Post by **ShineDog** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:58 am

***sings***

Nuclear Winter, Nuclear winter,

He'll cover the woorld in, snoooooooooow.

best supervillain evar

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:36 am

Either all the pollutants in the air will hold in heat, melt the icecaps, and drown us all, or they'll block out the sun's warmth and we'll all freeze to death! Our only hope is for America to become COMMUNIST, right now! Quick! Before it's too late!

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:09 am

...well there goes my apartment.

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:51 am

Fear, fear, fear.

Fear of AIDs.
Fear of SARs.
Fear of bird flu.
Fear of giant space rocks.
Fear of flooding.
Fear of calories.

Sheesh, you'd think eggheads would have something better to do than to come with things to scare white people.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:31 am

Dunno about that. Playing on fear is a pretty efficient method of securing funding.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:46 am

Black Sparrow wrote:Maybe hurling a 64,000,000BC-esque meteor at the earth would cool things down a bit...

So all we needs, right, is to clone a kind of supersoldier, right? With alien DNA. Raise him in the military, then have him go stark raving mad when he finds everything out. Nothing like shock to bring out the nihilist in you.

Then all we need to do is wait for the Reunion.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:03 pm

The Van wrote:Sheesh, you'd think eggheads would have something better to do than to come with things to scare white people.

Well, for every scientist working on FEAR FEAR FEAR there's 50 just having snowball fights with muons or whatever.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:59 pm

Psiogen wrote:
The Van wrote:Sheesh, you'd think eggheads would have something better to do than to come with things to scare white people.
Well, for every scientist working on FEAR FEAR FEAR there's 50 just having snowball fights with muons or whatever.

*thinks of the scientists fooling around with nanotech*
thus creating more fear when the one scientist says "YOU'RE DOING WHAT? OH MY GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US ALL!!"

oh, I remembered that the melting ice caps is going to mess up the gulf stream current, in fact causing a localized ice age in the north. so I'm calm again.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:09 pm

grabmygoblin wrote:
Psiogen wrote:
The Van wrote:Sheesh, you'd think eggheads would have something better to do than to come with things to scare white people.
Well, for every scientist working on FEAR FEAR FEAR there's 50 just having snowball fights with muons or whatever.
*thinks of the scientists fooling around with nanotech*
thus creating more fear when the one scientist says "YOU'RE DOING WHAT? OH MY GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US ALL!!"

oh, I remembered that the melting ice caps is going to mess up the gulf stream current, in fact causing a localized ice age in the north. so I'm calm again.

Yeah it calms you down. I'm the one who's looking at a future of living in an Alaskan or Siberian climate.

Also, fooling around with nano-tech ain't bad.

Self replicating nano-tech now, on the other hand...

The Snoo · Post by **The Snoo** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:25 pm

Self replicating nanotech is the only viable approach. Otherwise, the costs of maintaining any kind of concentration of nano's is absurdly high.

War · Post by **War** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:54 pm

Sounds like someone reads too much bad Sci-fi.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:09 pm

War wrote:Sounds like someone reads too much bad Sci-fi.

I know. Britain? Who ever heard of a country called Britain? Geez, at least try to make this stuff sound plausible, guys.

The Snoo · Post by **The Snoo** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:38 pm

Oh, we're not talking about some country in europe. We're talking about Space Britain, in Alpha-Centauri. Well known, Space Britain.