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Old 08-25-2016, 12:39 PM
 
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"What the heck!"

"Seriously, we have to visit that system!"

Aliens arrive.

"Why did you give your star a monocle?"
"Shultz?!? What is the meaning of this?"

"I know NOTHING!!!!"
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Old 08-25-2016, 12:59 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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"Shultz?!? What is the meaning of this?"

"I know NOTHING!!!!"
Erp. A comedy about a Nazi prison camp. The '70s were soooo weird. One reason I left the continent for a good long stretch.
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Old 08-25-2016, 01:37 PM
 
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Erp. A comedy about a Nazi prison camp. The '70s were soooo weird. One reason I left the continent for a good long stretch.
A way to dis-empower atrocities is to ridicule them and remove them from being "sacred" wounds. The "troubles" in the U.K. would be continuing if the outrages were not put in the past. U.S. soldiers going back to 'nam to talk with their past enemies would never happen if the hate and inhumanity had been held sacred.

I understand it is a hard concept to understand, especially if you are in the "eye for an eye" group.
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Old 08-27-2016, 05:33 PM
 
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This would be roughly equivalent to the people in the Jurassic Park movies building a giant bonfire in a forest full of velociraptors.
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Old 08-29-2016, 03:30 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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A way to dis-empower atrocities is to ridicule them and remove them from being "sacred" wounds. The "troubles" in the U.K. would be continuing if the outrages were not put in the past. U.S. soldiers going back to 'nam to talk with their past enemies would never happen if the hate and inhumanity had been held sacred.

I understand it is a hard concept to understand, especially if you are in the "eye for an eye" group.
No, I'm a historian and a veteran.
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Old 09-04-2016, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Toronto, ON
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1936 Olympics was the first earth broadcast ever powerful enough to enter space, and since then it's been fairly constant up until newer technologies have been taking over terrestrial tv and radio transmissions. So there is a bubble of radio waves spreading from earth which is 160 light years in diameter, and growing, at light speed.

Didn't anyone watch Contact? Sheesh.
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Old 09-04-2016, 08:16 PM
 
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Sounds like a useless endeavor,even if we could signal to the universe that we are here it would still take millenia for any possible response. i also shudder to think of the cost.
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