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Post by
tuckmuck203
School on Tuesday, and I hate going back on the first day >.<
Especially since I have more exams over the next two months.
I have school monday, with exams Tuesday, Thursday and Friday....
GL ^_^
Just before the Holidays I had a 4hr exam. Top that ;)
I have school monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and friday :(
Post by
Laihendi
Classes don't start at my school until Wednesday, and I only have classes on Tuesday and Thursday this semester.
Jealous.
What... I thought this was the recycle bin.
Post by
HiVolt
So... brought my dog home, but he sheds, and that pisses my roommates off, so he's going back to my mom's.
You know, I try and do something about how lonely I am by bringing one of my only friends in the world to live with me and I get that taken right back away from me.
This sucks.
Post by
Interest
Someone decided to bump a year old blog.
I raged.
Post by
Monday
I washed my license and had to get a reprint...
Post by
Dwarfiesgosquish
So, I've found out recently that the marijuana alternative I use is going to be banned by the FDA soon, and put on a "trial" period of illegality. I honestly don't understand what a trial period of illegality is supposed to accomplish, but whatever.
It's just ridiculous to me that I'm perfectly allowed to pollute my lungs with cigarettes and I'm perfectly allowed to get hammered drunk and destroy my liver- but I can't smoke a little green and be relatively fine(health-wise). I really can't wait until America grows the *!@# up and stops calling cannabis bad just because it's illegal. Nearly any study you look at will tell you that it's a better idea to legalize it than to keep it prohibited, so why the hell aren't we getting the ball rolling on this?
The recent proposition in California got shut down, after gaining momentum in the media and online... how? What !@#$%^bags came out and said "WELL I DON'T WANT NO HIPPIES SMOKIN' THE REEFER IN MAH STATE!"? Good job, Jethro. Go back to your goddamn backwater meth lab and your cirrhosis and leave us hippies to do what the hell we want. We don't come into your place and tell you it's not okay for you to @#$% your cousin do we?
With the crazy amounts of it grown where I live, I honestly think the state of Alaska should just legalize it, and then tap into the market. Boom. Budget problems solved.
Tired of the @#$% on the News.
Tired of being behind on schoolwork.
And lastly, most importantly, I'm tired of R.A. Salvatore killing off main characters.
Post by
Skreeran
I just watched a cosmology documentary, and I'm gonna have to bump this one of mine from earlier in the thread.
So... Any frustration? Does it have to be a specific incident, or can it be general?
I get frustrated about the small stuff, just like anyone else, but I'm going to start with a big frustration that I was reminded of by a documentary I just watched. Extraterrestrial life.
We know almost for certain that it's there. With 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars estimated in the universe (
Source
), it's tremendously unlikely that Earth is the only planet in our entire universe that was ever capable of sustaining life. With one intelligent species per galaxy (an extremely conservative estimate) at present time, there would be 100
billion
different intelligent intellient species, with their own art and culture and individuals wondering if they were alone. Trillions of religions, stories, heroes, and ideas. Most species might be (pardon the pun) alien to us, with mind that we would have a hard time understanding, but that still leave thousands or millions of species that are more similar to ourselves.
And yet... the vast majority of these people we will never even make contact with. Ever. Even if humans make contact with another species in my lifetime, we won't exactly be able to hold a conversation with them. At best, we might get a signal that tells us they're there, and then send a signal in return, hoping that the next generation might get a reply. If we're lucky, and we find life on one of the 1400 or so stars within 50 or so light years of earth (
Source
), then that could still be 100 years or so before we get any answer to out signal. And we could almost certainly not send any sort of rocket to meet them in person. And, assuming the one-intelligence-per-galaxy figure, we will almost certainly never make contact with any other intelligences.
It's frustrating to think of all the possibilities--all the philosophers, artists, songs, stories, and so on--that lie out there that we'll never know about. Maybe we could get lucky and imagine them ourselves, but it's unlikely.
And on the off chance that Earth is the only planet capable of sustaining life--at least in the present--I would be absolutely terrified to learn that that was the case, because that would mean that our tiny fragile world--one that is destined to die, one way or another, be it from nuclear war or from a loss of natural resources or from the death of our own sun--is the only place in the universe where there can be life, and that life is threatened immensely with death in the very near future, relatively speaking. Yes, ultimately all life is presumably doomed anyway, but the idea that we aren't the only ones is comforting. To learn that we were the only life in the universe would be as terrifying a prospect to me as to learn that I was suddenly the only person in existance.
I desperately wish to find extraterrestrial life, because that means that we're not alone. To find brothers in space, to share our thoughts and stories with would be the greatest achievement man had ever made. Just as a thought is worthless until it is transferred from one mind to another, so Humankind's achievements seem vain without someone to share it with. And imagine what we could learn from alien cultures with fresh new perspective and ideas. But even if life does exist elsewhere in the universe, chances are we will not be able to ever reach it. At best, we'll only be able to send the equivalent of e-mails with a 20-100 year delay each way. And I'll probably be dead by then.
That frustrates me.
Post by
HoleofArt
ALIENS ZOMG
Well, while messages might always take forever should a link be formed, we always have the chance that Humans achieve biological immortality. The wait wouldn't be too bad then, would it? ;P
That's what I'm hoping for, anyways. If we do find intelligent life that we're capable of communicating with, hopefully the average lifespan of Humans will be much longer.
Post by
tuckmuck203
ALIENS ZOMG
Well, while messages might always take forever should a link be formed, we always have the chance that Humans achieve biological immortality. The wait wouldn't be too bad then, would it? ;P
That's what I'm hoping for, anyways. If we do find intelligent life that we're capable of communicating with, hopefully the average lifespan of Humans will be much longer.
I forget where, but I've heard that by 2040 the average healthy human being lifetime should be about 120 years.
I'm thinking if that's true, then by 2080, it should be even longer, until we eventually achieve biological immortality, and then there will be a limit to how many children you can have, and eventually the sun will go supernova, we'll have had to build bunkers of some sort to survive, then we will all live on a dystopian spaceship that orbits the now pulsar remains of the sun, siphoning energy from the radiation given off by the sun.
And yes, I've stolen these ideas from various sci-fi's, including Ender's game, and I cannot remember where I got the idea of teh spaceship orbitting the pulsar, but I do rember that I stole it from soemwhere...
Post by
Skreeran
Eh, even if we establish a link with one civilization, the vast majority would be those that we could never possibly meet. Civilizations with real, thinking, imaginative people like you or I, thinking thoughts that we'll never know.
I don't know about you, but that's just a little sad and frustrating to me. I'd feel better if we found intelligent life elsewhere in the universe in my lifetime, but who knows if we'll do that?
Post by
Murrdurr
Besides not knowing what !@#$ing toon to play lately or if I should level this fresh DK I made on Black Dragonflight to join another message boards guild, I have nothing to add XD
Post by
Monday
3. For verily I, Funden, Prophet of Funden, doth say that concocting such posts as to heap thy ancient languages upon they most holy oblations doth be a great task indeed. Thus sayeth Funden, Prophet of Funde.. Amen.
Post by
Skreeran
3. For verily I, Funden, Prophet of Funden, doth say that concocting such posts as to heap thy ancient languages upon they most holy oblations doth be a great task indeed. Thus sayeth Funden, Prophet of Funde.. Amen.This is frustrating.
Post by
Monday
3. For verily I, Funden, Prophet of Funden, doth say that concocting such posts as to heap thy ancient languages upon they most holy oblations doth be a great task indeed. Thus sayeth Funden, Prophet of Funde.. Amen.This is frustrating.
Why?
Post by
Skreeran
3. For verily I, Funden, Prophet of Funden, doth say that concocting such posts as to heap thy ancient languages upon they most holy oblations doth be a great task indeed. Thus sayeth Funden, Prophet of Funde.. Amen.This is frustrating.
Why?Because I'm being facetious.
Post by
Monday
USE YOUR $%^#ing BLINKERS PEOPLE! Or I will strangle you with the filaments of your blinkers!
Post by
HoleofArt
I don't know about you, but that's just a little sad and frustrating to me. I'd feel better if we found intelligent life elsewhere in the universe in my lifetime, but who knows if we'll do that?
Very frustrating. Sometimes I think I'd like it best if we didn't find anything while I was alive (unless I end up living a couple hundred years. I'd be at peace, then). While the discovery would be fantastic, it would probably just antagonize me more.
Ignorance is bliss, eh?
Post by
Skreeran
I don't know about you, but that's just a little sad and frustrating to me. I'd feel better if we found intelligent life elsewhere in the universe in my lifetime, but who knows if we'll do that?
Very frustrating. Sometimes I think I'd like it best if we didn't find anything while I was alive (unless I end up living a couple hundred years. I'd be at peace, then). While the discovery would be fantastic, it would probably just antagonize me more.
Ignorance is bliss, eh?Heh, except when you're aware of your ignorance. I mean, I wonder how many meaningful songs or poems have been written by civilizations in galaxies so far away that we can never possibly hear them?
I know it probably seems silly to worry about that, since there's nothing you can do about it, but it's kind of depressing to me. Not "life is worthless" despair-type depression, just "Man, that really kinda sucks..." type.
Post by
HiVolt
Just watched some George Carlin. I love the guy, but it's a bad idea for those who, like me, are political idealists. Sort of makes you walk away from it thinking, "Ah !@#$ it. Nobody really gives a $%^& anyway, so why should I care?"
I think it's time that Americans started to really think about what's going on in their country and heed the words of Howard Beale: "I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad."
I'd rather not end up like Carlin- disillusioned and cynical- concerning my thoughts on the country. But, I think that if some sort of real, tangible change doesn't happen soon- at least in the area of the average American's intellect- I'll end up being just as bitter about it as he was.
So much potential for innovation and invention, we have as a people and a society. And what do we use it for? #$%^ing Viagra, New Coke, and NASCAR. Really, it's not much of a surprise that the rest of the world sort of sees the average American as a fat, lazy, stupid, overgrown child with an inflated sense of entitlement.
Post by
HoleofArt
Heh, except when you're aware of your ignorance. I mean, I wonder how many meaningful songs or poems have been written by civilizations in galaxies so far away that we can never possibly hear them?
I'd rather be aware of my ignorance then knowing that one of the greatest things in history is unfolding before me and I'd be dead before it got good. ;P
It's like only being able to watch the first 45 minutes of (insert famous movie) and not getting to see the end. I'd rather have not seen the 45 minutes at all.
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