Let's talk a little bit about something outside your range of familiarity! Since I can ask anything, I'm legitimately curious now that I think about it.

You know that funny little thing folks call intuition?

That secondary whisper in the back of your head? It's not actually a voice, but a feeling that you get around or over something, and your head translates it into words? Everybody has it, and some are more aware or sensitive to it than others.

So my question is, have you ever had that secondary impulse? Did you listen to it or not? And, most of all, what's the biggest thing that ever came out of listening to that little whisper? Good or bad?

Well, if they won WWII, then it'd be safe to assume that there wouldn't be anybody to really stop them. If they overthrew all the other rival powers, chances are they'd muster enough strength to take what they wanted and nobody could do shit.

It's an ugly picture.

Quote from: Sandtrap on November 21, 2014, 10:40:46 AM

Chugging down shit and praying that the minor migraine I woke up with fucks off.

Fap until everything is okay.

You don't understand.

Chugging down shit and praying that the minor migraine I woke up with fucks off.

*Smitherman 30 intensifies*

Now, here's the interesting thing. You can start to see the threads beginning to line up in the background no? China's been talking about building a space elevator for a few years now. Mining for rescources has a steady yet slow opposition to it as environmntalist views become more prevalent. Space travel while being wonderful and all that is terribly expensive and incredibly wasteful in terms of fuel. Private civiallian sector spaceflight is now becoming a thing.

And most of all, scientists just landed a probe on a passing by comet.

Eventually, when the economy and businesses are ready, a push to make a space elevator will be made. And that's a good thing. Because it can accomplish so much. As you said, probes and sattelites could be launched from the top in low orbit. Imagine if scientists got a functional system set up to send mining probes to asteroids and comets? And the probes came back and docked at the space tether? Imagine if the new engines they've been working on, and the new engine built a little while back that stumps scientists because it breaks our currently known laws of physics came to pass?

Commercial flights into space would act as a tourist fund to the first country that built the tether. Space travel and anything related to in atmosphere travel would benefit so much from even one. Personally, I think this is our future. Building space elevator is critical to us as a species.

But again, it's no easy task. On paper, and simplified, a space tether is basically just a rope with a weight on the end of it, held straight because of the speed of the object it rests on as it rotates.  But the perspective is enormous. This is a super structure that reaches up into space. Can't just build it in one shot certainly. It has to be modular, piece by piece.

But, most importantly, if a space elevator where to ever be built, it would have to be protected. Laws would have to be passed keeping it, or possibly "them" out of conflicts and not a target of attacks. Because the damage if one of these things fell would be unparralleled. But, not only would laws have to be put in place, but they would have to have the tightest security on the planet.

Imagine the joy in the eyes of some ISIS asshole on the ground when he saw that tether and decided that he'd like to blow it up? That cannot be allowed to happen.

But like I said. Hell of a lot of hurdles to overcome for us. But if we build even one, then the game changes for the better. Personally, I don't particularily want to be alive for some of the uglier phases in our future. But a space elevator is something I hope to see in my lifetime.

We get one of those built and you can say for sure that as a species, we'd done something right.

I'd rather cut my dick off then give any of you my phone number.

There is one person on this site with my phone number. I lol.

Quote from: Vien on November 20, 2014, 06:24:37 PM

Quote from: Naja on November 20, 2014, 06:05:00 PM

Sandtrap

His hair isn't white. He is near the artic circle, however.

It is in Dark Souls 2

I swear to god I forgot completely the fact I made a fat man with rosy red cheeks and called him Santa in Dark Souls.

Heyo

Quote from: Sandtrap on November 20, 2014, 11:43:12 AM

You should have put a Santa hat on your moon baby

not sure if it'll be possible for someone to do mine but i want one anyway

Take Gif
Break Frames down
Put Santa Hat in each frame
Boom goes the dynamite

Four easy steps that you too can the secret to for the low low price of 499!

Quote from: Elegiac on November 19, 2014, 09:43:43 PM

This is the first time I've ever truly wanted to unsee you.

You're only scratching the surface of what I have.

Oh holy shit that reminds me. Christmas Sangheili. I forgot I had one in my library of stuff.

Sign me up if you want.

If you can get me talking, I have a sort of habit of talking in disjointed segments. My head's a little runaway. I connect the dots at different points it seems. But, I'm sure with a little bit of digging, I could bring up some stories to tell. I've seen some things. Not much, but enough that my world is far apart from all of you folks's.

And of course, if you want to ask me philosophical shit which I ponder on an almost daily basis, nock yourselves out. I'm a little slow on jokes, but I can have my moments. I don't get pissy at folks in any regard either. Easy to get along with I believe.

Quote from: Sandtrap on November 19, 2014, 08:49:47 PM

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SNOW.

I WANTED SNOW THIS YEAR.

NOT ANOTHER FUCKING ROUND OF -30S ALL FUCKING WINTER.

DUDE TAKE OURS

I CAN'T GET ANYWHERE WITH THIS STUFF

Fuck, I want the snow New York got. THAT'S MY FUCKING SNOW.