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Geek Culture / Internet going to "fall apart" next month?

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Raven
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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 14:42
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I'm sure if you send an SAE with drinking money to TGC c/o Mike then you'll receive Update 6 on release; internet or not

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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 15:05
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Quote: "I see in the paper each week about how close we are from a huge rock hitting earth (muhaha that pwn big time), yet it still hasn't happened for the last 20 years "


I hope it hasn`t happened for a bit longer than that, I don`t recall getting trashed by a giant comet/meteorite strike 20 years ago (although I do recall some impressive hangovers)



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Dazzag
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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 17:13
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Isn't there supposed to be something in the next 20 years or so? At least a decent size rock that has a seriously decent chance of hitting us? You know like 25% type figures. Can't remember now though, and Google is not my friend today

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Raven
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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 18:44
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Nah, there were a few asteroids they claimed were on courses.
The one your thinking off will pass bloody close though, something like 200,000 miles; which in space terms is a near miss.

That one is due in 2020 or something. There were some others they were worried about but after further study were downgraded.
Probably easier searching the Nasa or BBC sites.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 19:15 Edited at: 15th Oct 2005 19:15
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Quote: "Probably easier searching the Nasa or BBC sites"
"Google is not my friend today" is my version of "I can't be bothered looking *anything* up, anywhere, at any time" (I'm feeling under the weather and have no energy). If I can't find it on the net, then it doesn't exist. Or noones typed it up yet. I still refuse the existance (or non-existance) of several things based on this viewpoint.

For instance, unless I find a claim to the negative on the web (or from a vet), then I'm still going to assume that what my mum told me as a kid, about putting your budgie under the grill for a few monents to get it to live again (after being found on the floor of the cage) actually works. I am not listening to my friends and colleagues who tell me thats a load of s***e, and my mum just swapped the bird with a live one to spare me the heartache (bit like that one in the US about taking the dog to the farm). Oh no. Not on web, so can't disprove it. Either that or we had 7 bloody annoying budgie things when I was a kid (funnily I wouldn't have minded them dying as I hated them).

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Dazzag
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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 19:19
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Ahem. The bird grill thingy is based on a similar idea to electric heart paddles according to my mum. Amazingly (even after University etc) I totally believed this without question (not exactly an everyday consideration mind) until very recently (I'm 32 BTW) when I brought the subject up at work.

I have the horrible feeling that if I totally believed it, and bought a bird, then we would be seeing loads of toasted feathered things after a while. Sounds of "Live! LIVE GODDAMN YOU!!!!!!" and electric strobes everywhere seems highly likely (especially if I'd stayed on the sauce).

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re faze
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Posted: 15th Oct 2005 19:39
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the end of the internet will be the end of life as we know it.

you dont beat the system. the system beats you.
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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 16th Oct 2005 02:05
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by "we", you do mean nerds and geeks right?

“A lot of people approach risk as if it’s the enemy when it’s really fortune’s accomplice” - Sting“
.......S-S-D-D.......
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re faze
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Posted: 16th Oct 2005 02:52
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mostly but investment bankers and tycoons too. just now 'W' because he probably doesnt know how to use it. i heard he went to a supermarket and was bewildered by the laser scanners

you dont beat the system. the system beats you.
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JoelJ
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Quote: " by "we", you do mean nerds and geeks right?"

by "we" he meant you, leys, and XpProUser.

thank GOODNESS

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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 16th Oct 2005 05:51
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Quote: "by "we" he meant you, leys, and XpProUser."

i feel so loved and honored to be on so many of these "lists" that each one of you have, even people i have never heard of have me on their "lists"!

I'm here to do homework, and kick ass.....

and i just finished my homework.....
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Frozen Flame
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Posted: 16th Oct 2005 05:57
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u want to be on my list?

can be titled morons.

lol jk


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