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  1. ebon3

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    You might kill yourself before learning that you can't effectively make the heating elements from steel, and if you get lucky you may run out of batteries before you realize you're shorting all of them out too quickly.
    Naw, I'd get my leafspring toaster to work! I've enough burned wrenches to support my idea

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    You would probably be better off using some steel bits and pieces and a car battery to make a lighter and toast your bread over a fire.
    Bah, and disregard all those 9 volts and steel wool lying around

    Maybe I should have been a bit more wordy in my previous reply, its not that I would expect modern civilation to go on without a hiccup or revert to something say at the technological level of the early 20th century (then again maybe they could - simple inventors were able to devise and build internal combustion engines), but if all the brainy types were to disappear, I also dont think we would be in nearly as bad a shape as you suggest. Yes, brain surgury, limb grafts and keeping the local nuke plant from putting on a helluva light show would be problematic, I certainly expect society to become more insular but given the common pool of knowledge most people have been exposed to, some things that have plauged humanity even as late as the 19th century (maternity wards using common supplies and tools as they delivered babies leading to high mother and infant mortality rates compunded by the use of lead pipes) would be avoided. We know enough about general sanitation to better protect ourselves from some of the events in the past that wreaked havoc when it came to some particulalry devastating epidemics and so on.
  2. ebon3

    Xmas Geek Swag?

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    Originally Posted by Frost Warden View Post
    Lego Star Wars AT-AT. I get to look forward to putting this together over the next week.
    They had a Millenium Flacon at my local Walmart, I should have purchased it. Everything else seems like its KOTOR stuff. If I had a room converted into a shipyard, I snap it all up to star building EDF (Ebon Defense Force... of course )
  3. ebon3

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by Magus_Prime View Post
    Looking at the human race as a whole I would have to disagree. Joe Rogan has a really good point in one of his stand-up routines. If the smartest people were to disappear i.e. engineers, mathematicians, physicists, etc., which I'm sure we can agree only account for a small fraction of the population, what would happen to the rest of us? In other words, who knows how stuff works? Most of us don't. Honestly, I don't know how to put together a toaster from scratch. I have no idea how a heating element works. I know electricity goes to it and that's about it. In fact, all I really know is I can make money and buy a toaster that someone somewhere put together for me. So sure, every generation exceeds the accomplishments of the one preceding it but realistically we're only talking about a handful of folks who are really capable of doing these things.
    Necessity is the mother of invention and through trial and error you can accomplish alot of stuff

    You have it in you to figure out a toaster. I'm no electrician, nor am I an engineer or a scientist and I could assemble a rudimentary toaster just using some steel bits and pieces, a car battery, and some trial an error.

    If some cosmic force were to wipe out every scientist, doctor, and engineer on the planet and just leave us "dummies" we would revert back to a level of technology where we would be able function (which IMO would be surprisingly well) then begin the long process of building on that foundation which would probably occur sooner than later provided that cosmic force didn't wipe out the accumulated knowledge stored in books or computers.

    Depending on how inquisitive you are and your penchant for study or research you'll find that you can teach yourself a great many things.
  4. Well taken at the OP's face value, I'd have to say thats some real villany right there.
  5. Pffftt... console of the 70's... bah, I had my 2600 well into the 80's
  6. ebon3

    Human potential

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    Originally Posted by MaestroMavius View Post
    In the future, we will be faster and more agile, with more intelligence at the lowest level than we currently have at the highest. This is natural progression.
    I would have to disagree with you, personally given how we have advanced as a culture obsessed with the internet and multimedia in general, I believe this is what the future holds for the human race.




    and one day, my mojo-like descendant will ponder how Marvel got it so right.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bubbawheat View Post
    Never heard of Hunger Games
    I did after becoming a Jennifer Lawrence fan due to First Class. Although a brunette man with a strong like for women bordering in and around the mediterranean, Jennifer as a blond rates really high on the gaggle of women I'd invite to the 2012 future of the human race disaster survival shelter, but I digress and let me peruse this list.
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    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    Manly men have no fear, lift millions of tons a day, play sports, and eat raw nails with onions for breakfast.
    Pfffttt... The most interesting man in the world would laugh at that weak sauce.
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    Originally Posted by New_Dark_Age View Post
    The Patriot is an exception as was Master and Commander: The Far side of of the World. Those were great war movies.
    Indeed, I never tire of watching Master & Commander.
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    Originally Posted by Beastyle View Post
    Space Jockey!
    Yep, I'm psyched!!!
  11. I enjoyed it, I epsecially liked Moriarty.
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    Originally Posted by Mr. DJ View Post
    I personally enjoyed Saving Private Ryan and find it to be one of those movies that I can watch several times over like the Shawshank Redemption.
    Ditto, Saving Private Ryan is one of my absolute favorite movies.

    and Cpl. Timothy P. Upham when I get my hands on you, I'm going to ring your scranny little neck till you head pops off

    I really did find that scene where Upham froze in fear incredibly powerful. Every time I see it my teeth clench and I get angry.
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    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    Sanity is for the weak!
    Tru'dat!

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    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    Either way...I'm having Korean BBQ for lunch.
    Damn, I should have thought about that, Kim Jong Il was my favorite crazy dictator, it would have been fitting.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    So, let me guess:

    Humans were bred by the Aliens to be incubators for their young, but some revolt/cataclysm led to the Aliens think humanity was wiped out so they went into hibernation and then remnant humanity, having lost its history in the revolt/cataclysm, has gained space travel and stumbles upon and awakens our dormant overlords and hilarity ensues.
    Ah-ha! Get this man a ticket to hollywood quick!!!
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    Originally Posted by Henri View Post
    EUREKA!! I did it! Managed to create my first ever texture file. It's not perfect by a long shot. The join along the wings is mismatched and the central red stripe is too thick, but for a first attempt, i'm quite happy . A bit of tweeking with the patterns and i think British Hero's debut into the 3dArt world is imminent...





    Now, about that robot...
    Great work on the Cobra, really impressive,
  16. Rock'n the Cobra and tak'n out tha bad guys! Awesome stuff Henri
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    Originally Posted by TrueMetal View Post

    [spoiler alert for people who care]

    Mother is killed by the players at the end of the Minds of Mayhem trial. She still shows up in the low level Praetorian arcs.

    [/spoiler]
    NOOOOOO!!!!!!! For two obvious reasons
  18. I remeber the first time I heard O Fortuna, it was Excalibur.
  19. Man, I glanced at the title of this thread and the first damn thing that popped into my mind is; "How about some past advice". Sigh... I really couldn't help it

    Anyways, +1 on Skyrim, especially if your boy likes to explore, I had almost 160 hours in the game before I decided to take a break.
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    Originally Posted by Kierthos View Post
    And the oft-requested Assault Rifle Defense and Clown Summoning.
    You wont get clown summoning until they get player vehicles in the game. Really how else would you summon a clown!

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    Originally Posted by Sailboat View Post
    A real shield, not a small disk tied to your arm?
    Bucklers are shields too!
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    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    Dupin' movies now, eh, Zwill?



    These are all moves that I've never seen, and have no intetion of ever seeing. Especially "swingers". Never heard of it before, but it sure sounds naughty.
    Never watch Goonies or Hellraiser? Begone savage, back to the wilderness from whence you came and surely belong!
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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    They are both tasty and nutritious! You get your full day's supply of vitamin EEYOUCH! from the electron gremlins in there!
    Dont you get vitamin EEYOUCH from ground up mynock as well?

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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    It could be a prison barge. Aliens dumping their criminals here on Earth. You ever been to a 24 hour grocery store at 3 in the morning? Tell me all those people are "human".

    Hey, I got this really cool pen I want to show you :: puts on dark sunglasses ::
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mandu View Post
    From Dusk Till Dawn
    I was so jealous of the snake in that movie

    Anyways, if Feris Bueller's Day Off is on the list then;

    Better off Dead is required watching as well.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8r6X-aDsJM

    and One Crazy Summer for added measure.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeF0Waa1Blw
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by houtex View Post
    I rather like Sanctuary, but admit it's a guilty pleasure.
    Your not alone, I like Sanctuary as well, fun show.