Posted on 09/28/2012 6:49:57 PM PDT by Solomon8522
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“It had been several days since I had last seen my cat, but the laundry basket was giving off pitiful mewlings and strange writhings reminiscent of life.”
This could teach you to sort your loads ...
Zombie Kittens??
“The Necrocomicon...”
Why does that title always give me visuals of Supply/Demand curves?
Macroeconomics... microeconomics... necroeco — tilt!
The laundry is just WEIRD here.
Yeah, now THERE’S a half-asteroided idea if I’ve ever read one.
Ne zot, that’s perfect! Anoreth should major in Necroeconomics, and so should Tom! Emphasis on the “Law of Large Numbers” as it relates to birth and death stats ;-).
SO, ...
...when a doctor prescribes a steroid for a Democrat...
...does the pharmacy dispense an asteroid?
How would that help, if they won’t let you have a colonoscopy?
Sorting loads is no fun at all.
Shorting loads, however... Woo-hoo!
It’s positively ELECTRIC!
Two points to address: First, in regard to the Flying Castle, whose historical record is otherwise known as The Undead Thread; we established a separate and select ecology to support a space habitat some years ago.
You see, someone, I don't remember who, suggested we go into space. That was an intriguing challenge, and before we realized what had happened or specifically why, we were well-established in a sedate four-year orbit in the Asteroid Belt.
Of course, along the way, we sent an exploratory expedition to the Moon, (and left a small robotic colony to develop its resources); then we linked up our additional Habitats A and B (known as "Are We There Yet?" and "He's Touching Me!"); once in orbit we began rotating for artificial gravity, and headed off for deeper space.
We went past the Moon, (scary!), and sent the Flying Castle down to Mars, (near, by the way, the site where Curiosity landed, but in a much smaller crater); where again we left a contingent of colonists and spiderbots.
Our slow and measured conquest of the Solar System has a purpose: to ensure the survival of the human race, and the protection of our home planet.
The next step will be sending an expedition to the planet Venus, which is next on our list for colonization. Preparations are still ongoing.
Secondly, DC, your idea of spinning the asteroid shows that you are engaged with the problem, but some technical matters remain a concern.
The purpose of causing the asteroid (or comet) to move is not one of merely dismantling it. We will wish to move it to a location where its mass and material will be of benefit to other installations.
For example, the Venus colony will need solid material of all kinds, to make machines and hinges, air pumps and electric motors, and rocket nozzles and nuclear engines.
So the guidance of large asteroidal bodies must be done with great care. Using its own mass as reaction mass is a practical way to deal with the problem. Although the mass diminishes, we don't need to throw away anything really valuable.
Also, spinning a large mass requires a lot of energy, and unknown technologies. It's similar to trying to speed up the rotation of a planet, which some have suggested for Venus, but which I think is impractical.
And even if you get your object moved to its new location, it would be spinning in an inconvenient manner.
Also, most small bodies would not hold together well at a rapid spin rate.
But I do appreciate your having given thought to the problem.
“How would that help...?”
Y’ever see what’s left after following the directions for proper application of an asteroid?
I believe the resultant, uh, “particle count” warrants recollection of the pithy commentary of the late Carl Sagan: “Billions, and billions...”
Zombie kittens has a nice ring to it. Somebody posted a lovely picture of 3 eyed kitties on a thread recently. I guess they were the alien kitties though.
Oh. In terms of colon cancer, I don’t like that ...
That's me and the Offspring and the goats with the kudzu, admit it!
No, it’s all good; the asteroid wipes out the colon cancer entirely.
And if you think that’s good news, y’oughta see what an asteroid can do to semicolon cancer.
The only problem with this treatment method is dosage, asteroids come in very large sizes, and — in preliminary testing — not only was the cancer wholly eradicated, the test subjects were also obliterated, which is entirely unrelated to being blitzed, as was the originator of this thread.
I’d like to know what the founding Facebood troll said. How bad can it be? I have six sons, after all ...
I was opposed to the kudzu.
I know, and in retrospect you might have been right, but in futurespect it might prove to be really important.
In other news, Frank peed. Bleepin freep.
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