In the news today

[Carnage]

Maybe some rich oil barons or Richard Branson could also afford it, or at least to invest into it.

Not happening. It would likely cost from tens or hundreds of billions at the very least to colonize the Moon (remember Mitt Romney trashing Gingrich in the debates). A project like colonizing Mars in this lifetime will have massive costs probably ranging in the trillions and would most certainly take a government to fund.

It will take over a decade to transport thousands of workers there, whilst also accounting for transporting years of resources so that the thousands of workers can survive while building the colony. Imagine building New York city from scratch on a planet 20-30 years away. Finally if the planet is habitable, it will likely take decades for a region to develop ecologically such that anyone wants to bother living there.

After all this effort, then you have to find a way to transport millions of civilians all this distance. In addition, you had better damned hope there are either fossil fuels on Mars or we've perfected the utilization of solar energy, otherwise people will have to live with medieval-age tier technology.

Unless there happens to be a gigantic shit-load of useful resources lying around on Mars, there's no reason to bother colonizing it rather than figuring out a way to reduce the population on earth leaving more resources and space per person.

The Asteroid mining project on the other hand, sounds fucking neat-o.

[Carnage]

Superpowers will be wiping eachother out for resources long before we have any capabilities of colonizing Mars.

[Penner]

R.I.P Michael Clarke Duncan

Sad news, seemed like a really cool dude and i liked most of his work

[Animeniax]

R.I.P Michael Clarke Duncan

Sad news, seemed like a really cool dude and i liked most of his work

Yeah that was shocking, dude was only 54 and apparently in great shape. He's been in the hospital for 7 months since a heart attack. I don't know if that was widely known. Might be a genetic thing.

[Uchiha Barles]

That is absolutely shocking, and yet another wake up call. Make sure to take care of yourselves because even that may not be enough. RIP Micheal, I loved your work, even in the crappy movies.

[Animeniax]

Someone "with a Middle Eastern accent" called in a bomb threat at uni today, so they evacuated campus buildings and cancelled classes. The cynic in me says someone wasn't ready for an exam.

People are upset that the threat came in at 8:30am and said the bombs would go off in 90 minutes, so the uni waited until 9:50am to warn students and force them to evacuate.

[Buffalobiian]

Someone "with a Middle Eastern accent" called in a bomb threat at uni today, so they evacuated campus buildings and cancelled classes. The cynic in me says someone wasn't ready for an exam.

/added to my list of emergency procedures.

[Animeniax]

Yea, had security all over campus here and seriously backed up traffic due to front gate checks.

Weird, at first I thought maybe you moved to Texas, but it turns out 3 universities got bomb threats today, including one in Ohio and one in North Dakota.

/added to my list of emergency procedures.

Well it'd be a lot easier to get away with than what one guy tried a few years ago when he wanted his exam to be postponed. He parked a rented UHaul/mover truck outside a university building, similar to the one Timothy McVeigh used to blow up a building in Oklahoma. He got the exam postponed, but also prison.

[Lucifus]

Yea, had security all over campus here and seriously backed up traffic due to front gate checks.

[lelouch]

Geass?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...free-will.html

[Buffalobiian]

Geass?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...free-will.html

I'm rather skeptical of that article. Acetylcholine blockers can cause confusion and all the other stuff... but for it to be used to such magical effects as the article suggests raises my eyebrows.

Someone feel free to prove me wrong though. Go down and pick some up in your local pharmacy. It's under the section for stomach cramps.

[enkoujin]

I'm rather skeptical of that article. Acetylcholine blockers can cause confusion and all the other stuff... but for it to be used to such magical effects as the article suggests raises my eyebrows.

Someone feel free to prove me wrong though. Go down and pick some up in your local pharmacy. It's under the section for stomach cramps.

No one can prove you wrong because you majored in pharmacology and are in medical school right now.

[Animeniax]

Isn't the Daily Mail generally regarded as a tabloid site with unsubstantiated reports and shoddy journalism?

[Buffalobiian]

Isn't the Daily Mail generally regarded as a tabloid site with unsubstantiated reports and shoddy journalism?

As in it's intentional like The Onion? Or just.. honest but unreliable?

[Animeniax]

As in it's intentional like The Onion? Or just.. honest but unreliable?

No, it just tries to take itself seriously as a news source but fails because it posts tabloid-worthy sensationalist material, maybe to get the scoop or just from a lack of journalistic integrity. The Onion rules.

[Assertn]

There seems to be a growing fad for mock journalism on the internet these days. I've been finding more and more "shocking" articles that ultimately turn out to be completely made up. Though, what really pisses me off is there seems to be no point to it. Any sort of entertainment value derivable from the articles disappears immediately after discovering that it's fake, which is what makes the onion leagues apart from these impostors.

Case in point.

[Animeniax]

Something needs to be done to clean up the internet. You got it right Assertn, except I still get email from my father warning me every time he reads one of these fake shock articles, and he's being serious in his concern.

[Assertn]

Something needs to be done to clean up the internet. You got it right Assertn, except I still get email from my father warning me every time he reads one of these fake shock articles, and he's being serious in his concern.

It's quite unfortunate. The Onion is so good, that it's content is generally even more entertaining despite being obviously fake, while still giving us the opportunity to mock the few who still don't get it.

[Animeniax]

It's quite unfortunate. The Onion is so good, that it's content is generally even more entertaining despite being obviously fake, while still giving us the opportunity to mock the few who still don't get it.

Holy crap I can't believe the comments I'm reading on that site. Though I'm really surprised more news outlets aren't mentioning Obama's son.

[Animeniax]

It's quite unfortunate. The Onion is so good, that it's content is generally even more entertaining despite being obviously fake, while still giving us the opportunity to mock the few who still don't get it.

Hahahah! China took the Onion's "Kim Jong-Un sexiest man alive" article seriously:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#...hits-china.cnn