Frivolous ASB thread

[Zyobot]

May 10, 2019 14:53:26 GMT lordroel said:

May 10, 2019 12:16:59 GMT Zyobot said:

I wonder if the latter two will either a) lobby for the newly discovered rams to be restricted/outlawed, b) try to obtain some for themselves, or c) pursue some combination of both.

What about if they are super extreme rare and only can live in Greece, the country will have its own super version of the Panda.

The Greek government would likely get involved in protecting them from prying eyes, potential profiteers, and the general public at large.

[stevep]

May 10, 2019 14:53:26 GMT lordroel said:

May 10, 2019 12:16:59 GMT Zyobot said:

I wonder if the latter two will either a) lobby for the newly discovered rams to be restricted/outlawed, b) try to obtain some for themselves, or c) pursue some combination of both.

What about if they are super extreme rare and only can live in Greece, the country will have its own super version of the Panda.

  Greece suddenly become a lot more popular with the very wealthy and also considerable more influence in that case, especially if the rams can only live in Greece.  Annual sale of fleeces will be very profitable.

[eurowatch]

May 10, 2019 14:53:26 GMT lordroel said:

May 10, 2019 12:16:59 GMT Zyobot said:

I wonder if the latter two will either a) lobby for the newly discovered rams to be restricted/outlawed, b) try to obtain some for themselves, or c) pursue some combination of both.

What about if they are super extreme rare and only can live in Greece, the country will have its own super version of the Panda.

China wants you to know that pandas are the greatest bears on Earth. China also wants you to know that they have evidence Greece has been Chinese teritory since Ancient times.

[Zyobot]

'WI Everyone Became Omniscient?'

[Zyobot]

I thought of this one just moments ago: 'Uptimers Tell 1950s/'60s People That Duck & Cover Is Useless' (since, you know, a nuke will kill you either way). I especially wonder how modern kids who somehow end up in a downtimer school would be received by telling the class and/or teacher that fact.

[lordroel]

May 12, 2019 0:24:44 GMT Zyobot said:

I thought of this one just moments ago: 'Uptimers Tell 1950s/'60s People That Duck & Cover Is Useless' (since, you know, a nuke will kill you either way). I especially wonder how modern kids who somehow end up in a downtimer school would be received by telling the class and/or teacher that fact.

Wait, did people not know that it was pointless to Duck & Cover when you will be hit by a atomic bomb.

[stevep]

May 12, 2019 7:53:23 GMT lordroel said:

May 12, 2019 0:24:44 GMT Zyobot said:

I thought of this one just moments ago: 'Uptimers Tell 1950s/'60s People That Duck & Cover Is Useless' (since, you know, a nuke will kill you either way). I especially wonder how modern kids who somehow end up in a downtimer school would be received by telling the class and/or teacher that fact.

Wait, did people not know that it was pointless to Duck & Cover when you will be hit by a atomic bomb.

  I think the basic idea, given the size of the US and inaccuracy - and limited numbers - of early weapons was that if you were in the outer blast radius of a strike then it would improve your chances of survival.  Definitely helps if you avoided being blinded by the flash or crushed/skewered by blast fragments.  Of course you would need to evacuate afterwards and if too many hits in your area either multiple blasts or fall-out, especially if ground bursts are used, are still likely to get you.

  How bad total fall-out in a full scale exchange would be is a key question as different sources have given widely ranging answers.

[lordroel]

What if every spoken languages unite into their own alliances, thus the English speaking countries would unite into their own block while those countries who speak French, Spanish and so own would form their own blocks and so on.

[stevep]

May 12, 2019 11:36:49 GMT lordroel said:

What if every spoken languages unite into their own alliances, thus the English speaking countries would unite into their own block while those countries who speak French, Spanish and so own would form their own blocks and so on.

  Oh gods!  If we don't have enough problems in Britain that could put us under Trump's control!  Although if it got half way decent government an English speaking bloc would have a lot of potential.  Spanish as well as Chinese and Arabia would be significant.  Possibly also French with its African lands.  [Although would this mean that existing countries lost areas with a different tongue - i.e. China losing Tibet and Xinjiang, Canada losing Quebec to the French bloc extra].  Also what would be the situation with say India, which has multiple languages, Hindi as the official language of government and English as a "subsidiary official language".  Could be a hell of a mess there.

[Zyobot]

'1950s Reaction to North Koreans Marching--With Silly Background Music'. By that, I mean this sort of thing:

[Zyobot]

'All Child Soldiers Suddenly Become Adults'. Given different ages of majority in different countries, making them all something specific (i.e. eighteen years old) wouldn't necessarily bring them up to that legally recognized level.

[lordroel]

May 12, 2019 21:40:56 GMT Zyobot said:

'1950s Reaction to North Koreans Marching--With Silly Background Music'. By that, I mean this sort of thing:

I like the once with the Hell March music, it fits the North Koreans well.

[Zyobot]

May 16, 2019 3:51:17 GMT lordroel said:

May 12, 2019 21:40:56 GMT Zyobot said:

'1950s Reaction to North Koreans Marching--With Silly Background Music'. By that, I mean this sort of thing:

I like the once with the Hell March music, it fits the North Koreans well.

Perhaps. Still, I was originally thinking that '50s America especially--which would've taken the threat of Korea going Red seriously, I imagine--would watch this videos of modern DPRK troops marching in parade, but with silly background music to add some humor.

My point is that they'd probably be thinking "What the hell??" at the sight of the communist North being made fun of by the still-capitalist West, sixty-something years later.

[Zyobot]

'WI Animals Could Understand Human Speech/Writing?'.

[lordroel]

May 17, 2019 17:35:04 GMT Zyobot said:

'WI Animals Could Understand Human Speech/Writing?'.

Chimpanzees can understand speech and writing.