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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:13 PM Original message |
Assuming the worst, what would you say to distant future humans? |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Destroy these tablets |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. We turned the corner to the end when too many worshipped a false god of hate and profound ignorance. |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. And here I was thinking along completely different lines... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. Share your things NT |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
4. While I would apologize for the loss of medicine |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. What a coffee bean looks like... |
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HeresyLives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I agree. We've never had such an event, nor are we |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. "Love freely. Hate sparingly. All things are made of smaller things until only energy remains."n/t |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
10. Floss. nt |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
11. Drink Brawndo! The thirst mutilator |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
12. We fucked up. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
13. "Everything is connected." |
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guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 04:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. hmmm |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 05:19 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. So what would you say? |
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guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #24 |
42. Nothing to say |
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Wilber_Stool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. Not a fair question |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. Are you gonna eat that last weed rat? |
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NoNothing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
16. Already been done |
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NoNothing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. And if you're too lazy to click |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Sounds like a good plan to me |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. "be not a cancer on the Earth" |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-07-10 07:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
43. But who's listening now? n/t |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
17. Those are not humans. Humans are extinct. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. Just one word: Sorry. |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. I will say: Hi |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
25. If I wanted to be representive of the current generations: |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 05:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I don't think they'll need porcelain tablets to tell them that... |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 05:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. A porcelain bowl is more apropos. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 05:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. :-) Nice shot. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
29. "Oops." |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. We can NOT return to a pre-coal/oil world |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
31. E=MC^2 |
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tinrobot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
32. We consumed a lot more than we needed to consume... |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
33. If your parents weren't total morons they knew what future they were giving you when they had you. |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
34. Know your limits. Know when to stop. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
35. I'm sorry I drove so much by myself. Really. |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
36. English is the Official Language! |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
37. I know what grovelbot will say... |
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NeoGreen (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
38. Don't Panic the Answer is 42 |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
39. "Sorry that the generation before mine caused this mess, I tried to do something about it." |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 02:03 AM Response to Original message |
40. As surely as common German people supported the destruction of the Jews |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 03:30 AM Response to Original message |
41. Sci-fi movies show that everyone speaks English in the future. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-07-10 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
44. Don't let greed destroy you. Trust Reason over superstition. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
45. I would leave them a Leonard Cohen CD (our western culture's Rosetta Stone) |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. "Rosetta Stone" - Ilike that very appropriate term. "Everybody Knows"... |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 02:09 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. yes |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 02:52 AM Response to Original message |
46. Hey, we've got two spacecraft with our pictures on them still flying out there. What've you got? |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
49. I would freeze dry and seal a Bible to give to the future. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:28 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Isn't that kind of like giving them a blanket infected with smallpox? |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:29 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Misery loves Company :P |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. You evil bastard. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
53. Solar PV will soon be competitive with grid power. |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. He said "distant future", not "retarded"... nt |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 06:58 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Well, it depends on how distant. In 1976, Amory Lovins said "Solar will soon be competitive," |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
54. I don't think I could improve much over what Kurt Vonnegut suggested be carved |
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Ready4Change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
57. How did you get here? |
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