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Sean

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Priceless...

Some BSG humor for you via Trinity15's sig on the SciFi Forums:



Good times, good times...

Sean

MOSPEADA/Cyclone coming to a curbside near you?

Now anyone who's ever been a fan of Robotech would remember the VR-052 Battler Cyclone ride armour from the Invid War. Anyone who knows Robotech and Anime would now that this same unit was called the M.O.S.P.E.A.D.A from the original anime of the same name.

How many of us have dreamed of having a Cyclone in real life?

If you're like me, then you'd get a kick out of this.

Sure, it's not as elegant, and doesn't carry any cool weapons--but when was the last time the Invid/Inbit invaded Earth?

Baby steps, baby steps.

Sean

Thoughts on the Second Law of Thermodyamics

Theodore Sturgeon, the famous sci-fi author, said in a 1970 interview that "...ninety percent of SF is crud." This was later termed Sturgeon's Revelation (aka Sturgeons's Law), and slightly modified to the axiom "Ninety percent of everything is crap."

I myself have come to the conclusion after many years of dealing with people in general, and with the insight provided by Sturgeon's Revelation that "Ninety percent of people are stupid." I like to call this Campbell's Corollary to Sturgeon's Revelation. Further to that, I've pondered the implications of the corollary. Are individuals 90% stupid? Are people in general 90% stupid? Are 90% of the population simply stupid people? I tend to think it's all of the above, although, I'm also a believer that individuals themselves can be quite intelligent, but once you get past a critical mass of people they become monumentally stupid. Or to quote Agent K from Men In Black: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

Now how does this relate to the Second Law of Thermodynamics? I'm glad you asked.

The Second Law states: "The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium." More simply, entropy--or the state of disorder within an enclosed system--increases over time to the maximum amount possible. This is a natural process, and without adding energy to a system to decrease disorder, it is irreversible.

I think there's a certain implication when you take the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Campbell's Corollary to Sturgeon's Revelation together: "The stupidity of an isolated population not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium". That is, unless effort is put into educating and enlightening a population, that population will continue to grow more and more stupid over time, until it becomes too stupid to live. Call it the "Law of Entropic Intelligence" if you will.

I wonder if that's not just another way at looking at how we as a race are dealing with global warming and climate change.

Cheers,

Sean

More ARC Funnies

Again, from those whacky d00ds at ARC:

A few truths in aviation

The difference between a duck and a co-pilot?
The duck can fly.

A checkride ought to be like a skirt--short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover everything

Speed is life. Altitude is life insurance.

It only takes two things to fly: airspeed, and money.

The three most dangerous things in aviation:
A doctor in a Bonanza.
Two captains in a DC-9.
A flight attendant with a chipped tooth.

Aircraft Identification:
If it's ugly, it's British.
If it's weird, it's French.
If it's ugly and weird, it's Russian.

Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another very expensive flying club.

The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities to experience all three at the same time.

(A DC-9 captain trainee attempting to check out on the 'glass cockpit' of an A-320.) "Now I know what a dog feels like watching TV."

The similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies.
If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.

It's better to break ground and head into the wind than to break wind and head into the ground.

The difference between flight attendants and jet engines is that the engines usually quit whining when they get to the gate.

New FAA motto: "We're not happy, til you're not happy."

A copilot is a knothead until he spots opposite direction traffic at 12 o'clock, after which he's a goof-off for not seeing it sooner.

If something hasn't broken on your helicopter--it's about to.

I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richter scale.

Basic Flying Rules:
1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.
2. Do not go near the edges of it.
3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.

Unknown landing signal officer to carrier pilot after his 6th unsuccessful landing attempt: "You've got to land here son. This is where the food is."

Cheers,

Sean

The Islander in me loved this....

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Cheers,

Sean

Embracing your Inner Cylon

I had a heart-to-heart with my inner cylon, and apparently:

Which Battlestar Galactica Cylon Are You?

More on Battlestar Galactica. Created by BuddyTV

Now I don't know if this explains my sudden interest in wearing heels and a red dress, but it could explain how come I keep seeing some weird English dude hanging around these parts....

Sean