The lake is huge, so even if you spaced out a ramp every few hundred metres, you're talking a lot of ramps.

The water also isn't good for swimming, and I think ramps would give the wrong impression.

Oh excellent - thanks! Had to look her up, and this appears to have been the first of a set of recurring bits with her.

(shamelessly ripped from wikipedia) "In her early career as a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour of the late-1960s, French portrayed a somewhat spaced-out or ditzy hippie named Goldie O'Keefe. The character was originally introduced, in an ostensible studio-audience interview segment, as Goldie Keif; both "Goldie" and "Keif" were slang terms for marijuana at the time. Reportedly, the slight name change to O'Keefe when she became a semi-regular was at the television network's insistence. Her segment of the show was called "Share a Little Tea with Goldie." At the time, "sharing tea" was a popular euphemism for getting high on marijuana. Following suit, her segment consisted largely of "helpful" household advice loaded with sex and drug-related double entendres."

Filing away "goldie" and "sharing tea," those were new to me

came across this video...anyway it is cool and really spaced out. A vid worthy of Spacey I hope.

People have to fucking change. They don't need to eradicate forests to do these things, there are plenty of sustainable architectural / eco living books out there. Plenty of space out in the desert and there is plenty of ocean water to filter. Plus, so much tech to help with this wave of transformation.

I do agree that simply put, people need to get snipped. Continue fucking but STOP having kids, please!

I feel like i'm spacing out and going crazy watching the slow-mo replay.. both weird and funny. I wonder if the guy with the flappy moobs reacted to being heckled in the street?

I think I might have psycho space-out face.

I will be posting a video my band did that sounds like a spaced out Yo La Tengo song, let me know if you like the way we mixed the vocs

This is all good info, but he misses a couple of big ones:

- Eating smaller portions 6x a day (rather than 3x): You still have to control your overall caloric intake, but spacing out your food consumption keeps you in a thermic digestive state (which burns calories) during more of your waking hours and over time has an effect on the portion you eat to feel "full".

- Tearing/Repairing Muscle: weightlifting and the associated cycle of tearing and repairing your muscle tissue burns a ton of calories. For people over the age of 35, this extra boost is nearly always necessary to counteract slowing metabolism and assist effective fat burning.

Few things to note about that.

The way they present the rules here, is not at all a stretch from the norm. They are always WAY over the top and in keeping with the "Don't be an asshole theme"

Another is that she switches her story even as she is telling it... "i was trying to find my seat... I was texting..." Understand, it isn't your typical theater with hundreds of seats... The chairs are much larger (recliner-esq) and spaced out into groups so that servers can quickly move through and not interrupt peoples view.

It's really well setup and i guess what i'm trying to say (badly i suspect) is that trouble 'finding your seat' is really unlikely in this type of theater. And it would be virtually impossible to miss their garish warnings.

>> ^alizarin:

Talking and texting during movies is dickish. Kicking people out without warning and no refund for using their phone's screen to find their seat is dickish. Can't people find a middle ground like one warning and you're kicked out with a refund?

>> ^Mcboinkens:

This is so ridiculous I can't even really take the comparison seriously. Not discovering the Americas earlier in the history of Earth was mostly due to our own ignorance. We though the world was flat, and assumed nothing else existed. The vikings are alleged to have made it to the Americas much earlier than Columbus, even.
On the other hand, physics is holding us back in space. Sure, if we learn how to bend spacetime or use wormholes we may have a shot at getting off earth, but it's silly as hell to think it will actually happen within the next 1000 years or so. By that time, we'll probably all be extinct already.
Terra-forming is out of the question, it would be impossible in anything but science fiction, and the only reasonable planet we could even do it to is Mars, which we can hardly get a probe to that worked successfully. Will we make progress? Yeah, definitely. But to think we'll leave this planet is absurd. The only hope for humanity is progress in renewable energy, population control(limiting births, not promoting genocide)and learning to accept other people for their culture and religion. The faster we figure that out, the better off we'll be.
Also, that west wing clip was flat out dumb. Sending men to Mars would do nothing for us but inflate our Space-peen. There is literally nothing to gain from sending humans there rather than robots. It is riskier both cost and liability-wise. The only thing remotely useful would be setting up a base, which would require huge funds, and a ridiculous amount of new research. Plus, they really wouldn't be able to do much once it was set up. We already know the atmosphere, composition, and features of Mars. What would a man do?


First, the issue of whether or not the earth was flat was pretty much settled by Pythagoras in the 6th century BCE. Columbus had so much trouble drumming up funds precisely because anyone who knew anything about cartography (i.e., the Portugese) knew that he was either lying or suicidally deluded. We don't know why Columbus thought what he thought, and we probably never will. Perhaps he believed but could not prove that there HAD to be something between the Western coast of Ireland and the eastern coast of Japan. As for why no one else tried it, you're right. Others had. Don't forget that there is strong evidence of others visiting the Americas prior to the Vikings. Given how many Polynesians must have given their lives to map out the ocean currents that led to the fragments of rock jutting out of the ocean, it was apparently something intrinsic to the species, but no longer as strong a yearning.

And I never precluded the use of robots to get us where we're going, at least initially. I do think that there is tremendous hubris in the fields of science when it comes to what we know and what is left for us to discover. It does seem like there's a lot of space out there, and the distance which once seemed so insignificant to the early sci fi writers now seems insurmountable. I take Pascal's Wager (or at least the fallacious logic that drives it) and say that the actions we must take to get us out there would benefit the human race as a whole far more than it would hurt. To give up would be to surrender to a nihilism quite endemic in the species. Consider for a moment the construction of the cathedrals. Would such populist public work projects even be possible in this day and age? Would the average Joe be willing to start a project, knowing that he would not be able to live to see its completion? If we don't get off this rock, I blame that attitude far more than I blame the laws of physics.

To get back to the present topic, it's possible that the railgun technology being developed could serve as a kind of propulsion, but it seems as if they've worked out the mechanics of the propulsion, and only need to get the scale down pat. They know how to send something really fast, but they want to weaponize it, to better kill at a distance, an attitude that has never won us many friends. As a result, I'd pull money out of this program.

Finally, I cannot really respond to your dismissal of a manned trip to Mars, because it's clear that you don't see what I and so many others see. Maybe it's a simple matter of me being that Polynesian sitting on the shore of Rapa Nui, wondering what other islands were out there. You, on the other hand, would rather we invent some better way to catch fish, or to figure out what to tell people so they don't chop all the freaking trees down and doom us all to a nasty population crash. Your instinct and my instinct don't run contrary to each other, as long as I'm willing to plant a few trees on my way out to sea. What you learn and what you do help me to do what I want, and what I might learn would benefit you and what you do.

upvote for wave machine. DOWNVOTE for horrible idea...do you think getting into a small opening in a tall building spaced out by a city street during a tsunami when everybody else has the same idea is easy? Yea, maybe "up" is the answer when we have flying cars, so why don't you work on that, we're long overdue.

Yeah, I like Floyd but I prefer the actual band Cluster for my ambient space-out-scapes. Man, Germany just had that whole drugged out space-age thing down pat.

It was surprisingly watch-able if you were spaced out. I only ever saw it at about 1 or 2am.>> ^budzos:

Glad I never had to watch this boring shit.

Hah, that jaguar is so spaced out.