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So if a power line shorts, engineers can configure the nearby lines to route the load around it from their office in realtime, rather than having to send guys out into a hurricane to fix it. If enough power lines short you need to turn down the various power plants in the area to avoid overloading the whole grid. They could build a dedicated, secure network for it... but we're talking about an industry that is still being outwitted by squirrels and tree branches.

The larger problem is that nobody ever, ever, ever invests until security until they absolutely have to. The incentives just aren't there, especially if you can pass all the costs of an attack onto someone else.

I see no reason that the computer network which handles this has to be the Internet. It makes no sense.

Why is our utility and security infrastructure ("our" in my case being the United States) accessible through the Internet at all? Has humankind forgotten that computers can be built to work without being accessible to four billion random humans over a wild west frontier network where no one has ever had a good intention ever?

It honestly strikes me as collusion with hackers in a new world order way, which sucks because all that is nonsense and is not what's going on, meaning I actually have no clue as to why this is so.

Phobos is hollow? Now i want to live on/in it even more!

Do we have to fight the mole people for yet ANOTHER planet?

What a fantastic concept!

The closest actual example of this I can think of is the Strong Nuclear Force, but that's really a practical illusion, it too can be broken and is only "antifragile" while the universe winds down through entropy.

I want to change my answer to a sled team of skunks.

Get some bear mace and work on moving.

Once you get a gun, they will too, and now you're at war.

I keep waiting for someone to go on a killing spree with an orgone shooter. They'd find a hundred dead people with no allergies, childhood traumas, or alien soul infestations, all on a sunny day.

Nam-Shub.

It never fucking works.

That is surprisingly terrible, and I thought I was beyond being surprised by terrible.

"A man glued to the ceiling is going to tell you the couch is closer to the sky, but let's look at things from the floor for a moment..."

Then, get them unbelievably drunk.

Once drunk and the room is spinning, ask them to put their foot on the floor for a minute. After a time, make them put their foot on the ceiling (may require low ceilings or clever monkeys) for a minute. Ask them which one makes the room stop spinning.

If they throw up on themselves with their leg in the air, they'll never mention it again. There are interesting ways of looking at things aplenty, but only the real one makes the room stop spinning.

The military spends too much on its doom robots, it's private industry which will invent the nightmares of the future.

For example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Kpv-ZOcKY - One day, your endocrine system will be removed by one of these while you're still alive and screaming.

They already know how to trap us using our favorite human food. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9oeOYMRvuQ - no doubt trying to slow us down for the Harvest.

Behold, the destiny of our eyeballs, sex glands, and small pets : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzHpDDttIBU - Off to the slave refeeders with you, blighted orbs of dead light, gonads, and Fluffo the Goodest Cat Ever.

Rodeos of the future are going to be outstanding. Ride'em, roboy!

Ha ha ha, Timothy Sutter, awesome!

Do you guys remember Petter Mårtensson?

Oh man, and the Ambrose Bierce Mexican Travel Agency Cabal?

"Holyshit, what's going on with my reality?"
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35634.msg1305494.html

Dear Tranzhuman Cryonic Institute of Weehawken,
I would officially like to make some slight changes to the way my head shall be preserved. Enclosed, you will find a package of assorted beads, a hot glue gun, and a letter from the Bishop of Las Vegas.

These are mythical in how spectacular they are, really shows up the religions who just painted pictures of their saints.