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Started by Doktor Howl, October 26, 2010, 05:49:16 PM

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Kai

#30
October 27, 2010, 02:03:38 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on October 26, 2010, 07:00:38 PM
The Search for Great Things has ended, being replaced by the Search for Meaningless Bullshit.

That may be the way many see it, buuuut.....


Well, I'll say it this way.

There are millions of species on this planet. Maybe 10s of millions. We don't know. We've barely seen them at this point, maybe 1.5 million of them described.



Did I say described? Only if you count a little blurb and a quick drawing as being a real DESCRIPTION. So, maybe of the >1 million species we've already given a name, 0.01 % of those have a bit more than that known.

I mean, even after a person puts a name on all those species, thats not much doing right there. Once you got a name, how does it relate to other species? What's it's evolutionary heritage, behavior, ecology, physiology? What sort of life history does it have, where does it live, in the ecosystem, on the planet?

And when I'm not depressed over the one species that has made itself out to be the most IMPORTANT, I wake up rushing out to learn about the rest, to the point of distraction. Oh yes, theres adventure, motherfucking ADVENTURE.

And with the odd chance that, after living 10 thousand lifetimes I'll learn everything there is to know about this planet's possibly 50 million species I'll go find another planet with life, and start the thing over again. Last time I looked, there are a lot of stars in the night sky.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Her Royal Majesty's Chief of Insect Genitalia Dissection
Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

Kai

#31
October 28, 2010, 01:14:28 AM
On the other hand, I'm sorta depressed, Dok. We only get an average of 88 years (or less!) to do our thing till our minds are torn to bits. What the fuck is with that? I've got thousands, tens of thousands of lifetimes of work to do, and not the meaningless bullshit sort. And I'm only allowed this short amount of time?


God is one mean, cruel motherfucker.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Her Royal Majesty's Chief of Insect Genitalia Dissection
Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#32
October 28, 2010, 02:09:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 26, 2010, 08:15:32 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 26, 2010, 07:38:38 PM
Wow, this one was good!

The death of romance.

A certain type of person would say "growing up".  These are the people that we need to fire into the sun.

Hahahhaha! OHHHHH. My ex. Now, keep in mind that I am on good terms with all my exes. Casual or otherwise. But my ex-husband who is the father of my oldest two children, he is under the impression that I am, shall we say, not so mature. Maybe not the sensible parent of the two of us. Because, you know, I have traffic cones on my roof. I don't even have nice things. He considers himself a paragon of stability, and me... a little flighty. This baffled me for YEARS, because this is the guy who's never been able to hold a job, the perennial dropout, the guy who gets inheritances and squanders them away; the guy who is basically always counting on money from his family to pay for his upper-middle-class lifestyle. Then, finally, I realized; he's not looking at real accomplishment or happiness. He's ass-over-tits in debt, his wife is filing bankruptcy, and at 42 he's still never owned property, despite having many opportunities come to him for free when other people had to work for them... but they have the APPEARANCE of being upper-middle-class, and to him, that's what counts as "stability".

:lulz:

So when I retire with my paid-off house in nine years, he'll probably still be living this debt-fueled fantasy about his own maturity, based almost entirely on not ever having any real fun, and he'll still be looking down his nose at me as I live my flighty life of irresponsibility, traveling the world teaching and having a great time, with a nest egg in the bank and no debt at all.

Let them have their death. I'll keep my romance. People who only consider appearances will never have joy.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

LMNO

#33
October 28, 2010, 01:06:36 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 28, 2010, 01:14:28 AM
On the other hand, I'm sorta depressed, Dok. We only get an average of 88 years (or less!) to do our thing till our minds are torn to bits. What the fuck is with that? I've got thousands, tens of thousands of lifetimes of work to do, and not the meaningless bullshit sort. And I'm only allowed this short amount of time?


God is one mean, cruel motherfucker.

LessWrong's stance on Immortality isn't looking so bad, is it?

Kai

#34
October 28, 2010, 08:40:24 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on October 28, 2010, 01:06:36 PM
Quote from: Kai on October 28, 2010, 01:14:28 AM
On the other hand, I'm sorta depressed, Dok. We only get an average of 88 years (or less!) to do our thing till our minds are torn to bits. What the fuck is with that? I've got thousands, tens of thousands of lifetimes of work to do, and not the meaningless bullshit sort. And I'm only allowed this short amount of time?


God is one mean, cruel motherfucker.

LessWrong's stance on Immortality isn't looking so bad, is it?

I mentioned somewhere that, as I mature, transhumanist ideas have become more appealing to me. I may dislike the smarmy guruism, but I can hardly say no to immortality.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Her Royal Majesty's Chief of Insect Genitalia Dissection
Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

The Good Reverend Roger

#35
June 13, 2011, 06:13:59 PM
Bump for even greater relevance today.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Freeky

#36
June 13, 2011, 11:09:01 PM
You remember the panel in Transmet where Channon was reacting to Spider telling her that her boyfriend was just going to leave her once he got bored? 

That's my face right now.

The Good Reverend Roger

#37
November 03, 2011, 06:48:21 PM
Bump.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#38
November 03, 2011, 06:52:31 PM
Forgot about this one... I'm glad you bumped it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#39
November 03, 2011, 06:53:40 PM
Quote from: Nigel on November 03, 2011, 06:52:31 PM
Forgot about this one... I'm glad you bumped it.

Yeah, mostly I wanted to cut and paste it onto my computer.

I think I can do a little more with it.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Luna

#40
November 03, 2011, 07:18:48 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 26, 2010, 08:15:32 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on October 26, 2010, 07:38:38 PM
Wow, this one was good!

The death of romance.

A certain type of person would say "growing up".  These are the people that we need to fire into the sun.

This.

This one's new to me.  Kick square to the gut...
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

The Good Reverend Roger

#41
September 24, 2012, 06:06:24 PM
Bump for use.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#42
March 01, 2013, 08:20:57 PM
Bump, need to use this somewhere else.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#43
March 01, 2013, 08:21:43 PM
Oh, god.  I remember this series.  Fucking depressing, because it was fucking true.

The Good Reverend Roger

#44
March 01, 2013, 08:31:30 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 01, 2013, 08:21:43 PM
Oh, god.  I remember this series.  Fucking depressing, because it was fucking true.

The king guarding the palace door was based on this.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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