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Old 11-20-2004, 02:06 AM
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Losing the Moon would have much more of a direct effect on us than any of the other planets.
That puts a bit of a snag in Frank J's plan...

(Alternative quip: Somebody tell Piccolo.)
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But anyway, for future reference, Nan is always right. She's sort of like the pope, only less holy and more cranky.
A Jedi after my own heart. Only not.

Bucking for a position of authority in the new world order, Pointy?
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Old 11-20-2004, 10:03 AM
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But anyway, for future reference, Nan is always right. She's sort of like the pope, only less holy and more cranky.
I second that. I've fallen into a "Right 50% of the time" slot, and I'm comfortable with that :wink:
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Old 11-20-2004, 11:44 PM
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Bucking for a position of authority in the new world order, Pointy?
Well, if my own plans go awry, it never hurts to have a fallback...

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That puts a bit of a snag in Frank J's plan...
But we like the moon!
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that song is good, but not as good as bananaphone and badgerbadgerbader.....
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Old 11-23-2004, 03:07 AM
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Wow, long week. I finally understand what Zeke means when he says he couldn't update. Doesn't mean I'll stop complaining, though. :wink:

It seems this topic has been dragged hopelessly off course. On the other hand, it's remarkable it lasted as long as it did. I'll just save my half-page for some point in the future when it is needed. Heh heh heh.

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My bet is that if we destroyed Mars, the surviving space-borne entities would welcome us as liberators to the black hunks they would then call their homes, even if an evil dictator (Marvin the Martian) escaped to Syr--Jupiter--with his Weapons of Earth Destruction. And then Bill O'Reilly would laugh at the stupid Martians. Then Christ would return, take the worthy up into Heaven, and the Democrats would retake the House and Senate.

And now, back to having a life. Or not. Translating the intricate tale of Publius and Furianus in Athens isn't exactly "having a life" in every sense of the word, but it is an approximation. Yes.
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Bloody... who keeps deleting my cookies?

Oh, yeah. Me. ops: Sorry; that above "guest" post is, for the second time in a week, mine.
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Old 11-23-2004, 04:59 AM
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Wowbagger, I've asked politely before for you not to do that. Stop it. It's not funny. :x
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Old 11-23-2004, 05:43 AM
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No indeed - mine once threa- oh, you mean Nan the forumgoer etc. Right probably not no.
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Old 11-24-2004, 11:35 PM
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Which brings me onto: if we blew up a planet, wouldn't it be seriously bad for our orbit? Mightn't it make the planet uninhabitable (this one, not the one we blow up....)?
A good question. However it would seem that the Sun has about 99% of the mass in the entire Solar System, so the addition or removal of even a Jupiter-sized planet in any non-Earthish orbit is quite unlikely to affect our orbit more than a teeeny-tiny smidgen
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Old 11-25-2004, 12:42 AM
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If someone targeted the sun, however, this also means we're in for big trouble.
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Old 11-25-2004, 01:17 AM
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Target the sun? With what? It's the sun!
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Old 11-25-2004, 05:31 PM
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I dunno - there are plenty of sci-fi weapons that would do the trick. Myself, I'd just use a really really huge bucket of water.
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Blasted kerries. *Pulls out his humongo-deathray of doom.* Support the evil dictator party and ZEKE! Oh, wait, the election is over.
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I suppose one could introduce an unstable heavy element to screw with the fusion reaction... any fusion experts around to comment?
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Neutron flood to speed up the reaction.

It would take a whole lotta neutrons, though. The sun is *big*.

Oh, and before anyone suggests it, dumping nuclear waste in the sun won't make it explode.
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Would it cause it belch? 'Cos that could be bad too. Especially if you live on Mercury.

Although, if you live on Mercury your life probably sucks anyway.
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Maybe if you got a really really really HUGE magnet, that might do something interesting...

Or how about simultaneuously disrupting the links between every single atom?
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Would it cause it belch? 'Cos that could be bad too. Especially if you live on Mercury.
I dunno. I've never dumped nuclear waste in the sun. Given that nuclear waste is the stuff left over after fission, probably not. You'ld just get radioactive heavy plasma.

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It's already a really really really HUGE magnet. :P

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It's a roiling ball of plasma. We did that already. :P

Digression: the artificial sun in Spider Man 2 sucking everything metal into it is accurate. The fact that it got bigger everytime it absorbed something isn't.

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