Comments by Diacanu

2401. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127865 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Steve Zara-

It has already been done. This was worked out by the physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. The main problems include steering and how to turn the thing off.

Well, that, and for fuel, you need a big tank of unobtainium. ;)

2402. Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered

Comment #127851 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Come on, Hawking, invent warp drive already.

2403. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127798 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 3:54 pm

So, Philip, what do you think would be the thermodynamic properties of a clown car that spits forth unlimited ThermoThug clones?

2404. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127792 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Oh, sweet merciful crap, TT has called in for fresh troops.

*Facepalm*

2405. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127755 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Heh, how do y'all like how I got back on topic in a warped way at the very end of post 198?

*Wink*

2406. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127746 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:54 pm

al-rawandi-

Depends on what turd pointed him in the direction of this site.

If it was someone like wooter, or Blacknad, then it could be a yin-yang of shit.

A shit shitting a shit that in turn is shitting it.

A self-shitting infinity shit.

2407. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127729 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:41 pm

al-rawandi-

ROFL!!

2408. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127721 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:35 pm

al-rawandi-

Re: post 166

You forgot the vital reason 4.

Men who hate women usually have some sort of Norman Bates thing going on with their mother.

Probably has to wash her hairy carcass, loves her, hates her, hates himself for popping wood.

That's if she's even alive anymore, and he doesn't have her stuffed on a base in some disturbing pose.

2409. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127715 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:30 pm

ThermoThug-

You vomit-feed your comatose momma with that mouth?

2410. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127698 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:17 pm

ThermoThug-

Anyway, what the hell does it matter anyway?

Exactly, knowing the Dixie cup in the landfill awaits you.

2411. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127682 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 2:08 pm

Quetzacoatl-

I think working out how to fire an Uzi might be too complicated. Perhaps impaling himself on a rusty spike might be better?

Spike, road flare cigar, hydroflouric acid enema, playing chicken with a steamroller with him on a tricycle, whatever.
So long as those poor molecules are liberated.
They never asked for this.
They could've been a foam cooler, or an inert carbon rod.
But no, cruel fate made them into the beefaroni and sugar cereals that gradually conglomerated into ThermoThug.
It's a crime that must be rectified.

2412. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127668 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:57 pm

ThermoThug-

Please, stop molesting the poor molecules that are being forced into service of comprising your wretched form, and go guzzle an uzi clip.

You'll find it a cool refreshing drink that will rinse away a lot of misery.

2413. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127661 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:52 pm

ThermoThug-

Forward into????

For you?

If I were a betting man, I'd wager a protracted death of some sort of wasting disease, lonely and forgotten in the filthy sub-basement of an abandoned building in a bad neighborhood with a meth head's hand down your pants seeking warmth.

Then, your horrible carcass will be body slammed into a pine box, burnt in a furnace, and then your ashes violated for weeks with cat piss and cigarette butts before finally being scooped into a Dixie cup, and carelessly being tossed into a landfill.

2414. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127647 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Steve, why are you discussing things rationally with this piece of shit troll?

2415. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127643 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:37 pm

annabanana-

Which of course have all been edited to something less crude. You'll have to look at the blockquotes on my postings and quetzcoatl to see what he really said.

Ah....

Sure I'll find it as I hit troll and offensive on all his posts...

2416. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127636 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:32 pm

annabanana-

Before his latest bout of physics, he was busy making crude comments about me...

Ah...then the lad must die....

2417. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #127633 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:29 pm

*skims*

...so...what's ThermoThug doing here?
Seems to be a kind of post-modern physics.
Nice bit of mental acrobatics, but about as useful a skill as weaving invisible fabrics.

2418. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127619 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:16 pm

....*awkward dry cough*....well, so much for picking up the deism/theism discussion from where it left off....

*Slinks away through back exits, head hung*

2419. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127609 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Steve Zara-

Huh?

2420. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127546 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 11:49 am

Okay, I'm awake again.

So, Steve, am I right?

2421. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127145 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:41 am

..*Gives up waiting*...

Well, sorry Steve, you didn't type your reply to 115 fast enough, I need to sleep now.

I'll get back to you in 8-12 hours.

2422. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127137 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:23 am

Steve Zara-

I am talking about how things may have looked centuries ago, when mechanisms by which design could appear in nature were not understood.

Ah, but then we get into the navel gazing debate over how much intervention is theist/deist.

If the deist god imprinted design into the first cause, it would still be non-interventionist past the creation line.

If he meddles after the first cause, then maybe theism...

Ehh...I still gotta go with deism by lumping all creation variants together.

Hitchens does when the christians pull back from dogma, and I gotta agree with him.

A theist God minus mythology would be like a voice or series of prophetic pictures in your head that helps you paint, or write, and you chalk it up to being plugged into the cosmic universal lifeforce, or somesuch.

Eh, I don't mind a hippie God like that, that's pretty harmless, and even I've had those moments in my life.

2423. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127125 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:05 am

GSP-

I just wanted to get it out there, just like the religious believed their worldview was the end all be all, so science believes the same.

Well, unless the laws of physics flip upside down, and we're headed for an age of magic, there is nothing after science.

Sorry.

Adorable rants, but fruitless.

Nice try though.

2424. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127124 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 1:02 am

Steve Zara-

No, Steve, again, I gotta take issue.

Merely thinking there's a creator is deism.

Adding on anything after that is theism.

And "merely", adding that the deist god is also interventionist naturally leads to dogma, because when and where does he intervene, and what does he want of us?
Answering those questions creates religions, and we're back into the mess again.

So, yeah, the whole religion thing, besides deism, is theism.

...but theism itself is not intrinsically ridiculous.

I disagree.

An interventionist god with anthropomorphized desires laid out in human terms is indeed intrinsicly ridiculous.

2425. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127119 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:51 am

GSP-

Why the image? What does it mean?

It's not V for Vendetta, it's Vampire Hunter D.

And he's not an anarchist, he's a bounty hunter.

2426. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127115 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:45 am

GSP-

Something tells me you think having to wear clothing in public is "authoritarianism".

Sleep off whatever you're on, buddy.

Whatever it is is a bad batch.

2427. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127111 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:41 am

GSP-

Ahh yes, you scientists have us all pegged, right?

I come across as a scientist?

Cool!!

Can I be a chef too?
Like Alton Brown?

2428. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127110 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:38 am

GSP-

..fight my arguments,..

You seem to be fresh out of them.

Look, next time you're on acid, stay off the computer, and go lay out in a field, and let the flying saucers come.

That's what you're supposed to do on acid, not spam up poor Richard Dawkins's server.

Look at him up there in the corner, you made him cry.

2429. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127107 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:35 am

GSP-

...I don't know,..

Yep, I think i nailed it in post 137.

Sleep it off, kid, and stay away from post-modern philosophy, and shows like Tim & Eric Awsome Show.

Tie dye a shirt, and get laid.

2430. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127102 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:31 am

GSP-

You sound like you're going through your rebel without a cause or a clue phase.

Lemme guess, early 20's, college kid?

2431. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127100 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:29 am

LorienRyan-

There is a third...

Get busy sucking on a pina colada and just watch it all go by, aaaahhhhh :)

Yes, well, GSP would probably say that would play right into the hands of the illuminati or something.

2432. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127098 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:27 am

GSP-

What is that institution that tells us everything about how we should think about the world?

It's 3 am where I am, spare me the quizzes, and end my suspense, tinfoil hat boy.

2433. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127097 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:26 am

GSP-

Diacanu, why does there need to be an answer?

Well, if it's not religion, it's not scientific progress, and it's not teepees and shitting in the woods, it kind of leaves fucking death, doesn't it?

I don't accept death, so what else have you got?

2434. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127094 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:23 am

GSP-

and then proclaim allegiance with the most authoritarian aspects of our modern day society

Mind letting me in on what the fuck you're talking about there, chief?

2435. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127092 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:21 am

GSP-

I'm sorry, but if you do, I laugh in your face and claim you love yourself, and humanity, way too much.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Those are your fucking choices.

Pick one.

If you pick the former, kindly tell me why.

2436. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #127089 by Diacanu on February 15, 2008 at 12:18 am

So what's the fucking answer?

Go back to teepees and shitting in the woods?

Um...no.
Not gonna.

Sorry.

2437. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127030 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 5:34 pm

Peacebeaponme-

Meh, bored, trying to kill time.

I'll stop bugging you guys.

2438. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127024 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 5:22 pm

It can't possibly be that simple.

;)

2439. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127011 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Steve Zara-

vision, not compromise.

Yes, yes, YES!!

That's the heart of my last post!

You trumped me with brevity this time!

Bastid.
*smirk*

2440. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127010 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Cartomancer-

I'm sure there's a lot of that post-modernist kind of thinking to glue her worldview together, but what really stuck out for me was when she said "I'm a pragmatist", and "I'm more concerned with how human beings get along", and "what is belief? You may mean 'belief', in terms of an evidenciary statement, but I may mean 'belief', as in terms of committing to something".

Those all jumped right out at me, and made me go "oh, heeeere we go again...".

I think all of that hooks together, and boils down to belief in belief.

If it makes people happy/behaved, then it's as good as the truth, if not more so.

Well, screw it, if that kind of bullshit is what it takes to be a pragmatist, then I'm not one.

2441. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127004 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Bilo baby Bunting!
Daddy's going hunting!
To get a baby rabbit skin!
To but the baby Bunting in!

...whew, there, it's out of my system now...

2442. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126985 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Jiten-

I've never read the Bible and I'm not gonna

Oh come on now.

Check out The Skeptics Annoted Bible.
The whole thing with snarky commentary to keep your eyes from glazing over.

Plus, it's searchable by categories, so you can skim through, and not have to digest it all chronological like.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

Or, for if you really want to make the Bible come alive, and be more fun, try the Brick Testament.
The Bible told in legos.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

2443. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126980 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Steve Zara-

Okay, dokey then...

2444. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126975 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Hey, without Milton, you can't understand Wrath Of Khan.

And where would us nerds be without Wrath, eh?

See, it all connects.

*Wink*

2445. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126972 by Diacanu on February 14, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Steve Zara-

the Professor has asked us to address him in this manner)

He has??

...IIII dunno, that seems like something ya earn...

*To RD*

Can I just call ya Doc or prof or something?

2446. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126682 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 11:54 pm

Wooter-

Go play in traffic.

There's a good boy.

2447. Are Darwin's Theories Fact or Faith Issues?

Comment #126588 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Nevermind that all creationist have for evidence is...

"Bible says".

"How is that evidence?".

"Cuz I say so".

2448. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #126528 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 12:52 pm

(Sung to the tune of the "Bill Nye the science guy", theme)

Bill Maher the science tard!!

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!!

Bill Maher the science tard!!

There, now it's stuck in your head too, enjoy.

2449. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126319 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 1:19 am

Imprambulantly!

2450. Why Darwin matters

Comment #126317 by Diacanu on February 13, 2008 at 1:16 am

"Evolsify", is what happens when your mitochondria are expholiating.

It's a fairly cromulent word.