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Unread postby jupiter422 » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 20:56:38

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It doesn't matter if you believe the depictions that are posted in these forums. Knowing or thinking you know ,understanding or thinking you understand, it makes no difference because in reality no one can predict the unfolding future.Yes given the data we can predict oil production will decline. Anyone that went to elementary school can process the data to accept that knowledge. In the world today with our booming population there is no possible way to even assume to predict where the future will take us.Maybe we will be plaqued with an epidemic.Maybe nuclear proliferation has managed to get nuclear material into the wrong persons hand and just possibly that person manages to detonate the dirty bomb on american soil which would stop the global market.maybe oil will get super expensive and civilization will erupt into social chaos and anarchy.I for one won't run for the closest home depot to buy as many gas cans as I can .Then take my gas cans and hoard gas like a 20th century primitive gas fien, when prices begin to rise . I don't want to pretend I'm above the system or have figured out the system.I believe I am a homo sapien just like any other homo sapien and no matter how clever or witty I belive I am; or others belive I am ,my fate is the same as all . I don't know what the hell is happening to this world .All I know is it can't be good, but it sure is good to be alive in these very interesting times, no matter what the outcome my heart is gonna beat untill it stops. When I'm gone reminents of me may remain for awile ,but only soon too be turned to dust or forgotten and the world will keep on spinning, unles ofcourse someone has a theory about the rotation of the planet stopping some day. Anyhow I like this forum because it really gets your wheels turning.No matter how much we don't understand it sure feels good to pretend we are one step ahead.
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Unread postby ThinkGeek » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 21:06:15

O.o

Finally someone who understands.
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Re: know one really knows!

Unread postby clv101 » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 21:07:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiter422', 'A')nyhow I like this forum because it really gets your wheels turning.No matter how much we don't understand it sure feels good to pretend we are one step ahead.
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That's a good point... are we just pretending to be one step ahead?
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Unread postby RonMN » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 21:23:21

MAYBE this...MAYBE that...it doesn't really matter...

But when you're sucking on a straw to a chocolate milk shake...

You KNOW that milk shake is going to run dry EVENTUALLY!

Don't you?
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Unread postby ThinkGeek » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 21:35:03

so? Its not the end of the world when you finish chocolate milk shake. Your analogy is quite disturbing.
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 22:26:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', 's')o? Its not the end of the world when you finish chocolate milk shake. Your analogy is quite disturbing.
Really, BuckToothedOne? There are far more disturbing analogies: how about the yeast in the vat of grape juice analogy. Or the Easter Island analogy. or how about foregoing analogies altogether and just point out that we built this world on a finite resource which is about to stop increasing and begin decreasing - damn soon as far as I can tell. Can you spell OVERSHOOT? (sorry, maybe you were just being funny - I like humor too, but sometimes I get so upset over this situation)
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Unread postby ArimoDave » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 22:28:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RonMN', 'M')AYBE this...MAYBE that...it doesn't really matter...

But when you're sucking on a straw to a chocolate milk shake...

You KNOW that milk shake is going to run dry EVENTUALLY!

Don't you?


Then you can just run back up to the counter and order another one.

"NO! It can't be. Impossible! There has to be more chocolate milk shakes -- there just has to be.
I drank the last one on earth? NOOOOOOOO!"
*shakes* *goes into convulsions* *dies*

Did it really matter? It was interesting to watch, however.

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Unread postby jupiter422 » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 23:47:05

It's the responses like the ones above that make me really like this place. I mean who knew chocolate milk had such depth. I mean we must first understand the milks original place of origin, which most know is the mammary glands of a female cow. Then the teat of the cow is hooked to an electric milking machine where the thick sweet milk is extracted.Then the milk is sent to be pasteurized.Now the real secret is how does it become chocolate??????? a mystery that bounds me to this very day :cry:
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Unread postby ArimoDave » Sat 11 Jun 2005, 00:10:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiter422', 'I')t's the responses like the ones above that make me really like this place. I mean who knew chocolate milk had such depth. I mean we must first understand the milks original place of origin, which most know is the mammary glands of a female cow. Then the teat of the cow is hooked to an electric milking machine where the thick sweet milk is extracted.Then the milk is sent to be pasteurized.Now the real secret is how does it become chocolate??????? a mystery that bounds me to this very day :cry:


Its a special secret breed of cow. And these cows are fed a diet high in chocolate. Chocolate come from some sort of tree.

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Unread postby Antimatter » Sat 11 Jun 2005, 01:22:45

Don't worry - the laws of supply and demand in the free market combined with a fiat cow supply will ensure a bounty of chocolate milkshakes indefinatly. Just keep sucking harder! :)
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Unread postby Omnitir » Sat 11 Jun 2005, 01:58:16

Did you guys here that there are plans to genetically breed a new form of cow that will give a chocolate milk substitute that tastes almost as good as real chocolate milk? Also, this cow’s milk alternative will be very low in fat, and the cow will only eat a fraction of the food normal cows do. It will also live in geosynchronous Earth-orbit and will beam it’s chocolate milk to receivers on the ground.

This new chocolate milk alternative is just one of many new technologies being developed to keep the milk bars of the world flowing with chocolaty goodness.

And even if the chocolate milk does run out, we can always mine the vast quantities of chocolate blocks, which can then be converted into chocolate milk.
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Unread postby RonMN » Sat 11 Jun 2005, 09:06:16

What have i done? 8O

I've created a monster!

Why O why didn't i say Dr. Pepper instead of a chocolate milk shake?

Oh the humanity!
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 12 Jun 2005, 01:14:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Omnitir', 'D')id you guys here that there are plans to genetically breed a new form of cow that will give a chocolate milk substitute that tastes almost as good as real chocolate milk? Also, this cow’s milk alternative will be very low in fat, and the cow will only eat a fraction of the food normal cows do. It will also live in geosynchronous Earth-orbit and will beam it’s chocolate milk to receivers on the ground.

This new chocolate milk alternative is just one of many new technologies being developed to keep the milk bars of the world flowing with chocolaty goodness.

And even if the chocolate milk does run out, we can always mine the vast quantities of chocolate blocks, which can then be converted into chocolate milk.
Of course we all know that this is just silly humor. The cows won't be 'beaming' choc-milk to Earth. That's just 'Star-Trek' fantasy. The cows will be stationed on geosynchronous platforms tethered to Earth by carbon-fiber cables and the genetically engineered chocolate cow milk will have to be physically transported down on space-elevators.
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Unread postby Omnitir » Sun 12 Jun 2005, 01:54:41

Ah, of course. The 40,000 Km long carbon-nanotube space straw, sucking genetically engineered chocolate cows milk to milk bars every where. And I suppose the next step would be to start mining some of that chocolate in the asteroids.

RonMN – it’s wouldn’t have worked if you said Dr. Pepper, because no one would care when that runs out. :P
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Unread postby ThinkGeek » Sun 12 Jun 2005, 22:54:52

What about mad cow!
Who wants to drink chocolate milk with evil prions in it?
I heard there's mad cow in Texas again.
Will this affect the milk supply?
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Unread postby RonMN » Sun 12 Jun 2005, 23:00:20

Hell, i'd get "MAD" to if i was a chocolate cow floating in space in a geosynchronous orbit, teathered by a nanotube sucking on my teet :P

FREE THE CHOCOLATE COWS!!!

I'm callin' PETA dag-nabbit.
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Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Sun 12 Jun 2005, 23:23:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RonMN', 'H')ell, i'd get "MAD" to if i was a chocolate cow floating in space in a geosynchronous orbit, teathered by a nanotube sucking on my teet :P

FREE THE CHOCOLATE COWS!!!

I'm callin' PETA dag-nabbit.
This is getting sillier by the day. Nobody it talking about hooking any nanotubes up to cow teets. Udderly ridiculous.They would have proper and regular milking equipment which they are quite used too and for which they are grateful since it means no trip to the butcher if it wasn't for Peak Oil. Now we have to get back to simpler ways, so clearly we will have to station pretty young milkmaids up there on the geosynchronous platforms to milk the chocolate cows.
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Unread postby Omnitir » Mon 13 Jun 2005, 04:07:25

This really is getting out of hand. I mean listen to what your saying: pretty young milkmaids stationed on geosynchronous platforms to milk chocolate cows? There simply aren’t enough horse-drawn carriages to bring all the chocolate milk back down to Earth. So obviously the only logical answer is for everyone to live in Earths orbit so that we can keep out chocolate milk way of life.
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Unread postby bobcousins » Mon 13 Jun 2005, 18:34:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')MAZING NEW BREAKTHROUGH IN CHOCOLATE NANO-SPONGES

says Chocolate Nano-sponge Company


I am surprised that no-one has seen this GREAT news that sea water contains 1ppb chocolate particles, so all we need to do is sieve the water with er, a giant nano-sponge, then squeeze it and...help me out here.

I don't really know anything about chocolate, sea water or nano-sponges, but I read about it on their website.
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Unread postby RonMN » Mon 13 Jun 2005, 20:28:46

The chocolate seawater nanosponges have a website now? 8O
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