Ben J. Kerman Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 (edited) "When there's no cops around, anything's legal!" - Grunkle Stan Edited July 1, 2023 by Ben J. Kerman Hey, new page! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 011807132023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben J. Kerman Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 (edited) "I like this guy's lack of style" - Donbot "I'm sciencing as fast as I can!" -Professor Farnsworth\ "Ah, just like my dad use to make. Until they fired him from McDonalds" - Philip J. Fry Edited July 19, 2023 by Ben J. Kerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 (edited) On 6/26/2023 at 9:34 PM, Ben J. Kerman said: "When there's no cops around, anything's legal!" - Grunkle Stan like that time i was racing my sister on single lane dirt roads out in the sticks with grandma on the tailgate. Edited July 19, 2023 by Nuke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 You don't need permission to decide what you believe --The 21 Jump Street Theme Song (no, really) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben J. Kerman Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 "If I don't survive, tell my wife, hello." - President of the Neutral Planet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. Carl Sagan 202007272023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Science works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true. Carl Sagan 215607302023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben J. Kerman Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 "The power of Christ will compel you and also cancel your flightplan" -Airforceproud95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunas Only Moon Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 "suicide burn galore!"- someone i know who plays ksp. saved me many times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 “Lose one friend, Lose all friends, Lose yourself.” Eric Matthews, Boy Meets World 022708142023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royalswissarmyknife Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 (edited) "if money doesn't buy happiness then what do you buy cats with?" Edited August 19, 2023 by Royalswissarmyknife Minro Splleing Misteka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan 000408202023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 A fool is one who too readily believes improbable claims from questionable sources on insufficient evidence. —— Aron Ra 034508292023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 In 1999, French cultural theorist Paul Virilio wrote, "When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan 030111182023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHACK4142 Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 "Feed [friend's name] to the 7-year-olds!" - FLL Kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 “No simulation game is ever finished, it just gets shipped at some point… You can get your model closer and closer to some perfect reality, but eventually, you have to put it in front of people and see, ‘How does this actually play out?’” - Robert Zubek, game designer, in reference to Cities: Skylines 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 On 11/18/2023 at 1:01 AM, AlamoVampire said: The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan 030111182023 Interestingly this concept doesn’t originate with Sagan. ”As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before.” -Julian Huxley Julian Huxley was a biologist. He was basically the Carl Sagan of the 1940s and 50s, and was well known for his books, appearances on radio, and early TV. Among other titles, he was the first director of UNESCO. A major proponent of the theory of natural selection, he was knighted by the Queen 100 years after Darwin first revealed the theory. Unfortunately, he took his advocacy for the idea a little too far. He supported eugenics to some degree and believed lower class people were genetically inferior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: Unfortunately, he He was the grandson of TH Huxley, a protege of Charles Darwin (known as "Darwin's bulldog") and an active supporter of Malthusian ideas on population control. Another grandson of TH Huxley, Aldous Huxley, is most famous for his 1932 novel, Brave New World. [Not a topic for this forum.] Edited November 21, 2023 by Hotel26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColKlonk2 Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 A German proverb I'm led to believe... pretty apt too. " You get what you deserve" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 “Yeah, the only time “free dinosaur” and “disappointing” should be in the same sentence is “It’s disappointing I didn’t get my free dinosaur.”- Anonymous Redditor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 On 11/25/2023 at 1:40 AM, ColKlonk2 said: A German proverb I'm led to believe... pretty apt too. " You get what you deserve" Jedem das Seine? It's a translation of Latin suum cuique, and it's also as notorious a gate sign as Arbeit macht frei... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 On 11/21/2023 at 12:13 PM, Hotel26 said: He was the grandson of TH Huxley, a protege of Charles Darwin (known as "Darwin's bulldog") and an active supporter of Malthusian ideas on population control. Not a particular surprise, Darwin himself was a fan of Malthus and he was basically surrounded by future eugenicists and race hygiene experts. He was heavily criticized at the time for taking a theory he didn't invent - Richard Owen, the inventor of the term "dinosaur", was one such critic, and his work both predated Darwin and turned out more accurate. He observed Darwin's theory was rife with subtly hidden creationism, making evolution a divine teleology of some sort, and as a result it also posited the possibility of devolution or species-level degeneracy; essentially, he thought Darwin was a new style of creationist with extra steps. He particularly went to loggerheads with Darwin and Huxley-senior over the origin of man, and was repeatedly castigated for refusing to accept the evolution of homo sapiens from modern clades of apes. We now know he was right. I'm not banging on it for no reason. Darwin's sticky fingers are still all over popular understanding of evolutionary biology. Whenever someone talks about "less/more evolved" or "the next step in evolution", that's an echo of those early debates, and it's not dying. Another pervasive aspect is this style of artwork: This is a modern, politically correct version, you can guess who was originally between chimpanzee and European-ish humans. But its application is absolutely classical - another warning about society-wide degeneration unless you immediately convert to some totalitarian ideology of "maintaining social health". Spoiler Which is not, evolutionarily, selected for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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