When real life imitates Wing Commander
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RiotAct218
Spaceman
So, um, how about that Wing Commander? Guys? Anyone?
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Wedge009
Rogue Leader
I'm not sure it was necessarily a desire to reach heaven so much as they wanted to run their lives without God. [And building a tower which reached the 'heavens' (ie skyscrapers) was one way to make their name.]
IIRC, it was only the people who didn't want to be scattered, not God wanting them to scatter (although people were supposed to grow and be "fruitful").
Never heard of that one before, especially since rainbows are to be a reminder that the Earth would never be destroyed by flood again.
Anyway, I did not intend for this to become a 'theological' discussion, but someone brought up the Tower of Babel for some reason, so I felt compelled to respond.
Overreacted? Okay. Didn't sound like joking to me.
[You know how good I am at detecting 'jokes' and sarcasm, Q. Or how good I'm not. I'm just seldom at the centre of attention, so I feel uncomfortable if I'm mentioned a lot for no apparent reason. Especially in a seemingly negative way.]Oh, and Riot, since when do threads on the CIC CZ focus on WC?
Ghost
Emperor
Originally posted by Wedge009
Overreacted? Okay. Didn't sound like joking to me.
You didn´t saw Enterprise, right?
I could look at your comments two ways:
1. Face value. Assuming your body doesn't immediately get frozen by the near ABS zero temps, the lack of pressure might cause your remains to blow up real good. Definitely a perverse way to dispose of your remains. Ick. May as well stuff your body cavity with explosives and have FOX TV's idea of a Viking funeral.
2. Typo? Preserved? The Cold of space *might* preserve your body, but if it did, ick, think about future generations. You're essentially turning space into a universal garbage dump. JL Picard and crew zip along but have to keep stopping because corpsicles keep hitting the hull. A bit of a navigational hazard --though I'd imagine less of one than all those big heavy metal slabs that the WC guys toss off ship in lieu of pilots' bodies.
No wonder everybody has energy shields on their ships in the future.
How's that for off topic...
RiotAct218
Spaceman
Originally posted by Wedge009
Oh, and Riot, since when do threads on the CIC CZ focus on WC?
Hehe, I know I know. They hardly do, but this time seemed way off. I was just trying to get people to stop attacking you. Didn't work apparently, hehe.
Wedge009
Rogue Leader
'tis okay, it wasn't really 'attacking' anyway.
As for space burials, I'm not sure if a dead body would have that much internal pressure for it to explode anyway. Guess it depends on how long the person has been dead for.
And as for space garbage, well, Earth's atmosphere is certainly getting crowded with satellites, both functional and otherwise, but deeper out in space - do you know how empty space really is? There's not much chance of corpses clustering together - even if they did, they'd just splatter all over a colliding ship. Mmm, bet that would be a good look next time it docks at a space port.
As for space burials, I'm not sure if a dead body would have that much internal pressure for it to explode anyway. Guess it depends on how long the person has been dead for.
And as for space garbage, well, Earth's atmosphere is certainly getting crowded with satellites, both functional and otherwise, but deeper out in space - do you know how empty space really is? There's not much chance of corpses clustering together - even if they did, they'd just splatter all over a colliding ship. Mmm, bet that would be a good look next time it docks at a space port.
Battler Hawke
Spaceman
thanks for the info and the link the head of the deptment i'm in liked the info from nasa may biuld one for senier project.
Than of higher intelligence than us... have you looked around lately? I'd say the traces of protien strains found in the atmosphere of Jupiter have more intelligence than most humans I know. Then again, thats probably why we haven't met any yet...
and the chances, however slim, do exist. That is, unless you fall into that whole "god" worshiper category... not that I dislike them. A lot of good people were religious.
BTW... Why not space executions? Nothing to clean up, and they can just strap the guy to the next outgoing shuttle... the only real change would be the guy strapped to the tailfin screaming his lungs out... literally.
and the chances, however slim, do exist. That is, unless you fall into that whole "god" worshiper category... not that I dislike them. A lot of good people were religious.
BTW... Why not space executions? Nothing to clean up, and they can just strap the guy to the next outgoing shuttle... the only real change would be the guy strapped to the tailfin screaming his lungs out... literally.
Oggy
Rear Admiral
I think it'd be a bit arrogant to say that this planet supports the only intelligent life in the universe, we know of only a tiny fraction of the universe and have explored even less, so I would say it is that is almost definate that there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe, but it'll be a long time before we have the capabilities to reach them.
