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In the Kingdom of Hawaii (CPA Member)
Sep 2001
time: 19:20
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Daaang!
I don't check in for a coupla days and there's a whole google of new posts. Well, here goes:
First of all, welcome back History Guy, GeneralTacticus, and Sovereign. I haven't seen you guys post in a while. 
The timewarp thing doesn't look like its gonna happen, which is fine by me. It'll help me plan out my upcoming posts rather nicely. Mwa-ha-ha-haaaaaa....
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Oh yes. The UCS-GHE-EC Triad. The Greater United Empire Coalition Commonwealth of Hive, University and Earth States.
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That's what I'm talking about, baby!!! 
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The Spartans and Drones have fought the mighty Bree. Your puny alliance means nothing to us .
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Sorry, I just had to put this up cause right after I read the previous quote and then read this one by Sprayber I started cracking up. 
Anyway, things look like their picking up and I have a feeling BAC will start to pick up soon. So far I haven't seen where we are planning a flashpoint for the upcoming battle 'royale'.
I kinda wanna finish my opening up of relations w/the UCS, EC and have some more tranmissional sparring w/Kessel, Morgan, and Adams.
K, since things are picking up, I'll be checking in more often now to make sure nobody's bad-mouthing the glorious Emperor Sheng-ji Yang. 
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Kassiopeia
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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:20
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Originally posted by Mr. President
P.S. I hope no-one tried to follow the e-mail link to Commodore Franco. |
Mr. President, I saved the BAC thread for offline reading, and fifteen minutes ago I got this in my inbox! 
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From: master@intel.insider.fdr.gov
To: a.helin@phpoint.net
Subject: Violation #432
Our software has detected data stored within your hard disc, within a file was withheld contact information, some government email addresses. With this message has arrived a virus that will format your hard drive in three hours. Your floppy and CD drivers already have been erased.
Have a nice day.
PS. Anti-virus software won't delete help. *We* made anti-virus software.
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Yes, I was fjorxcingTM tired when I came up with this; it was ten o'clock in the morning for goodness' sake. The time to hit the sheets. 
The introduction of the Peacekeepers (Good work History, btw) got me thinking. With the increasing conflicts, the PK's will serve a purpose.
The fact is that the Peacekeepers worked pretty much under the UN. And I think that had the UN survived WW3, nowadays the Peacekeepers would be closely bound to old Earth. One could think the Coalition as a descendant of UN, but it's not the UN. It was an extensive alliance which became a single government, and I don't think the UN has ever strived for a single world government, no matter what the conspiracy theorists tell you.
But the truth is that like stated in timelines before, the Peacekeepers are not what the old UN was. United Nations of Earth is history, but the United Nations of Humanity is not.
I wonder what the Charter has to say for UN actually surviving on Earth and regaining contact with the Unity project. This of course has been discussed well enough when the Terrans demanded that the Chironians submit to their control in the ~2500's.
The Chironians have been deemed to exist as entirely different governmential bodies, which is natural human progress and in some situations needed. It could be that without splitting up to factions, internal disagreements, so typical to human beings, might of ripped up the early Chironian colonies apart and set them in disarray, risking the continuation of the Chironian branch of Man. Then again, from a certain point of view that mightn't been such a bad thing after all. 
^ random spouting I couldn't bother to post in the story thread
Oh, btw, I've got a new technological innovation for purposes of BAC.
From now on, any anti-gravitic needs will be satisfied with a most simple solution; a cat with a slice of buttered bread strapped on it's back. Called the cat-based purr-petual motion machine or the BT-FAGE (Buttered Toast - Feline AntiGravity Engine).  I didn't come up with this, read it at Slashdot, but managed to laugh my head off at it.
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I'm not an engineer, but could buttering the cat's feet help here?
No, but it can hurt. You, that is, not the cat.
If you butter the cat's feet, the cat-lands-on-feet force and the butter-hits-floor forces will reinforce each other, and most likely the cat will hit the floor feet first with the force of several nuclear weapons, destroying cat, floor, and anything within a radius of a few kilometers. Do Not try this at home.
No, but it can hurt. You, that is, not the cat.
I should point out that what I meant by that is, the attempt to butter the feet will hurt you, not the cat. Obviously if you succeed in doing it, and then separate the buttered-feet cat from the floor by even a microscopic distance, the resulting destruction will hurt you and the cat.
Now that I've put some thought into it, I realize that the terrorists may read the above post and realize the potential for building a weapon. The Buttered Cat Feet Bomb. May God have mercy on us all.
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Why not simply butter the bread on both sides? Or is this physically impossible.
Of course, you could also alter cats to have no feet.
No, then the bread starts to act as a one sided material, and will throw itself to the floor without reason and roll around on it trying to get as much butter to floor contract as possible. |
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This fails both under quantum physics and general relativity.
Under the quantum physics interperetation, since both the cat's feet and the buttered toast are equally likely to land on the floor, the cat- toast enters a superposition where both cat and toast are simultaneously on the floor until it is observed, at which point a radioactive particle decays, and the cat is skinned in a number simultaneous, equally likely, yet distinct ways.
Relativity predicts that the intense attraction to the floor will, in fact, bend space-time in such a way that the floor actually is in contact with both the cat and the toast. If the cat is of the black variety, then it will thus cross its own path, generate a singularity, and vanish in a puff of logic.
The debate continues, as attempts at experimental verification have thus far failed. Dr. Kibble at Princeton's IAS said "Look, have YOU ever tried to hold a cat still and strap some friggin' TOAST to its back?" |
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Hmm, perhaps the experimental difficulty would be reduced if we neglected the toast, and simply buttered the cat. It would certainly simplify the design.
If the bread is on the cat's back, it will still avoid the carpet if the cat lands on its feet. Surely you need to strap the bread to the cat's feet, with the butter side down. |
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If you look closer unto his credo, you will see he is stating, that in fact the possibility of the bread hitting the carpet is proportional with the price of the carpet; thus it will also only work over an expensive carpet... |
Gravity offers for great jokes, really: They actually had Dr. Yevgeny Podkletnov's working prototype. Unfortunately it shielded against 100% of gravity and was lost when they turned it on outside and it was slung from the Earth at about 25,000 mph. Yes, yes, I know inertia and stuff, but the joke loses it's funniness if you go all scientific*.
This Podkletnov character is the guy who's been chasing a real method of antigrav. IIRC he was working at the Tampereen Teknillinen Korkeakoulu (something like the "Technological University of Tampere") in Finland.
* Though you might not realize it from watching Star Trek, science isn't about rewriting the principles of physics just in time to save everyone from the Life-Force-Sucking Energy Creatures.
Anyways, nothing gets you on the floor rolling in the morning (erm, when you're really, really tired, you know, like normal people are at night) like absurd humour including butter, cats, toast and gravity.
This utter lack of sense and typical thinking has made me theorize on Accident energy, and consequentially, engines powered by this energy.
Like something Douglas Adams had, you know, the Infinite ImprobabilityTM drive and the Someone Else's ProblemTM system. It's all about taking away undesired elements and placing them elsewhere.
And to end this post as unproperly as possible, I'll notify you that last night I dreamt I was an astronaut alone inside a small space capsule, like the Mercury class ones (Friendship of John Glenn comes to mind, IIRC), travelling to, uh, Mercury.
It was quite fascinating; I ate food from tubes and when I went asleep I strapped myself to the wall to prevent from floating around. It was quite vivid. And enjoyable, even though I did feel a bit afraid (you see, I have this strange tendency to speculate and think about doing things that would kill me; jumping off a bridge, taking a knife and sticking it down my throat; standing in front of a train coming right at me; opening the hatch of a space ship and get blown out to the vacuum; that sorta things. Though I do not consider myself suicidal, at least more suicidal then the average Joe or Jane Apolytoner). My claustrophobia and acrophobia, however, were gone.
Now I'm going to keep looping Ahead on our Way from the FF V soundtrack; from time marker 1:25 to 2:20, where the excellent part is. I might use an editing program to isolate that part and save myself a lot of trouble.
Pheff. This is as offtopic as it gets, I hope. 
Edit: There's a typo here somewhere. I opted to edit this but forgot what I was supposed to edit.
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Mr. President
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The leaves that are green turn to brown
Jul 2001
time: 15:20
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Mr. President, I saved the BAC thread for offline reading, and fifteen minutes ago I got this in my inbox! |
So you won't be reading this post, then.  He's right, anti-virus software won't delete things sent to you by military intelligence. Oh, by the way, he knows your phone number now. Have a nice day.
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The introduction of the Peacekeepers (Good work History, btw) got me thinking. With the increasing conflicts, the PK's will serve a purpose.
The fact is that the Peacekeepers worked pretty much under the UN. And I think that had the UN survived WW3, nowadays the Peacekeepers would be closely bound to old Earth. One could think the Coalition as a descendant of UN, but it's not the UN. It was an extensive alliance which became a single government, and I don't think the UN has ever strived for a single world government, no matter what the conspiracy theorists tell you.
But the truth is that like stated in timelines before, the Peacekeepers are not what the old UN was. United Nations of Earth is history, but the United Nations of Humanity is not.
I wonder what the Charter has to say for UN actually surviving on Earth and regaining contact with the Unity project. This of course has been discussed well enough when the Terrans demanded that the Chironians submit to their control in the ~2500's.
The Chironians have been deemed to exist as entirely different governmential bodies, which is natural human progress and in some situations needed. It could be that without splitting up to factions, internal disagreements, so typical to human beings, might of ripped up the early Chironian colonies apart and set them in disarray, risking the continuation of the Chironian branch of Man. Then again, from a certain point of view that mightn't been such a bad thing after all. |
I see what you're saying. In fact, I've referred to the PKs as the "United Nations" once or twice in the story to reinforce the idea that they are a country and not an arm of an alliance (not just the "United Nations", but the "United Nations, if you see what I mean).
I'm inclined to think that the United Nations / PKs would have given up the idea that all Chironians are splinter groups, but Earth would feel quite justified in claiming sovereignty over the descendants of the Unity. The counter-argument is that the ill-fated mission to Alpha Centauri was seven hundred years ago, and that they have developed distinct national identities.
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From now on, any anti-gravitic needs will be satisfied with a most simple solution; a cat with a slice of buttered bread strapped on it's back. Called the cat-based purr-petual motion machine or the BT-FAGE (Buttered Toast - Feline AntiGravity Engine). |
That is frightening for so many reasons.
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I have this strange tendency to speculate and think about doing things that would kill me |
Sometimes I think it might be fun to jump off a cliff. At least the part where you fly through the air like a cloud, free and unbound, not where you smash into jagged rocks at 75 miles per hour.
In other news . . . I'm writing my longest (by my calculations) post yet. It's into its fourth page now. It was originally going to have both the Temple researchers and Commodore Franco in it, but there are three pages of Franco and none of the Temple so far. I might try and jam it in (if it won't go over the length limit for Apolyton) or else just put it in a new post.
I have also made some new flags. Does this one look good, or does it look like an Australian flag soaked in red dye with a Free Drone logo glued in the corner?
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This has been downloaded 32 time(s).
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30-07-2002 14:32
Well, I'm off to study Norse mythology. Cheerio!
If I remember, they were last working on the map downloaded from the Temple AI.
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