Remember being a kid and reading Hardy Boys novels? I don't understand how it was still fun for me the 30th time around...

Oh, yes. And the Encyclopedia Brown stuff. Ramona, etc.

Little did I know I'd discover that his hideout is basically my entire planet.

Sparky: "Billions of women out there."
Hildy: "Well, yes, and a few that probably don't want to **** you."

Mine is awesome. Bat**** but awesome.

I have a peehs game open here:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59...peehs-1168387/

Reveal on Thursdays. Good questions, good mod, good company!

Works for me too, Johnny. Enjoy your week.

Thanks for the trivia game, AKson.

I'm pretty sure I don't remember the Columbus's ship question. Weird.

Yeah you didn't put an answer for that and I didn't feel like stalling the reveal to PM you. It didn't affect the results so whatever.

Yeah, it's fine obv, I just have zero recollection of ever seeing that question — weird how apparently I just had a blind spot for it.

I had just seen the aluminum thing a few weeks ago. I'm not sure exactly why it was so rare back then, though I do know that bauxite (aluminum ore) is very hard to refine compared to many metals, so I assume that's it.

Once processed, it is pretty stable and pretty cheap to obtain in massive amounts.

Besides, there's more in the various rock-dense belts between here and the outer Oorts.

Way too much space right now, might as well split and run the variations.

Lovely thought, suffering only from being completely counterfactual.

The event you're referring to, the most recent flooding of the Mediterranean, is the Zanclean Flood. The problem with ascribing the flood myth to this is that it occurred more than 5.3 million years ago, when not only weren't there any civilizations to flood, there weren't any humans to experience it.


Even if that were true (and it's certainly not), so what? There is no reason the flood myth needed to arise in the same area as the rest of the fables that became the bible; mythologies hybridize all the time.

Incidentally, if the Black Sea did flood rapidly through the Bosporus it happened around 5600 BC, long enough ago for any mythology arising therefrom to percolate throughout the middle east but recently enough that there would actually have been civilizations to flood. There is not agreement about whether this occurred, but it's clear that it could have.

I can't decide which is worse: fortuna making zero sense at all, or fortuna making sense but being completely wrong.

You suggest tautologies based on incorrect anthropology and insufficient data. Olduvai is just a single point of origin.



If you're still around in the late 22nd century, I'll be happy to collect a 6-pack of decent Lunar microbrew.

And assuming only simians have civilizations? Typical human self-absorption, lacking fundamental understanding of the complexity of life over several gigayears.

Good luck catching up. You'll always be way behind.

I have very little experience in reading Fortuna's posts.

Is he a troll or legitimately mentally ill?

I wonder if there's something like the Turing test, except to see if someone is a troll or insane?

Fortuna, what is 1+1?

Can we put him in the Chinese box?

I kinda wish I'd have signed up for Gadarene's Mystery Mash game, but maaaaan I hated the first. Not that it was designed poorly at all, I just hated having no idea what in the world my role did until I died. Hard to sign up for something like that again.

I like that oasis is on there, my brother made me have a sudden moment of clarity a few years ago when he told me that oasis are ****. I was like woah now you say that they are.

If learning music theory would make me stop enjoying all music made after jazz I don't want to learn about it. Ignorance is bliss, as they say, I'll just go on listening to music and enjoying it without care in the world.

Eh, I like a few of their songs. Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, etc.

Not great, but they have a pleasant sound. Terribad lyrics, though.

I hate Oasis

I just tried defending them, but... yeah.

They're in the "I hate them, but I find a few of their songs pleasant" camp. Like Dave Matthews Band. Except I think I like even fewer DMB songs.

I find northern accents particularly grating when they're singing

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all these posts were relevant to me

Knowing nothing about English accents, when I hear "northern", I just picture Karl Pilkington.

I like oasis.

It's not like its one of my favorite bands/musicians.

But who doesn't sometimes like to listen to song like this one