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TURAKII IS AWESOME AND A GENIUS!! -SZ-
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Avatar nominated for best picture? Gag me with a stick. That movie should win all the visual effects awards ever in the history of everything. Absolutely. But best picture? Give me a break. The movie was so full of cheese I could've eaten it. Blah. -SZ-
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Santa Claus - The Scientific Explanation 1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer, which only Santa has ever seen. 2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't appear to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average census rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. For the sake of our ensuing calculations, we will assume that there is at least one good child in each. 3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1.2 milliseconds to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about 78 miles per household, a total trip of 71.6 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at approximately 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a mere 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run 15 miles per hour, unless being chased by a pack of wolves. 4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized LEGO set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison-this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the boat, not the person). 5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - thus heating the chain in almost the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of this friction, the lead pair of reindeer will absorb around 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 milliseconds. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion - If Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now. -SZ-
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War (or versions thereof) is the most idiotic thing in the world. Just plain stupid. In any situation. -SZ-
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On this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. -SZ-
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You keep making me think Halloween was yesterday! > -SZ-
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How can someone be so obsessed over plastic dolls that you build? -River Tam
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The American government if full of complete and utter cool dudes who know NOTHING on how to run a country. We're so busy looking at the SPECK in everyone else's eyes that we can't see the gigantic PLANK in our own. Since when did we become the world police?! Oh right, since we became an empire. :annoyed2: [SZ]
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You can only blame your problems on my world for so long Before it all becomes the same old song... There it is folks. Actual Fall Out Boy lyrics that make sense. [SZ]
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Worst idea ever. :annoyed2: THERE AL DA SAME PEEPZ [SZ]
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Seems like it doesn't mean anything to win them nowadays. Hmm. Of course, that's just cuz I can't win 'em. -SZ-
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WHERE WAS CHLOE?!?!?!?!?! -SZ-
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Or very little of it. This has been going on for weeks. "They" say it's due to Ike. What. The. Heck. Katrina was way worse than Ike, and gasoline flow was just fine. Sure, it went way up in price, but at least it was there! ... This all seems too contrived. -SZ-
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» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « In general, the '09 sets are juniorized and megablock-esque. For instance: The new hands, Strakk, those hideously ugly, re-packaged Matoran, and Tarix (which, BTW, has got to be the worst designed set ever). Oh, and they look like Knights. However, there are exceptions: Melee weapons, Skrall, TAN, Malum, small heads (with the exception of Strakk, but he sucks anyways ). Honestly, I could care less that some of the set have practically no new design to them. Some actually look good, and that, honestly, is all I care about. Pluuuuuuuus, Skrall has an awesome new torso design. I just wish there wasn't as much juniorization, but that'll never happen. In conclusion, they're much better than the '08 summer set, fo shizzle. -SZ-
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I don't support Barack Obama. I don't support John McCain. I don't support any nominee. -SZ-
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People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. -SZ-
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"Getting angry doesn't solve anything." -SZ-
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In no particular order... Colored People - dc Talk My Friend (So Long) - dc Talk Dive - Steven Curtis Chapman Ballad Of San Francisco - Caedmon's Call Violet Hill - Coldplay Breakfast - Newsboys Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Believe - Third Day Digee Dime - Burlap To Cashmere Dirty Second Hands - Switchfoot -SZ-
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Fact: All empires fall. America = Empire ... I just hope it's sooner rather than later. -SZ- EDIT: Yeah, this one's too controversial.
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Toph is WIN. Case Closed. -SZ-
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Saw The Dark Knight. It was pretty good. The Joker was incridible. I can't decide which Joker was better: Ledger or Nicholson. Harvey Dent was kinda boring, and Batman too. But The Joker. Yeah. Awesome. also confusion abounded -SZ-
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- BZPers will argue about anything and everything. - LEGO does, in fact, know what it's doing. - The staff are real people, and awesome ones at that. - The blogs own the forums. - Opinions are opinions, live with them. - Teenage guys, for the most part, are toddlers with hormones. - Teenage girls, for the most part, are toddlers on caffeine. - New members don't get no respect! - Grudges never last; why hold on so hard? - Life is awesome when you let it be. - 2009 will make or break Bionicle. - Love is the most wonderful and confusing thing in the world. -SZ-
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There, I said it. ... Everything but Han Solo, that is. -SZ-
