tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post8478759908408639401..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: Both Dangerously Genre Savvy and Too Dumb to Live Mousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-40764604362157463412016-04-04T18:56:39.409-07:002016-04-04T18:56:39.409-07:00A bit late, but you were wondering about the rock ...A bit late, but you were wondering about the rock on Vicki's legs?<br />I happened upon a discussion of rocks <i>in re</i> the quarrying of granite. A chunk of granite about the size of a small car weighs 20 TONNES. So, Vicki's legs are't bleeding, they are staining the rock an interesting shade of ochre. She's just had two traumatic amputations, and the last thing she's thinking about is nookie. Comes to that, with the amount of painkiller she'll be on she's not likely to even be conscious.Blank Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15979418686713358058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-85355757107312503442016-02-28T06:18:07.403-08:002016-02-28T06:18:07.403-08:00What we have here is a failure of empathy. RTCs ca...What we have here is a failure of empathy. RTCs can't (perhaps don't dare to) put themselves in the shoes of an unbeliever, so they can't understand why someone might not believe (once given the recruiting speech) except as a form of wilful disobedience - because for them, in their authoritarian culture, that's exactly what it would be.<br /><br />Excellent point: Irene should have been saying "X is in the news, the Rapture will be any day now" for <i>years</i> before it actually happened.<br /><br />Which is more of a challenge: to paint a pretty sunset, or to set up physical laws so that they will produce pretty sunsets?<br /><br />As always, we don't know what Nicky is trying to <i>achieve</i> (apart from "hit all the RTC bad-guy targets") so his actions continue to make no sense.<br /><br />It's never a money scandal because the rules have been carefully set up so that money scandals aren't necessary.<br /><br />The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is perhaps a good example of a <i>failed</i> time travel mission. Mind you, some sort of war was going to happen anyway. The only way you can undo it, I suspect, is to have more European observers at the trench warfare during the ACW, who are so horrified at the idea of this happening in their home countries that they go all-out to broker an effective peace before it can get started. (But you still have the Ottomans to worry about.)<br /><br />What really scares me about Trump is he's not the worst front-runner out there. I mean, he's not actively trying to invoke the end of the world. for a start.<br /><br />I worked out the 100-lb hailstone impact energy back in my megacomment on "Might Does Not Make Right". Slightly amended here:<br /><br />A 100lb block of ice is a sphere about 17-18 inches across. At a terminal velocity of about 98m/s (330 feet/second), that's an impact energy of 220kJ (160,000-ish foot-pounds), which is pretty substantial, something like a 44-ton truck moving at 7mph, or more than a thousand baseballs all hitting at once. Of course some of that energy will go into fragmenting the ice sphere on impact, but even so it won't be much fun.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-46118426808220696672016-02-27T22:04:56.995-08:002016-02-27T22:04:56.995-08:00"If he did, it's a rare show of intellige..."If he did, it's a rare show of intelligence from a member of the GOP"<br /><br />Rick Santorum faces the exact same problem that guys like Mike Huckabee face. The RTC voter (For brevity's sake we'll call it that) can be trusted to consistently vote Republican but at the same time they are simply not enough of them around to carry an election. You can't win an election with that demographic alone, but you can't win a Republican nomination process without them alone. Santorum derped himself into smarts by not following Huck-a-lougee<br /><br />Going back to your original quote, Trump is a genius. Rather then come up with an electoral strategy, he is merely following the exact same tactical mold Obama used in 2008. Talking gym sock here shows exactly how<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y6oYlAr1DQ<br /><br />But Sock missed "Never bow and kowtow when you get called on something a-hole-ish you said or did"<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-64868444345828504162016-02-27T19:50:13.393-08:002016-02-27T19:50:13.393-08:00You've summed up why one of the most important...You've summed up why one of the most important mission control posts for CATS is Timeline.<br /><br />http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Tripocalypse.PrologueKids<br /><br />We're nearing the endgame, so I guess I should get my writing in...<br /><br />Hmm. Last we saw Hasina, she was beating up an angel. Let's see where might Taylor be.spiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.com