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Old 09-13-2010, 11:34 AM   #11
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Its an o'neill island three. Not familiar with rama, I knew them from mobile suit gundam can't wait till we build em, australia is fucked
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Old 09-13-2010, 11:44 AM   #12
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Sci-Fi great Arthur C Clarke wrote a series of books
Rama,
Rama II
Garden of Rama, (i think)
maybe a few more.

a non windowed capsule like above comes into the solar system, and the exploratory team finds an alien ecosystem...
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Old 09-13-2010, 11:52 AM   #13
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Its an o'neill island three. Not familiar with rama, I knew them from mobile suit gundam can't wait till we build em, australia is fucked
Oooo.. A SIDE 5 reference.
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Oooo.. A SIDE 5 reference.
Whatever gets me in a zaku , course a kampfer fits my style more...
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Old 09-13-2010, 01:40 PM   #15
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The issue isn't "saving the earth"
The issue is how to feed a growing human population.
This.

Stop breeding.

Unfortunately, from watching episodes of Springer, I know this is an impossibility.

If someone really cared that much about the planet, they would kill everyone they know and then themselves.
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Old 09-13-2010, 01:40 PM   #16
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Sci-Fi great Arthur C Clarke wrote a series of books
Rama,
Rama II
Garden of Rama, (i think)
maybe a few more.

a non windowed capsule like above comes into the solar system, and the exploratory team finds an alien ecosystem...
Actually it's Rendevous with Rama

Great book..........was going to be made into a movie but never got the funding. Here is a student version though: http://vimeo.com/9739256
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This.

Stop breeding.

Unfortunately, from watching episodes of Springer, I know this is an impossibility.

If someone really cared that much about the planet, they would kill everyone they know and then themselves.
Fuck you, fuck this planet, and fuck eugenics.
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Old 09-13-2010, 01:58 PM   #18
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I always wanted to see one of those big rotating colonies stop rotating and watch the chaos that ensues.
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Old 09-13-2010, 02:00 PM   #19
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I always wanted to see one of those big rotating colonies stop rotating and watch the chaos that ensues.
Oh man, that'd be a jubumblefuck of floating crap. Bodies of water? Jesus
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Old 09-13-2010, 02:57 PM   #20
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Actually it's Rendevous with Rama

Great book..........was going to be made into a movie but never got the funding. Here is a student version though: http://vimeo.com/9739256
ah thats right. been a long time since I read it, forgot the full title.

kick ass video.
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