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   Arthur Lipscomb to Ken from Chicago   
   Re: Scifi debate: Astronauts vs cavemen    
   16 Sep 06 13:05:56   
   
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   From: a.lipscomb@comcast.net   
      
   "Ken from Chicago"  wrote in message   
   news:MtudnVbX-fId4pTYnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com...   
   >   
   > "Wayland"  wrote in message   
   > news:etpig215db43op3nmppoq247u3vhs6unkt@4ax.com...   
   >> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:32:40 -0500, Exhibitionist  wrote   
   >> in :   
   >>   
   >>>On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:24:47 GMT, Wayland    
   >>>text-messaged me, saying:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:04:38 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:13:55 -0400, Squibnick@webtv.net (Tinsley   
   >>>>>Kvapil the Elder) wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>Wow, even though the thread got off track, it is the longest one I   
   >>>>>>ever   
   >>>>>>started!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>That's nothing. If you want to start a thread that goes well past   
   >>>>>1,000 posts just make the topic about guns or atheism.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Or a White Star vs. the Defiant.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>It's no contest: White Star.   
   >>>(Oops!  Here we go again.)   
   >>   
   >> I was going to take this into a discussion of the Defiant's advantages   
   >> due to the cloak and not having biological functions to deal with.   
      
   How about having shields and quantum torpedoes?   
      
   >>   
   >> Then that lead my mind down the path of biological functions.   
   >>   
   >> What are the biological functions of a White Star?   
   >>   
   >> And what would we get if we crossbred a White Star with a Leviathan?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Wayland   
   >> ...inquiring minds want to know!   
   >   
   > That's your idea of a debate? Puhlease!   
   >   
   > The fifth season of ANGEL introduced a debate:   
   >   
   > Astronauts versus cavemen in a fight ... who'd win?   
   >   
   > http://youtube.com/watch?v=pgSPO8ym3yU   
   >   
   > No, the astronauts don't have weapons, but the cavemen get to use fire.   
   >   
   > http://youtube.com/watch?v=S3i1kRWQo00   
   >   
   > -- Ken from Chicago (who has to disagree with his favorite Buffyverse   
   > character and side with the astronauts)   
   >   
   > P.S. I'm surprised SciFi channel hasn't already made a movie out of it.   
      
      
   Well, there's already Robinson Crusoe on Mars and various episodes of Star   
   Trek and Lost in Space.  The space men with their advanced technology did   
   seem to always come out on top when pitted against primitives.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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