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«lawrence» the same is true of death. since it erases all consciousness, if I were to die at some point in the future, then there'd be no way for me to experience things right now because I already will have been dead. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:19pm) «Jºnªthªn» in that case shut up (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:21pm) «lawrence» wow, so glad you could join this conversation in such a pleasant way. your input is appreciated. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:22pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» What?! (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:22pm) «Jºnªthªn» I was kidding... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:24pm) «lawrence» Michael - yeah, I know, it's totally full of holes. especially since no one knows what death is like... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:24pm) «lawrence» oh. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:25pm) «lawrence» still, it's fun to believe I'm immortal - well, not immortal, just that I'll never be in a situation where death could reuslt. like, if you shot me in the head, I would die. but this "proves" that you won't shoot me in the head. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:26pm) «lawrence» :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:26pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i wish i COULD believe that. i'm sure it would improve my life... to not fear death. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:28pm) «lawrence» you'd think that with a belief like that I'd also be much less afraid of flying.... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:28pm) «lawrence» (in reality, even believing I'm not immortal, I don't fear death - I fear knowing about it ahead of time. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) «jaye» *blink* (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) «lawrence» I want it to be quick and unexpected. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» heh, well part of my choice of flight as my power is probably the desire to never have to fly in the conventional sense ever again. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) «lawrence» heh (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) «lawrence» that works. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:29pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» though it is not that i am afraid of flying, but more that i get very ill from it. motion sickness. kind of takes the fun out of it. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:30pm) «lawrence» but you wouldn't get motion sick if you could fly without the aid of an airplane? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:30pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» no way! (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:31pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» and i mean that for real... people don't get motion sickness when they are in control of the motion. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:31pm) «lawrence» yeah, that's very true. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:31pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» that's why you don't get carsick when you are driving... only as a passenger. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:31pm) «jaye» it would be less, i would think, because you're in control. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:32pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» so that must be even more true when there is no external vehicle... only yourself. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:32pm) «jaye» yeah, what she said =) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:32pm) «lawrence» and when the motion is direct, too - if you are flying, everything that causes you to move causes it directly. in an airplane, or a car, even as the driver, external forces affect things differently inside (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:32pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» believe me, i've flown pretty much every night of my life and never gotten sick. true i was asleep at the time, but... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:33pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:33pm) «jaye» i was just thinking in terms of video games. i got dizzy watching lily play halo, but when i was doing it i was fine, because i knew how it was going to move (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:33pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I think it would be somewhat uncomfortable to be flying through the air at 500 miles an hour... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:33pm) «jaye» i was just thinking in terms of video games. i got dizzy watching lily play halo, but when i was doing it i was fine, because i knew how it was going to move (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:33pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» ...not to mention cold. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:33pm) «jaye» twice, even (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:34pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» who said we'd be flying at 500 miles an hour? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:34pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Well, then, it's hardly comparable. This country (not to mention this planet) is a big place. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:35pm) «lawrence» that's why teleportation would be better, I think. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:35pm) «jaye» not me - i was thinking cruising along like the dream sequences in the big lebowski. minus the bowling ball crash to the ground, natch (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:35pm) «lawrence» of course, if I had that ability, I'd be afraid of like... teleporting into a mountain or something. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:35pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» and who ever said i expected to get anywhere as fast as in a plane? certainly it would be a lot slower, but the journey would be very enjoyable. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:35pm) «jaye» for the romantic, flight is far more interesting than teleportation, i think. there's a poetry to the flying that i think melinda is thinking of (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:37pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Hmmm... Different priorities, I guess. I don't think I'd choose flying. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:37pm) «lawrence» yeah, teleportation isn't very artistic. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:37pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i think you are taking a jokey comment up a while back about my choice as the actual reason for choosing it, which would be extremely wrong. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:38pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» and yes, jaci, you completely get it. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:38pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» it's the feeling of it... i get to feel it in my dreams but never in real life. sigh. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:39pm) «Rob Balder» There are other technical problems with teleportation. For example, suppose I teleported to Lake Tahoe. The change in air pressure would probably rupture my ear drums. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:39pm) «lawrence» Rob - why ruin fantasy with science? :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:39pm) «Mollie» yes, i frequently dream about flying and it's always wonderfu.l (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:39pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» That is, I think, reasonable punishment for choosing to go to Tahoe. :-) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:40pm) «Rob Balder» Yeah there was no romance in flying on Delta yesterday. Just a screaming little maggot ans a 45 min delay that almost made us miss the connection. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:40pm) «Rob Balder» What's wrong with Tahoe? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:40pm) «Rob Balder» I loved Tahoe. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:41pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I dunno... Just one of those names, I suppose. Like "Cleveland." (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:41pm) «Rob Balder» It was worth the 1153rd Plane of Hell to experience Dragon*Con tho (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:42pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Children should be sedated and checked as luggage. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:43pm) «Rob Balder» Nah Tahoe is gorgeous in the summertime. 72 degrees and azure skies and 10% humidity and tall pines and emerald golf courses and the sparkling lake (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:43pm) «Rob Balder» Amen to that. I said to someone, "That kid better grow up and cure cancer or something, cause he's got a LOT to make up for." (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:44pm) «Mollie» I hope you never cried in public as a child. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:45pm) «Mollie» Because if so, you have some achieving to do. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:48pm) «jaye» word. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:48pm) «Rob Balder» I hate it so intensely that I would write a letter of apology to everyone I annoyed if I could. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:48pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Enhh. It's about inconsiderate parents. What, they can't soothe their child during the course of a three-hour flight?! (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:49pm) «lawrence» yeah. although on a flight, I can accept it a little more than say, in a restaurant or at a movie. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:50pm) «Rob Balder» She seemed to be trying, but basically it consisted of picking up the little monster and pointing the noisy end at the people behind her--us. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:50pm) «Rob Balder» The plane is more understandable, but worse because you are just trapped. Restaurants should have "No Children" sections. Certain places like Don Pablo's should also have "No Birthday" sections. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:53pm) «Rob Balder» Anyway... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:55pm) «Rob Balder» So there are many ways to feel awkward in this world, but one of the weirdest is to be hanging out and partying with a guy who has published like a dozen novels, none of which you've read. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:56pm) «lawrence» "What did you think of....?" "Um, I haven't read it." "Oh. What about....?" "Haven't read that one, either." (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:58pm) «lawrence» actually, worse would be if you had read them all and hated them. :) (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:58pm) «Rob Balder» Lawrence I'll give you that. I've had that experience with some webcomics creators. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:59pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Anyone who would ask you what you thought of one of his own novels is the height of boorishness, anyways. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 1:59pm) «Rob Balder» Well he didn't. He was just a fun-loving partygoer like the rest of us. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:00pm) «Rob Balder» But I still felt weird. I picked up his first book in the dealer's room. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:01pm) «Rob Balder» "A Prayer Before Battle" by John Ringo. Haven't cracked it yet cause I am still reading Cryptonomicon. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:02pm) «lawrence» heh: "Russian space officials said a Russian and a Belgian will be making the flight. In Bass' place on the trip will be a cargo container, they said." (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:08pm) «goovie is married!» heeee. poor lance. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:12pm) «Mollie» I can't decide whether to laugh or to feel bad for the guy. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:12pm) «sheryls» so he's not going? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:12pm) «Mollie» Mostly I feel bad for (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:12pm) «Mollie» 'im (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:12pm) «lawrence» maybe he's going in the cargo container? that would be cool. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:12pm) «Mollie» They said it's over. He's not going. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:13pm) «sheryls» hm. wonder why. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:13pm) «lawrence» apparently he kept being unable to come up with the money (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:13pm) «goovie is married!» what? he's 'n sync. he has all the bloody money he could ever want. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:14pm) «goovie is married!» he's in 'n sync, rather. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:15pm) «lawrence» no, he IS 'n sync. kind of the way Murray IS Moxy Fruvous. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:15pm) «goovie is married!» and gregory IS dvn. no, wait. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:16pm) «Mollie» He had to pay 20 million dollars. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:17pm) «Mollie» though he did not. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:17pm) «Mollie» that's a lot of money for pretty much anyone. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:17pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» It wqas my understanding that he never intended to pay the money himeself... (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:18pm) «Melinda J. Beasi» i don't think he was paying it... i think it was corporate sponsors. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:18pm) «lawrence» but it was all his promotors anyway. the whole thing was a publicity stunt - and whether he eventually ends up going or not, it has already worked, unfortunately. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:18pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I think he's got some organization inking sponsorship deals and stuff to pay for it. (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:18pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» why unfortunate, Lawrence? (Sep 3, 2002 @ 2:19pm) «Mollie» yes, he was waiting for corporate sponsors, who apparently didn't come through for him...at least, not to the tune of 20 million. 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