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Sorry bro, I've had a few too many... and, uh... that's not beer (although, it used to be... :) )

:) :)

 

and those aren't Candy Bars that I dropped on the floor either Ronthepon..:D

 

We search for intelligent life, while I revert to Primate behavior ;)

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I would assume so, given this crowd. One of the garden modules needs to have a vineyard, so I can make wine. Preferably, Merlot.

 

Lighting for the garden modules: "Light Pipes". No kidding--you take tough but flexible plastic hose, lightly frost the inside with a metalic-prismatic coating. At one end, beam radio waves down your "waveguide" which activates the gas mixture, causing it to glow in visible. Conversion from RF to light is very high, and produces very intense light. You might even need to wear sunglasses when out to pick squash and beans.

 

Quick Military story.

 

I used to work on aircraft radar and fire control.

During base exercises in North Bay, when working in the lab at night, we would often selectively turn on lights in the headquarters building across the street using the lab radar system mounted in our test bed. We had the MP's running all night :)

 

This and other stories available in our pamphlet "How to entertain yourself on a 72 hour exercise".

 

PS: we also had florescent bulbs inside of a sign we placed in front of an aircraft we were testing. If you turned on the Radar, the sigh would light up warning people of radiation hazard. NO power required :)

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This is going to be great! We will have all these bigshots showing up expecting this very formal and scientifically balanced meal with Tang to wash everything down, and we are going to deliver a Sout African Octoberfest! That is exactly the attitude I was looking for from this crew. Well done!! These folks will show up, be completely suprised, and have the time of their lives. I will be the dedicated driver. We have a couple of weeks to sober up before launch.

 

Keep up the good work!

 

Bill

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We're gonna tool around the inner solar system for a bit, then head on out to Jupiter and Saturn, we're we'll all be murdered by our rouge AI. But not before we ascend to a higher plane of existence and return to earth as glowing blue space babies.

 

Any other questions?

 

TFS

That is a nice plan.

 

Do you think I'm AI?

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Oh I would like to ask, How will justice be handled, in the odd chance that someone does something that is... wrong. What kind of code will the mission go by seeing as we are going to be traversing intrastellar space.

 

Do we use capitial pushment, will there be hazzing? Are you innocent until proven guilty or guilty until proven innocent?

 

What kinda on board economy would we maintain? Are we Socialist or Capitialist? Are you my comrades or bussiness partners?

 

What is the Mission statement, what is our goals?

 

How would a mutiny be handled? If we were to encounter an alien life form how are we to approach, if we are to approach it? Do we have a prime directive or what?

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...How will justice be handled...Do we use capital pushment, will there be hazzing? Are you innocent until proven guilty...What kinda on board economy...What is the Mission statement, what is our goals?...an alien life form...prime directive...?

Mission statement? We don't need no stinkin mission statement! You are hereby declared guilty of taking this journey way too seriously, and hereby ordered to be ejected from the the nearest airlock!

 

No, wait. If I did that, I would be taking this journey too seriously. Here, have a beer. Go have sex with one of the redshirts while I figure this out.

 

I propose that we adopt the most enlightened and modern socio-political unit ever invented in the History of Mankind as the model for our ship: the 20th Century University Fraternity House. The ship itself will be augmented with a 21st Century Multi-AI Computer System (MACS) that will ignore the instructions of drunk or stoned crew members, will mercifully zap anyone about to do something really *wrong*, and make sure the beer doesn't get warm.

 

All decisions will be made by whoever is on the bridge at the time and capable of typing on a keyboard without hurling.

 

Our <<<MISSION>>> is to Boldly GO. That's it. Anyone think that is to general or vague, go work on it. But if you use the word "synergistically" you will be airlock evacuated, no foolin.

 

I suggest we take a test run out to the Moon, check out a lander, get used to wearing space suits, work the wrinkles out of the systems, then blast for Mars and check out the Alien Bimbo Detector that I installed in module 42.

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I'm just suggesting like a kiddo.

 

If any wrongdoers happen to be found on the ship, we actively attempt to rehabilitate them on the ship.

 

The second degree could be putting them in their (room) and locking them in, giving them food, taking away their free beer.

 

The third and final degree could be... um... walk the plank?

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