# Raging Atoms **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464 "2011-09-16T02:30:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/21 "2011-09-17T00:03:18Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > Also what is fluff? Goggling that brought up marshmallow topping and fuzzy sweaters. > > Oh and kittens, lots of kittens. šŸ˜ƒ Although an actual explanation has already been given, Iā€™ve been reading Donā€™t Panic by Gaiman and Iā€™d like to share the fact that that fluff was one of the extras included in the package when you bought the original Hitchhikerā€™s Guide to the Galaxy computer game. I look forward to some day finding out how fluff pertains in that case. > [@kayaker](#): > > I do. As a cite I offer access to an MRI of my brain done in 2009. Aw . . . the OP didnā€™t mean that literally. By: ā€œDoes one person on this board have a brain of their own . . . ?ā€; he meant: ā€œYou deluded fools! Fall down before my Foucaultā€™s Pendulum\* in awe at my string of sciency terminologisms arranged into a constellation of dread and doom.ā€ - Novel by Umberto Eco in which a computer program (loosely speaking) is used to link individual conspiracy theories into a massive theory of super-conspiracy. Iā€™d say more, but - spoilers. My favorite word from the novel is tetrapyloctomy - the art of splitting a hair four ways. * * * Has anyone got a link to a reputable site listing the radiation level at Denver? When I google, the first four pages are whacky blogs, most of them listing information from last March. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/22 "2011-09-17T00:26:38Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > I just want for once that if, say, somebody comes with the latest gloom ā€˜nā€™ doom about how Apophis is going to destroy the world (or I guess itā€™s Elenin now) \ Nah, [Aphosis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa%27uld_characters_in_Stargate#Apophis) got killed off a while back. ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/23 "2011-09-17T04:45:15Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Nah, [Aphosis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa%27uld_characters_in_Stargate#Apophis) got killed off a while back. Iā€™m glad Iā€™m not the only one who had this reaction. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/24 "2011-09-17T14:36:56Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Aw . . . the OP didnā€™t mean that literally. By: ā€œDoes one person on this board have a brain of their own . . . ?ā€ OK, you are giving the OP far more credit than I was. ---
**Author:** ![Vahid\_Tarzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@Vahid\_Tarzan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vahid_Tarzan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/25 "2011-09-19T06:10:17Z")
Star Trek Pleasantvilleā€¦ I like that. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Vahid\_Tarzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@Vahid\_Tarzan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vahid_Tarzan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/26 "2011-09-19T06:30:01Z")
You are not that important to me. You have these twisted little ideas that you are either better or equal. Indeed, if you are better than me, who cares? But you are by no means my equal. I highly doubt you have the strength, and even if you did, I am not like you, nor will I stand in my place beside you. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/27 "2011-09-19T06:31:39Z")
Nobody said they were better than you. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/28 "2011-09-19T06:34:02Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Lucky you. I had to sell mine for ramen noodles back in college. Iā€™ve got a lease-to-own plan on the current one, but itā€™s going to be a long time before I can really call it ā€œmineā€. Let me guessā€¦ it was when Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt off that sold you wasnā€™t it? Lord knows Troy couldnā€™t sell a lease-to-own plan if his life depended on it. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/29 "2011-09-19T06:39:43Z")
> [@Vahid\_Tarzan](#): > > You are not that important to me. You have these twisted little ideas that you are either better or equal. Indeed, if you are better than me, who cares? But you are by no means my equal. I highly doubt you have the strength, and even if you did, I am not like you, nor will I stand in my place beside you. See what happens when you take the time? I was going to echo the sentiments above about the very nice, helpful non-snark post of **Half Man Half Wit** but Tarzan quashed it. I tell ya, some mornings it just not worth chewing through the restraints. ETA: I still give HMHW bonus points for ā€œidĆ©e fixeā€. . ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/30 "2011-09-19T07:35:19Z")
> [@Vahid\_Tarzan](#): > > ā€¦Does one person on this board have a brain of their own or information besides that given to them by the media? Course they do. I think itā€™s just that many of them share a perception that your posts have a tendency toward rambling, incoherent nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/31 "2011-09-19T13:18:29Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Nobody said they were better than you. Please do not speak for me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/32 "2011-09-19T15:02:46Z")
Jared Loughner has Internet access now? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/33 "2011-09-19T15:46:24Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > ETA: I still give HMHW bonus points for ā€œidĆ©e fixeā€. So in the end, itā€™s all been worth it. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/34 "2011-09-19T16:48:42Z")
Thatā€™s what the alien-controlled fluff does! Donā€™t you see, it dulls our brains to keep us from experiencing yet _another_ level of heightened consciousness. Once achieved, weā€™ll raise our reasoning, intelligence and awareness to a level thatā€™ll make our current minds look like that of a chimp. And without that, weā€™ll never create the _New Physics Model,_ which will allow us to finally see that space, time, mass, energy and gravity are really five facets of a unified theory, which equations will allow us to wield zero-point energy for superluminal travel and weapons that can swallow star systems. Weā€™re being penned in! Controlled! Weā€™re ā€“ oh, Star Trekā€™s onā€¦ brbā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Vahid\_Tarzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@Vahid\_Tarzan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vahid_Tarzan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/35 "2011-09-19T17:00:31Z")
Thatā€™s better. There is nonsense rambling I guess before there is a clear definition of the person doing the rambling. The Fluffā€¦? Doesnā€™t seem to be any doubt that it exists, the degree on which it exists may vary. And inasmuch as radioactive fallout from Japan, I wish people understood this better to open up other areas of discussion. Life isā€¦ entertainment. It is entertaining to place a notion in peopleā€™s head, than see the result later when it comes about. Indeed, the experience is enhanced when others partake, but not entirely necessary. I see the world running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off, so letā€™s bring them to a place where we can uniformly watch them in terror and die. Not an evil thought, but what else is there? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/36 "2011-09-19T17:09:15Z")
> [@Vahid\_Tarzan](#): > > Thatā€™s better. There is nonsense rambling I guess before there is a clear definition of the person doing the rambling. > > The Fluffā€¦? Doesnā€™t seem to be any doubt that it exists, the degree on which it exists may vary. And inasmuch as radioactive fallout from Japan, I wish people understood this better to open up other areas of discussion. > > Life isā€¦ entertainment. It is entertaining to place a notion in peopleā€™s head, than see the result later when it comes about. Indeed, the experience is enhanced when others partake, but not entirely necessary. > > I see the world running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off, so letā€™s bring them to a place where we can uniformly watch them in terror and die. Not an evil thought, but what else is there? This is trolling, which is against the rules here. I recommend that you refrain from the impulse going forward. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Vahid\_Tarzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@Vahid\_Tarzan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vahid_Tarzan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/37 "2011-09-19T17:11:20Z")
Seriously? What part? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/38 "2011-09-19T17:14:58Z")
The only rational place to do that is exile to antarctica, but the logistics would be a huge mess. Are we to let them suffer on their own? Then again, humans are somewhat clever creatures, theyā€™ll eventually build some sort of permanent shelters, out of the limited resources, and their numbers would dwindle fast, which, of course, is convenient. But first, you must at least bring the horse to the water, and see if they want to drink or not. The fate is ultimately in their hands. I chose well, by ā€“ brbā€¦ STā€™s back onā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Vahid\_Tarzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3e96dc/32.png) [@Vahid\_Tarzan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vahid_Tarzan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/39 "2011-09-19T17:18:35Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > The only rational place to do that is exile to antarctica, but the logistics would be a huge mess. > > Are we to let them suffer on their own? Then again, humans are somewhat clever creatures, theyā€™ll eventually build some sort of permanent shelters, out of the limited resources, and their numbers would dwindle fast, which, of course, is convenient. > > But first, you must at least bring the horse to the water, and see if they want to drink or not. The fate is ultimately in their hands. I chose well, by ā€“ brbā€¦ STā€™s back onā€¦ Not necessarily. Humans still regard themselves as animals to be lead. In that case they should be lead to a place of choiceā€¦ Life or death, IMHO. Also, one can lead a horse to water and by God it will drink! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464/40 "2011-09-19T17:51:48Z")
Like trained horses, humans have blinders on. The path they walk is so narrow, new routes cannot be seen, and death is always inevitable. When all around them is life. They always choose death. But why beat a dead horsā€” brbā€¦ STā€™s almost doneā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raging-atoms/596464.md?page=3)