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What's your Apocalypse plan?
Topic Started: Jul 21 2010, 02:23 PM (12,799 Views)
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A remote controlled box with guns is not very exciting, nor can it punch a Ukrainian super solider though the deck.
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Srry you hate chr...
Hey, why did you think that was hate stuff? It was meant to be neutral.

It is not about hate. I think you're too touchy!

Maybe we should date it from somethign else, like one of these certain events-
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Tiberius, under order of Augustus, quells revolts in Germania.
Gaius Caesar and Lucius Aemilius Paullus are appointed consuls.
Gaius Caesar marries Livilla, daughter of Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus, in an effort to gain prestige.
Quirinius becomes a chief advisor to Gaius in Armenia. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus had served as consul in 16 BC, also serves in the Armenia campaigns.
The Aqua Alsietina aqueduct is constructed.
Silk appears in Rome.
Areius Paianeius becomes Archon of Athens.
The Yuanshi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty begins.
Confucius is given his first royal title (posthumous name) of Lord Baochengxun Ni.
Emperor Ping of Han China begins his reign and Wang Mang is re-instated as regent by Grand Empress Dowager Wang.
Former regent Dong Xian commits suicide.
Sapadbizes, Yuezhi prince and King of Kush (Bactria), dies. Heraios succeeds him as king.
The Kingdom of Aksum, centered in modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea, is founded (approximate date).
Amanishakheto, Queen of Kush (Nubia), dies. Her son, Natakamani, becomes King of Kush.
Moxos ceases to be a significant religious area in South America (approximate date).
The Teotihuacan culture in Mesoamerica begins (approximate date).
The poem Metamorphoses is written by Ovid.
Livy writes his monumental History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita).
They all happened in 1 CE.
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I'm sure you'll be saying that when you have a thunderbolt sticking out of your back. :P
He'd never hurt me, i'm a good person! :sad:
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That's hilarious... so much for catastrophe anarchism.

Must be a pretty bad waste, after all, France is a nice big country.
That's not true anarchy!

France... nice? There's a reason we have nukes.
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This idea really interests me. Most of the time I envision nations cooperating and forming alliances, but not dissolving Star-Trek world-government style (think more and more alliances like the EU, where individual nations still exist within a larger framework), and (at least developed) nations not going and killing eachother (that often).
I don't know where i stand on global unification.
I don't want Britain to be smurcked though.

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They're about as amphibious as seals; considering that a good deal of their lifestyle goes on in the water, they certainly qualify as 'partially aquatic'.

I can't think of any swimming dinosaurs. I know some which occasionally swam to another island or whatever, but your description sounds like a cryptoclidid or other non-dinosaur marine reptile.

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Do you even know what the hell a Jurassic Park scenario is?
Yes, and the word 'hell' there is out of place.
Seen all three films blah blah blah.
And they did have guns and that. Especially in TLW:JP.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I'm talking about the original and thrid movies, as well as the novels.

And T.Neo, you must remember that Ingen geneticly altered several of the animals.
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A remote controlled box with guns is not very exciting, nor can it punch a Ukrainian super solider though the deck.


It's far more exciting than a vehicle that is totally unsuited to the environment you're putting it into, has unecessary mass and complexity, and can't even turn on it's own axis.

AMBAC is rubbish. Real physics doesn't work like that.

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Maybe we should date it from somethign else, like one of these certain events-


Good, now the CE-BCE calender is based off all of those events and more.

I hope you are happy.

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That's not true anarchy!


I think it was, it just morphed into NK-like feudalism.

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Silence! Zeus can thunderbolt anyone he pleases.

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I don't want Britain to be smurcked though.


So... World State + Britain?

Or... the new Global British Empire? There's another story idea for lamna. :rolleyes:

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I can't think of any swimming dinosaurs. I know some which occasionally swam to another island or whatever, but your description sounds like a cryptoclidid or other non-dinosaur marine reptile.


That is odd, because my description was that of a penguin.

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And T.Neo, you must remember that Ingen geneticly altered several of the animals.


Doesn't help. Even if you wanted to make the animals more agressive (which would be silly at a zoo-theme-park-thing), it would be pretty hard to do genetically, and the behaviour of the animals in the film doesn't even match that.

AFAIK in the book there's a moron scientist working on the project who wants to engineer the dinosaurs to be more like their popular culture depictions, but his vision is for creatures more like the cold blooded lizards of yesteryear...

Anyway, genetic engineering them to a designer level is pretty stupid, people will be happy enough to see... I dunno... potentially the most famous group of extinct biota ever. :rolleyes:
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Well the idea of dinosaurs being cold-blooded and stupid sort of were the popular depictions of yesteryear.

I honestly don't care what animals we bring back. The Jurassic Park Scenario is just named after Jurassic Park. It could be mammoths and smilodon for all I care. Which would be rather cool as these things could very likely have genetic memories of humans and know what to do when people are near.
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Genetic memories of humans?

I am doubtful. They'd certainly have more of a genetic memory or whatever of us than a dinosaur (obviously :rolleyes: ), but they wouldn't have an actual, fearful memory of humans... you could for example raise a baby mammoth to be quite friendly to humans, in a similar way that an elephant could be raised.
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Good, now the CE-BCE calender is based off all of those events and more.

I hope you are happy.
Now, i can sleep. :sleepy:

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I think it was, it just morphed into NK-like feudalism.

Anarchy is, as you know, ' the simple absence of publicly recognized government or enforced political authority.' People led the revolution.
'Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist of the Victorian era known foremost for his widely influential work of history, The French Revolution, wrote that the French Revolution was a war against both aristocracy and anarchy.'

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Silence! Zeus can thunderbolt anyone he pleases.
You dare use his authority to quieten me? Heretic!

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So... World State + Britain?
Yes. They give us all their good stuff.

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That is odd, because my description was that of a penguin.
Damn you Holbenilord.


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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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France had anarchy of the simple no government kind but that swiftly devolved into the kind you see in Somalia. Then a couple of companies, communes and defence associations banded together to restablish a government and they guy they picked though very little of Democracy, it was after all what got France into trouble the first time. He also liked the middle ages, so crowned himself King of France and tried to make France as much like it was in past as he could, made sure nothing got too automated to deprive the lower classes of work and isolated France from the rest of the world.
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What about a science made Apocalyspe? There usually kinds of scienist that do this, the difference being one is a job and the other is a mental sickness.
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And T.Neo, you must remember that Ingen genetically altered several of the animals.
They made the raptors bigger and a bit of frog DNA. They didn't make more aggressive. They should have listened to Wu
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You do know those a Deinonychus. Jurassic Park, the novel was writen back when that thing was considered a Velocirator.
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I remember in the book that John Hammond and Dr Wu had a conversation about making the dinosaurs more docile but Hammond said he would rather have real dinosaurs. Also Malcolm talks about the dinosaurs being confused and thus angry as they are in a strange environment

Im not taking sides im just repeating what the book says. I dont have time to argue with T. Neo ;)
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You do know those a Deinonychus. Jurassic Park, the novel was writen back when that thing was considered a Velocirator.
No, they knew. The novel was 1990.
Just that the author didn't have good knowledge about dinosaurs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_issues_in_Jurassic_Park
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The Velociraptor in the novel, following through to those featured in the film, were larger than the actual animal, since a dromaeosaur named Deinonychus antirrhopus (closely related to Velociraptor mongoliensis, but larger) was interpreted as a species of Velociraptor by Gregory S. Paul, whose book "Predatory Dinosaurs of the World" was used as reference when Crichton wrote the novel.[1][2] In the novel, Deinonychus is mentioned, but the character Alan Grant then says that scientists have reclassified it as a species of Velociraptor.
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I wouldn't criticise jurrasic park for having unrealistic dinosaurs, because seriously who wants to watch normal dinosaurs in a zoo? sure a lot of people, but you don't make big money with prehistoric park, you make big money with the 'arm' scene in Jurrasic Park.It IS Fiction after all, its not like people read it to learn about dinosaurs, they read it to laugh at people who just happen to being eaten by dinosaurs.
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