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The thread was made to be silly in the first place.
Finally found my quote from a gym buddy born and raised in South Korea:
"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press.
"It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
"It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."
Theoretically, people can just fall through the earth- after all, there is space between all of our atoms, and if they aligned just right they should be able to pass through each other. Really, the idea of anyone catching a bullet and stopping it with their hand would have to a combination of dumb luck, solid steel bling, or extreme range. Just keep a bible in your breast pocket- that'll stop them.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
Grundz wrote: With how superheroes fight all limbs are always at full extension so I imagine abs are pretty important, all we get are still frames but I'm thinking they just windmill their arms and legs and walk at eachother while talking.
It might just have something to do with a lot of them not being able to draw well.
And then you have melon-fethers like Greg Land. (I'm going to warn for NSFW just on the basis of... God dammit, Greg Land, stop tracing porn).
Alfndrate wrote: I just noticed that we will no longer have cow bell as Kronk has changed his avatar
I hate his new avatar, I demand that Kronk changes it back.
People should never be allowed to ever change their avatars!
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
Theoretically, people can just fall through the earth- after all, there is space between all of our atoms, and if they aligned just right they should be able to pass through each other. Really, the idea of anyone catching a bullet and stopping it with their hand would have to a combination of dumb luck, solid steel bling, or extreme range. Just keep a bible in your breast pocket- that'll stop them.
Actually, the reason why we don't fall through the earth is because the electromagnetic fields from the 2 surfaces repel each other.
That sort of thinking isn't new; some military guy in the 80s iirc came up with the same idea, and thought it was possible to walk through walls.
I remember reading some article somewhere, it's been a while so I can't really find it, about him thinking to himself to the affect "there are spaces between atoms. So that means if I were to try hard enough, I can force my way through walls" So he got up out of his chair, walked over to the nearest wall...and whacked straight into it. I believe this incident may have been covered in the film "the men who stare at goats."
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What I have
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
Mr Spock rocking the cowbell, that's what the world needs right now.
EDIT: And abs; big, rippling, useless-at-preventing-injury abs.
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We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
timetowaste85 wrote: I think it is supposed to work on the same premise of being able to catch an extremely fast moving baseball without a glove and still avoiding injury. Basically, your hand has to move at a slightly slower speed than the object moving, while cushioning it's velocity and slowing it down. It is doable with a baseball.
Given there's a sport called cricket where you have to catch a ball that's travels as fast as, and is as hard as a baseball, and you don't get a glove, I can tell that it's not only possible, it gets done every weekend on a regular basis And the technique isn't to move your hand before the ball comes - that's soft and leads to dropped catches. Instead you just let the ball come in to your hands, and on impact your fingers instinctively grip around the ball, while your hands move back with the speed of the ball.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Cricket balls are fast? I remember them being quite slow.
Did you ever play any of the silly positions when fielding? That'd change your mind right quick.
Quick wiki work says that baseball and cricket have similar highest speeds (169 and 161km/h respectively) for pitching/bowling with baseball apparently "higher on average", but that's probably because you don't get spinners being quite as important in baseball as in cricket, and also don't baseball games just last the night? Cricket balls are heavier (156-164g) compared to baseballs (146-149g)
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I wish I had time for all the game systems I own, let alone want to own...
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Cricket balls are fast? I remember them being quite slow.
They're as fast as the bowler releases them, or as fast as the batsman hits them. And, thanks to the work down by motyak, we can see the speed of the bowler compares more or less with the speed of the pitcher (with an advantage to the pitcher, as being able to bend your arm is a bigger advantage than getting a run up).
But then you don't catch what's bowled/thrown, you catch what is hit, and so then the question is how fast it comes off the bat. And the answer to that, again, is about the same. The longest home runs come in around 450 feet, while the longest hits in cricket come in over 150 metres (likely due to the cricket bat being bigger than a baseball bat but its much of a muchness).
Not that that's really the measure either, because the hardest chances aren't taken out on the boundary, but in close, so well... just watch this. Close in catching, with a ball absolutely belted and the field reacting and plucking the catch in barely no
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
I'd say the guys without the hand protection are far manlier than those with it.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
In Superman's case maybe the super strength (generated by exposure to the sun) is given to him by his muscles. I mean if we accept that an alien looks exactly like a Human then it's actually quite simple.
WarAngel wrote: In Superman's case maybe the super strength (generated by exposure to the sun) is given to him by his muscles. I mean if we accept that an alien looks exactly like a Human then it's actually quite simple.
Actually, in his case, it may be habit. In several variations of the continuity, Clark played sports both before and after his powers developed. He probably developed the habit to keep up appearances in high school during training.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
Rob Liefeld. The only man who can truly capture the musclebound awesomeness of Captain America.
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: Because I'm sure as hell not going all the way over there to kill you.
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He Who Controls The Dice Controls The Universe 
