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Posted: May 31 2007 07:44 pm

A team of science fiction writers has been formed by the US Homeland Security Department to generate ideas to stop terrorists. The team, codenamed Sigma, includes authors such as Arlan Andrews, Greg Bear, Jerry Pournelle and Sage Walker. The team has to come up with ideas for technology which might be helpful and also work out scenarios for potential terrorist attacks.

The group all have to have technical doctorate degrees and are " well-qualified nuts" according to Pournelle.

Team member and Ringworld author Larry Niven said that writers were always saving civilisation in fiction and they would want to do it in fact too.

Posted: Jun 01 2007 01:31 am

Man, where's L. Roy Hubbard when you need him! He's the biggest quack there ever was!!!

Posted: Jun 01 2007 03:33 am

Tishwitch wrote:

Man, where's L. Roy Hubbard when you need him! He's the biggest quack there ever was!!!

Yeah, Elroy from the Jetsons was so crazy! Cool

Posted: Jun 01 2007 06:21 am

I believe his name was ELROND Hubbard.

Posted: Jun 01 2007 09:44 am

Murdar Machene wrote:

Tishwitch wrote:

Man, where's L. Ron Hubbard when you need him! He's the biggest quack there ever was!!!

Yeah, Elroy from the Jetsons was so crazy! Cool

my typo: L RON not Roy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

Posted: Jun 01 2007 10:57 am

yeah i'm pretty sure we know who he is tish. anybody who doesn't live in a fucking vaccum has heard of scientology

Posted: Jun 01 2007 01:33 pm

B.B.King wrote:

yeah i'm pretty sure we know who he is tish. anybody who doesn't live in a fucking vaccum has heard of scientology

I wouldn't bet money that everyone knows of him... when you hear people say the phonetic alphabet as follows, I would think some people have been raised in the woods by wolves:

Q as in cucumber
K as in Canada

I rest my case.

Posted: Jun 01 2007 02:00 pm

Just once in LotR I wanted Elrond to look at Frodo and say 'Mr. Bagginses'. I guess breaking character for a cheap laugh is bad.

Posted: Jun 01 2007 03:23 pm

Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones
Fuck all these gun-toting hip gangster wanna-bes
Fuck retro anything, fuck your tattoos
Fuck all you junkies and fuck your short memory
Fuck smiley glad-hands with hidden agendas
Fuck these dysfunctional, insecure actresses

Posted: Jun 01 2007 06:46 pm

Tishwitch wrote:

B.B.King wrote:

yeah i'm pretty sure we know who he is tish. anybody who doesn't live in a fucking vaccum has heard of scientology

I wouldn't bet money that everyone knows of him... when you hear people say the phonetic alphabet as follows, I would think some people have been raised in the woods by wolves:

Q as in cucumber
K as in Canada

I rest my case.

wait, i dont get it.

Posted: Jun 01 2007 07:11 pm

People are retarded.

Posted: Jun 01 2007 07:37 pm

One time at a Tool concert someone threw a shoe at maynard's head

Posted: Jun 01 2007 11:14 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones
Fuck all these gun-toting hip gangster wanna-bes
Fuck retro anything, fuck your tattoos
Fuck all you junkies and fuck your short memory
Fuck smiley glad-hands with hidden agendas
Fuck these dysfunctional, insecure actresses

Tool knew about L. Ron's evilness, and did all they could to protect the world from him and scientology.... But, unfortunately, they are just one band.

Posted: Jun 02 2007 03:13 am

Murdar Machene wrote:

One time at a Tool concert someone threw a shoe at maynard's head

that's pretty rude.

the 2 times I went to see tool, I was shocked at how short maynard really is. They build him his own little stage on top of the stage so you can't tell,but if you see him walking next to an average person,he's incredibly small.

Posted: Jun 02 2007 03:25 am

Tishwitch wrote:

B.B.King wrote:

yeah i'm pretty sure we know who he is tish. anybody who doesn't live in a fucking vaccum has heard of scientology

I wouldn't bet money that everyone knows of him... when you hear people say the phonetic alphabet as follows, I would think some people have been raised in the woods by wolves:

Q as in cucumber
K as in Canada

I rest my case.

what in the fuck are you talking about?
seriously. what the fuck are you talking about?

Posted: Jun 02 2007 06:39 am

Murdar Machene wrote:

One time at a Tool concert someone threw a shoe at maynard's head

Jonathan Davis gets pissed if people don't throw shoes at him when his band performs A.D.I.D.A.S.

Posted: Jun 02 2007 11:49 am

B.B.King wrote:

Tishwitch wrote:

B.B.King wrote:

yeah i'm pretty sure we know who he is tish. anybody who doesn't live in a fucking vaccum has heard of scientology

I wouldn't bet money that everyone knows of him... when you hear people say the phonetic alphabet as follows, I would think some people have been raised in the woods by wolves:

Q as in cucumber
K as in Canada

I rest my case.

what in the fuck are you talking about?
seriously. what the fuck are you talking about?

Since you don't understand, I'll go down a level... basically you were saying that everyone knows about Scientology. I was telling you that you're giving people too much credit. A lot of people don't even know how to spell, so how can you assume they know anything about Scientology??? If someone truly thinks cucumber is spelled with a Q, do you think they can dress themselves in the morning, let alone know anything about cults??? (does that make sense now?)

Posted: Jun 02 2007 02:45 pm

I would think that the stupid know waaaay more about cults than average people.

Posted: Jun 02 2007 04:15 pm

Yeah, I agree. Stupid people may not know how to spell, but they know who the fuck Tom Cruise is and they know about Scientology because all they do is watch E! and read Star magazine.

Posted: Jun 02 2007 04:34 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Yeah, I agree. Stupid people may not know how to spell, but they know who the fuck Tom Cruise is and they know about Scientology because all they do is watch E! and read Star magazine.

Just because people know that Tom Cruise or John Travolta are in a cult called Scientology, doesn't mean they know L Ron Hubbard... and even if they do know of him, I bet most people have no clue he was a sci-fi writer! I stand by my position on this.

Posted: Jun 09 2007 01:45 am

XENU IS MY SAVIOR!

Posted: Jun 09 2007 01:57 am

Tebor wrote:

XENU IS MY SAVIOR!

You leave for like a week, and this is all you come up with! Razz

Posted: Jun 09 2007 02:05 am

Tishwitch wrote:

Tebor wrote:

XENU IS MY SAVIOR!

You leave for like a week, and this is all you come up with! Razz

Yes, I finally found religion during my travels in the American penal system.

Posted: Jun 09 2007 02:12 am

Tebor wrote:

Tishwitch wrote:

Tebor wrote:

XENU IS MY SAVIOR!

You leave for like a week, and this is all you come up with! Razz

Yes, I finally found religion during my travels in the American penal system.

You found a sci-fi cult while you were imprisoned for soliciting a prostitute? Well ok, weird, but ok.

Posted: Jun 09 2007 02:13 am

Tishwitch wrote:

You found a sci-fi cult while you were imprisoned for soliciting a prostitute? Well ok, weird, but ok.

How do you think Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Jason Lee got to be members? BURN!