And think how much worse it'll be if it has a Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator attached.

[active_apathy]

TV News: ...and even the experts have no idea what might actually happen if an asteroid ever hits the Earth.
My Brain: Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm putting $20 on "Earth-shattering kaboom".



So, today was an interesting day. For certain (and fairly low) values of interesting. Between misreading 'depot' as 'despot' in TV ads (accidentally, the first time) and wondering what'd happen if a Gotham police officer wrote a ticket for the Goddamn Batmobile, there's not much, really.

Especially since I spent precious time I could've spent on important things - like catching up on Heroes - doing other things, like playing Super Mario Galaxy. Which, though fun, takes quite some getting used to; trying to make Mario get a run-up and do a long jump upside-down towards the screen while the camera tries to rotate around to behind him, for example, tends to require gameplay in a number of dimensions usually only available to the owners of particle accelerators.

Or there was the moment when I wanted to check the proper preposition for the verb 'originate' in my (concise) OED, and thought I saw a headword for 'lulz'. Which, as it happened, turned out to just be 'lutz' flipping by at speed. This is probably just as well, too; my dictionary - published very slightly pre-lolcat - would be quite an alarming little tome if it actually did have lolentries (not that this stopped me from looking for some of them).

On the other hand, a dictionary self-adding words from TEH FUTUREZ might be fun; just imagine having your very own potential causality paradox sitting right there on your bookshelf.



And- no. That really does it for today's bespoke madness. Well, yesterday's bespoke madness, since it's 12:30am, but still. *posts*

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I'd actually be more conservative on that estimate; I think we'd "merely" get reshaping of the continents and a new ecosystem. I'd suspect it'd take a pretty generous hunk of rock to actually bust off pieces.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Super Mario Galaxy is a prime example of why I have an incredibly hard time playing 3D games. I think I'll stick to my old school Zelda, kthx.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

This may be more what you meant; it discusses the kind of large, blunt instrument you'd need to make lots of little Earth pieces.

And for Earth-destroying goodness, this may also interest you.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I never saw that first one before (although he's using extremely liberal assumptions – you'd think you'd want to calculate the energy to split the mass in half, get a lower bound), but I'm well familiar with Sam Hughes' work. Did you ever watch the video?

[summersdream.livejournal.com]

Wait. I thought teh expertz decided we'd get dinosaured if a big rock hit us?

Super Mario Galaxy is exhibit A on what happens when there are just too many things at once. I think the particle accelerator owners are in on it, too.

A future-predicting dictionary would be awesome. Someone needs to invent that! A causality paradox for every bookshelf! the marketing campaign nearly writes itself.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

So did I! Or, for a bigger rock, smithereened.

It's... there's moments. It's worse when it won't let you see where you're going, I find; the too-many-things is mostly just a matter of getting used to it.

"Tired of using traditional dictionaries? Are your timey-wimey vocabulary needs not being met? You need..."

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Causality paradox...