Do We Really Want Another Black President After The Events Of Deep Impact?

[AngryAmish]

"I am not prejudiced. Far from it. What I am—or, I should say, who I am—is a man who loves his country so deeply that he is unwilling to stand idly by while our nation allows itself to be completely annihilated by another incoming comet.

Have we learned nothing from the tragic events of 1998, when, under the watch of President Morgan Freeman, this nation was plunged into chaos, and hundreds of millions of people died at the hands of the deadly Wolf-Beiderman space rock? The mere fact that this country is even considering putting another black man, Barack Obama, in the Oval Office proves that we have not.

We can't deny the facts, people. All we will get by electing an African-American is Texas-size space particles crashing into the Earth's surface, mega-tsunamis that barrel into the Appalachian Mountains, and 6.6 billion dead people.

I'm not suggesting that President Freeman was directly responsible for the creation of the Wolf-Beiderman comet or its Earth-bound path. That would be ridiculous. What I am saying is that under the watch of a black man that comet destroyed the entire Eastern seaboard. So, if history is any indicator, a vote for Barack Obama in 2008 is essentially a vote for the complete and total obliteration of the human race.'

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. It took me awhile to understand the subject line.

But then it landed on my head like an asteroid.

K&R

[northzax]

2. three...two...one...

welcome to the GPD stupidity test. your responses will be noted.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. This is the first good laugh I've had in a long time

in the GD: Primaries forum. Thanks. :P

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Drowning in a super-tsunami really sucks

I was out of sorts for a couple days.

Part of it was because I was on the beach at Kill Devil Hills one moment, and impaled on a steel rebar in Durham the next.

It took a whole box of Band-Aids to fix that one!

Shame about that reporter. She reminded me of that UFO nut's wife.

--p!

[Connie_Corleone]

5. I think we recovered quite well after President Palmer.

I mean he did stop the terrorists from blowing up California. And it only took 24 hours.

[debatepro]

6. I see your onion and raise you a Rheingold

It may be necessary to let everyone on the earth die to prevent the destruction of the universe.
Rheingold in 92
Computational biology is related to -- but goes beyond -- conventional bio-engineering, because it aims to discover the processes by which the evolutionary drive works its magic, then to apply those powers in an amplified, accelerated, focused manner.
Life is a certain kind of pattern, a pattern-reading and pattern-making pattern; whether that pattern is incarnated in DNA or instantiated in computer algorithms, the principles that cause complex forms to evolve from simpler ones seem to apply to silicon as well as carbon. The scientists who crack evolution's code will have opened the portals to powers far greater than the energies at the heart of the atom.
It looks as if something even more powerful than thermonuclear weaponry is emanating from that same, strangely fated corner of New Mexico where nuclear physicists first knew sin. Those who follow the progress of artificial-life research know that the effects of messing with the engines of evolution might lead to forces even more regrettable than the demons unleashed at Alamogordo. At least nuclear weaponry and biocidal technologies only threaten life on Earth, and don't threaten to contaminate the rest of the universe.
That's the larger ethical problem of a-life. The technology of self-replicating machines that could emerge in future decades from today's a-life research might escape from human or even terrestrial control, infest the solar system, and, given time, break out into the galaxy. If there are other intelligent species out there, they might not react benevolently to evidence that humans have dispersed interstellar strip-mining robots that breed, multiply, and evolve. If there are no other intelligent species in existence, maybe we will end up creating God, or the Devil, depending on how our minds' children evolve a billion years from now. The entire story of life on earth thus far might be just the wetware prologue to a longer, larger, drier tale, etched in silicon rather than carbon, and blasted to the stars -- purposive spores programmed to seek, grow, evolve, expand. That's what a few people think they are on the verge of inventing.
Scenarios like that make the potential for global thermonuclear war or destruction of the biosphere look like a relatively local problem. Biocide of a few hundred thousand species (including ourselves) is one kind of ethical problem turning something like the Alien loose on the cosmos is a whole new level of ethical lapse.

[nomorewhopper]

7. kicking this made me laugh! :D n/t

[SoxFan]

8. LOL

[NOLALady]

9. When this movie was out

my sister screamed "OMG, now we will never have a black president. Do you realize how many idiots will believe that comet would have been destroyed long before it was a danger to earth if the president were white?"