Why Colonize Space?

Marvin the Martian wrote:

Pat
If the island kept moving around, no wonder they were hard to find.

Gilligan clearly was some sort of paranormal imp and could move the
island and keep the castaway's stranded while making sure everyone was
safe.

No, it was all the Professor's doing. He was running an experiment on
all those people. This is fairly obvious; all the miracles he could
produce from essentially nothing, yet you want to believe that he can't
figure out how to either get them off the island or make a radio
powerful enough to really call in for help?


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Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:

No, it was all the Professor's doing. He was running an experiment
on
all those people. This is fairly obvious; all the miracles he could
produce from essentially nothing, yet you want to believe that he
can't figure out how to either get them off the island or make a
radio
powerful enough to really call in for help?

If only he'd succeeded in getting into Ginger and Mary Ann's pants. A
few months later, when he was staring to get bored with the whole
thing, he'd have "discovered" a deposit of the mineral needed to build
a radio.

On Sep 5, 4:36*pm, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
wrote:
Marvin the Martian wrote:
Pat
If the island kept moving around, no wonder they were hard to find.

Gilligan clearly was some sort of paranormal imp and could move the
island and keep the castaway's stranded while making sure everyone was
safe.

* * * * No, it was all the Professor's doing. He was running an experiment on
all those people. This is fairly obvious; all the miracles he could
produce from essentially nothing, yet you want to believe that he can't
figure out how to either get them off the island or make a radio
powerful enough to really call in for help?

Or couldn't figure how to patch a two foot hole in the side of the
boat, though he was on an island overgrown with palm and coconut
trees.


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On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:36:47 -0400, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:

Marvin the Martian wrote:

Pat
If the island kept moving around, no wonder they were hard to find.

Gilligan clearly was some sort of paranormal imp and could move the
island and keep the castaway's stranded while making sure everyone was
safe.

No, it was all the Professor's doing. He was running an
experiment on
all those people. This is fairly obvious; all the miracles he could
produce from essentially nothing, yet you want to believe that he can't
figure out how to either get them off the island or make a radio
powerful enough to really call in for help?

True enough! The professor is another suspect. Think about it. He could
have easily made a spark gap transmitter with a motor from the SS Minnow.

So here he is, on this Island with the married MR. and MRS. Howell, the
obviously gay Gilligan and Skipper, and two babes obviously straight
babes: Mary Ann and Ginger.

It gives the Asperger's afflicted professor years to try and score! If
not on his own accord, perhaps because Mary Ann or Ginger will simply get
desperate on their own.

Mike Schilling wrote:
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
No, it was all the Professor's doing. He was running an experiment
on
all those people. This is fairly obvious; all the miracles he could
produce from essentially nothing, yet you want to believe that he
can't figure out how to either get them off the island or make a
radio
powerful enough to really call in for help?

If only he'd succeeded in getting into Ginger and Mary Ann's pants. A
few months later, when he was staring to get bored with the whole
thing, he'd have "discovered" a deposit of the mineral needed to build
a radio.


For some reason, "Professor/Gilligan" and "Professor/Skipper" fan fiction
flashed before my eyes. I can't quite decide which is more disturbing.
That brings up "Ginger/Mary Ann" fan fiction as well, but for some
reason, it doesn't bother me quite as much.

Painfully,
Jack Tingle

Mike Schilling wrote:

If only he'd succeeded in getting into Ginger and Mary Ann's pants. A
few months later, when he was staring to get bored with the whole
thing, he'd have "discovered" a deposit of the mineral needed to build
a radio.

"When you have 'em by the snatch, their tits and ass will follow." -
Richard Nixon

Pat

Robert Higgins wrote:

Or couldn't figure how to patch a two foot hole in the side of the
boat, though he was on an island overgrown with palm and coconut
trees.

Don't you remember? He tried that, but the glue failed before they could
get underway, because Gilligan didn't mix it up right.
If I'd been on that island, Gilligan would have been White Shark bait
around two weeks in.
Or maybe not... maybe the best thing to do was hook wires to his
testicles leading back to around fifty open coconuts with copper and
zinc strips in them...and start stirring them.
If that can power a radio, it sure as hell can burn his little worthless
balls off.

Pat

Jack Tingle wrote:

That brings up "Ginger/Mary Ann" fan fiction as well, but for some
reason, it doesn't bother me quite as much.

Yes, Yes!
I want movies!
They could have been shipwrecked on the Isle Of Lesbos!

Pat

On Sep 3, 12:24*am, Walter Bushell wrote:
In article ,
*"Rod Speed" wrote:



Walter Bushell wrote
Rod Speed wrote
wrote
Giga "Giga" wrote
wrote
Sean O'Hara wrote
wrote
Giga "Giga" wrote
Greg Goss wrote

They laughed at Columbus because they knew that the water
tanks and food supplies on his ship could never let him reach
Japan.
And you know what? *The intellectuals were right about that..

But ships very often stopped somewhere, like a small island, to
resupply such things.

And what islands might that be?

If we assume as a point of departure that the Americas are
submerged, say one kilometer, there'd be a huge archipelago
consisting of the Andes, Rockies, Sierra Nevadas, etc, and a
smaller one for the Appalachians. Columbus still could've landed
on Hispanola, though it would've been a small island chain.

In that scenario, you are less than half way to Japan.

Absent a good map, the odds of stumbling upon one
of the few islands on the way to Japan is near zero.

No

Seems the map makers disagree and have the vast majority of islands in
the Pacific south of Japan.

The vast majority is completely irrelevant, even those without any nav
aids or maps managed to find those as isolated as Easter Island etc.

And non volcanic. If a major eruption is going on an island can be detected
from far away.

They didnt need anything like that to find Easter Island.

It is common of people to go off on cruises to nowhere
after they have lost a war and lack resources.

FAR more often they go to places like Easter Island for other reasons.

Sometimes they find new land. How else was Hawaii settled?

It certainly wasnt by randomly cruising around until they found something.

Easter Island in spades.

True, and those people were adept at finding clues. But they did not
find Pitcairn island, AFAIK.

Actually you don't know that. WHy would they have settled there when
there were so many other more amenable islands all over polynesia?
Pitcairn is a hell hole.

Walter Bushell wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Walter Bushell wrote
Rod Speed wrote
wrote
Giga "Giga" wrote
wrote
Sean O'Hara wrote
wrote
Giga "Giga"
wrote
Greg Goss wrote

They laughed at Columbus because they knew that the water
tanks and food supplies on his ship could never let him reach Japan.

And you know what? The intellectuals were right about that.

But ships very often stopped somewhere, like a small island,
to resupply such things.

And what islands might that be?

If we assume as a point of departure that the Americas are
submerged, say one kilometer, there'd be a huge archipelago
consisting of the Andes, Rockies, Sierra Nevadas, etc, and a
smaller one for the Appalachians. Columbus still could've
landed on Hispanola, though it would've been a small island chain.

In that scenario, you are less than half way to Japan.

Absent a good map, the odds of stumbling upon one
of the few islands on the way to Japan is near zero.

No

Seems the map makers disagree and have the vast majority of
islands in the Pacific south of Japan.

The vast majority is completely irrelevant, even those without any
nav aids or maps managed to find those as isolated as Easter
Island etc.

And non volcanic. If a major eruption is going on an island can be
detected from far away.

They didnt need anything like that to find Easter Island.

It is common of people to go off on cruises to nowhere
after they have lost a war and lack resources.

FAR more often they go to places like Easter Island for other reasons.

Sometimes they find new land. How else was Hawaii settled?

It certainly wasnt by randomly cruising around until they found something.

Easter Island in spades.

True, and those people were adept at finding clues.
But they did not find Pitcairn island, AFAIK.

They did, actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands#History