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Before the Plague

Zahra: I’m sure protein is a myth and no one really needs to get any in their diet

steven.cloud: people can live on all sorts of diets

Zahra: that could be a kids book
Zahra: help kids not feel bad for living off cold cereal and refusing real food

steven.cloud: nah, kids need to grow up and realize the world doesn’t revolve around them

Zahra: see i thought that too
Zahra: well about feeding kids anyway, that theyd eat when they were hungry
Zahra: but theyre actually not smart enough to do that
Zahra: its amazing
Zahra: i dont know how kids survive in the wild

steven.cloud: yeah, if my kid wouldn’t eat i would spank him or her… or yell at them or something like that. that’s how you teach kids.

Zahra: thats the thing though, theyre not smart like animals
Zahra: i dont think theyre that easy to train

steven.cloud: essentially kids are domesticated animals.
steven.cloud: humans are the dogs vs. wolves
steven.cloud: we’re permanently infantilized
steven.cloud: that’s basically what domestication is
steven.cloud: making something perm. immature and dependent
steven.cloud: where before it was self-sufficient (wild)

Zahra: like the frozen wild blueberries in the store?

steven.cloud: right. we have no idea how to find wild blueberries.
steven.cloud: granted most of the environment has been destroyed but that’s beside the point

Zahra: aww man
Zahra: we need the environment
Zahra: wont it just grow back?

steven.cloud:maybe. after the plague. (way past due, plague. way to slack!)

Zahra: what if i started talking about everything that happens now with the addition of the phrase “before the plague”

steven.cloud: that’d be a cool band name: Before The Plague

Zahra: until that one night they cant perform because its not before the plague anymore…
Zahra: (they changed their name, these things happen)

steven.cloud: i don’t think so
steven.cloud: they can still be called BTP b/c they formed before the plague. it’s still an accurate name
steven.cloud: whereas the Backstreet Boys seems kind of retarded now.

Zahra: yeah, no way theyre still boys
Zahra: they must be nearly 50
Zahra: im kinda excited about saying before the plague just casually
Zahra: hey we should get together sometime, before the plague
Zahra: im going to check that out, before the plague
Zahra: and eventually ill start believing in the plague and the world and the universe will let me have it and the world will end by december
Zahra: hopefully

steven.cloud:  yep. and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you did your part.

Zahra: yeah i can really put my heart into this

steven.cloud: that’s what life is all about. finding where you fit in and filling that niche. big breakthrough today.

Zahra: yay!

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2 months ago

Tagged: chat IM cananopie oil spill bp pictures plauge

Cananopie: See these yet? [BP Oil Spill Pictures]

steven.cloud: oh, yeah. i wish the plague would just do us in

Cananopie: quitter

steven.cloud: i’m not suggesting we quit, i’m suggesting the plague is slacking.

Cananopie:
haha

Chat

4 months ago with 2 notes

Tagged: chat IM cananopie steven cloud

The Asteroid Belt

  • Steven Cloud: why doesn't the asteroid belt coalesce?
  • Cananopie: I noticed that the orbits between Mars and Jupiter (where the asteroid belt is) looks as though there ought to be a planet there instead of the asteroid belt. Has it ever been considered that the asteroid belt was maybe a destroyed planet?
  • The Answer
  • Thank you for your question! The fact that the asteroid belt has such a well-defined, high concentration of asteroids suggests two things. One, that they are fragments of a planet that broke-up long ago, or two, that they are rocks that never managed to accumulate into a genuine planet. Currently, scientists tend to favor the latter explanation. According to Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan, the authors of the text book "Astronomy Today", 1993 edition, "There is far too little mass in the belt to constitute a planet, and the marked chemical differences between individual asteroids strongly suggest that the asteroids could not all have originated in a single planet. Instead, astronomers believe that the strong gravitational field of Jupiter continuously disturbs the motions of these chunks of primitive matter, nudging and pulling at them, thereby prohibiting them from aggregating into a planet. The existence and composition of the asteroid belt joins the general properties of the planets and their moons on our list of features that any theory of solar system formation must explain."
  • - NASA
  • Steven Cloud: fucking nasa
  • Cananopie: The culmination of humanity prior to our generation just winced with what ease I found the information
  • Steven Cloud: haha

Pijohos: saw a dude in a prius throw an ipod out of his window
Pijojos: it was DIVINE

Steven Cloud: wow, if you could have taken a picture… that would be our generation’s ‘dust bowl mom’ picture

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5 months ago

Tagged: chat greggwithtwogs steven cloud

Chat

GreggWithTwoGs: http://jeffgreenspan.com/goodbye-rga.mov

Steven Cloud: lame

GreggWithTwoGs: yeah, not really.

Steven Cloud: i’m glad you find some enjoyment in it

GreggWithTwoGs: no you’re not. that’s just something you’re saying. you love to pick apart people and institutions that don’t mean what they say, yet there you go. i very seriously doubt that you find any joy in knowing that i liked it. that’s bullshit steven.

GreggWithTwoGs: maybe you can grab me a t-shirt before you leave the Hypocrite City gift shop.

Steven Cloud: haha

GreggWithTwoGs: you are a cynic and conan o-brien hates nothing more than YOU.

Steven Cloud: i secretly prefer letterman.

GreggWithTwoGs: word