Is the Earth Quarantined?

[Fathom Zero]

http://io9.com/5040784/is-the-earth-quarantined

Holy shit, it never occured to me to think that ever before.

[Jeanette X]

You're actually taking this seriously? When did you turn into Geggy? >:

[Fathom Zero]

It's another one of those things we can't prove but only postulate about, that whole "we've only come so far in x-related field because somebody let us" thing.

It's just that I never thought about that before.

[Tadao]

Mostly Harmless

[Tadao]

I feel we need to add some actual facts into this thread. http://www.reformation.org/stationary-earth.html

[pac-man]

Oooh! Oooh! Me next! http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm (http://www.alaska.net/%7Eclund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm)

[kahljorn]

so all intellectual advancements can only be made when somebody lets us? Are we somehow unable to on our own for some innate reason or are they controlling all of our minds? Omnipotent as they are they must be homunculus and they live in your face.

[Tadao]

It said that our governments are working with the universal order to keep us ignorant.

[kahljorn]

oh ok do they do it with psychic powers and is it a world shadow government that controls every government and how do they control scientists in the middle of nowhere from thinking about things i don't get it.

anyway sorry for not reading it ever in my lifetime. alright i decided to read it anyway :(

I like number ten the most

lol and number five because i didn't know that bloggers were a form of authority ;o

[Tadao]

I'm very fond of #9 because I might have beach property soon.

[kahljorn]

Recently the Chinese government created infinitely more space trash (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/16/science/sci-spacejunk16) by shooting one of its satellites with a new weapon that creates an infinite amount of rotten banana peels out of even the smallest object

.....

[Colonel Flagg]

Now let us all bow our heads and don our protective headgear:

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Mmmmmmm. Sebfarg. One of the ten Protoids.

[Dixie]

I <3 my tinfoil hat, but I think they work best if they have a point on the top. That way it may serve as an antenna to intercept and eavesdrop on foreign radio transmissions.

Flat-earthers are scary.

[kahljorn]

flatfacers are even scarier ;o