There's also the sense of accelerated pace that accompanies wartime, and the direction research tends to take in warring countries.

Maybe not the raison d' tere, but certainly an effective control mechanism.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:

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Originally posted by UberDog:

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
"For an exact science, an exact language is needed."

War isn't science, it's expressionism.

Ok, so now you're Webster? Fuck that, war is the reason for science.

Maybe, but it still isn't science itself.

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Maybe not the raison d' tere, but certainly an effective control mechanism.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:

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Maybe not the raison d' tere, but certainly an effective control mechanism.

War IS NOT science.

Yes, it is.
and you'll never be able to prove otherwise. To me or anyone else.

Think about every invention in the last five centuries. From gunpowder to fusion, all paid for in blood.

You might not like it, but it is.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Yes, it is.
and you'll never be able to prove otherwise. To me or anyone else.

Think about every invention in the last five centuries. From gunpowder to fusion, all paid for in blood.

You might not like it, but it is.

No, no, I agree with you there. what I mean is that war itself isn't very scientific.

I concur that war creates all sorts of nifty gizmos to propel the race all over.

We run the risk of confusing technology with science. The one makes the other easier, but with few exceptions, cybernetics being one of them, is an invention enough to spark a whole new field of study. What war does is advance the tools of war and the tools of economy.

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Yes, it is.
and you'll never be able to prove otherwise. To me or anyone else.

Think about every invention in the last five centuries. From gunpowder to fusion, all paid for in blood.

Jeez Louise. I love it when Booger gets a stick up his ass.

Science is science. Nothing else is science. War is a social/political activity. You may refer to 'the science of war' just as you may refer to 'the art of war', but you may not confuse nor conflate it with the science of chemistry (gunpowder) or ballistics (metallurgy, for starters, calculus, for enhancers) or plant/animal husbandry (early genetics/agriculture).

One can also note that agriculture, more than any other single development of modern homo-sapiens-directed development, is the Great Parent of War, just as War is the Great Parent of POlitics.

War has ever been an enthusiastic supporter of scientific progress aimed at bigger and better weapons. This is true. The rest is a sometimes tiresome but never completely nonentertaining form of obtusely belligerent blockheadedness on Booger's part.

And man, he does it well. (*applause, holding up of myriad lighters/cellphones*) The man needs a bigger venue, I says. Well, anyway I was entertained. If ever there was anyone who I'd vote Foirst Choice for whom with to stand on a Puget Sound ferry and shout obscenities in the wind, it'd be Booger.

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Originally posted by kenmeer livermaile: If ever there was anyone who I'd vote Foirst Choice for whom with to stand on a Puget Sound ferry and shout obscenities in the wind, it'd be Booger.

They are making that an Olympic event, I hear.

lol @ all.

A successful amputation was never even concieved of until the us civil war...

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Think about every invention in the last five centuries. From gunpowder to fusion, all paid for in blood.

Gunpowder? Maybe for you westerners, but mostly the Chinese used it to make pretty sparkly things...that would later go on to take of a good portion of adolescent male thumbs in the early twentieth century.

Ok, good point.

And, you're wrong on some inventions, though - we got the microwave oven from the UFO from Roswell!

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They are making that an Olympic event, I hear.

Pros wear riot masks. There are gulls that love to glide on the air wave pushed forward by the sizable prow of a Puget Sound ferry.

They don't take kindly to being called a farfignewton fistercrackhole shisten sticken button-suckin' dirty brid.

Real amateurs, Olympic aspirants, can wear prescription glasses only.

As for future Olympic events:

"On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw in order to "send a message to the FBI and the media.""

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:

Fine. Snicker all you want, but if you can find me a single piece of evidence that completely refutes and contradicts the paragraph-long Letter To The Editor of Conspiracy Facts magazine I found at the bus stop, I'll eat my hat.

You never show yourself. How do we know you have a hat?

You found my letter?!?!?!
How'd it get to Oz?

It's a conspiracy I tell ya!

The letter to the editor was misten as a letter to the "man behind the curtain" and was temporarily rerouted tothe Land of Oz, fidning itself in a munchkin post office and realizing that it belonged in "Dorothy's World" it was sent thair via Red Shoe Express and deposited with the Oz postmark which was, after being mistaken for a fictional prison and resulting in several firings and one incident involoving a gun, sent to Down Under.

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Originally posted by Lester Zombie:
You never show yourself. How do we know you have a hat?

How do you know I have a head?

I know, as a zombie, you live in hope that most everyone does.

mmmmm....could be an asshat!!

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Originally posted by Lester Zombie:
You never show yourself. How do we know you have a hat?

Clever, Les. As any zombie knows, where there's a hat, there's a suckable brain.