NationStates Jolt Archive

WHEREAS, on Nov. 7, 2007, a rural farmer from Tallacinimundastien spotted a small star which moved like a planet.

Whereas, after reporting this to government officials, Scientists discovered a new comet on a possible collision course with our world, which has been termed “Comet Tallacinimundastien,” the first ever extra-wordly threat.

Whereas, Scientists agree that this comet, which is coincidentally about the size of Tallacinimundastien, will wreak havoc if allowed to collide with our world; Scientists do not agree on the comet’s mass, trajectory, composition, or velocity; nor do Scientists agree on the effect that any collision may have; Scientist project that the date of collision wildly ranges between Jan 1, 2008 and Friday, Oct. 13, 2013.

Whereas, this United Nations, recognizing that our species and the other life on our world may be faced with extreme devastation or eminent extinction, desires to preserve ourselves and our friends.

Nowtherefore, the UN mandates the following actions from its member states:

Article 1
To assign top scientists to a newly formed Scientific Committee dedicated to identifying extra-worldly threats, including Comet Tallacinimundastien, and dedicated to developing technological solutions to eliminate or reduce such extra-wordly threats.

Article 2
To deliver, whenever a genuine extra-wordly threat is identified, sufficient industrial and military resources, proportional to each Member States economy and military, to implement any technological solution promulgated by the Scientific Committee to neutralize such genuine extra-wordly threat, such as Comet Tallacinimundastien.

Article 3
To solicit, whenever a genuine extra-wordly threat is identified, non-member states to readily contribute to this unified effort to defeat extra-wordly threats, especially the perilous Comet Tallacinimundastien.

HERETOFORE, we set our hand and our seal to enact this supreme resolution.

Against.

We would question whether article 2 illegally attempts to supply the UN with something resembling a military, but we were too busy laughing at the malapropism of the title.

High-quality, humorous malapropism are time consuming to construct, so I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks.

All the references to "Tallacinimundastien" are no good.

We just turn out F.A.R.Ts on it and it will never be a problem.. For those not famililiar Fast Acting Radio Transponders... Use ultra high sounds to crush any object pointed at and it also emits a posion gas that will get rid of any living problems...

All the references to "Tallacinimundastien" are no good.

Why is that? Tallacinimundastien is not a real place, nor is it a nation or region in game. I've re-read the UN policy rules, and I can't figure out why you would say that?

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Did you say "comet Hallucination"? Please keep the stellar names grounded for us simple farmer folk!!! (pun intended) :D

New Sequoyah is against this bill. Although it seems plausible, there is no possibility of destroying a comet or asteroid, or even moving it off course.

Lieut. Gen. John Brown Gordon, Ret.
UN Ambassador for New Sequoyah

I beg the honorable delegate from Zorilla to stop referring to our satellite as a "comet".

Sure it's made of ice, some rock, and a trail of gasses, but I'm to understand that the Dourian Confederacy's Space Program has made it a top priority to land a man on it before it reaches earth. I therefore ask that the militaries of the world abstain from shooting our newly claimed satellite out of the freaking sky.

One must learn to respect the sovereign property of other nations. This infringes heavily on my sovereign right to own planet destroying property.

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Hey Douria, when you land on it can you sell us the ice? We want to have new water sources!!! :p

Why is that? Tallacinimundastien is not a real place, nor is it a nation or region in game. I've re-read the UN policy rules, and I can't figure out why you would say that?UN Proposals are general laws, not things to deal with a specific event. Currently, you have a role-play, not a law.

Check out the Tracking Near Earth Objects (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Near_Earth_Objects) resolution, Zorilla (you'll probably have to refresh a couple of times, it's NS Wiki and the server's wonky).

It deals with a similar subject and is much more general, yet even this one wouldn't be legal now.

Thing is, the NS UN has a broad range of nations, some of which are in galaxies that couldn't care less what happens to Earth, others which would say they are Earth, still others which are in a completely different time line or reality (so they'd never see any comet), or composed of sentient beings who could, say, sing a comet away from their own or any other planet.

On top of that, you have UN players who don't roleplay, regard all who do as more than a bit nuts and flatly refuse to discuss any resolution based on unreality ... except the unreality that allows them to have a nation, that is. So for them, your proposal makes no sense because the back-story simply didn't happen.

Proposals have to be written in a sufficiently general form to have at least a chance of having some relevance to most of these different members of the NS UN polis. Even then, we make them a bit flexible by using the idea of the laws applying to "reasonable nations".

(If you do make your resolution into a roleplay -- in International Incidents or NationStates -- the resolution I linked to would give you "proof" that scientists have been sharing information internationally for years.)