NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, as we all know, the Sun is the root cause of global warming - I'm sure that if the Sun was turned off, the world would stop getting warmer within 8 minutes.

And, it kills more people than firearms kill in the US...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/26/health.sun.reut/index.html

That's 60,000 people worldwide (or more), while even if you round up, it's 17000 dead from firearms in the US every year.

Think of the children!

Think of the lives that would be saved!

And when the Earth cools to near absolute zero, there won't be too many wars, either.

World peace!

Fine by me. I like cold weather.

Something I heard on the radio yesterday; Rickets is on the rise in Britain.

Because, it is alleged, most kids don't spend much time outdoors, and when they do they're larded up with suncream.

Yer damned if you do, and damned if you don't :D

Something I heard on the radio yesterday; Rickets is on the rise in Britain.

Because, it is alleged, most kids don't spend much time outdoors, and when they do they're larded up with suncream.

Yer damned if you do, and damned if you don't :D

Just get some ultraviolet lamps and a nuclear power plant to power them.

We don't need the Sun!

Something I heard on the radio yesterday; Rickets is on the rise in Britain.

Because, it is alleged, most kids don't spend much time outdoors, and when they do they're larded up with suncream.

Yer damned if you do, and damned if you don't :D

Is it just me or is rickets one of those funny diseases? If someone phone in work and said they couldn't come in as the had a bad case of rickets I think I would piss myself laughing.

I prefer the night anyway. I avoid daylight where possible. It burns us.

Killing more people every year than gun violence in America. Actually about four times as many.

Is it just me or is rickets one of those funny diseases? If someone phone in work and said they couldn't come in as the had a bad case of rickets I think I would piss myself laughing.

It's primarily a disease of growing children.

I suppose you think it's hilarious that their limbs are deformed by the disease.

Okay, but give me a month or so to stock up on blankets and light bulbs.

It's primarily a disease of growing children.

I suppose you think it's hilarious that their limbs are deformed by the disease.

It's got a funny name though.

Okay, but give me a month or so to stock up on blankets and light bulbs.

Blankets? Meh. Just keep digging downwards. The centre of the earth is plenty warm. :)

I disagree. Many scientists believe that the sun is merely a statistical illusion brought about by inaccurate sampling methods...

:D

I can see the WHADAFXUPWITHAT Commercials now...
"Tobbacco execs said in 1993 that smoking kills less people than the sun does, they suggested we nuke the sun."
"Tobbacco execs talking about nuking the sun? Hmm...."

Anyway, yeah, I say we go back to the ice age. No problem.

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Valley of the Giant fully agrees. The sun burns the eyes and skin of the Drow, making it far too uncomfortable for us to visit the surface for...International relations. We say ban the sun! Long live the Drow!
Er...
No more skin cancer!
Yeah...
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OOC: Lol

Right now, since my area is having a heat wave of about 100 degrees F, banning the sun sounds good to me!

Right now, since my area is having a heat wave of about 100 degrees F, banning the sun sounds good to me!

An end to hot summers!

An end to terrorism of all sorts!

An end to Guantanamo Bay!

An end to world hunger!

What a great idea!

It's got a funny name though.

You just can't get enough of limb deformities today. :(

I can see the WHADAFXUPWITHAT Commercials now...
"Tobbacco execs said in 1993 that smoking kills less people than the sun does, they suggested we nuke the sun."
"Tobbacco execs talking about nuking the sun? Hmm...."

Anyway, yeah, I say we go back to the ice age. No problem.

The sun is a large fusion reaction, a nuclear weapon wouldn't do anything to it, aside from causing a minor fluctuation in it's energy output for a brief instant.

You just can't get enough of limb deformities today. :(

In my defense, the comment about the photo was posted yesterday.

The guy in the pic seemed to be having a good time, he had a knife and a screamy karate type expression on his face and everything.

It's primarily a disease of growing children.

I suppose you think it's hilarious that their limbs are deformed by the disease.

Will it make them walk like Captain Jack Sparrow? If so, and they wont go out into the sun, perhaps fortifying milk with the vitamins they lack will help.

Banning the sun would be good.

As an alternative, I'm trying to bring parasols back into fashion. Spending 20 minutes to apply sunscreen before walking to the corner store is freaking ridiculous.

Banning the sun would be good.

As an alternative, I'm trying to bring parasols back into fashion. Spending 20 minutes to apply sunscreen before walking to the corner store is freaking ridiculous.

Does your parasol have dangly fringe and decorations hanging from the edges?

lets just ban it during the hottest part of the day *sweating buckets*

I was ont ehphone with tech support and they guy was saying its unusually hot lately in Oregon. Down in So Cal its been record breakign heat too.

Think theres any chance of global warming changing the high desert here in Nevada into a tropical region?

If we turn off the Sun, Cindy Sheehan will be in total darkness, and we won't have to look at her anymore.

She'll freeze solid at near absolute zero, and we won't have to listen, either.

lets just ban it during the hottest part of the day *sweating buckets*

I was ont ehphone with tech support and they guy was saying its unusually hot lately in Oregon. Down in So Cal its been record breakign heat too.

Think theres any chance of global warming changing the high desert here in Nevada into a tropical region?


Yes, it already is the tropic of cancer.

today's the 14th day over 100 degrees here. It should keep over 100 for at least 2-3 more days. Hows your streak of over 100 doing?

Well we would all die without the sun, and thats what...3 Billion people. 60,000 sounds like the more acceptable figure. The sun's strength does change from year to year. I love to hear the global warming (manbearpig) alarmists go around saying that we have the warmest temperatures since the early middle ages. After all, we put soooo much CO2 into the atmosphere during the Charlemagne era. Mount st. Helens pollutes more than the nation's cars do.

Yes, it already is the tropic of cancer.

today's the 14th day over 100 degrees here. It should keep over 100 for at least 2-3 more days. Hows your streak of over 100 doing?

actually lately its been more humid than normal the past few days, and the clouds have kept the temp down to the low 100's so it's a nice break. it's supposed to get even cooler and we're gunna have lightning storms! yay!!!!!!!! desert lightning storms are teh awersome

The sun is evil, nuke it...that'll take care of the problem!! :)

It's primarily a disease of growing children.

I suppose you think it's hilarious that their limbs are deformed by the disease.
No, I actually think its hilarious when they try to USE the deformed limbs.


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Think theres any chance of global warming changing the high desert here in Nevada into a tropical region?
No, more likely it'll change it into an *instant death* region where you instantaneously are simultaneously cooked and flayed to death by sun and sand.

No, more likely it'll change it into an *instant death* region where you instantaneously are simultaneously cooked and flayed to death by sun and sand.


well I was going for one or the other.... Vegas is rich though... I think we can build a giant bubble over the city.

that would be sweet

The sun is obviously a threat to our economic well being. Its free, unlimited provision of light and warmth is an insurmountable threat to the patriotic and hardworking lampmakers and furnacemakers of the United States, and who knows how many honest American jobs have been lost due to the onslaught of the Yellow Peril?