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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by DangerDeath
No. I use critical thinking and I understand the concept of context. I hold no truck with political correctness.
Phage, you have fallen for political correctness. And PC is censorship.
Too bad most people who claim to think "outside the box", don't have the foggiest idea about what's inside it in the first place (or even know the origin of the phrase).
That is one hell of a protective layer preventing people from thinking out of the Box.
edit on 2/16/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Are you talking about the box we are all supposed to think outside of? You really don't know the origin of expression, do you?
Maybe it will explain about the "black box" thingie...
Originally posted by Human_Alien
His [Mitchell] opinions....that you so readily trivialize, are based on what he's seen as an astronaut ....
Am I reading right are people now claiming that was a chemtrail?
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by DangerDeath
Are you talking about the box we are all supposed to think outside of? You really don't know the origin of expression, do you?
Maybe it will explain about the "black box" thingie...
Who said anything about conquering the universe?
edit on 2/16/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
One of the best examples is Starship Troopers by Heinlein.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by DangerDeath
One of the best examples is Starship Troopers by Heinlein.
Yes. I actually read the book but it doesn't seem you have. You should. The movie stunk.
What does that have to do with any of what you have just scrawled?
Thinking outside the box (also thinking out of the box[1][2] or thinking beyond the box) is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking. The term is thought to derive from management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s challenging their clients to solve the "nine dots" puzzle, whose solution requires some lateral thinking.
The catchphrase, or cliché, has become widely used in business environments, especially by management consultants and executive coaches, and has been referenced in a number of advertising slogans. To think outside the box is to look further and to try not thinking of the obvious things, but to try thinking beyond them.
Yes, there is a science which does that, it is called Inquisition.
Originally posted by DangerDeath
I'll bet my pinky finger next 20 years will be decisive in determining how to use asteroids to destroy enemy nations and rogue states.
Originally posted by rigel4
A meteor and asteroid: Really improbable
The probability that a meteor hits and an asteroid passes by Earth on the same day is about 1 in 100 million, a Yale professor says.
With odds like that it makes Nuclear war an odds on favourite by comparison.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by DangerDeath
Hey look! You learned something. Now. Do you know what the nine dot puzzle is and how it applies?
It has to do with problem solving, not coming up with wild ideas.
Yes, there is a science which does that, it is called Inquisition.
As in Spanish Inquisition. Again, what does that have to do with anything?edit on 2/16/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)
2 contrails?????
take a piece of paper, scrunch it up and place it in one of them wind tunnel/aerodynamic with smoke thingys and you would probably get 1/2/3/4 vapour trails....it all depends on the shape/Aerodynamics of the object in question....or.....or..... maybe when it entered our atmosphere could it have possibly broke into 2 separate chunks then 4 then 8 and so on...makes sense to me and i'm just a spray painter/idiot...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by DangerDeath
Your path of logic.