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  1. T.Trian

    T.Trian Overly Pompous Bastard Supporter Contributor

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    I think a lot of guys who're into mmf threesomes do get off on the idea that there's another guy present. Of course many also have some rules in the game, like no touching. There's a story related to that from when I was 18 and a couple I knew asked me to be their third wheel, but it's a bit on the NSFW side, so maybe this isn't the right place to share that one. :D What made it all the more confusing was the fact that the girl in question was my best friend's sister, so that was another reason to give it a pass.
     
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    I can't understand the appeal of MMF, myself. I think the guys who partake in such activities and high five afterwards would do the exact same thing without the 'F' in the equation if they thought nobody else would ever find out.

    Extreme language warning: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ad31d41c45/wycked-sceptre-party-tape-from-mr-show-from-greatest-comedy-sketches
     
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  3. Lewdog

    Lewdog Come ova here and give me kisses! Supporter Contributor

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    I think in mmf threesome you have there is a complex mathematical theorem, L = Hottness of the girl, H = hornyness of the guys, S = Straightness of the guys, and T = the likeliness of the threesome happening. So:

    as (L+H) reach and becomes > S = T
     
  4. Mackers

    Mackers Senior Member

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    Was just listening to this song today from the comedian Bo Burnham about the state of modern pop music. It's spot on :)

     
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    Wreybies Thrice Retired Supporter Contributor

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    That is my new favorite thing since the actual Big Bang (not the show). :D Yay! Someone else actually gets the fact that we're trained to consume porn from the cradle, so why is it any surprise that porn-porn (what we think of as porn) is such a huge phenomenon?
     
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  6. Mackers

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    We are for sure. It's scary to think that a lot of pop songs are driven by market research that take advantage of insecure young girls with low self-esteem. They're the ones buying the songs on itunes after all...So depressing. Nowadays I just chuckle when I hear songs describe how they love this hypothetical girl and all her imperfections. Complete nonsense of course, and it's just gets swallowed every time

    Anyway, I'm a stickler for musical comedians. Anyone heard of Flight of the Concords? So Good :D

     
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    Lewdog Come ova here and give me kisses! Supporter Contributor

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    An example of inflation:

    Arby's used to have a special of mix or match 5 Arby's roast beef sandwiches or roast beef and cheddars for $5.

    Today? Mix or match TWO Arby's roast beef sandwiches or beef and cheddars for $5.

    How I miss 1990. :(
     
  8. Mackers

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    This type of stuff blows my mind -

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/earth-20-astronomers-reveal-kepler186f-the-latest-planet-in-a-habitable-goldilocks-zone-9268241.html

    "Finding Earth-like habitable planets outside the Solar System was the main purpose of the Kepler space telescope and the discovery of such a planet around a red dwarf star, Kepler 186, suggests there are many more to be found given that this type of star comprises about 70 per cent of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, Dr Quintana said.

    The possibilities! Such a pity it's 500 light years away...We could have had a get-together with our planetary neighbours
     
  9. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Damn. :( Couldn't we have sent a capsule on that planet to let them know we were there? Give them our location and contact information?
     
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    It's too far. We don't have the technology for long distance, intergalactic space travel.
     
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    It's 500 light years of travel...think about that
     
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    I'll keep the musical comedians going for another day :)

     
  13. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    This is the part where I confess to everyone that I'm not a science geek. A light year seems pretty damned far, but how exactly, I don't really know.

    But you're right. They're too far away for us to really do anything right now, and that's not even considering that there's anything smarter than microbes on that planet.
     
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    It means that the light from that planet would take a year to reach your eye (travelling at the speed of light, of course). 500,000,000 years in the case of this planet.
    That's why when you're observing stars you are effectively looking back in time.
     
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    Ummm..... No. The light from that planet would take 500 years to get to us because it's 500 light years away, light being the base measure here, thus no need to multiply it by anything. It is the mathematical "1" in this case.

    Solid matter is a different story, of course. In case anyone was wondering why the whole can't ever travel at the speed of light thing, it's because as your speed approaches the speed of light, your mass increases and hits an asymptotic swerve where the mass ever approaches infinite as you approach the speed of light, so no matter how much harder you push, your mass just keeps increasing in time with your push, thus you never touch X, X being the speed of light. ;)
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    OK, so all in all, it's a measure of how fast light travels. A solar nebula 500 light years away means it took the light that long to reach our eyes, but the nebula really happened 500 years ago.

    Which means...wow. That planet is impossibly far away from us.
     
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    Wreybies Thrice Retired Supporter Contributor

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    It would take 500 years for light to get there from here or from them to us, but only light can travel at that speed. We don't have technology that comes even remotely close to the speed of light.

    A light year is a measure of distance, not time.
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Dammit, you quoted right when I edited my post. It's literally above yours, but I think I've got it now. Thanks. :D
     
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    Wreybies Thrice Retired Supporter Contributor

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    Not impossibly, but right now, not really reachable. There's tons of sci-fi out there related to the idea of "generation ships" where the vast distances of space are not glossed over by the writer with magic warp drive, but instead dealt with in a more realistic fashion through the idea of a ship that is more of a biome where the people who set out on the voyage understand that they won't be the ones to arrive at the far away planet, but instead it will be their children or their grandchildren, being born and growing up on the ship, who will be the actual colonists.
     
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    My bad, wasn't paying attention and thought he said 500,000,000 for some reason. Should've just read the post again rather than try to be a smart arse from memory.:confused:
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I just had a disturbing thought, Wreybies.

    If that planet is 500 light years away, we're looking at a planet as it was 500 years ago. What must it look like now?

    Let's flip this scenario, shall we? Let's say there are sentient beings on the planet looking back at us, at Earth which is also 500 light years away. That means they would have been looking at us as we were in 1514. Clearly we are a much different world now than we were in the sixteenth century. It would take another 500 years for them to see what we look like now in 2014. While it presents the hilarious image of them thinking we're still wearing puffy clothing, sailing in wooden ships and using quills to write, it begs the question: if we're looking at the planet as it was 500 years ago, we really don't know what it looks like now.

    So...theoretically speaking, we may need to add 500 years to them. They're in the year 2514, and it won't be until 3014 when they can see us as we are right now, as I type.

    ...Or does that just not work? I mean, it's all about light, so regardless of wheher or not they'd actually could see the humans on Earth, the point is that light would take 500 years to reach anyone if the source is 500 light years away.
     
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    It does work out. That's exactly how it is. ;)

    The further out you look into space, the further back you see into time. It's why the literalist creationists want to crucify Neil Degrasse Tyson right now because a couple of episodes ago in his reboot of Cosmos he flat out said Bullshit, bitches, because if all of creation is only a few thousand years old, we would not be able to see as far out as we can into space because the light from way, way far away (which we have proven the speed of in countless experiments) would not have had anywhere near enough time to get to us for us to see. And we CAN see it.
     
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    Also, concerning the generational ships - and I promise to stop nerd-dumping after this, I swear! ;) - Science Fiction itself pointed out the flaw in generational ships and it is the following: Generational ships sound cool and seem interesting as an endeavor because with maybe just a little more research into recycling and infrastructural efficiencies, a generational ship seems very doable with technology we already have now. It would just be a matter of financing and the politics that always go along with large scale financing.

    And then sci-fi writers started writing stories about much, much faster ships created with technology 200 years down the road instead of with today's technology, but still within the realm of realistic physics, not magic Star Trek stuff, and in these stories these much faster ships catch up to to the generational ships cast into the void 200 years earlier and then the story becomes about what they find happening onboard these ships after 200 years in space.

    And real life scientists were like.... oh.... so, maybe we'll just wait on that.
     
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  24. Cogito

    Cogito Former Mod, Retired Supporter Contributor

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    The most interesting story to be found in generational ships is the culture that develops in that isolated setting, and possibly how it adapts to the wholly new environment at the destination.

    And Wrey, NEVER stop nerd-dumping!
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I second what Cogito said, Wrey. That's why we love you, because you nerd-dump. :D So keep on nerd-dumping, Wrey!
     

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