Dey could be cruising by in derr spaceships and pick it up on da long range scannerz man. If alienz is anything like us, dey love road trips.

Then they could laugh in amusement as they vaporized our planet. :D

What... you have never drunk posted???

:D

Friction can't be totally discounted when considering the expansion of our tools.

At any rate, the rate of expansion of the universe is increasing with age, which I've read has to do with dark matter.

The rate of expansion of our tools decreases with age and increased friction can only temporarily keep them up and effective.......and that is a dark matter.

Dark ENERGY. Dark Energy is increasing the expansion of the Universe, Dark Matter would decreasing the expansion. They're two very different things (one is asteroids and dust and bacteria, while the other is anti-gravity).

If Star Trek has taught me anything, it's that alien chicks are horny and like to make it with Earth dudes... I think it was Shatner's Third Law. I say, bring 'em on! :D

Oosp! That was a typo (I often get subliminally distracted by the gravitas of dark matter).

But I think you'll agree that, regarding our tools, decreasing energy is directly related to their slowing rate of expansion, even in the face of increased friction - a dark matter.

I'm a scientist. We don't think of such things.

I used to think that, but like I said, I remember nothing about my abductions, but, since the first one, for some reason I think of them as thorny, not horny - not good.

Oh, I'll bet that older scientists do! :)

Fixed.

Fixed.

If man had to wait for science then we would still be experimenting with fire.

your rug's on fire, tabby

Well then just don't stand there with your finger up your a$$ grab a bucket of water and put the dam thing out...unless of course you are too ahhhh mentaly challenged to asccomplish a simple task as that...


See I am now being PC because Obama has come to save us all...it not that I am down on the Bama.its all the people who have those calf eyes that bother me..

It like the what the aliens do they mesmerize you....hey did anybody ever think Bama might be an alien..that would put new menaing into seeing his Birth certificate now wouldn't it.

snow tires & tabs' anal probing

what a combination. :D

An them alien are blow sand up youre cratch irritating...its like they alway menaing...take periods spelling ability away, HUH? you ask? Dont start me with alien Birth certificate yet too! Obama HA!! You stupid will see it coming!

You just wate and see!

You get disconcerted with my lack of grammar, spelling and punctuation...Ha..I CAN NOT EVEN READ MY OWN HANDWRITING....you think Md's write fast and illegibly....

My poor little fingers can not keep up with the speed of my thought process. If I can not get it down on the first pass, it gets lost...almost all of the things I write are first draft, with virtually no editing. & I know you can tell....

HAHAHA! I'm picturing your poor little fingers bumbling along trying to keep up with your warped (speed, that is :)) mind. You never disconcert me Tabs; that would be no fun at all! :D You're gust a grouchy ole conservative, wallowing in defeat. :D

Yup, I can tell almost all your things are first drafts. I also suspect that mebbe more than a few beer draughts precede some of your first drafts. :)

I'm a bit old fashioned. Mother taught me that people's judgment of the quality of what one says may be colored by the care one takes when saying it. Mebbe try some of that binko bluwatza or whatever they call it to help keep you from getting lost while getting lost in your thoughts?

And you COULD avale yourself of the spel chekker! SmileWavy

Could be, but with 10^21 stars in the universe, its only a one in a 10,000 million million million chance they happen by our neck of the woods . . .

And that is EXACTLY what keeps me awake at night!

This is Radiotabs, broadcasting to you from our Vogon Constructor Vessel, err...trailerpark compound...

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WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE FROM....MOTHER did she give it to you....that is how I appear on my home planet.

However if you have talent there is quality in spontaneity...just take a look at Van Gogh or Picasso's work. So it ain't necessarily so that quality is reflected by the "care" one gives in the presentation of line. It is the idea and imagination behind it.

We could be situated on the periphery of a major interstellar trade route, we don't know. We're ignant. :D

Aliens may stop on Earth to take a dump all the time.

its too expensive to **** here. There was another post about how much it actually costs to crap in CA.

Ooooh my! I do believe that you may be mixing together impatience/lack of attention to detail with adroitness/spontaneity!

While both of those painters worked with great alacrity (Van Gogh sometimes at a fevered pitch, by historical accounts) NONE of their work exhibits even a hint of uncertainty or carelessness, though roughness and apparent speed of execution might lead an uninformed viewer to think that it does.

Their genius lies partially in the fact that they could express themselves with such clarity and power, often, especially in the case of Picasso, with an extraordinary economy of means.

Show me litererary examples written by acclaimed writers that you compare to off-handed first drafts such as we post here and I'll be open to enlightenment.

Incidentally (not authoritatively), I know a little bit about that of which I speak, being a painter myself. And, brer Tabs, I'd never consider comparing my posts (which are also ALL first drafts) using examples of geniuses as an analogy! :D

Nominee for best post on this thread.

I have seen Van Gogh's work up close and he did have a frenetic style that seemed that he wanted to get it on canvas before he lost the vision of what he wanted to accomplish.

I don't care about a perfectly concise presentation, what I care about is the presentation of complex or abstract ideas in a coherent fashion. It is the idea that makes or brakes and not the sloppiness of the presentation.

There is a cetain superficiality to those that get hung up on the cleanness of presentation. In other words one has to look beyond the presentation and onto the idea that is expressed. The words are important and not whether they are spelled correctly.

Klaatu barada niktu (sp)

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Oh doo tell!

With recent pay cuts I'm looking to make some money with a side job.

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One can be frentic in style and still have control. Van Gogh worked very quickly to capture the essence of what he wanted to convey. Sometimes he would do 2 or 3 pictures a day, working quickly before the light failed. Van Gogh developed a unique style or way of painting that you call "singular vision" yet that has nothing to do with a paticular idea or image that he wanted to capture. Style remains a constant and a paticular composition or idea is singular and unique.Sometimes it needs to be captured quickly beofre it fades. There is a vast difference between the two.

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A persons handwriting or brush strokes remain constant an idea or image sometimes needs to be put down quickly or it may get lost.

4 paintings by 2 artists at different stages of their development. Constancy of brushstrokes are hardly definitive of their commonality. Perhaps a forensics lab...

Are you a painter?

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Tabs' nuclear missile shuttin' off Aliens on Larry King live:

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I don't paint but have a couple of pieces hanging around. I know the art conservator that does Butterfields, Morans, Abels, Sotherbys and most of the big Gallerys in LA's work. He never even looks at signatures and can tell an artists work by brush stroke.
Your brush stroke, composition and colour pallet are indivdual things..