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Unfortunately you only have one day to pack. And the trip takes 40 years because nobody has invented warp speed yet. Cryosleep? No. So there's gonna be some down time and you need to pack entertainment. Movies, books, encyclopedias, porn, whatever you can gather in a day. Question: What forms of storage media do you choose? USB sticks don't seem like they are designed to last 40+ years. In fact most kinds of computer drives seem prone to bad sectors and whatnot over time. CDs and DVDs? Kind of old school, but they seem to last fine as long as they don't get wet or cracked. Cassette tapes? For music most 40 year old cassette tapes seem fine, and so do a lot of hella old cassette players. VCRs too. Vinyl records? They do deteriorate over time and they're pretty bulky.
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I'm 30 now, so a coffin.
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Nov 17, 2018 07:27
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Just buy the largest drum of lube you can and rely on your imagination the entire trip.
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Das Boo posted:I'm 30 now, so a coffin. It turns out the aliens are a Thing. When your body wears out they'll just convert you to a Thing too. It'll be fine.
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Does the spaceship have wifi
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I pack their fudge.
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snack eater posted:Does the spaceship have wifi Like to the earth internet? Kinda. They can receive our broadcasts (that's how they found out about us). But there's no such thing as faster than light communication so latency is gonna be a bitch and it's only getting worse as the years go by. No playing WoW or EVE with your goon pals.
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Nov 17, 2018 07:34
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Packin'? I'm packin' you!
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reignofevil posted:Packin'? And also his fudge.
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My butt, for all the probing. Also, can eat it with sufficient yoga, which you'll get to practice a lot in these 40 years.
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Facebook Aunt posted:It turns out the aliens are a Thing. When your body wears out they'll just convert you to a Thing too. It'll be fine. Then the coffin will be for napping, as those things are built to last.
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Colonel Cancer posted:My butt, for all the probing. Also, can eat it with sufficient yoga, which you'll get to practice a lot in these 40 years. I hadn't considered the possibility of them reciprocating the fudge packing.
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Nov 17, 2018 07:39
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who needs entertainment media when you can gently caress and suck strange alien lifeforms for the next 40 years?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:who needs entertainment media when you can gently caress and suck strange alien lifeforms for the next 40 years? That's what I'm talking about
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Nov 17, 2018 08:48
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I'm ready to play some Suck Um gently caress Um robots with these gayliens.
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Nov 17, 2018 08:49
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Selected issues of Black Tail Magazine.
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I'd pack a bowl
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:who needs entertainment media when you can gently caress and suck strange alien lifeforms for the next 40 years? Yeah, sure, you can probably convince them that is necessary for diplomatic communication. Go hog wild.
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JebanyPedal posted:I pack their fudge. Maybe they don't have fudge, they have skittles or something. Do these blue babes have alcohol? Because if not I'm bringing a still.
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Nov 17, 2018 09:08
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I trumpet or a tuba, piss the poo poo outta those god drat alien motherfuckers for the next 40 years.
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I already have terabytes of movies, music, porn, books, games & comics so I'm good to go there. I'd spend the day buying reeds, guitar strings & tubes for my amps, instruments. Probably would be a good time to splurge on some $200+ foot pedals, harmonicas & a few $2,000 amp heads since I'm maxing out the accounts/credit cards. I'd get all the parts necessary to build a distillery. Few pounds of the most potent seeds I could get my hands on. GBS Answer is all my katanas, Goku shirts & Bailey Jay porn I can get my hands on, of course.
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Nov 17, 2018 09:19
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Id rob those skinny nerds of whatever would make me live 40 more years
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My gun.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:My gun. This was going to be my contribution to the thread but I've been stuck on the gay sex stuff since the God thread.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:My gun. Ah, an offering to the Museum of Primitive Alien Technology. Smart move, to bring a gift, I can already see why they chose you to be an ambassador.
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Nov 17, 2018 10:00
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VHS tapes of Ally McBeal.
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i'll pack your rear end in a top hat with my dick
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Nothing The aliens probably have stuff for me to look at Hyper porn basically
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Rubbers because of all the alien loving. Then....poo poo I dunno. A book or something?
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You probably wouldn't have time for anything fun. You'd need to study their civilization and protocols so you don't end up insulting their god-king or whatever, and then repeat for all the other aliens they'd introduce you to... Just 40 years of homework, no thanks.
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either nothing or a hard pass. if i'm expected to be a non-representative ambassador soon after i get to their world anyway, they better hook me up with all the alien 'cultural history' i.e. food, movies, books, video games i can stand so i can be a better diplomat on the trip over. if they won't do that send some idiot preteen who thinks they'll save our world with this job instead e: gently caress studying. these aliens are idiots if they picked me, i'll tell them that being bad at understanding social rules and learning by making mistakes is our thing and just wing it from there. my odds are pretty good of becoming a thing either on the way over or long before they all get sick of me. after that i assume that even if they fire me they can't just send me back so i'll have an excellent chance of being the first human to get anchor babies with the aliens Ignatius M. Meen fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Nov 17, 2018 |
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You can obviously take USB drives or whatever and then copy the contents over to new media. You're so caught up with trying to invent some trick scenario that you don't use your brain.
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super sweet best pal posted:Just buy the largest drum of lube you can and rely on your imagination the entire trip. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MR3IVO?th=1
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Nov 17, 2018 12:56
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orgy porn. when they start cargo culting 'earth culture' to make me feel at home, I get to watch aliens gently caress. one of the universe's last mysteries, really.
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Nov 17, 2018 13:22
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as much science fiction about humanity crushing alien invaders as possible also parody porn about loving said aliens
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Solid state drives dude you can throw those things across the room and stomp on them and they still work.
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But like the best thing would be a tattoo setup for all the stuff you can’t put to memory imo. Or like find a way to make ink and gear from stuff in nature.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Unfortunately you only have one day to pack. And the trip takes 40 years because nobody has invented warp speed yet. Cryosleep? No. So there's gonna be some down time and you need to pack entertainment. Movies, books, encyclopedias, porn, whatever you can gather in a day. None of that is going to matter once you board their ship and discover they're going to simply decant your brain into a life support jar for the transit. Enjoy your 40 years of total sensory deprivation then getting shoved into some nightmarish utterly inhuman alien body at the other end.
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You expect Star Trek aliens who are humans with forehead prosthetics but instead you get the great race of Yith from the Cthulhu Mythos.
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