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    Alien Windmills and Cyborg Prostitutes Invade Amsterdam

    An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About

    WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover

    A Future of Hot Air Balloons and Giant Elephant Robots
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Alien Windmills and Cyborg Prostitutes Invade Amsterdam
    That's worryingly similar to how I remember my couple of trips to Amsterdam. Although it was colder when I went.
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    10/12/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: It's surprisingly chilly there most of the year, isn't it?
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    10/12/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: Well, I'm from Scotland, so these things are relative...
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    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    Actually, it looks more like it's the aliens who are doing the tourist sight-seeing thing. And you know, it's always a pain when your giant alien mecha-bot breaks down in the Alps. Thank goodness for friendly red buses! Hell, by the looks of a lot of these pictures, someone needs to go back to spaceship driving school. Don't they teach young podlings how to park anymore?
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    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    Probably just me, but I don't see about half the pics, even the thumbnails are missing.
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    07/22/09

    @Fusion: Those are actually all the pictures. I don't know why the blank boxes are showing up.
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    07/22/09

    @Lauren Davis: It's fixed now. Your other tag was weird space free. This is why it's good to use more than one tag. :)
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    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    Look how nice those people are in "picture 11." They are trying to look like the spacemen and not make them feel self-conscious about their helmets.
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    07/22/09

    In reply to An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About
    What happened to New York?
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    07/21/09

    In reply to WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover
    Why doesn't FDR have a superpowered wheelchair? With tank treads and bazookas? "You have nothing to fear but ME myself!"
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    07/21/09

    In reply to WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover
    How many of these "punk" genres do we have to have? I mean what's next flintpunk?
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    07/21/09

    In reply to WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover
    Regardless of how imposing musolini was I think the italians would still be doing this:
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    07/21/09

    In reply to WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover
    Heh about irony of Josef Stalin.
    His name in Russian or Georgian means Man of Steel.
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    07/21/09

    In reply to WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover
    Roosevelt really needed a bad-ass dieselpunk powered wheelchair. Some giant gears of doom would have been nice.
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    07/21/09

    @BloggyMcBlogBlog: That was my first thought, too, but given that Roosevelt frequently hid his need for a wheelchair, the exoskeleton probably would have been his pick.
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    07/21/09

    In reply to WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover
    I'm sorry to day that most of these look more like Terry Gilliam rejects (although the Churchill pic nearly works).
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    06/26/09

    In reply to A Future of Hot Air Balloons and Giant Elephant Robots
    Why is everyone always so insistent that we missed some great moment when we abandoned balloon travel? I mean sure, the idea of a zeppelin docking on the Empire State Building is pretty cool, but how far do we really need to push this idea?


    And the elephants. Always with the elephants. Look, don't get me wrong, I love elephants. One of my favorite animals. The experience of riding an elephant into a lake for a bath? Sublime. But I'll tell you what, let's take a trip to Thailand, see how well elephants and the modern world co-exist. You know how well? Well just this week in Thailand they were painting them to look like pandas. You know why? Because people are tired of the elephants. They'd rather be surrounded by giant pandas with long noses and tusks. GIANT PANDAS PEOPLE!


    And the robots...well, actually, yes to the robots. More robots please.

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    06/26/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I stand behind your elephant statement. Since logging stopped in Thailand, the elephants have been literally tortured as aid for street beggars.


    But balloons? Come on. It's the one step in flight that didn't try to imitate the natural world (too much). It's not a bird. It's wholly original and specifically human. There's a romanticism in that. Also the fact that it's rather useless and was outmoded quickly. What's more human than grasping at ephemera?

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    06/26/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Because large floaty things and large majestic creatures will incite feelings of wonder and starry-eyed glee in some people?


    Not me, though.

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    06/26/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: one use for Balloons and Zepplins. anti-Zombie warfare.


    just float above the zombie hoards and shoot 'em in the 'ead in complete safety and calm.....

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    06/26/09

    @aubreyAubrey: Air planes don't have much to do with bird flight, despite the wings.


    Also, I seem to remember that the Montgolfieres were inspired/some what influenced by seeds.


    THERE IS NOTHING ORIGINAL UNDER THE SUN! WE ARE ONLY SLAVES OF OUR BIOLOGY!! ONLY THE COPY-MACHINE FOR OUR DNA!!!


    ...reckless punctuation overflow alarm. User will be treated apropriately...

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    06/26/09

    @transbastard: I smell a typo.


    *beats the bastard with a bag of commas*

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    06/26/09

    @crashedpc: That can be dangerous. Yesterday someone was threadjacking to let everyone know that MJ had simply "slipped into a comma" and look what happened!


    @CmdrHunt: Well now that just sounds adorable. Adorable enough to eat me!

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    06/26/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: That is why I stay away from threadjackers. I might put them out of my misery.
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