File: 1336021933.jpg-(180 KB, 500x667, suddenlyspiders.jpg) Anonymous (ID: +8dm8M0I) 05/03/12(Thu)01:12:13No.

397291816 I have a 6-8 minute speech to give tomorrow morning. It is a "Student's Choice" speech. Whatever catches my eye is what I'm going with.

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Anonymous (ID: iZAsc2lk) 05/03/12(Thu)01:19:06No.397293030 File: 1336022346.gif-(843 KB, 499x281,1335419654127.gif) If there are two men in an dark alley, one has a pistol, one has a shotgun, they are both close range and can get a headshot. Why is the man with the shotgun superior to the man with a pistol, even though both men are equally matched, as in no matter who pulls the trigger, the other man will die.

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Anonymous (ID: v+ISg1iy) 05/03/12(Thu)01:22:32 No.397293661 >>397293030 The shotgun will hit the nigger's friends behind the main nigger.

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Anonymous (ID: iZAsc2lk) 05/03/12(Thu)01:24:07 No.397293943 >>397293661 Only two men, alone in the alley. Anonymous (ID: pVZMOi5V) 05/03/12(Thu)01:24:35 No.397294031 File: 1336022675.jpg-(187 KB, 1024x901, 911212000.jpg)

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Anonymous (ID: 8W2Xdljd) 05/03/12(Thu)01:25:50 No.397294262 Benefits of the columbine shooting. Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:27:58 No.397294640 File: 1336022878.jpg-(170 KB, 1024x759, nervashuttle2.jpg) The loss of the future. We no longer have a coherent vision of the near-mid future. In the 1950's and 60's we had visions like that pictured. We had 2001 and, at the time, it seemed perfectly plausible. Since then, despite the revolutions in computing and biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, we have been almost regressing. Large-scale sources of power like nuclear are almost a "lost" technology with an increasingly aged vanguard of true-believer engineers hanging on... almost like the last few scholars hoarding bits of the ruined Library of Alexandria. Increasingly, we have stopped really dreaming. Our best and brightest are drawn to banking, investments, business, and law. More and more, even scientists and engineers are being trained and shoehorned into positions as managers and stewards-- not innovators, leaders, builders, and

researchers. Discuss this trend and its effects. >> Anonymous (ID: v+ISg1iy) 05/03/12(Thu)01:28:30 No.397294750 >>397294262 Surprisingly enough, that was my final speech for my high school public speaking class. Except it was more of the real benefits in school security "increases." Anonymous (ID: 8W2Xdljd) 05/03/12(Thu)01:30:47 No.397295141 >>397294750 Too drunk to even think of a good response to this. Really weird coincidence though. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:31:32 No.397295287 File: 1336023092.jpg-(62 KB, 640x480, nervashuttle.jpg) >>397294640 Further, this represents a very clear and present threat to the Western way of life and democracy itself. Our entire standard and way of living is predicated on continuous economic growth. That growth is slowing. The Earth has been mapped and largely explored. Energy (oil, coal, natural gas) though still abundant, is becoming harder and more expensive to reach. We stand on a razors edge and we don't seem to be heading in the right direction... >> Anonymous (ID: v+ISg1iy) 05/03/12(Thu)01:32:46 No.397295514 >>397294640 Yeah, I wanna skate through this without sacrificing brain power.. Throw me a couple links and I wouldn't have a problem doing it. Otherwise that's something I'd do with a week worth of research. Anonymous (ID: vbkNoecC) 05/03/12(Thu)01:33:36 No.397295651 File: 1336023216.png-(113 KB, 297x432, Napoleon+Bonaparte[1].png) "Napoleon Bonaparte, What an Asshole" http://houseofice.tripod.com/history/napoleonandhitler.s html

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Anonymous (ID: VPQfKsm7) 05/03/12(Thu)01:35:17 No.397295951 Give a speech on the furry fandom. Some faggot in my class last semester did this and even the professor couldn't hold in his laughter. Anonymous (ID: v+ISg1iy) 05/03/12(Thu)01:36:37 No.397296171 >>397295287 Fuck man, where were you last weekend. Also, are you me? Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:38:43 No.397296568 File: 1336023523.jpg-(93 KB, 800x600, Orionship1.jpg) >>397295287 Like the "Greatest Generation" of the Depression and WWII, we are staring down the very real possibility that our lives will be less prosperous than that of our parents.

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The Greatest Generation had the war, a real and concrete crusade against a visible evil. Our evil is more subtle and equally deadly; it is complacency. Our generation faces a more complicated challenge than a war. We will not take up arms to fix our problems. We must cooperate, innovate, think, come to a consensus, and act. Our generation has been handed an incredible burden unlike that faced by any other generation in human history since our species was endangered on the savannah of Africa numbering fewer than 10,000. We must rise to the challenge because, if we don't, there will be no more future for our children's generation. >>397295514 You have your outline and some powerful lines right here ITT. Fill in the gaps, man. It's a speech, you don't need to cite too many figures. If you need one, cite that Warren Buffet (possibly the greatest and most prescient investor of our age) has the largest investment of Berkshire Hathaway outside of finance into railroads. Not high speed, maglev, or other railroads; but the freight rail system used to transport primarily coal. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:41:49 No.397297067 File: 1336023709.jpg-(26 KB, 504x378, Orionlaunch.jpg) >>397296171 I'm going to gift you with some (in my opinion) well-written copypasta of my own. Pick and choose what you think is relevant. Consider this a gift. I have 2 finals tomorrow and can't sleep. I've learned as much as I can so I'm here. This is a gift. Nuclear power isn't currently competitive because markets, in general, are unable to see beyond the next few years. Stability doesn't factor into it, nor does sustainability. Merely profitability over a short term. Sounds like an awesome system. That's the system I want providing food, power, water, education, etc. to my children and grandchildren.

Chernobyl is a red herring. One has to consider the safety record of the entirely state-run US nuclear navy. Not ONE nuclear accident. 3 Mile Island with its 0 fatalities was also pretty horrible. It's just so terrible when reality interferes with one's prejudice. With regard to the economics of reactor construction/operation, many sources say that nuclear power isn't viable in current de-regulated energy markets because of its long return on investment, longevity, and stability. The problem is that free-market cultists don't understand those are mostly positive traits. I'm all for free markets, but when the obviously superior long-term solution is abandoned in the name of temporary profits... it's ceased to be pragmatic economics and turned into a dangerous form of blind faith. "Because it isn't profitable for energy traders and commodities speculators" is not a viable reason to shun a technology.

Anti-nuke conservatives are just as bad as the anti-nuke liberals. Both of their opposition is based largely on fear, ignorance, and a lack of compatability with obsolete ideology. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:43:36 No.397297375 File: 1336023816.jpg-(124 KB, 750x611, NIF1.jpg) >>397297067 Aerogel Dynamically flexible wings Molded carbon composite airframes Fly by light Fly by wire control "Glass" cockpit technology Civilian HUD's Enhanced air traffic control Improved medical imaging software (look up Hubble repair and the Lombardi cancer research center) "Lab on a chip" piezoelectric, reagent, and molecular probe instant testing LED's Infrared thermometers Ventricular assist devices (for cardiac patients) Aircraft de-icing systems Lyophylization Enhanced and more robust water filtration technology Biological and chemical remediation Powdered lubricants Lifting body aircraft VTOL/ STOVL technology Quiet supersonic aircraft Aerospike engines Beta voltaic batteries Charge-coupled devices (make digital imaging possible) Monomolecular coatings applied by electromagnetic processes Zinc silicate corrosion resistant coatings UV resistant coating 3d printing for rapid prototyping Structural analysis software Aeroponic farming/gardening All things developed by NASA. A government agency that was, during the time these things were developed, had no concrete space goal and paltry funding. The base is there, we merely need the political and financial will. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:45:08 No.397297639 File: 1336023908.jpg-(48 KB, 500x680, ourfriendtheatom2.jpg) >>397297375 NASA needs a new set of priorities though. >New heavy lift boosters >Engineering proposals for better/cheaper ways of lifting things into orbit >Surveys of Trojan orbit asteroids >Space based solar power satellite prototype/pilot project >Manned Mars mission, more probes to finally determine if there is primitive life there >Plans to begin terraforming Martian atmosphere with engineered microorganisms >A manned deep space exploration vessel Sometimes, it takes a government to make investments to create economies of scale when

developing/introducing new technologies. The free market isn't willing to take long-term risks and invest the huge amounts of capital necessary to develop things like: Heavy lift rockets (it wasn't until the 90's that commercial space launch became a profitable business and even now only the US/EU/Russian space agencies can do true heavy lift) Intertial confinement fusion (monstrously expensive) Molten salt reactors (testing reactor design by building a prototype in the 1960's was WAY beyond the means of even the largest corporations, they partnered with government to pave the way) Nuclear batteries (beta and alpha voltaics rock, but they came from government labs) Fly by light (developed jointly between NASA and private enterprise with generous helpings of government funding) Dynamically flexible wings (developed by NASA, implemented by Boeing in commercial airliners, extending their service lives-- done with government money as private industry wouldn't build the necessary testbed aircraft without subsidy) Quiet supersonic aircraft are also a NASA development (which will soon allow titans of capitalist industry to jet about at greater than the speed of sound in supersonic business jets) The first breeder reactors are also in this category of government-funded high-risk bleeding edge projects. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:46:30 No.397297840 File: 1336023990.gif-(73 KB, 662x260, XB-70.gif) >>397297639 >Asteroid mining >Space based solar power >Orion nuclear pulse drive >intertial confinement fusion >laser propulsion/ pre-cooled ramjets/ generally cheaper ways to reach orbit >Improved automation These things are all things once proposed by NASA. These things could, if all implemented in the right ways, lead the US economy to tower above all others and stay there in an unassailable position of might. This isn't even to mention what they'd do for our military power. They could even lead to the beginnings of a post-scarcity economy, but that's an argument for another day. The research isn't worthless. Just because it doesn't turn an immediate profit doesn't make it worthless. It's very useful stuff, but it's also out-there. Were it not for some geeks at Bell Labs looking into the electrical properties of silicone, the US wouldn't have been the home of the digital revolution. This kind of far-sighted investment in R&D is NOT something the free market does well. It can do it, but examples are exceedingly rare in the modern era of science and technology. This is why we all (as taxpayers) "take the hit" on things like NASA, the CDC, NSF, NOAA, etc. in order to provide for our future. Advanced industrial economies don't really experience true growth these days without advances in technology. Not investing in R&D on a massive scale is to ignore the future of our economy and it's what (could) ultimately lead to the downfall of the USA as the dominant power on this planet.

We could use lunar regolith to construct makeshift pusher plates for Trojan orbit asteroids. Once we find suitable candidates, we could propel them into Earth orbit to be refined/mined using solar foundries. From there, automated factories in Earth orbit process the raw materials using nigh unlimited solar power. >> Anonymous (ID: v+ISg1iy) 05/03/12(Thu)01:46:43 No.397297879 >>397297067 Danke. Gonna have to take a simple as fuck approach so my professor, a 70 year old woman, but I'm sure she will be able to relate since she was in her prime during 50/60s. This ought to be good Anonymous (ID: GN+i48wN) 05/03/12(Thu)01:47:09 No.397297963 What about the media's demonization of science, and America's oversensitivity regarding religion? Anonymous (ID: wSJFhwS5) 05/03/12(Thu)01:47:52 No.397298076 You should do your speech on why war is beneficial for society as a whole. or why the EU is a failure as a concept Why Africa was stupid to kick the white people and was much better off as colonies. You could also do a really long (and very boring) presentation about the rise of modern Germany. Try your best to put the audience to sleep. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:48:53 No.397298265 File: 1336024133.jpg-(72 KB, 800x243, l2000.jpg) >>397297840 The scale of projects we could do would be almost limitless, given that power and raw materials are (practically) unlimited and ultra-cheap. The issue is this: We're spending money like crazy to keep the economy afloat. Prevailing wisdom says the deficit spending is to ensure economic growth so that we can pay off the debt later. >If we stop spending, the (anemic and largely superficial) growth stops. >If we keep spending as we're doing (bailouts, subsidy to shitty pet projects, etc.) then the economy won't grow enough to pay off the crippling debt later on in the future. The only two solutions that I can see are either SEVERE austerity measures that will impact quality of life and ultimately lead to economic downturn as energy and raw materials supplies dwindle or Investment/subsidy in high technology and space exploitation. The only way to meet the growth targets necessary for this deficit spending binge to not end in disaster is to dramatically change our economic reality. Unless anyone else has any ideas for dramatically changing the US (and Western) economy, I say we go with my plan. >>397297963 We dealt with it after Sputnik when we had a concrete enemy in the form of the Soviet Union. The challenge of this generation is greater in that the enemy is FAR less visible and, to an extent, lies within us. >>397297879

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You're very welcome. She might well eat this up. >> Anonymous (ID: 6O38Q1C6) 05/03/12(Thu)01:49:15 No.397298323 American capitalism is dependent on population growth. When we can no longer sustain population growth, then what? Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:51:44 No.397298767 File: 1336024304.jpg-(12 KB, 320x240, orionbattleship4.jpg) >>397298265 True HUMANS do not cower in fear and ignorance, we face the unknown and dangerous with conviction, intelligence, and determination. We plunge into the ocean's depths to study its most dangerous beasts. We hurl ourselves among the stars to understand and master their wonder. We fear nothing and our curiosity will see us through. Sometimes we think of ourselves as "only human" but humans really are magnificent. I believe that mastery of one's fear is what makes a human great. Fear is the last vestigial remnant of our evolution that's holding us back. How much has a given person lost in life thanks to fear? Fear of rejection, fear of pain, fear of the unknown, fear of consequences, fear of death. Fear holds us back as a species, makes us behave ignobly. Fear turns the mighty Man into the quivering ape. To accomplish anything, we must master our fear. So it was on the savanna, so will it be among the stars. >> Anonymous (ID: Jg35bsQ1) 05/03/12(Thu)01:56:32 No.397299591 File: 1336024592.jpg-(168 KB, 1238x984, ENTJ.jpg) >>397298767 It took courage to leave the tribe and venture along the African coast up into Mesopotamia and outwards into the wider world. Today, we face an even larger frontier that is incalculably more dangerous and inhospitable than any desert or ocean crossing of old. It is also incalculably richer, bigger, and more promising. We, that means everyone in this room and everyone on this planet, face a choice. We can look inwards as our future dies before our eyes or we can look outwards towards greater horizons. It will be the most expensive, dangerous, and challenging thing we have ever done as a species. It will likely NEVER be finished even in a million years. I feel we're up to the task. Do you? >> Anonymous (ID: TPRfu47H) 05/03/12(Thu)01:58:42 No.397299954 >>397298265 You seem extremely well informed, and in a subject that fascinates me! Care to share any pertinent links/associated resources?

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