Not fanfic, but definite ROFL. Copied from http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/ ... 55/#149538]here (which I just realized most folks won't be able to get at, because it's in a member-only forum).
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
On the DAZ3D forums, Skiriki Wrote:You should have seen me two weeks ago, tho.--
I stormed to my regular lurkspot IRC room, with a good congregation of nerds, although not many were space-nerds; several of them work with experimental embedded technology, computers, etc, so they’re not fully clueless. Convo summarized, and I was actually in all-capitals mode (which is rare, and made people wonder what had gotten me THAT agitated).
Me: “GUYS GUYS OH MY GOD YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT!”
Everyone else: ???
Me: “THEY FOUND AN EXOPLANET FROM ALPHA CENTAURI. ALPHA. CENTAURI!”
Everyone else: ??? And?
Me: “ALPHA CENTAURI! GUYS! THE NEAREST STAR AFTER SUN! EARTH-SIZE PLANET TOO! ALPHA. CENTAURI! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!”
Everyone else: ??? And is it habitable?
Me: “Uh… no, kinda tide-locked and really hot… BUT GUYS! ALPHA CENTAURI! LESS THAN FIVE LIGHT YEARS AWAY! OMG!”
Everyone else: ??? And..?
Me: “Well if we really work it, put our minds, technology and money to it, it is actually within realm of feasibility to send an automated probe there, expect it to get there in 20 or 30 years, and then receive communication from it, with pictures of the place. And most of us could be alive to SEE them!”
One of the computer nerds: “...man, I don’t want to think of the lag when typing shell commands if I have to debug it.”
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012