time-wasting-thread-memorial/raw/pages/3040.json

{"topics":[{"id":"54a99bfb6368723b1cb10100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a99b3163687235b12f0200#post_54a99b3163687235b12f0200\r\nThey spent too much on their military, and neglected to keep their antiquated infrastructures up to date. They were overstaffed, but at least people had jobs.\r\n\r\nChernobyl did deal a swift death blow to them though, financially.\r\n\r\nNow we just got to wait till North Korea capitulates.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"54a99c4b6368723ddf4a0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Carcass Strife\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a97e1063687270f92a1800#post_54a97e1063687270f92a1800\r\n[bq=\"Carcass Strife\"]...\r\n!http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/837/637/7d6.gif!\r\n*Nerdgasm[/bq]\r\nNononono stahp\r\n\r\nGiffany is already in my computer destroying everything","author":"9ba2e84e636164642cc03200"},{"id":"54a99cbb63687236fb040000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"I have nothing to add to this conversation.\r\n\r\nEdit: I now know that the crying gif that Too_Offensive posted is from Ultraman Mebius. (And I have for some time)","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"54a99cf86368723873390000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a99b3d636872368aff0000#post_54a99b3d636872368aff0000\r\nUnless all those technologies can be used to make lots of people somewhere in the world very dead very quickly, I wouldn't bet on them getting any sort of advancement.","author":"5043cdb47f123b72cc0032d3"},{"id":"54a99d37636872394b040000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a99b3d636872368aff0000#post_54a99b3d636872368aff0000\r\nWell we're getting synthesized food in a couple years so that's close enough.\r\nIf space mining takes off a fair number of people will be living in space in our lifetime; granted it's not going to be no 8 billion people or such, but still a million is still a drastic number.\r\nTheoretically speaking we should find evidence of alien life in the next twenty years because NASA is working on drawing up plans on a Europa probe; the SETI program potentially has a exponential amount of searching, because the problem isn't that we don't have enough dishes looking but rather we don't have enough resources currently to scour through all the frequencies of all of time and space at all times currently(personally I have high hopes in the long run for this because the problem is a logistics problem of trying to look through large amounts of data in short amounts of time).\r\nPeople that say we're going to be teleporting don't know what the hell they're talking about; the energy for teleporting a single human through say a wormhole exceeds the total energy of the universe.  I doubt any time soon we'll have more energy than the entire universe under our control.","author":"38b55cdf63616403d7560600"},{"id":"54a99d616368723cb06a0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Silent_Witness\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a99cf86368723873390000#post_54a99cf86368723873390000\r\nUS military is ridiculously ahead of every other nations. All that innovation could've been used to benefit society.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"54a99d9b636872229d000000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Silent_Witness\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a99cf86368723873390000#post_54a99cf86368723873390000\r\nForcing someone to eat 100 food pills and making their stomach explode\r\nLaunching your enemies into space\r\nBefriending aliens to make them kill your enemies\r\nTeleporting a bees into your enemy's base\r\n","author":"500b587e7f123b1f230014a9"},{"id":"54a99d9e636872532db40000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/54a99bfb6368723b1cb10100#post_54a99bfb6368723b1cb10100\r\nThe Soviet system was thoroughly corrupt and completely absurd.\r\n\r\nPeople-having-to-bribe-shopkee