Comments on: Dutch clutch such… uh, nonsense

By: Ronn! Blankenship

Ronn! Blankenship — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:56:40 +0000

# Michelle Says:

…Now that I think about it, if we fit everyone tightly together in one spot, how much territory would we take?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar#Explanation_of_the_novel.27s_title

By: Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:46:04 +0000

Did this nonsense actually START in America? Or are you just being one of the cool kids and slamming the US?

By: fred edison

fred edison — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:18:54 +0000

“There are times when I wonder if what I’m doing — debunking bad astronomy — is a waste, when I could be doing something else with a bigger impact.”

Please don’t stop anytime soon. I need the laughs. The stuff you find is unbelievable, literally. True, you can’t change the world. But if you educate and change one mind, that mind will educate and change a mind, and that mind will…. I try to do the same, though not as eloquently and convincingly as you.

By: Redx

Redx — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:06:27 +0000

The Centipede:

“…General Tojo will arise from the dead to lead the Imperial Japanese Necrarmy to turn the entire world into undead Communists!”

Man, I keep forgetting if the Imperial Japanese Necrarmy Revolution is coming out in Summer or Fall. The concept art for the Ghost Ship Yamato is just stunning.

By: robhoofd

robhoofd — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:29:15 +0000

The article calls the Dutch ‘rational and laid back’… I remember those days. They were good. But they’re gone.
Every day I wake up hoping that the Dutch people have gotten sensible and give people like Char Margolis, Derek Ogilvie, the 2012 nutters, and all those other cranks and charlatans out there a good laugh and nothing more. But even after a primetime special on Char (with James Randi, w00t), no one has seemed to budge. This country is indeed trying to turn into the US, and it’s disturbingly succesful at it.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:08:30 +0000

I’m from Holland and I concur and this country is desperately trying to imitate the unite state. Its a sad state of affairs.

By: PP

PP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:05:00 +0000

Sailoron (7:29 pm) asked “Have any of them built an ark yet?”; the answer to that is ‘of course!’. Some guy built a (half-size) replica of Noah’s Ark “complete with modal animals”. It is a “testament to his literal belief in the Bible.”

BBC news story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6604879.stm
The website of the ark: http://www.arkvannoach.com/language/en/