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Tom: proud to be an 8-bit man.It must be hard to be a super-genius. Not generally difficult going about your daily existence because you’re really really smart, but difficult if you happen to have a neat idea that kills a lot of people.
Let’s say a super-genius thinks it would be cool to start living on the moon. Maybe he’d come up with a way to pull the moon closer to the earth, to have it piggy-back on our gravitational field in order to build a breathable lunar atmosphere.
I don’t know much about science, but I’m not a super-genius, and I guess you’re not either, so what do we know, maybe it would work.
So the super-genius, throws a lasso around the moon or fires his space-harpoon or whatever the hell super-geniuses do before James Bond or the Tick or Superman tries to stop them, and he pulls the earth and moon closer together. Which is cool because all the earth scientists see that the super-genius was right and that the stronger moon gravity is allowing some of the earth’s atmosphere to migrate to the moon and stay put.
And everyone starts putting together their moon wardrobes for their moon trips and Fox television rushes out their moon-based reality show and all the unemployed cartographers dust off their diplomas and prepare for the new work of mapping all the new moon countries, and that guy who sells deeds to moon property gets sued by everyone who’s ever bought moon land because now that they might actually get to own some moon real estate, these people discover that their deeds to the moon land might actually be worthless.
And as the earth and moon get closer together, everyone cheers until all the earthquakes and tsunamis start to tear the world apart and then everybody screams and they run around in their Stella McCartney moon suits and cover their heads with their Burberry moon hats.
And then James Bond, the Tick and Superman join together and get that lasso from around the moon, and they capture that evil super-genius and bring him to justice.
And at his trial, the super-genius proclaims his superiority over normal humans: “Not one of you has the guts to solve the over-population problem, the oil problem, the clean water problem. Only I have the ability to save the earth. So what if a few are sacrificed?”
And because of his super genius, we do not pity him. No other human can claim to be at his intellectual level, nor to be able to understand his methods. True, some people died, maybe tens of thousands, even millions, but ultimately, the combined Moon/Earth (Morth was the popular choice for its new name, although Earthoon had its supporters) would have sustained human life for eons longer than the earth by itself.
Still, we are outraged. He killed millions. Obviously, he’s insane. And a mad super genius is a danger to us all. Also, he’s so arrogant, yet devilishly handsome, says your girlfriend. He must be locked up for good!
But in the courtroom down the hall, another man is on trial. This man is, by all definitions, an idiot. He has no education and no concept of right or wrong. He is on trial for killing a convenience store clerk over a bag of potato chips. And because of his mental deficiency, he can’t be convicted of the murder and after several months is set free to live his life and dream of the day he will build a moon house on his moon property.
So who is the super-genius now?
What the hell this has to with video games, I don’t know.
On April 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am, Astroloji wrote:
thanks you very mach