Oh, look! Another spammer scam on LJ!

[kali921]

There appears to be a new and quite flagitious spammer scam afoot on LJ. Ahoy, flist! Listen up and monitor your inboxes closely!

So, for the last couple of weeks I've been getting what appear to be e-mails from registered LJ users announcing that I've received an e-mail greeting card.

This is what drops into my inbox:- In the "From" field, there

Comments

[spectralbovine]

Oh my God, the Jew questions are awesomely bad. Especially your two favorites.

[kali921]

The use of the Cliff Hanger from The Price is Right had me in hysterics for a good...ten minutes.

And this:

"Ah. Damn. We were going strong until the phrase 'Jew-owned.' This whole paragraph reminds me of the mountain climber game on 'Price is Right'... this guy was just slowly and precariously climbing up the rhetoric cliff, until he finally fell off by using 'Jew-owned' as venomously as possible."

[equustel]

LOL @ the Ayn Rand flowchart. Oh that is priceless.

[kali921]

...AS IS YOUR ICON. Oh, MY.

Yes. Ayn Rand. I do not take anyone seriously who loves Ayn Rand's political philosophy and subscribes to ANY idea she had about society or politics.

[txtriffidranch]

You want another slight touch that humanity might actually be worth saving? It's the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 touchdown, and it's also the 33rd anniversary of Viking 1's touchdown at Chryse Planitia. I honestly don't remember the Apollo 11 landing, but I remember waking up early and turning on the morning news (during summer vacation, even) to see the first photos from the Martian surface.

[atomic_robo]

Have I got the (totally self-serving link to a) comic for you.

[kali921]

You know, if being the titular hero doesn't work out, Atomic Robo has an exciting career ahead of him in stone arranging for the pagan crowd.

[the_croupier]

Why did we stop going to space? I've been asking that ever since I was a child. Why did we stop exploring?

Alas, because, for Kennedy and for too many Americans, it had nothing to do with technical achievement or a sense of wonder, but everything and only to do with showing up the USSR. Once that was done, the nation's interest quickly waned, and by the mid-'70s that was it.

We should probably count ourselves lucky the Shuttle and the ISS even happened.

[kali921]

I know, I know, I know. I know the real reasons we stopped sending out manned missions: prohibitive cost, lack of political will, the cynicism produced by Watergate and the post-Vietnam fallout, bureaucracy, lack of vision, everything else.

But not everyone lost interest. My question was more rhetorical. And you know what? The way we're turning this planet into an orbiting trash can (to paraphrase Warren Ellis), we need to be out there exploring. I give this planet three hundred years tops before we make it uninhabitable. So what then? With no space program, no orbital habitats, no backup? We're so screwed.

[the_croupier]

Well, this is the crassest kind of hope to offer, but hey, look at what Moon rocks sell for. Profit!!

...Yeah, I would be pretty depressed if it was something like that that was the only way to get us back in space. But I suspect it's either going to be greed, or blind screaming terror from Gaia unleashing some serious wrath.

When it comes to a sense of wonder, we're just too outnumbered by people who have no idea.

[mr_cyn1cal]

AH! But you're forgetting! We're in the ENDER TIMES! When the INSERT MESSIAH DOOMSDAY FIGURE OF CHOICE will come to smite DA EVIL peoples (lists generally include homosexuals, liberals, unbelievers, scientists, people who wear different hats than the chosen people) and save the "CHOSEN". No need to worry about martians or whatnot!

Sorry, but I'm thinking we might not want to spread our stupid to space.

[jmatonak]

Still freaked out about my cousin's passing. Still unable to deal.

optional *hug*