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[laszlo_jamf]

You have two choices: stay behind with carbon and hydrogen, take your lunch-bucket into the works every morning with the faceless droves who can't wait to get in out of the sunlight. Or move beyond. Silicon, boron, phosphorus--these can replace carbon, and can bond to nitrogen instead of hydrogen, move beyond life, toward the inorganic

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[greedful_cheat]

That choice is quite hard to grasp for some though. Trust me. I saw a human try it once. Let his desire run wild, went insane. He became a literal stone tomb.

[laszlo_jamf]

Cute trick.

[greedful_cheat]

You would think so, but everyone there wasn't impressed... but then again, they were all sealed away in said tomb.

[laszlo_jamf]

I hope everyone observed the Law of Conservation of Matter.

Please please please tell me someone didn't.

[sailorsamurai]

Are those the only two choices?

[laszlo_jamf]

Organic/Inorganic is pretty much the breakdown, kiddo. It either is or it isn't. It's either present or absent.

Just remember that nonexistence does not exist.

See, I'm trying to explain the essence of being, man. C'mon, man, like, the essence of being, man. Carbon, man. Carbon--

--This is so much more effective in other circumstances.

[lady_wandering]

...well, I certainly haven't missed your little pronouncements.

[laszlo_jamf]

Too bad. Maybe I've missed you not missing them.

At least we'll always have Paris.

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[gravitycalls]

Cryptic philosophy moonlighting as genuine scientific thought, that's original.

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[laszlo_jamf]

For my next paper I will write a five paragraph essay on Why I Hate Covalent Bonds.

Sound better?

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[gravitycalls]

Pure beauty.

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[laszlo_jamf]

I'll give it an academic title, though, keep me publishing and safe from perishing.

So that'll be Witty Bit Witty Bit Witty Bit: Actual Subject of Paper as Ensconced in Academic Language.

I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years: A study on the inherent weakness and fallibility of covalent bonds as related to the establishment and support of organic matter and life.

Bob Dylan is the most quoted songwriter in academic law school publications. Did you know? The Beatles are second. I skipped them both.

If only my cowboys were more interactive, I would have them sing at him again. 8(

[bakurakrazie]

I get the idea that most people are more familiar with gold.

[laszlo_jamf]

We're talking Timelessness and Strength here. Not stocks and bonds.

I can't think of anything much more frail than cash money.

[bakurakrazie]

Yes, yes, and for everything else, there's MasterCard. I was more thinking along the lines of the symbol for gold also being able to stand for alternate universe. Which is something us guests are fairly familiar with, given the situation.

Rice paper. You've gotta be careful with that stuff.

[laszlo_jamf]

Cute. Isn't it nice when acronyms cross?

Well, I wouldn't bind my research reports in it.