Philosophical Ramblings.

[Bullet Magnet]

If they were solid ice, they would wobble, crack, sunder and crash into Saturn. But the rings are almost nothing at all. You could fly through them and not encounter a single fragment of dust.

[MeechMunchie]

But they look solid so they must be solid

They're handles, I say, handles

LaLaLa I can't heeaar you

[Manco]

The rings are a metaphor for our fragmented and immaterial existence.

Also your sex life.

[Bullet Magnet]

The can't be, the rings exist.

[Nepsotic]

They are there, we see them because of how dense the fragments are, but they're extremely small, and there's millions of them.

[STM]

If they were solid ice, they would wobble, crack, sunder and crash into Saturn. But the rings are almost nothing at all. You could fly through them and not encounter a single fragment of dust.

They are there, we see them because of how dense the fragments are, but they're extremely small, and there's millions of them.

Hah.

[Nepsotic]

Aren't we making the same point? I was saying they're really, really, really, really small, wasn't that what BM was saying? If he meant they were literally nothing, then it would be impossible to see them, and you can see them, so they're small, densely packed particles. Like dust in sunbeams.

Right?

[Bullet Magnet]

My point was that they aren't densely packed at all.

[Mr. Bungle]

If they're almost nothing at all, what makes them visible to us?

[STM]

How comes we do seem them then? Generally intrigued here.

[Wings of Fire]

How comes we do seem them then? Generally intrigued here.

Because light reflects off 3*(10^19)kg of assorted shit orbiting around Saturn and those rings are REALLY FUCKING BIG.

[Scraby]

Saturns rings consist out of billions of fragments from a crushed moon,some as small as ice cubes,some as large as houses,and some are just f*king BIG.

[Manco]

And yet none can quite match the size of STM’s ego.

[STM]

...that seemed somewhat uncalled for.

[Manco]

I agonised over whose name to put there. In the end it was an arbitrary choice.

What I’m saying is that everyone has a huge ego.

[Varrok]

I don't have a huge ego. That's how modest and better person I am.

[Nepsotic]

Saturns rings consist out of billions of fragments from a crushed moon,some as small as ice cubes,some as large as houses,and some are just f*king BIG.

See, we were all wrong!

[MeechMunchie]

Could've been a comet trail or summat.

Because light reflects off 3*(10^19)kg of assorted shit orbiting around Saturn and those rings are REALLY FUCKING BIG.

To demonstrate 'Doubtfire's "Lots of little shiny things look like one big shiny thing" Principle', or DLolstllabstP:

[Wings of Fire]

Also this

[STM]

Pweety. What are all the lights east of Scotland, though? Oil rigs?

[Manco]

Probably heathen bonfires or some shit.

[skychase2rebirth]

Could've been a comet trail or summat.

To demonstrate 'Doubtfire's "Lots of little shiny things look like one big shiny thing" Principle', or DLolstllabstP:

LOL, seems everybody turned off the lights in the Kingdom of boredom ;P , i'm going back to watch my hairs grow now....

[STM]

Probably heathen bonfires or some shit.

So, it's Shaman's doing?

[Nepsotic]

That would explain why he hasn't visited for some time.

[OANST]

Is this about philosophy still?

[Wings of Fire]

Was it ever?

[OANST]

I honestly don't know.

[MeechMunchie]

Can a thread created for philosophical discussion still be considered a "philosophy thread" if nobody asks any searching questions?

[OANST]

Well, it's a philosophy thread now.

[Bullet Magnet]

Can a thread created for philosophical discussion still be considered a "philosophy thread" if nobody asks any searching questions?

Not even then, if any of them get answered.