The Government is showing the early signs of "getting" the internet. This could get interesting.
This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
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#32Now that they write a joke response to a joke petition, it would be nice to see a serious response to a serious petition.
There's apparently at least 96 responses so far. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses Is 96 the real number? Since the search bar always says 'featured responses'. When you click the bottom bar to see more responses it does some delayed-JS-scroll action and shows all of 8 more results. Unless you're really trying to increase the drop-off rate on each click, why make it so crappy? How many sites set their pagina…
>Good PR
Is it? It seems to lead to a lot of discontent when petitions don't get the response people want.
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#33"The Administration does not support blowing up planets." I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
"Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. "You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. "Fools. "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-ol…
I think when people say "destroy the Earth" they are talking more about it's habitability than what a Death Star can do.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's apparently at least 96 responses so far. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses Is 96 the real number? Since the search bar always says 'featured responses'. When you click the bottom bar to see more responses it does some delayed-JS-scroll action and shows all of 8 more results. Unless you're really trying to increase the drop-off rate on each click, why make it so crappy? How many sites set their pagina…
>Good PR Is it? It seems to lead to a lot of discontent when petitions don't get the response people want.
Perhaps only in the larger umbrella. As in, "we have a site where you can sign petitions, and if you get 25k signees, you are guaranteed a response".
It sounds good in theory. But nobody in proportion to the general population is actually using it (much less heard about it), so it's just a cutesy PR move at this point.
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#35Wait, is private industry really going to put a human on the moon this decade?
Somehow that feels like vaporware.
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#36"The Administration does not support blowing up planets." I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
So many things to say, but really not the right forum. Sigh. I laughed at this, it's a fun and smart response targeted to a sub-community that barely broke the threshold to get that response. But let's be real. If your standard of 'blowing up the planet' is somewhat lesser than 'the Republicans'...it might make you feel better to say it but history shows both of them are plenty happy dropping bombs for no justifiable…
I am afraid that history doesn't show that we wage wars "for no justifiable reason".
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. "You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. "Fools. "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-ol…
I think when people say "destroy the Earth" they are talking more about it's habitability than what a Death Star can do.
Indeed they are, which is why I asked about _that_ on Quora some time ago:
http://www.quora.com/Is-it-technically-possible-for-current-...
Solving it quite literally requires boiling the ocean.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. "You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. "Fools. "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-ol…
I think when people say "destroy the Earth" they are talking more about it's habitability than what a Death Star can do.
Well, it recovered pretty well after a 6 mile wide rock going millions of miles per hour hit it right in the face and cause one of the biggest extinction events in its history.
If that didn't destroy its habitability for good, I'm not sure we'd be able to do it.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think when people say "destroy the Earth" they are talking more about it's habitability than what a Death Star can do.
Well, it recovered pretty well after a 6 mile wide rock going millions of miles per hour hit it right in the face and cause one of the biggest extinction events in its history. If that didn't destroy its habitability for good, I'm not sure we'd be able to do it.
> "If that didn't destroy its habitability for good, I'm not sure we'd be able to do it."
But we sure can make it a lot more miserable to live on.
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#40Wow! I never expected a C3PO division of NASA!