Yeah, that's pretty face-palmingly bad. 
PETA says "NO!" To Super Mario's tanooki
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Actually, don't they say that V'Ger has something called "twelfth power" and that thousands, not a million, starships couldn't generate that much?
If they do say "one to the millionth" power - yeah, that's pretty freakin' stupid.
If they do say "one to the millionth" power - yeah, that's pretty freakin' stupid.
Agreed.
I heard about this over on another board I'm on and I thought it was rather silly of them to go after a pretend video character who was wearing a costume.
Not real fur.
Indeed. In the game what "evidence" is there that Mario slays the animals and uses their hide as the costume? It could be made of mushroom polymers for all we know.
And let us not forget the hypocrisy in PETA, one of their key members -and I'm sure many other members- is diabetic.
Diabetic in the sense they need insulin shots to maintain a healthy blood-sugar level.
Insulin that is derived from pig's blood.
Oh, and let us not forget they kill more animals in their shelters and homes than they save.
They deny pretty much all of medical science by claiming animals testing isn't useful in helping humans. (Even though pretty much all of medical science including cures and procedures done every day all began in animal testing.)
And they're pretty much have openly supported terrorism.
Ugh.
PETA is so full of shit.
People generally have a mistaken impression of what PETA is. They hear the phrase "ethical treatment" and think that means being nice to animals and treating them humanely like the SPCA or the Humane Society. Actually it refers to an ethical system that has its roots in the animal liberation movement. PETA has actually said they have no quarrels with the death of all domesticated animals because they feel that are an unnatural man-made concept. Their goal is pretty much a world where humans have no interaction with animals whatsoever.
Wow, I didn't know that. I learn something new.
Nah, it's better for their agenda to assume that Mario goes around and slays animals and wears their skin in order to don their essence and abilities. Mario is a sick bastard.
Now where are the naked ladies?
You want to see Mario naked?
No, we want to see Princess Peach and Daisy naked.
Wait... Did I just typed that?
No, we want to see Princess Peach and Daisy naked.
Wait... Did I just typed that?
You did. And then you saw that you had typed it, re-read it, and then chose to both keep it and comment on it
As I am a fully sentient human being, my right to exist trumps that of some bacteria (I was diagnosed after the shift from Pig and Cow derived Insulin) which is used to allow me to be alive and not dead!
Americans......
and I agree, a human life certainly does trump an animal's or even bacteria's. That wasn't my argument.
My argument was on PETA members who are insulin. They're on insulin that's either obtained from a pig pancreas or from bacteria/other methods.
But those other methods did not come from the sky, they're a product of animal testing. In fact all medical science comes from animal testing of some fashion.
So PETA members who are, well, pretty much alive are hypocrites because they're benefiting in one way or another from animal testing or some use of animals to produce something. It's impossible to operate in society today 100% free from an impact on animals. We need animals for the simple fact of making modern life possible. Without animals how do we experiment with new drugs or medical techniques without harming humans?
PETA is full of shit. They don't really want total animal liberation they simply want the appearance of it.
And none of them is willing to take the place of the animal test-subjects themselves...
I forget the exact quote-- that bit about a million starships sounds familiar-- but he definitely raised one to some exponent as if it meant something. Maybe he was just messing with Kirk.
I think most of us want to see Princess Peach and Daisy naked.
No, we want to see Princess Peach and Daisy naked.
Wait... Did I just typed that?
You did. And then you saw that you had typed it, re-read it, and then chose to both keep it and comment on it
I'm sorry, but doesn't anyone else think this sounds like an awesome idea for a Mario game?
I don't. And I really don't want to see Mario, Luigi or any of the other guys of the Mushroom Kingdom naked! BRAIN BLEACH NOW!!!I forget the exact quote-- that bit about a million starships sounds familiar-- but he definitely raised one to some exponent as if it meant something. Maybe he was just messing with Kirk.
I think most of us want to see Princess Peach and Daisy naked.No, we want to see Princess Peach and Daisy naked.
Wait... Did I just typed that?
You did. And then you saw that you had typed it, re-read it, and then chose to both keep it and comment on it
Grown-up Link, on the other hand...
I'm sorry, but doesn't anyone else think this sounds like an awesome idea for a Mario game?
We'll do a comic-book series first. I'll write it you be my artist.
I forget the exact quote-- that bit about a million starships sounds familiar-- but he definitely raised one to some exponent as if it meant something. Maybe he was just messing with Kirk.
Shran's right. It was "twelfth power" and "thousands of starships":
Interesting. I wonder if that was edited for the DVD. I know a number of changes were made for the director's cut. I could have sworn Spock said, "one to the whatever power."I forget the exact quote-- that bit about a million starships sounds familiar-- but he definitely raised one to some exponent as if it meant something. Maybe he was just messing with Kirk.
Shran's right. It was "twelfth power" and "thousands of starships":
I prefer to think that given the line states the 'energy field' is the one producing 12th power energy, that the "cloud" is a plasma field with an electromagnetic output of energy to the 12th power, and that V'ger is producing considerably more.
Like a starships warp field, if the field is say a few terrajoules, the warp reactor must be producing far more than that to produce such a powerful field.
Like a starships warp field, if the field is say a few terrajoules, the warp reactor must be producing far more than that to produce such a powerful field.
Yeah, but what to the twelfth power. One to the twelfth power is one. I remember us laughing about it when the movie first came out, and I have a vague memory of reading letters about it-- maybe in Starlog. But I can't find any reference online.
