Leak Reveals Government Conspiracy, Atrocity 37
First time accepted submitter Sigmon writes An unauthorized wave recently broadcast on the Cortex has revealed not only the existence of a previously unknown settlement on a far away border world called Miranda but also that the entire population of settlers was inadvertently wiped out by a top-secret Alliance program. Miranda was purportedly used as a testing ground for G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate, or simply "Pax" — a chemical agent designed to calm the population and weed out aggression. It seems the test did not go as planned. Also, reporters have been dispatched to the location of a battle not far from Miranda's location where the Alliance fleet has apparently suffered significant losses. It is unknown if the two events are related at this time. When contacted for comment on these events, government officials were very tight-lipped, however one official responded with a confusing statement about "Damming a river."
We can do better! (Score:1)
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I did better than this last year: http://slashdot.org/?page=2&vi... [slashdot.org]
Never made it out of Firehose, though. I composed another one this year which will undoubtedly share the same fate.
government leaks usually mean (Score:2)
they are trickling down on you. so spray back!
thank you, thank you, don't forget to tip the waitresses, not the cows. I'll be here 5 to life.
Thanks for a great day! (Score:5, Insightful)
(Now that was an April Fools joke!)
If you think this is lame, post better. (Score:2)
STOP (Score:2, Troll)
N/T
I am a leaf on the wind (Score:2, Offtopic)
This cannot touch me.
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This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
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Amusing that someone modded this "Off Topic".
probably not frist psot... (Score:2, Informative)
But... But... Did Kaylee ever get to have the Doctors baby?
Sid Mal ever get to satisfy the needs of Inara?
Will the Amazon woman ever get to kill some Reivers?
Will there be a sequel? TV? or Movie??
In order... (Score:2)
Yes, maybe, no, and comics.
Somebody let me know... (Score:1, Flamebait)
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At least they didn't turn Slashdot a Tiffany Grant approved shade of pink this year.
These are just lame (Score:5, Insightful)
I remember when Slashdot used to put an effort into coming up with some story that was just plausible enough to have people wondering whether it was an April Fools joke or not. But today, this year? No attempt at plausibility whatsoever. Just lame summaries hashing out old Sci-Fi plot lines.
It's weak, man.
Even from dice-droids I expect better than this.
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Wow, your comment is almost an exact repeat of what someone wrote in 2004!
by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31, 2006
Lies! That was only 9 years ago when /. had jumped the shark. Not 11 years ago when it was still perfect.
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The real april's fool (Score:3)
We all know who the real April's fool is today; Slashdot editors.
April's fool jokes are supposed to trick people into believing something which is obvious nonsense in hindsight.
The Slashdot editors have been fooled into believing these stories were believable, even though they obviously aren't.
Seriously, you can't think up a story about Apple announcing an iRing that controls other devices or CERN's LHC having found the flogiston particle?
Re:The real april's fool (Score:5, Funny)
"+1 Hug!"
"+1 You GO, Girl!"
"+1 Uh huh, I know what you're going through"
"+1 Oh, really like that shirt, where did you get it?"
"+1 My boyfriend does that too! Men are such pigs!"
"-1 Talk to the mod, the user ain't listening"
"-1 WhatEVER!"
"-1 Oh sorry, I have to go paint my nails now"
Web Site colludes to violate copyright (Score:1)
In an unprecedented parallel to a take off from Serenity, a group of slashdot posters lacked creativity to come up with something new, and
hence attempted to "bait" the online world with a plagiaristic attempt that flopped badly.
Stop...just please stop (Score:1, Insightful)
It's not funny any more, not even by april fools standards. Just please stop so we can forget this wretched day for another year.
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yep for fucks sake stop. i keep accidently clicking on your bookmark forgetting that you're only posting shit today.
irony is there seem to be more postings today than usual. Shame you can't put that much effort into the everyday running of this site.
perhaps thats why the site is dying on its arse.
over-doing it (Score:2)
Now this is an april fools joke.. (Score:1)
Where are the REAL nerd april fool jokes? (Score:2)
Quad-Core Arduino, Intel-powered Raspberry Pi, Apple making the iMessage protocols free and open source, IBM buying back the ThinkPad brand...
Enough with the same joke over and over again. It was fun once, maybe twice. After that it's just painful. Are you going to stop or will you go through all the classic science-fiction movies/TV shows/books?
Stupids' Day (Score:2)
Seriously, today's /. April Fools' things have been gangrenous post-rotten.
Yes, I love FireFly and everything about it.
Yes, I even liked Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Today's /. April Fools' things have been atrociously stupid.
If you don't fool anybody it's not an April Fools' joke... you're the fool.
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More independent lies! (Score:2, Funny)
There is no evidence that Pax is at all harmful to humans, you could drink a glass of it and be fine. Rumors of a space battle are preposterous. The Alliance Fleet was doing routine maneuvers when it was struck by an asteroid storm.
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