Storm Area 51 Festival Canceled Because It Was a 'Possible Humanitarian Disaster' (vice.com) 96
The organizers of the Storm Area 51 festival called "AlienStock" have canceled the event in the Nevada desert, citing a "possible humanitarian disaster" associated with having people show up unprepared in an area with few amenities and little water. From a report: "Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management, and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival," a message on AlienStock's website reads. AlienStock was set up by the Facebook meme page "Storm Area 51," and was planned for the weekend of September 20 near Rachel, Nevada. The local town has been actively warning people on its website not to come, noting that many local residents are armed and would be willing to defend their property.
MiB strike again! (Score:4, Funny)
That was easy.
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It probably wasn't Tommy Lee Jones or Will Smith; but, I'm sure Lawyers in Black Suits sent by the government (reminding them of all the lawsuits that they might throw against them and hold them liable for) that struck this time.
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"They can't arrest/shoot all of us" meets "They only need to threaten the organizers"
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"They can't arrest/shoot all of us" meets "They only need to threaten the organizers"
That's why Storm Area 51 v2 needs to be organized by Anonymous Coward.
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He can't, he's too busy writing hundreds of pointless posts per day on Slashdot.
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Working on it.
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"They can't arrest/shoot all of us"
A very dubious premise; of course they can.
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If you sit and think about it for a moment... Well over 20 miles of broken Mojave desert to run across between outer fence and runway...? During daylight hours?
Pretty sure 90% of the facebook-riding crowd that actually doers show up would die of heatstroke before mile 2, let alone make it past the other 18+...
QUITTERS! (Score:2)
Come on, this isn't some half-baked pipedream like the Fyre festival!
FIGHT THE FUTURE! (oh good lord, that movie's older than these Reddit warriors...)
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Maybe the organizers should have consulted with Burning Man's organizers.
Re:QUITTERS! (Score:4)
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The fact that Area 51 is in the Mojave desert is a deterrent in itself. Most people don't want to go in a freakin' desert if they can avoid it.
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And this is a problem, why?
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This is a problem because even properly bathed dead bodies smell terrible after a short time in the desert sun. I don't even want to contemplate the stench of thousands of dead, unwashed nerd bodies baking in the heat.
Re: MiB strike again! (Score:1)
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That's not MiB, that's Staples [amazon.com].
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Just move the invasion online (Score:1)
I mean, if Lower Duck Pond [slashdot.org] is a thing, why not create a Reddit Area 51 then invade it? Unfortunately, the obvious name is taken [reddit.com].
Return the popcorn (Score:5, Funny)
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But you get to pay to live like a homeless person in the desert for a few days
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Awww. (Score:5, Insightful)
Who else is disappointed that we don't get to see hundreds of thousands of dipshits die of thirst and heat and particle weapons in the Nevada desert?
It would have been a natural disaster caused by sheer stupidity and it would have been glorious. Think the Darwin Awards on a mass scale.
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That's what they want you to think!
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You want the dank stench of bodies, while I just want to show up with a trailer full of $5 water bottles. ;)
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Six of one...
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Nah. If you can only get $5 a bottle, it means you're jumping the gun. Wait until the second day, then show up with a trailer full of $15 water bottles.
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Nah. If you can only get $5 a bottle, it means you're jumping the gun. Wait until the second day, then show up with a trailer full of $15 water bottles.
The higher you set the price, the more you increase the likelihood that someone will justify to themselves relieving you of your stock without the benefit of payment, especially if there is a large number of people in need.
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That's what the armored truck with the slot in the side is for.
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particle weapons? If by particle you mean copper jacketed lead particles pushed out of a metal tube by gunpowder then yes.
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Of course, particle weapons. You think them aliens are using six-shooters?
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I think they'd use projectile weapons at short range, yes. I don't think hand held weapon could carry capacitor or battery holding enough energy to power any laser or plasma beam that would have immediate devastating effect against bags of water with proteins (e.g. carbon based life forms). I don't think a fusion generator could exist with that size, given power requirements. Chemical energy storage in explosives that can push projectile are best at that scale.
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Dude, don't you read sci-fi? They've got antimatter guns and shit. They came all the way from Alpha goddamn Centauri. You don't think they've come up with a power source for their plasma guns that exceeds anything we've seen? They might have miniature black holes in them or some shit.
Anyway, they'd probably just blow up the humans' heads with psi energy, 'cause you know they got that.
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That's so 20th century. Surely they have something more impressive, right?
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You know, we don't always see eye to eye on everything but I like your thinking on this one.
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Particle Size (Score:2)
Some of those "particle weapons" shoot particles that are .223 or .30 inches across.
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Just because I'm a gun-grabbing lefty doesn't mean I can't enjoy watching Florida Man in his Infowars t-shirt get vaporized while marching onto a secret military base in the desert. You seem to have a very narrow view of people.
Re: Awww. (Score:1)
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Or the cows. They tend to wander out on the highway from time to time. Won't anyone think of the cows!
The aliens already do, and to a very disturbing degree [wikipedia.org], come to think of it...
Once again (Score:5, Funny)
the Darwin Awards are cheated of many possible "winners".
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If some evolve reptilian-like survival traits due to the stress of the desert and outlast the rest of us, is that an anti-Darwin Award?
Probable Humanitarian Disaster (Score:2)
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Given an adequate artificial habitat (some) humans can survive just about anywhere.
Idiots though can manage to kill themselves even in an air-conditioned apartment with all the amenities - to say nothing of when unprotected in the more human-hostile parts of the planet.
The two statements are pretty much unrelated - except to reinforce that we really shouldn't send idiots into space, except perhaps on a B-ark.
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" can survive just about anywhere."
For how long? Were are the supplies coming from? Will this make us a multi-planet species? I don't see anyone calling us a "multi-environment species" just because a few sailors can live in a nuclear submarine for a few months eating prepared supplies from the mainland.
Face it, no one is going into space like you thought we would in the 1960s. Those fantasies are as dead as beehive hairdos and vinyl go-go boots.
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Unfortunately. Short skirts and go-go boots. Mmmmmm.
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There are plenty of beehive hairdos still in the Midwest and South, and above-the-knee boots are not uncommon on the West Coast.
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Well, if you're on Mars you have most of the supplies delivered to your doorstep in the form of water and CO2 - aka the bulk building blocks of biomass, which can also be harnessed as industrial building materials (e.g. nanocellulose is relatively easy to make, and makes for a pretty good approximation of Scotty's transparent aluminum) We would have to mine trace elements, though we might be able to collect enough of most from windborn dust.
We won't be doing that tomorrow, and it'll probably be centuries b
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Yeah, you only need water and CO2 to build buildings. Space Nutter alert.
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water and CO2 - aka the bulk building blocks of biomass, which can also be harnessed as industrial building materials
Well that saves me making any more trip to the shops. Thanks for tipping me off.
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humanity is totally going to be a multi-planet species. What? We can't even survive on parts of *this* planet? Well, computers got better so we can just 3D print some stillsuits and colonize Mars. Right?
People don't die in science stations in the Antarctic, or in remote desert settlements like Alice Springs in Australia... because the people there no what to expect and have the right supply lines set up.
10,000 people going to Area 51 without proper supplies... yes they encounter problems.
If you took away all technology and/or supplies, many of us would die in temperate conditions on earth.
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"If you took away all technology and/or supplies, many of us would die in temperate conditions on earth."
In space, if you took away all technology and/or supplies, ALL OF YOU WOULD DIE IMMEDIATELY . Do you not see a difference here?
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It's completely different. The average people, like myself, could easily survive in temperate conditions.
Now if you'll excuse me, the snacks I ordered from Amazon just arrived. There was a 5% chance of rain and I really didn't want to take any chance of going outside.
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I wish I could get Cheetos droned directly into my mouth as I walk around.
Re: but don't worry (Score:1)
You can do that if you buy your own drone and a bag of Cheetos
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"If you took away all technology and/or supplies, many of us would die in temperate conditions on earth."
In space, if you took away all technology and/or supplies, ALL OF YOU WOULD DIE IMMEDIATELY . Do you not see a difference here?
Yeah.... and they would die pretty quickly in Antarctica and the desert too. You would probably die in Pennsylvania within a few weeks.
The point being, we're almost all dependent on technology and supply chains keeping us alive these days. Mars, moon, or Earth. Very few of us are truly self-sufficient or really have the skillset to survive as a primitive. The technology and supply chains to survive on the moon and Mars are obviously higher than those required to survive in Virginia, but that doesn't mea
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The people there also know the difference between no and know.
Dumbass.
Re: but don't worry (Score:1)
That's a pity (Score:1, Flamebait)
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Re:That's a pity (Score:5, Funny)
I hear the Clinton's have a secret child sex slave dungeon in the most remote point of Death Valley. Should totally storm it next July.
And bring a lot of alcohol to drink.
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Lol this guy believes Antifa exists lol lol lol
I'm burning mod points to say this. I live in Berkeley, CA and I can tell you with 100% certainty that people calling themselves Antifa exist. Its not true that they are a powerful or well organized group with any real influence but they do exist. What FoxNews says about them is almost certainly not true but they do exist and are both obnoxious and annoying. They are no more deluded than the far right. The existence of both groups says more about human psychology than about politics or anything else.
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Such a Shame (Score:2)
It really sounded like it was going to be Fyre!
Storm Area 51 Festival Canceled! (Score:2)
Links to 2 week old article saying it's happening...
Canceled? (Score:1)
If the organizers were smart... (Score:3)
... they would have found a way to fool GPS and every mapping app, and convinced both that the middle of the Area 51 facility was where the Burning Man festival was taking place... and then sat back and watched as a bunch of generally free-thinking folks well prepared to survive in the desert for a week descended on the locale en mass.
Just a thought, really.
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they would have found a way to fool GPS and every mapping app,
Whaaaaa ? Find a way to fool GPS AND every mapping app and instead of being multi-millionaires (possibly even legally), they decide to prank?
Fair enough.
Ironic title (Score:2)
Gah (Score:1)
That's what The Man wants you to think.
Is this even real ? (Score:1)
Storm Area 51 Festival (Score:1)