Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The "Independence Day" Aliens

The environmentalcases at the Australian Broadcast Company have an online propaganda quiz for kids that compares them to pigs for living a modern lifestyle and then tells them at what age they should die to save the planet.

I'm afraid I shouldn't have survived early childhood:


"Planet Slayer."

How fitting. Because these lunatics, and that's what they are, remind me of nothing so much as the aliens from "Independence Day," particularly from the following exchange:

President Thomas Whitmore: What do you want us to do?
Captured Alien: Die. Die.
[Via Cigar Rollers]

11 comments:

  1. 1.7 Years!

    Yeah baby!

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  2. Fits right in with the UN philosphy that people are the problem. Just about everyone except UN officials and their friends and families -- and politicial cronies and donors -- in fact.
    And how much fossil fuel is burned to produce the power to run AusBC's vast electronics? How much nuclear-plant-warmed water is returned to rivers? I'm guessing they consider THAT a fair trade, in light of their planet-saving educational efforts.
    Just as they taught people that guns were the end of civilization as we know it.

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  3. I think those who wrote this crap should go first since they have obviously lived a long, fulfilled life. It is always interesting that the ones thinking earth has too many people want someone else to die. If you believe so strongly in overpopulation then show us the way by leading. Idiots!
    I pulled 3.3 yrs.

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  4. wow, child abuse as education passes the government's test in the land of criminals and dolts.

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  5. I couldn't even figure out how to answer most of their questions. I wonder how many of the planet's resources were wasted on the quiz.

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  6. "Voluntary extinction." There's an organization that recommends it, to save our furry and finned relatives. Most of whom would repay our compassion by eating our living flesh while we scream. Humans are only at the top of the food chain when in cities or while armed. Mother Nature has no special attachment to any of her children.

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  7. Just took Dr. SchTINKEE's test. Apparently I'm a low-impact person because my extended family lives with me, I have a yard where I can compost waste and I don't travel much.
    My family can't AFFORD separate homes yet, we hardly ever HAVE leftover garbage because that's wasting money we don't have because we don't get raises from our overbearing corporate masters, and I don't travel because I object to strangers groping me in the groin.
    A little concern for human quality of life and dignity would be nice.

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  8. The whole test speaks that they either think that communism or feudalism is the answer. You can "live forever" if you spend all of your money on second hand items, and giving to the "right" causes. Sounds a lot like feudal era Europe to me. At least for the peasantry.

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  9. I put in the "worst" answer for all but the last two: spent over 100,000 and 100% of spending for "green". Result: -300.7 tonnes.

    I guess it doesn't matter how "bad" you are as long as you make the appropriate "sacrifice" to the Green God.

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  10. > you used up your share of the planet

    Interesting. Who gets to decide what "my share of the planet" is, and why? And if it's different from certain other people's "share of the planet", then why?

    bob r wrote:
    > I guess it doesn't matter how "bad" you are as long as you make the appropriate "sacrifice" to the Green God.

    Hmmm....I wonder what results we'd get if we entered data based on known facts and educated guesses about the resource use of (to pick a name entirely at random) Algore?

    Mark Odell

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  11. Hmmmm.

    5.3 years.

    Here's the funny part. Last year I was a college student, driving a Honda Civic, and I adjusted the "money spent" column to include student loans.

    What the fuck do these people want?! Hell dorm life is about as communist as it gets!

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