> East wrote:

> Only an englishman could have the arrogance to think his language was hard to learn; of the languages I know english has got to be the easiest one by far (including my native language), it's ridiculous how easy it is. sure you'll make a few spelling mistakes and quirky sentences but that's even normal for native speakers in any language

german is exponentially harder than english to get a decent handle on

PS ever consider that study shows british children have bad education?<

I'm sorry that you feel that my statement is arrogant, however if you take the time to google the subject you will see that what I said is well studied fact.

As for education; it takes about 2.5 years for anyone learning English, not just english children.

Commander Krg and Subcommander Erf were standing at the front of the bridge when the ships began dropping out of hyperspace, thousands upon thousands of organic looking ships making up a small armada. "Hmm, I guess this means the infant is real." Erf made no attempt to hide his surprise, "It would appear so. " Krg turned his back on the screen to address the science officer, "What information did the UEF share with us, how much of their total fleet does this represent?" The science officer's gauntleted fingers danced over the console, his bulbous eyes narrowing in concentration. "Numbers are sketchy, most of the UEF is still putting itself back together, but according to this that little fleet represents about a quarter." Erf whistled, "That's quite a commitment for one infant." Krg did not reply. "Sir?" Krg turned to him, frowing, "There's more to this." He turned back to the screen and indicated the fleet taking up orbital positions, "Look at that, they're still putting the fleet together and we've already got over ten thousand friends." Erf nodded, "It does seem a lot for one infant. Should we go over the data again?" Krg shook his head, "If I have to read their damned alphabet one more time... no, there's no way we'll know unless they tell us, and I don't think they'll tell us unless they have to." Krg turned around again, this time to address the tactical officer, "Shedule some drills, Clawship drills, I want us to be ready to board something in under thirty seconds." He turned back to Erf, "And the best way to make them tell us is st make them respect us. The only way we'll see any action is if something needs to be boarded." Erf grinned, "Or crushed indiscriminately." Krg gave a small laugh, "You have the Chair, Subcommander, I'm going to do some checking".

The mystic's dark chamber smelled strongly of incense, the air filled with a fine mist and the sound of chanting. "You wanted to see me?" Krg kneeled in the centre of the chamber, apparently alone. "We have something to show you." A voice came from the darkness, darkness which seemed to close all around him.
The darkness split and a planet emerged from the rush of light. He moved around the world to the side that was in darkness, the lights of cities picking through the swirl of cloud. A fleet was advancing on the planet, the ships formed into a attack posture. As they descended the planets defending fleet, small by comparison, turned on the world and opened fire, the tiny pinpricks of light were engulfed in fire. The defenders turned and left, seemingly rushing towards him. The last thing Krg saw was a mandibled face.
"They chose to kill their own kind than let them fall to the enemy, that I understand, but to leave? I would have torn that fleet to pieces with my bare hands." Krg hissed through his clenched fangs as he held aloft his gauntleted fists. The darkness spoke again, this time with many voices, "He is your friend".

but english is one of the most difficult languages to learn, it's up there with german.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1233-english-is-toughest-european-language-to-read.html

But Estonia had an unfair advantage over the other republics post collapse: Wine. If I remember rightly Estonia had a wine industry even during the rule of the Communist Party.

No, Gaers of War

Why, the gaymers of course

Thankyou WFS, I knew you'd bring out the big guns. I'm going to enjoy this, "Well my independent expert has supplied me with evidence that your theory is bollocks".

"Wow... had no idea that so many people here aren't straight lol... Almost makes me wonder about BW"

If I remember rightly he did have a spiffy mustashe at one time.

But what is stopping the generals from grabbing power? The other generals perhaps?
That is what the idea of in fighting is based on.
Besides, if the Kallum are still unified then the plan from part 2 has failed and we are all [tree]ed.

> Nai wrote:

> Fokker,

Pardon the pun, but you need to look "deeper" into this than what's on wiki. Though the ecosystem one is pretty decent. There are species they continually encounter they have no clue where they came from, infact, they announced like 2-3 new species a week from down there.. and have 100's more on the books... many of which they dont even know what kingdom to put them in<

I pointed you to Wiki as a starting point, as is quite clear in my post.
As for the insinuation discovering new species being proof that the theory of evolution is honk... Well I think the structure of my sentence insinuates what I think of that, and with good reason.
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> Black_Wing wrote:

> ummm....sorry, a universe appearing out of nothing....I mean ABSOLUTE Nothing, has absolutly no fact to its existance or beginning.<

That is not the theory, the universe did not come from absolute nothing, if it did all matter would be evenly distributed. You want to be looking into 'branes, bubbles and strings if you want to bash and flame the theory properly.
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> CanadianTire wrote:

> Reading Nai's post about deep sea vents, lets come up with a compromise. God (/me gags ) created little singled cells organisms near deep sea vents. He created them in the fashion as to be able to change and evolve. And they did.

The End.<

Now that would be believable. Hey, it's only a matter of time before we do it: we're already trying to make a universe!

"Evolution is also totally out the window with the deep sea vents.. that such a diversity of life can exist.. in places where vents only have been around for extremely short periods of time."

This is wrong, however an explanation would take too long as it is very complex. You can start to research what really happens here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_smoker#Black_smoker_ecosystem
Or you can ask a scientist, there are many websites where you can do this.
Or you could get a Discovery Channel DVD on the subject.

"They attacked in an attempt to retrieve the women and otherone. Since it is obvious they were important for some reason."

Or in an attempt to kill them?