....Ain't Life a HOOT !! Every day I am astounded.

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited March 2012 in The Clubhouse
....faster and faster....as the UNIVERSE expands.....so do we. I long for the good OLE days.

When we actually knew our neighbors and talked to them face to face. Long ago and far away.

What will be the NEXT new THING??? Transporters and Time Travel....I can only HOPE.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17221490
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,773
    edited March 2012
    I know my neighbors, and talk to them almost daily. Nicest folks I've ever met, and much better than any neighbors than I ever had back in the "good ole days".
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited March 2012
    I talk to neighbors, highly overrated. I'd rather not have any.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited March 2012
    I have great neighbors, but also consider myself lucky. In other neighborhoods I lived in, you'd wave to people and they looked at you like you were an ax murderer or somethin'.
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited March 2012
    People stay out of my business and I stay out of theirs. Especially with the crap that goes on here, some neighbors I would rather not know based on observations...
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  • Tbone289
    Tbone289 Posts: 661
    edited March 2012
    Thanks for the link! I know my neighbors and talk to them face to face, but there's quite a distance between our homes, so it's not very frequent.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2012
    Well, let's see. One of my neighbors is the college librarian so we do know her. On my other side I have an absentee landlord who has a building with two apartments in it; the turnover is almost yearly in terms of who is renting the two spaces? On the other side of the street we have a kind of extended family that includes many generations living together. Even though they really don't make much in the way of a big income they survive and sport an 8' x 12' Ron Paul for 2012 sign on their lawn. To their left, a smaller family with a Prius that looks a little like my wife's (they did notice that we were gone for a year when we lived in China '09-'10).

    We're not particularly close to any of our neighbors, but certainly friendly.

    Back to the link. Does this mean that they will be able to expand band-width and rate on non-fiber optic lines like "mine". Because there is NO way we're going to get any faster speeds than our 4-5 mbps through our normal cable lines up here? And even though I pay around 135 a month for HDTV and internet services--it will be a cold day in hell when someone decides it's worth it to install fiber-optic lines up here! I guess there's NO money in that. Not even if they "doubled" my fees to 270?

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  • Glowrdr
    Glowrdr Posts: 1,103
    edited March 2012
    I can't wait for teleporters. Getting in the car and driving for 4 hours to get somewhere fun is overrated. I don't mind the drive there, but the usually-hungover drive home sucks. lol
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2012
    dee1949 wrote: »
    ....faster and faster....as the UNIVERSE expands.....so do we. I long for the good OLE days.

    When we actually knew our neighbors and talked to them face to face. Long ago and far away.

    What will be the NEXT new THING??? Transporters and Time Travel....I can only HOPE.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17221490

    Why don't you straighten up that circus/zoo/thrift shop place of yours, and maybe your neighbors WILL want to know and talk to you.

    And if they don't, you kick around enough of that rubble you got laying around and I'll bet you come up with a couple Japanese soldiers that don't know the war is over. You can talk to them.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2012
    I have nice neighbors...they leave me alone!
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited March 2012
    I talk to my neighbors weekly out here in Japan. Even have them house sit when I'm traveling. I often times repay them with American Beer (MGD), and good ole' American food from the base grocery store ( commissary).
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited March 2012
    This might be the next Big thing !:eek:

    http://asteroidapophis.com/
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited March 2012
    dee1949 wrote: »
    ....faster and faster....as the UNIVERSE expands.....so do we. I long for the good OLE days.

    When we actually knew our neighbors and talked to them face to face. Long ago and far away.

    What will be the NEXT new THING??? Transporters and Time Travel....I can only HOPE.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17221490
    Twisting waves, eh? Sounds like we're a step closer to the TARDIS. I'm definitely first in line for one of those!
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2012
    Sherardp wrote: »
    I talk to my neighbors weekly out here in Japan. Even have them house sit when I'm traveling. I often times repay them with American Beer (MGD),

    Are you trying to start another war? :twisted:
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  • zane77
    zane77 Posts: 1,696
    edited March 2012
    I live in a pretty remote area, my nearest neighbor is 3 1/2 miles away, but I consider neighbors that live 20 miles away friends ( although they are only 6 houses down LOL). This is really a tight knit community. I know if something happened and I wasn't able to make it home for a month the dogs, cat and horses would be taken care of and I wouldn't have to worry about anything with just one phone call. Nothing like having good friends as neighbors!
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,716
    edited March 2012
    I don't talk to my neighbors, but I do have them sighted in.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited March 2012
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    I don't talk to my neighbors, but I do have them sighted in.

    Ruby Ridge ??:eek::lol:
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