Nuclear missile graffiti

Should a nuclear missile have drawings on it and if yes should the themes be happy and peaceful or sad and catastrophic? Who do you think is in charge of nuclear offence design, men women or gay people? Should the design be more explicit? How can we explain the phallic shape of nuclear missiles? Is it the work of a ribald female mind or that of a lecherous gay mind? Or simply the work of the narcissist male brain?

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Predict your future by controlling future outcomes?

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 29 March 2008 by member JackSparrow

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What if we had the ability to read other people's thoughts as soon as they are conceived? Wouldn't that be a great way to control our future? Say you asked someone to do something and while they take the time to answer with a yes or no, you can know what they're thinking, what holds them back or what excites them about your request! Wouldn't that kind of knowledge give you the power to shape any future outcome to your advantage?

If you could control the way a certain outcome will play out, isn't that a better alternative to our lack of ability as humans to predict the future? If being able to predict the future is impossible, is being able to control it or at least shape its direction the next best thing to it?

There are many movies and science-fiction scenarios out there in which people can either predict the future or know it in advance. I think it would be far more interesting to have a movie or a scenario where people can read other people's thoughts and adjust their behavior based on that information and not based on advance knowledge of the future.