DISCUSSION: If the Statue of Liberty were blown up tomorrow, what would you build?

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Magus

I'm not sure about exploding the fire, Premmy, can you give any details? Would it involve fireworks, for instance? This could be brought into line with current 4th of July celebrations.

Tactical Nuclear Strike, then we set the fallout on fire with lava from the volcano, which is triggered to erupt when the lightning rod is struck.

[Thadius]

I'm torn. On the one hand, I want to build a giant edifice to madness and insanity. Ia Ia and all that. Being sane is overrated!

On the other hand, I want to build some sort of monument to tolerance and coexistance because let's face it, if we could work out all the shit keeping us as a species from uniting and solving our various ecological issues, then I would be surprised and very scared. The future actually would be a bright new world. But it wouldn't do to just build a monument and not have it do anything. So I'd have to install huge banks and banks for storing data, and use them. Use them to show repeatedly how our differences are not as big as we think. I mean, gods damn. If you cut yourself, do you not bleed? If you are tickled, do you not laugh? Are you not as human as the next man? Humanity could do amazing things if it could work out its own differences.

But apparently I have three hands, because on another one, I would want to build a tower and install on top a laser of such horrifying magnitude none could challenge me.

[Premmy]

also, the fire would shoot swords every monday

[Marc v4.0]

We will spend years holding bs contests and pissing away tons of money and the site will remain as it is and no one will be happy

[Magus]

Stationary death rays are kind of overrated, though, aren't they? I mean, for one thing, one mounted on a satellite or even the moon would be far superior. There is something to say for having a death ray on our borders, though, maybe we could put one on Alcatraz island to cover the Western seaboard for example.

Well, in my haste, I kind of forgot to think about this like an Objectivist, so what I should do is carve, by hand, a statue of a perfect man and a perfect woman, and then carve the words "LIFE" into the base of it and the sheer beauty of the sheerly beautiful statue would cause people to weep at its sheer beauty.

This idea brought to you by Terry Goodkind.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

We will spend years holding bs contests and pissing away tons of money and the site will remain as it is and no one will be happy

So what you are saying is that secret and insidious and hidden Muslim symbology should be secretly-insidiously-hiddenly put into the monument?

[Premmy]

Every Year before the fire-exploding ceremony, a youth of tremendous resolve will step up, having trained his or her entire life to sing the most moving song they know whilst engulfed in flames. They will step into the fire, just before the 5:am sword firing ceremony if the Fourth of July falls on a monday, and sing until they are no more. Then we blow shit up.

[Magus]

How do you train youths to sing the most moving song while engulfed in flames, though? Would they practice next to a really hot furnace, or something?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Can we just steal Japan's life-size Gundam?

The Statue of Liberty cannon from G Gundam would be the most appropriate thing.

[Premmy]

Every october, one couple would offer themselves up to conceive the Genetically engineered pheonix/dragon babies that would feel no pain from flames(though immolation is key here, so their training will be mostly singing and focus training.). On the Fourth of July Ceremony, they'd birth the child for the following year in the fire.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Magus

So what you are saying is that secret and insidious and hidden Muslim symbology should be secretly-insidiously-hiddenly put into the monument?

In the most Socia-communist way possible