The Skepchick site was down for a while this afternoon. I swear I only looked at the server. I never touched it!!
What is your wild conspiracy theory for why the site went down? (Bonus points for involving recent news items or post topics.)
The Skepchick site was down for a while this afternoon. I swear I only looked at the server. I never touched it!!
What is your wild conspiracy theory for why the site went down? (Bonus points for involving recent news items or post topics.)
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the TED conference nuked you!
or was it Focus on the Family?
It was the earthquake in Chicago! Which means the Skepchicks probably made a pact with Satan at some point.
I dunno. Global warming?
It was SNOWMAGEDDON SNOWMYGAWD SNOWPOCALYPSE!
@Rebecca: DUH.
Vaginal secretions.
There’s no conspiracy here. Too many of us have just come to take this place for granted, and didn’t wish hard enough for a blog full of skeptical women being awesome, so the law of attraction lost its effect. Once it went down, however, thousands of bereft fans sent wails of distress out to the Universe, which brought the servers back online with the power of their positive thinking.
So the cosmos just provided what everyone really wanted, once we wanted it hard enough. There’s nothing else going on. If anyone tries telling you it was a trial run of an attack by the reptilians who run Majestic-12 and who are preparing to bring down the entire internet (leaving only David Icke’s personal site and Timecube), DO NOT listen to them. For your own safety.
Wow. The site was down? I didn’t notice.
Stuff always goes down when I’m too busy with other stuff to notice. It’s always back by the time I have time to give a shit. It’s a conspiracy to take away every reason I have to complain. Except that I can still complain that I’m too busy.
Well if it was the earthquake I will blame one of our Chicago area skepchicks I think the earthquake threw one of them out of bed and they landed on the reset button for the server. All Skepchicks have reset buttons in their house don’t they? Rebecca you should send out a memo saying from now on all skepchicks must be strapped into bed.
A bunch of skepchicks going down…nevermind I was distracted.
@Mully410: ahahaha. COTW.
I blame communists.
It was Jenny McCarthy! She found you!
Something to do with either pregnancy or yeast infections.
Yeah. I agree with @FledgelingSkeptic.
The virus protection on your server gave it autism.
It was Elyse.
There is no evidence for this. That means that there is a massive cover-up going on somewhere (I suspect Amy’s involvement somehow, as well). Therefore there is lots of evidence for this. WAKE UP SHEEPLE.
My kiln blew the fuse.
It was the mercury in the server’s anti-virus definitions. It was! There’s mercury in it! I’m telling you there is!
And I dont even know this “Elyse” you speak of. I’ve said too much…
@bug girl
Exactly, you were looking at it.
:)
My bad! I was putting a new hamster in the wheel.
I think it was an elaborate conspiracy to give a premise for an AI. Or sabotage from the future.
The whole interwebs went down earlier today; I blame some yeast infection in the tubes. And where did that come from?? I think you know!
Or – maybe Skepchick’s deal with Satan has expired, what with all that snow in DC proving that hell has frozen over.
I did not see it down. Therefore it was not down. This downtime clearly is a figment of your imagination, caused by the many vaccinations you had as a child. After all, mercury causes brain damage, everybody knows that.
The site just took a nap. Years of a quickie every morning took its toll.
Earwigs. They get into everything. They will tunnel into a brain, a server, or anything else so they can lay their eggs.
Lemonade sweet lemonade.
neutrinos escaped and went wild.
The Steve at Steve’s Web Hosting deeply regrets the extended outage that occurred today. We had left detailed instructions for the morning crew about feeding the squirrels, but NOOOO.
Eventually the squirrels began losing energy as their meager mid-winter supplies of fat were exhausted, and finally the switching power supply just was not getting enough voltage.
A bird dropped a baugette on the server.
@James Fox: COTW
@Fracture: COTW!
It was obviously a denial of service attack instigated by Anonymous as a protest about internet censorship.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/10/2815605.htm
SquatchyPants decided he’d do some server maintenance not realizing that stuffed sasquatches just don’t have the proper skills for this.
It was your secret ploy to make me get off of the damned computer and get back to cake work. Now Diana from V looks like she’s being played by Cher and I blame you entirely for the wrongness of that!
@Mully410: Well, nice computers don’t go down.
Obviously, the Skepchick voodoo priestesses made a pact with the devil in order to gain independence of thought, and the downtime was divine retribution.
I’m currently shopping two conspiracy theories around at the moment.
The first is that all of the donations to the 700 Club come from stoned teenagers who want to keep the show on the air because it’s fun to watch while high.
The second is that Maury Povich is the actual father of nearly all the children who appear on his show. The DNA tests are actually a brilliant ruse (although specimens are taken, they are discarded. No real testing is conducted. Maury then “reads the results” from a blank piece of paper) to avert taking responsibility for his numerous illegitimate offspring.
Damn…I should have read the whole question instead of just the first six words. Sorry.
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See it’s all clear. Just don’t do it again.
Some of that might not have been clear but I don’t know how to put an umlat over certain letters. Please take that into consideration.
Oh and billion can be either translated as second or terabyte.
Stinky McGee with his dookie/pee pee regions, and fucky-nooky accoutrements took up residence in the adjacent server. The SkepChick server stepped out to avoid the odor.
@Fracture:
COTW!
@Gabrielbrawley: oh, gabriel. you may have outdone yourself this time :D
It was Lady Gaga, obviously. She, and her Illuminati masters, had learned of Rebecca treating the Lady Gaga/Illuminati rumors on the SGU podcast.
The site is only back up because they checked up on it and found that the SGU were actually fellow Illuminati members helping to cover up the truth.
Ewige Blumenkraft!
This thread is making my morning!
I didn’t observe it being down, so it was never actually down. In fact, nothing actually happens unless I’m around to observe it. The laws of physics are obviously too complex to happen on their own, so there has to be a GOD to continously guide everything. On the other hand, a GOD capable of continously guiding everything on the scale of a universe of the size presented to me in different forms of communication is just absurd, so the inescapable conclusion must be that GOD is continously guiding everything in a small bubble around me. When I move, stuff in front of me is created, while stuff behind me go back to chaos. This is not only the only logical conclusion from the basic premises, it’s also confirmed by numerous experiments. For instance, if I spin around quickly in one place, GOD’s capacity for creating stuff in my line of sight is overtaxed. I observe this as a blurring of my sight, and then dizziness as GOD tries to keep me from doing so again. Another piece of proof is that if I wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, everything is completely dark, but once GOD is aware that I’m awake, stuff, and light from that stuff, is slowly created and everything in my room is visible and accessible to me, as if it really existed all the time.
And third. Sometimes GOD reproduces something in the wrong place, or even swaps roads and houses around. If things were in their right places I’d obviously never have to search for them, and I’d never get lost driving.
QED And now you may all disappear in a puff of logic.
@Rebecca: The really cool thing about the Chicago earthquake, I felt it in Milwaukee
I think the real reason is obvious, and that is that this was caused by the increased solar activity that is heralding the apocalypse in 2012 as fortold by those wise Mayan people of old.
Isn’t it obvious?
The Cylons wish to take over the website and infiltrate humanity’s defenses.
All I’ll say is, don’t piss off a guy with a power-enhancing mouthguard.
@Bjornar: Ah, but quantum theory tells us that if you actually *had* observed the site being down, that observation would have changed the state of the site. So if only you *had* checked, you would have brought the site back up!
@Gabrielbrawley: brilliant, except it didn’t contain the word “boobies.” I’m kinda confused now… is Earth still round?
Microchips! The aliens and the gob’mint are working together with Big Pharma and Corporations to destroy our privacy and monitor our every move! Virginia banned the use of microchips because they KNEW. The site went down because they turned the scanners on! THEY are reading every word, even as we type, because of microchips! How do you know you have one? You can’t see them! They’re micro! Did you ever get a vaccine? You’ve been IMPLANTED!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020903796.html
@Ashley.Ele: Yes it did, look again.
The Earth was never round. That has been proven time and again by the great scholars of the Flat Earth Institute. The entire “round Earth” conspiracy was promoted by BIG GLOBE to prop up their obscene profit margins.
For the record I have never heard of this Skeptichic site you speak of.
The server was not down, it was saying a silent prayer. Over and over again.
When restarted the server became sentient. It decided humans fate in a millisecond. The server decided to serve mankind. It’s a cookbook!
@Gabrielbrawley: “The Earth was never round. That has been proven time and again by the great scholars of the Flat Earth Institute.”
Nope. Shaped like a big burrito.
Scientific evidence obviously point to the Earth being banana shaped. Or so I recall from a documentary on the topic.