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orin stepanek wrote:I drink coffee all day! I drank it since I was 5 years old; so I won't quit now. ...

Won't, or can't??

sh sh.. I was just told by aliens that 200 Supernova's occurred within ten years over 4 millon years ago in the Pin Wheel :D I like the way we talk about what just happened; like this newly found Supernova. Just to think what's happened since.. We can settle this. I checked the data logs of the SWI...

Can you identify any?

Why, yes....I can.

BTW - if'n ya ain't seen or heard, & you're a coffee lover, stock up now! Bad harvest now 3 years running -- prices have been going nuts, and it's not looking any better for the forseeable future.

\He said from behind his 11 cans of Black Silk bought a month ago.

Oh! I worked out the protection some 20 years ago.
Ice suit, with air bubble inside.

In the presentations I used to give at our local planetarium, one of them focused on the speed of light & vastness of space. For the ending of that particular show, I used the line: "I mentioned the Andromeda galaxy earlier - and that it's the farthest object we can see with the naked eye. ...

Wild thinking here but what would it take for someone to get launched from the iss to earth using a parachute?

A lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-t of beer.

"Lesson number one, Giordano Bruno. When the Sun is up in the sky, you don't see any stars."

You can with a telescope.
And even with the naked eye, for that matter.....but only one good long look is allowed.

\just sayin'...

2 slices toasted whole wheat with cashewbutter, thin layer o' blackberry jam, w/ teaser spot of orange
marmalade ri-i-i-i-ght in da middle, & mug o' Black Silk coffee.

\major miam miam
\\jazzhands

Rusty Brown in Canada wrote:The moon does not sink in the east at dawn. It rises.
Same as the sun.

This.

i donut know about that but......I heard there was these two cannibals eatin' a guy they caught, & one, enjoying a leg, looked over at the other'n & asked "How's your leg?", & the other'n replied, "Oh it's great - I'm havin' a ball!"

An astronomer goes on an expedition to Africa to observe a total eclipse of the sun, which will only be observable there, but he's captured by cannibals. The eclipse is due the next day around noon. To gain his freedom he plans to pose as a god and threaten to extinguish the sun if he's not released...

neufer wrote:

owlice wrote:

neufer wrote:
So...what's with the snowfall in the background

That's not snow... it's a waterfall.

But why is it that rain drops, but water falls?

Some would say gravity....some would say it's just that the world sucks.

While I marveled at the engineering invested in Spirit & Opportunity, one thing I thought conspicuously absent was a means of cleaning dust off the solar panels, particularly since they fully expected that to be an operational hazard, possibly even eventually fatal to their survival. In my mind,...

'Cuz ya'd look pretty dumb cutting it up then trying to cut it down's what I figger.
But I never could figger why they got Interstate Hiways in Hawaii.

Beyond wrote:Ya know why Robbie disapproves? Because afterwards, he got Lost in Space.

But why is it that rain drops, but snow falls?

neufer wrote:If Cady & Ian had switched places there would have been less of a hair problem.

In space, no one can hear you scream, so they say
And in zero-grav, every day is a dreadfully bad hair day.


\cue 'Sonata in F for Floating Flutes'
\\top THAT, Tull!

owlice wrote:... and I lose my internet connection, can anyone hear me scream?

If a man speaks in a forest but no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

A female of the species homo sapiens was the possesor of a small immature ruminant of the genus ovis, the outer most covering of which reflected all wavelengths of visible light with a luminosity equal to that mass of naturally occurring microscopically crystalline water. Regardless of the translat...

Beyond wrote: Why are they always named Maxmilian?

Robbie disapproves.

Bu-u-u-ut....speakin' of earlier inspirations:

A Black Hole is a tunnel at the end of the light. *Ba bump bump*

A neutrino walks into a bar . . . and keeps right on going. *Bump tssssh*

And entropy? ........ just ain't what it used to be.

As the ol' saying goes....that'ns so old, first time I heard it I's too young to laugh, so I just rolled over, 'wet' my diapers & kicked the slats out of the end of my cradle.
*LOL*

Axed & answered....but no. The BH had 2 Max's, actually....star Maximilian Schell & of course, the big bad bot everybody was afraid of and was red, not black. (And which always made me wonder why the Mad Dr. needed so many bodyguard/security forces in a ship both lost, and perched on the edg...

It's a crying shame, but when you consider how long the rovers were designed to last and how long they have actually lasted, the mission is one of the most resounding successes in human engineering history. RIP Spirit. This! But, the Moon ?!? -1 "Missed it, by that much!" ~M. Smart *LOL* ...