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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 28, 2025 [Doof]
Howdy Hordelings, and a good Tuesday evening to you all! Many thanks to scampydog for handling last night's ONT duties. My turn back behind the wheel -- Let's see what's in the mixed bag of fun and interesting stuff tonight.
Calling All Hordelings
The Horde has a vast amount of knowledge. Some of the most insightful things and also some of the most obscure things I've ever heard or learned have come from the fine folks here at AOSHQ. So which of you will take a crack at this? Indian Governor Offers $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decipher This 5,300-year-old Writing System
An Indian state governor has offered a $1 million reward to anyone who can prove definitively they’ve deciphered the script of the Indus Valley Civilization. One of the oldest urban societies in history, the Indus Valley, or Harappan people began building settlements in the Indus River Valley in Pakistan/India 5,500 years ago. They left behind a script and language that have yet to be deciphered, and M.K. Stalin, the Chief Minister (equivalent to a US governor) of Tamil Nadu, has offered a massive bounty to any codebreakers who are able to do so. *** Numerous efforts by linguistic scholars have been made to try and gain some understanding of how to read the language, but all have failed. According to the BBC, many modern IT workers and AI pioneers are contacting the government of Tamil Nadu claiming they have cracked to code, so to speak, but scholars are doubtful machine learning and algorithms alone can make any headway. The total research base is around 4,000 inscribed or stamped artifacts of pottery, sandstone, and copper, consisting of around 68 symbols. Most of these bear only very brief inscriptions—between 5-6 characters—with the single longest measuring 34 symbols. Does this brevity mean the Harappan script is logographic such as Chinese or Egyptian hieroglyphics? Some have attempted to link Harappan to Sumerian, or even more obscure writing systems like proto-Elamite, but according to scholars publishing around the turn of the 21st century, there’s as yet no substantial connection between Harappan and anything else.
Recycle and Reuse
Coolest thing you'll see today!
Creating bowls from old skateboards. 🛹
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Conflicting Perspectives
Which of these do you more identify with?
Option A: Get 'er done!
Option B: Slow your roll!
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (Mission STS-51-L), when the shuttle’s seven astronauts were killed by an explosion. The Challenger 7 Crew included Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis and Judith Resnik. On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. *** The disaster resulted in a 32-month hiatus in the shuttle program and the formation of the Rogers Commission, a special commission appointed by United States President Ronald Reagan to investigate the accident. The Rogers Commission found NASA’s organizational culture and decision-making processes had been key contributing factors to the accident, with the agency violating its own safety rules. NASA managers had known since 1977 that contractor Morton-Thiokol’s design of the SRBs contained a potentially catastrophic flaw in the O-rings, but they had failed to address this problem properly. NASA managers also disregarded warnings from engineers about the dangers of launching posed by the low temperatures of that morning, and failed to adequately report these technical concerns to their superiors.
In case you never saw it, or maybe, like your humble host, you just appreciate seeing and hearing Ronaldus Maximus - here is President Regan's speech to the nation after the disaster.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 09:58 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 28, 2025 09:59 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 09:59 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Dr. T at January 28, 2025 09:59 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 28, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 28, 2025 10:01 PM (MsrgL)
Let's see...break out the wheel...
"Drink...more...Ovaltine."
Where's my million?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 28, 2025 10:01 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 28, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 28, 2025 10:02 PM (lUFok)
But I get the box of condoms, and it still quite full.
Weeks later, a furtive knock on the door. "Lloyd! You awake?"
"Yeah."
"I know you have a box of condoms."
"Sure, but they aren't free."
"Fine, I'll pay you back."
And so it was that everyone on 6 North knew that if you needed a condom RIGHT NOW, Lloyd - something of a shut-in, to be sure - was there to sell you one on reasonable terms, even offering credit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: caf at January 28, 2025 10:02 PM (/+mVZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2025 10:02 PM (NtUSo)
Hmmm. I'd take a crack at it, but I don't want to suddenly disappear and then get airbrushed out of all the photos.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 28, 2025 10:03 PM (lHPJf)
==
And so it was that everyone on 6 North knew that if you needed a condom RIGHT NOW, Lloyd - something of a shut-in, to be sure - was there to sell you one on reasonable terms, even offering credit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Oh, now you *really* have to attend at least one MoMee this year.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 28, 2025 10:03 PM (NtUSo)
It says "bull."
It's right there in the picture. Duh.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:03 PM (DgGvY)
An Indian state governor has offered a $1 million reward to anyone who can prove definitively they’ve deciphered the script of the Indus Valley Civilization.
====
As a polyglot I am confident those tiles read,
"That's the fact, Jack."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:04 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 28, 2025 10:04 PM (mq091)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 28, 2025 10:04 PM (CHHv1)
Easy to do. They live below see level.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 28, 2025 10:05 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: davidt at January 28, 2025 10:05 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (QAkQ3)
Then their drummer, Pat Mastelotto, moved on to do this:
https://youtu.be/mJt0MNSDgdA
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (OS4gH)
it is Blue Monday, but I can't remember the act
Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (D7oie)
96 Please excuse my tardiness. The eels in my hovercraft were especially troublesome.
Posted by: That's A Moray! at January 27, 2025 10:26 PM (G5+As)
Bravo! Well done. Keep up the great work.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 28, 2025 10:08 PM (mq091)
WATER! The state rules some. The Feds. rule some.
But what no one speaks of... a few Billionaires that own ALOT!
And they lean DEOMCRATE.
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:08 PM (pggNd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (OS4gH)
You ever light a condom on fire? They burn like napalm. Never get romantic near the candles.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 28, 2025 10:08 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 28, 2025 10:08 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (D7oie)
Got ya covered at 23
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: eleven at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (D7oie)
Use scented glue.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
My ancestors sold hundreds of 'em from roadside kiosks to travelers.
Posted by: Some Rat at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (MGB5H)
Platinum membership awaits. Just need a valid credit card for the auto-renewal after the first week. You can cancel any time. And ignore the bourbon purchases on your credit card.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (uACWf)
Wow. I was home sick with the 'flu when the shuttle went up, saw it in real time, and that speech was amazing.
No wonder he carried 49 states.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: mindful webworker - first (comment of the night) at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (Wp9EI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (OS4gH)
If there's one thing the Palis excel at, it's finding ways to cause destruction.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (lHPJf)
Unless they find a Rosetta stone with the Indus language side by side with a known language they'll only be guessing with a translation.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (3wi/L)
"How now brown cow (or bull?) drinketh from water fountain."
I sadly saw the end of Challenger from our backyard on the Space Coast with toddler sons. S shape. We were probably 40mi south of the launch on the Atlantic.Cold that day and why they should not have launched (I think?).
Thanks for remembering them. Sad day for the USA.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (gi+MR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:06 PM (OS4gH)
If there's one thing the Palis excel at, it's finding ways to cause destruction.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (lHPJf)
Well, the way their population has exploded the last couple of decades, they sure aint usin em for birth control.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 28, 2025 10:11 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 28, 2025 10:08 PM (l3YAf)
---
No, and I also wouldn't wave the spear next to an open flame with a raincoat on.
Tell us about your experience, "stumpy."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:11 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 28, 2025 10:12 PM (mq091)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
You didn't screw them over. A man among men!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
Wow. I was home sick with the 'flu when the shuttle went up, saw it in real time, and that speech was amazing.
No wonder he carried 49 states.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Totally agree. Reagan's nickname of "The Great Communicator" was well earned.
I highly recommend the Reagan movie starring Dennis Quaid. He did an outstanding job of portraying Ronnie.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:12 PM (uACWf)
Won't spoil the translation for others but it says something about the perils of the barrel.
Posted by: TRex at January 28, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
I knew there was no way I'd be first with the Ovaltine joke.
h/t BeckoningChasm on the obvious. 😛
Posted by: mindful webworker - second (comment of the night) at January 28, 2025 10:13 PM (Wp9EI)
Posted by: Ralph at January 28, 2025 10:13 PM (TysyT)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 28, 2025 10:04 PM (CHHv1)
I hear you. A political victory doesn't automatically mean life doesn't still suck.
Posted by: Always darkest before it goes pitch black at January 28, 2025 10:14 PM (URPBf)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 28, 2025 10:14 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 28, 2025 10:14 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
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LOL, but I was actually quite popular. The condoms were free, so charging a buck or two was nothing for a guy in a pinch.
Or wanting to get into a pinch.
I'll be quiet now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:14 PM (ZOv7s)
"Feed your bull lots of grain in a bowl, but be sure to top it with bacon."
"Also have a variety of steel targets on your farm, to keep up your shooting skills in case any Thuggees come to try and steal your bull."
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (7MHHr)
Always liked that song. It's sad and melancholy. A very good video. Also, not the original video for the song (I think )but I prefer this one. Lots of shots of Northern England and Pennsylvania as the steel industry declined.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Reforger at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (xcIvR)
Won't spoil the translation for others but it says something about the perils of the barrel.
Posted by: TRex at January 28, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
Hmm. I was thinking it was an ancient ancestor of John Landis saying "See you next Wednesday".
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Dr. T at January 28, 2025 10:10 PM (lHPJf)
Well, the way their population has exploded the last couple of decades, they sure aint usin em for birth control.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 28, 2025 10:11 PM (QAkQ3)
Worst. Genocide. Ever.
Posted by: Doesn't mean what they think it means at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (URPBf)
No marigolds in the promised land...
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow...
Any man left on the Rio Grande...
Is the king of the world
As far as I know I know...I know
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (pggNd)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 28, 2025 10:14 PM (bA75n)
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Check with the cruisers and frigates. Not as much capacity, but a little faster.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (G5+As)
Pretty result.
Kinda reminds me of making a toothpick from a giant redwood, though.
🌲
Posted by: mindful webworker - third (comment of the night) at January 28, 2025 10:17 PM (Wp9EI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (7MHHr)
"OP is a fag"
Posted by: 4chan's grandcestor at January 28, 2025 10:17 PM (URPBf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:17 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:17 PM (Gol0p)
it is Blue Monday, but I can't remember the act
Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2025 10:07 PM (D7oie)
Be good to know how he got all that considered abrasive off the decks so not to ruin his tools.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 28, 2025 10:18 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: mindful webworker
I'm surprised it wasn't literally first.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:18 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 28, 2025 10:18 PM (0CU3H)
No marigolds in the promised land...
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow...
Any man left on the Rio Grande...
Is the king of the world
As far as I know I know...I know
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (pggNd)
King of the World. That's a great deep cut. Outstanding guitar any keyboard work.
https://youtu.be/XOGWbaOOeCM
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:19 PM (uACWf)
Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don't support RFK Jr's confirmation, calls them out by name.
Good.
"I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America's children."
"To senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, James Lankford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, and Catherine Cortez Masto..."
"This is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me. While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won't if you vote against him."
"I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me."
---
She's hot
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:19 PM (/X/7F)
"Carry a laser" or "carry a razor"
Posted by: Anna Puma
Only to non-Catholics.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Ralph at January 28, 2025 10:13 PM (TysyT)
That was the only politicians speech in my entire life that honestly brought me to tears, it was incredible. It was short, but every word and phrase was perfect. I think it’s up there with the Gettysburg address, as one of the best Presidential speeches ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2025 10:19 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Doesn't mean what they think it means at January 28, 2025 10:15 PM (URPBf)
There's a reason they use the word 'genocide'. That's a U.N. trigger word that sets in motion certain actions. Goes back to Rwanda. Nobody did anything during that documented genocide.
Calling what's going on in Gaza a genocide is Pallywood on its best P.R. behavior.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:20 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:20 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: mindful webworker - fourth or forth? at January 28, 2025 10:20 PM (Wp9EI)
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at January 28, 2025 10:16 PM (G5+As)
Carl Palmer is still touring. Saw him last year, and probably will again in March of this year. Definitely check it out if you can!
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:20 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:20 PM (p4NUW)
Cause the look like Kennedy men in dresses?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 28, 2025 10:21 PM (OA79/)
Still can't get Tensor to un-censor the almost no panties image.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:21 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:22 PM (77rzZ)
It rose above me like an evergreen Skyscraper and bloated out the sky above.
Days past.
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:22 PM (pggNd)
Still can't get Tensor to un-censor the almost no panties image.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:21 PM (Gol0p)
Would you please hurry up.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 28, 2025 10:23 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:23 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:17 PM (Gol0p)
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Laid up. Problems with the bilge pump draining.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:24 PM (ZOv7s)
The first three missions should have been prep for the fourth step innovation instead they never progressed after number one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:24 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:20 PM (p4NUW)
As I am neither a woman nor gay I have never understood the infatuation with the Kennedy men's "good looks." John and Bobby looked like blue blood inbred New England twats with bad veneers and Ted...good god.
Posted by: Status and money sure count for a lot at January 28, 2025 10:24 PM (URPBf)
You poor uncultured Moron, skip the Red Ryder BB gun and the leg lamp references. And can't forget the pink fluffy bunny onesie Ralphie had to wear.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:24 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 10:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28
Bulg! You have never watched A Christmas Story? You have to. It’s the rules!
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:25 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Wesely Crusher at January 28, 2025 10:25 PM (Ad8y9)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:22 PM (77rzZ)
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Disappointing reveal in "The Christmas Movie."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2025 10:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:25 PM (pggNd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:25 PM (OS4gH)
Is that a boat under the cow's chin? Or another word-symbol. Hummm.
Posted by: 5cats at January 28, 2025 10:26 PM (hv5ip)
Posted by: Jonah at January 28, 2025 10:26 PM (YCxFk)
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Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 10:28 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at January 28, 2025 10:28 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:28 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:28 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: RI Red at January 28, 2025 10:29 PM (mMtti)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 10:29 PM (WXNFJ)
The rough translation is "beware she who calls herself Yoko."
Posted by: TRex at January 28, 2025 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq)
I believe it interprets as 'MAGA'.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 10:30 PM (mH6SG)
Darren McGavin was better as Kolchak anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:30 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at January 28, 2025 10:31 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:31 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: RI Red at January 28, 2025 10:29 PM (mMtti)
*checks calendar*
Tuesday is not my usual night. Attendance records for tonight may be dismissed on a technicality. Will need to consult scampydog.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:31 PM (uACWf)
Ralphie finally gets the secret decoder ring and all it says is "Drink More Ovaltine."
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:31 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Written by Peggy Noonan.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 28, 2025 10:31 PM (mT+6a)
Disinterested FDA Director: "You ever light a condom on fire? They burn like napalm."
Truly, truly vast.
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (fcDpY)
Found out from my Calculus teach who always had the radio on for the launches. Not a good day.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Always liked that song. It's sad and melancholy. A very good video. Also, not the original video for the song (I think )but I prefer this one. Lots of shots of Northern England and Pennsylvania as the steel industry declined.
Posted by: Puddleglum
Same idea, but Aussies: Not Drowning, Waving.
"Willow Tree"
https://youtu.be/Aw_372XqIq8
"Fishing Trawler"
https://youtu.be/FXpULlmWHT0
Part of the video for "Willow Tree," in Blur-o-Vision, but it cuts off early. They must have only kept one copy of the videotape into the youtube age.....
https://youtu.be/_ZNe3QX2TOs
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (DgGvY)
If Federal employees wish to resign they simply put “RESIGN” in the subject line of the email...
The new Government will focus on four pillars:
- A return to full physical presence office culture
- A high performance environment that demands excellence
- A more reduced, streamlined, and flexible workforce that will include downsizings
- A high non-negotiable standard of trust, loyalty, and reliability
If you decide to stay there’s no guarantee you will have your job in the future.
If you want to resign you have between Jan 28th - Feb 6th and you will be paid through Sep 30th.
“Whatever path you choose we thank you for your service to the United States of America.”
A new age is beginning. A new America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (/X/7F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (OS4gH)
Disinterested FDA Director: "You ever light a condom on fire? They burn like napalm."
Truly, truly vast.
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (fcDpY)
So smoking while wearing is a BAD idea...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Jean Shepherd
Posted by: caf at January 28, 2025 10:33 PM (/+mVZ)
Posted by: Mind In the Gutter at January 28, 2025 10:33 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:34 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at January 28, 2025 10:34 PM (ZTJjv)
He had the TV on and we were glancing up from time to time to watch the Challenger launch.
I was chipping tiles when I heard him exclaim..."WTF!!!"
I looked up just to see the spiraling clouds going off in every direction and watching my boss lean down on the bar..."No way...No way...
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:34 PM (pggNd)
They were all amazingly talented and brave people. A long time ago, I ended up reading Judith Resnik's entry in Wikipedia. I don't think I've ever encountered anything close to a superwoman before I read her entry. It's a shame that we never got the chance to see what else she would have done with her life.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 28, 2025 10:34 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Doof
You can blow up computers on Star Trek doing things like this.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:35 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 28, 2025 10:35 PM (0CU3H)
You could tell a lot about the character of people based on their reactions.
I was fairly silent which was rare then, said a silent prayer and then recited "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things" from the USAF Museum display of the pem High Flight.....
It galls me we are not further along in our journey.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:36 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 28, 2025 10:35 PM (0CU3H)
BruceWayne got it at 23
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (Aqu9a)
At first, I was going to skip the Reagan video, being so familiar with it, but I'm glad I listened. Got dusty. Again.
Posted by: mindful webworker - fiffth at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (Wp9EI)
I tend to think that all Horde quotations that I don’t recognize are either from Blazing Saddles or Monty Python.
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (77rzZ)
I went to school in Fairborn, Wright-Patt's base town and it was largely the same....prayers mixed with gallows humor in the teachers' lounges...
"What does NASA stand for?"
"Need Another Seven Astronauts"
The cold war was a different country and, in my opinion, a better one.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:38 PM (X0I7i)
*actual decoder ring message*
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (Aqu9a)
The day Ralphy took the black pill.
Posted by: Reforger at January 28, 2025 10:38 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:28 PM (/X/7F)
She proved that in, uh, like, you know, spades when she, you know, ran for the Senate from NY, an appointment to replace Hillary Clinton. I believe that's how we ended up with Kristen JellyBrain.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 10:38 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh)
On the obverse, I THINK it reads, "The Arrowhead Invitational, 1/19/25. Chiefs 32, Bills 29. Gaze On Our Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!"
Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (NLIak)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLEZM_N0K8
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (Gol0p)
At first, I was going to skip the Reagan video, being so familiar with it, but I'm glad I listened. Got dusty. Again.
Posted by: mindful webworker - fiffth at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (Wp9EI)
This is the way!
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Hmmm. Talk about an incentive to join up! 😉
You could possibly upload the troubling images to some other less-fussy site? Just pondering. 🤔
Posted by: mindful webworker - fiffth at January 28, 2025 10:40 PM (Wp9EI)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh)
ugh, can't math. Will be 22 years ago. Exploded Feb 1, 2003.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:40 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:40 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 28, 2025 10:40 PM (sAmhv)
“Ask for Babs.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 28, 2025 10:40 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (IOGah)
Challenger disaster, 1986
=======
I was watching TV in an office at the Johnson Space Center, with 8 or 9 other engineers. We were all silent after the explosion and we slowly drifted out of the room in silence. We all knew it could happen but didn't expect it ever would.
When word got around that the accident was due to a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) problem, I and everyone at JSC couldn't believe it. We all expected any accident during ascent would be due to a malfunction in the main engines mounted in the aft fuselage of the Orbiter. In Houston we had been led to believe the main engines were barely safe and the SRBs were practically infallible. Both the main engines and SRBs, along with the External Tank, were managed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsvile, AL. The average engineer at JSC, like me, had very little knowledge of the design and operation of any of those three Shuttle components.
We at JSC were gobsmacked and angry when we learned the accident was due to a failure of an SRB joint O-ring to seal. O-rings are not rocket science.
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Mind In the Gutter
Which she so graciously showed us in 'Slapshot'.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (WXNFJ)
There was also the computer text game, Zork.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
Don't remember which version, but don't type "Throw sword at self"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg
I was about to amend this, but then I realized your wording meant you DO recognize all the Princess Bride quotes.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 28, 2025 10:35 PM (0CU3H)
BruceWayne got it at 23
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:37 PM (uACWf)
Drat, Double Drat, and Triple Drat! Congrats, BW. I always knew that tune as The Beach. Back in the NYC Last Days of Disco days, that song was practically the Danceteria's theme tune.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 28, 2025 10:42 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:42 PM (OS4gH)
The making of the skateboard bowl was fascinating & the finished product quite nice.
Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 28, 2025 10:42 PM (NFX2v)
Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don't support RFK Jr's confirmation, calls them out by name.
...
"...Lindsey Graham..."
Ho. Lee. Shit. There may actually be a chance that this fuckhead finally gets primaried.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 28, 2025 10:42 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Iris at January 28, 2025 10:43 PM (bOJ2I)
He's telling everyone that he's out front and he has stuff to tell you.
Posted by: Maxwell Smart at January 28, 2025 10:43 PM (89Sog)
Each launch the O-ring didn't fail only increased their false sense of confidence. Until it failed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)
...
We at JSC were gobsmacked and angry when we learned the accident was due to a failure of an SRB joint O-ring to seal. O-rings are not rocket science.
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (aBgBM)
Yeah, but they didn't take into account the stiffness they would get in the cold. There were some worried about it, but I guess it was more important to get it off the ground (NOT).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
I am a man of guilty "pleasures" in a BDSM sort of way if I force myself to watch "For All Mankind" I try hard to enjoy the space program parts....
Ronald Moore he of the "President Ted Kennedy after Watergate" dickery admits NASA is a corrupt bureaucracy based on the Apollo 23 explosion....
anyway fuck him.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:44 PM (X0I7i)
Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don't support RFK Jr's confirmation, calls them out by name.
...
"...Lindsey Graham..."
Ho. Lee. Shit. There may actually be a chance that this fuckhead finally gets primaried.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 28, 2025 10:42 PM (DTX3h)
Ho Lee Chit is gonna run? I'd vote for him.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Piper at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
In many ways Challenger was NASA's Chernobyl. A culture of lies, unaccountability, cost-cutting on essentials, and Getting Results.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Jmel at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (/X/7F)
Dream Academy of the same album as Life in a Northern Town had the song The Edge of Forever which was in Ferris Bueller. Plus the the girl in the band was good looking
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 10:46 PM (6v8aM)
I'd make the argument more for Columbia, essentially Al Gore wrecked that space shuttle.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:46 PM (X0I7i)
Interesting building. Al Lewis (of the Munsters), had an apartment there and I would see him walking a little toy dog at 7AM every day. With a cigar in his mouth, of course. Keith Hernandez and Fred Wilpon of the Mets also lived there, as well as actor Tony Roberts.
The apartment I was working in belonged to a real estate developer who bought the entire floor and had 4 apartments turned into one big one. 29th floor with four balconies-NSEW-a cool place.
Posted by: Brush With Greatness at January 28, 2025 10:46 PM (G5+As)
On the obverse, I THINK it reads, "The Arrowhead Invitational, 1/19/25. Chiefs 32, Bills 29. Gaze On Our Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!"
Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (NLIak)
Glad you are enjoying your team's success. Curious if you see any of the questionable calls that many others do. Or do you genuinely think they are that good and there is no favoritism from the league or refs. Seriously curious - not trying to troll you.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:46 PM (uACWf)
I was in a production department meeting. We had just landed a DOD contract for Vandenberg AFB and it was tied to the shuttle program.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at January 28, 2025 10:47 PM (feC/a)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 28, 2025 10:47 PM (g00SI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (/X/7F)
====
FIFY
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:47 PM (RIvkX)
In many ways Challenger was NASA's Chernobyl. A culture of lies, unaccountability, cost-cutting on essentials, and Getting Results.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 28, 2025 10:45 PM (gKWVE)
Columbia was sorta the same; they knew the tiles were delicate and if they lost some key ones, the shuttle wouldn't be able to successfully reenter. They should have had some extra tiles and a method of affixing them to the damaged surface, but no planning, even after tiles had been damaged before.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 10:48 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at January 28, 2025 10:48 PM (feC/a)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 28, 2025 10:48 PM (IOGah)
On the obverse, I THINK it reads, "The Arrowhead Invitational, 1/19/25. Chiefs 32, Bills 29. Gaze On Our Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!"
Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at January 28, 2025 10:39 PM (NLIak)
Glad you are enjoying your team's success. Curious if you see any of the questionable calls that many others do. Or do you genuinely think they are that good and there is no favoritism from the league or refs. Seriously curious - not trying to troll you.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:46 PM (uACWf)
I think it was some civil servant's stamp that essential says "Bullshit!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 10:49 PM (77rzZ)
When "Can-Do" became "Stupid". Instead of just down checking the tank as UNSERV, they used the heater to boil out the LOX and set the stage for it exploding on the mission.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:49 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 10:49 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 10:48 PM (6v8aM)
Wasn't there a scene in "Back to the Future" where doc says, "It's the Lesbians! Run Marty!"...oh wait, that was the Libyans...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
There is a fantastic description of the O-ring failure and the path that led to it in Edward Tufte's Visual Explanations. iirc, the Chapter is Visual and Statistical Thinking.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 10:50 PM (WXNFJ)
Yep, I am, though I strive to keep away from the dark web.
For that would be the death of me.
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:50 PM (pggNd)
The damage to the tiles more than doubled when in deference to "the Earth" they changed the materials and theory of use in the mid 90s.
https://www.wnd.com/2003/02/17062/
It was a known known and NASA kept going, ideals trumped engineering.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:50 PM (X0I7i)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:51 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 10:51 PM (6v8aM)
NASA had a waiver to keep using the foam but switched to a more Green solution that resulted in more foam coming off the tank.
Then Mission Control sat on the information about the foam strike. Never telling the crew or apparently doing anything else to see if it really happened nor finding any solutions. And let them come down to certain death.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 10:52 PM (Gol0p)
I also witnessed the return of a successful flight one night some years later while living in NO. It flew over the house on a moonlit night, like a giant sparkle, on it's way to land in Florida. I waited for the sonic boom before going into the house and then saw it land, live.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (aBgBM)
I have read up on this extensively and was a part of a case study about this in a leadership training class.
The abnormally low temps were the main reason for the o ring failure. It had been noticed before, but there was no data regarding the success of o rings at the expected temperature at the time of launch. Engineers were desperately trying to get the launch cancelled. But there was a TON of political pressure to launch. There had already been a few delays. VP Bush had travelled to the launch site. Reagan was going to mention the mission during the State of the Union (scheduled for that night). Teacher in Space hype. NASA leaders simply made a horrible decision based on politics and PR over technical advice from the engineers.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 10:54 PM (QyRN9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 10:54 PM (OS4gH)
And asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you
Or take me for a ride
And strip me of everything, including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound of
The low spark of high-heeled boys (heeled boys)
Duff?
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:54 PM (pggNd)
That decision was provably made far away from the astronauts in 1997, the first use coincidentally on Columbia had increased the tile damage (which was DESIGNED with levels of redundancy engineered to factor in the known risks of the old material) by 61% on that flight.
I believe it averaged out on the flights until the critical failure to ! 55.75% increased damage...as was said of Chernobyl....
"at that point eventual catastrophic failure was inevitable....."
but at least Gaia was served.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (X0I7i)
I also witnessed the return of a successful flight one night some years later while living in NO. It flew over the house on a moonlit night, like a giant sparkle, on it's way to land in Florida. I waited for the sonic boom before going into the house and then saw it land, live.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (8I4hW)
Worst part is that there was a report some years later that they were probably still ALIVE when the debris hit the ocean. Awful all the way around.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 10:50 PM (X0I7i)
Then, under Barry, NASA became a muslim outreach organization. Ideals to the hilt. Engineering? Not so much. Then the DEI rot. It really did take a private citizen like Elon Musk to get humanity back on space-faring track, to see what is possible. Ultimately, government was never going to do it. Too much bureaucracy and graft.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (pggNd)
Indeed, they did. Regardless, the inherent design flaws that were swept under the rug can never be ignored.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 10:56 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 10:56 PM (pggNd)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 28, 2025 10:56 PM (lhenN)
I also witnessed the return of a successful flight one night some years later while living in NO. It flew over the house on a moonlit night, like a giant sparkle, on it's way to land in Florida. I waited for the sonic boom before going into the house and then saw it land, live.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (8I4hW)
Worst part is that there was a report some years later that they were probably still ALIVE when the debris hit the ocean. Awful all the way around.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
https://tinyurl.com/3ab8bwkt
Hitting the ocean resulting in 200g deceleration...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 10:53 PM (uACWf)
That's why we lose wars now on a regular basis: Politics.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 10:58 PM (gKDq2)
All good managers know that an engineer's judgement is just another opinion. Sure, the engineer may be unreasonable and unwilling to budge, being kind of a dick actually, so it's not hard to blow them off and go with more reasonable people's opinions.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 28, 2025 10:59 PM (/lPRQ)
...
We at JSC were gobsmacked and angry when we learned the accident was due to a failure of an SRB joint O-ring to seal. O-rings are not rocket science.
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 10:41 PM (aBgBM)
Yeah, but they didn't take into account the stiffness they would get in the cold. There were some worried about it, but I guess it was more important to get it off the ground (NOT).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
At that time I was too junior and inexperienced to be involved in Flight Readiness Reviews, the Launch Readiness Reviews, and the discussions and GO/NO-GO decision point discussions during the final 8 hours of countdowns. I had no idea how they were conducted and who the decision makers were.
I was routinely involved in all of those reviews beginning in 2005. I assure you, launch fever is REAL. It's natural. After the Columbia accident additional reviewers for safety and engineering were added to the GO/NO-GO critical decision points, beginning with the Flight Readiness Review about 6 weeks before scheduled launch. This change tamped-down launch fever quite a lot but did not snuff it out.
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 10:59 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:00 PM (OS4gH)
Don't remember which version, but don't type "Throw sword at self"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
"Nethack" is the game for that. "YASD," Yet Another Stupid Death. Things like:
1) You can gain magical powers by eating the corpses of certain magical enemies. Eat a red dragon, become fireproof.
B) You can choke to death if you eat when you're already full.
iii) If you wait until you're hungry, you can die of food poisoning by eating a corpse that's too old.
Posted by: mikeski feels dead inside at January 28, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 11:01 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 11:01 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:01 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Smoke 'em if ya condom.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 28, 2025 11:02 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 11:03 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 11:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 28, 2025 11:04 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Bulg at January 28, 2025 11:03 PM (77rzZ)
Good night. Do virtually well tomorrow!
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 11:04 PM (uACWf)
I think it took the USAF something like a year to modify a rocket to restart launches.
In the meantime, the USSR made a heap of foreign currency sending commercial satellites up on their old fashioned rockets.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 28, 2025 11:04 PM (05UY5)
Don't remember which version, but don't type "Throw sword at self"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
"Nethack" is the game for that. "YASD," Yet Another Stupid Death. Things like:
1) You can gain magical powers by eating the corpses of certain magical enemies. Eat a red dragon, become fireproof.
B) You can choke to death if you eat when you're already full.
iii) If you wait until you're hungry, you can die of food poisoning by eating a corpse that's too old.
Posted by: mikeski feels dead inside at January 28, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)
The other message in Zork:
type "Eat me"
response back is "Autocannibalism is not the answer."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 11:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
And that's just on Tuesday alone!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 11:04 PM (WXNFJ)
I have been going through some old Omni issues and ran across this retroactively disappointing blurb in February 1980’s “Continuum” section:
Now under development is a backpack space-walking device… The backpack is currently receiving added attention because of serious problems with the space shuttle, much to the embarrassment of NASA. Concern has been raised that fragile, heat-resistant tiles, permitting a safe fiery shuttle reentry could be jarred loose or be damaged during blastoff from Earth.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 28, 2025 11:05 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 11:06 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:07 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 11:07 PM (X0I7i)
Could not just plug and pray with tiles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:07 PM (Gol0p)
I'm reminded of Judd Hirsch in Independence Day saying " you don't think they spent $500 for a hammer or a toilet seat"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 11:08 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
Hopefully they were not conscious at that point.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 11:08 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh)
Now onto K STREET and ROBOT Yorkshire Terriers +
CYBORG Jack Russell Terriers to clean out those rats.
All the way into the basements!
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 28, 2025 11:09 PM (pggNd)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:09 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:09 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
Hopefully they were not conscious at that point.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 11:08 PM (8I4hW)
Watch the video in the link.
https://tinyurl.com/3ab8bwkt
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Arcade games like Space Invaders notwithstanding.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sithx at January 28, 2025 11:09 PM (Wp9EI)
Reusing shuttles was fine, the design was "acceptable" the tiles with the original foam were repairable....
of course we would have been better served with the original Titanium shuttle design that did not rely on the tiles as the heat ablation surface, BUT it was too expensive and Donkey a** motherf*ckers who wanted to shitcan the whole program in the 70s trimmed the budget to the point bad decisions were made....
here's looking at you Walter Mondale.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 11:09 PM (X0I7i)
I sincerely think that all of the "refs conspiracy chatter" is sore loser nonsense. The Pats endured the exact same baloney when they were on top. EXACTLY the SAME!
As for blown calls, I saw the clearest face mask violation I've ever seen in my LIFE last Sunday-- the Chiefs' Isaiah Worthy was the victim. Refs just missed it. Happens.
I dunno which plays exactly you think "the fix was in!" on. The 4th down stop in the 4th Quarter? Big tush push. Who the hell knows? It was challenged & got reviewed. Tennis balls have a sensor in them that takes the guesswork out of situations like the tush push.
The Chiefs got the same bullzh*t after the Texans game in the Divisional Round. Here's my question: Did the refs turn the ball over 8 TIMES, or was that the Texans? Did the refs miss a PAT kick, and two short field goals? Or was that the Texans' backup kicker, recently promoted, who was VISIBLY sweating and acting nervous every time he took the field? Seven points down the krapper. Those damn refs!
Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at January 28, 2025 11:10 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:10 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: gKWVE at January 28, 2025 11:11 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:11 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:12 PM (Gol0p)
Correct to the best of my knowledge, as a layman....one of the arguments against the tile repair kit paradigm was that you would not have "a blank" and consequently any repair would have to be handcrafted to a point it would be a crapshoot...IOW it would most likely be more probable given the hoped for OPTEMPO of launches that there would be a rescue....but the OPTEMPO declined and did not increase....hell for that matter each individual shuttle was a unique vehicle really with enough difference that had they been say F-15s they would have been different models.
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 11:13 PM (X0I7i)
That Indus valley thing is a shortbread cookie pan. The writing is a shortbread recipe. First, milk the cow . . then shake it up in your triangular butter churn. Add a cup of wheat flour, etc etc.
As far as the Challenger goes - all that hype about sending a school teacher on board. You knew it was doomed. All that hype, all that fa la la, how could anybody cancel that mission? Even then, we were silly. Humans are silly. Me too. And we get sillier each passing day.
Posted by: Persnickety at January 28, 2025 11:13 PM (mJCOG)
Actually HGttG was full of hilarity, the lore goes that Douglas Adams missed his deadline so Meretzky just wrote almost the whole thing in Adams' style.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 28, 2025 11:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:14 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 11:14 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 11:16 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:17 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 11:17 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 11:17 PM (6v8aM)
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I was promised babes with purple hair in silver lame min-skirts!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 11:18 PM (RIvkX)
What Apollo 13 demonstrated is that the American public had lost interest in space exploration and that the risks NASA was running were not acceptable. Politicians followed public sentiment.
We ended up with the Shuttle which was very meh. Two catastrophic failures. Some good missions, but NASA management was full of shit. They were completely delusional about the risks they were running, stating the risk of catastrophic failure to be 1 in 100k. That’s absurd on its surface and betrayals a deeply dysfunctional approach to assessing risk.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 28, 2025 11:19 PM (l3YAf)
It says "bull."
It's right there in the picture. Duh.
Posted by: mikeski
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You left out the rest:
Bull for sale. Gelded, tame. Low, low milage, easy terms. Come on down, we're giving them away.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 28, 2025 11:19 PM (q4tB+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 11:19 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:17 PM (OS4gH)
Caught fire during a manned test.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 28, 2025 11:19 PM (l3YAf)
Each launch the O-ring didn't fail only increased their false sense of confidence. Until it failed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)
I'll have to recall the name of the Richard Feynman bio that I read where he came up with his demonstration of the O ring in a glass of ice water. He was dogged in his quest to understand what went wrong, not to assign blame, but to ensure the safety of future missions..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (bA75n)
Unfortunately, that detail lulled everyone during the rehearsal so there were no emergency crews on standby.
They think one of the rat's nest of wiring under the couches was abraded by the waste disposal hatch and sparked in a full oxygen atmosphere.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (8I4hW)
And we kick ass on medical and dating advice!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (W/lyH)
WTAF?
Ah, I had two days off of work this past week owing to emergency dental surgery.
To my knowledge, I only made it one other time -- my very first week of commenting here back in early 2016, when I made it as a sockpuppet (one of the funnest features of course of this site).
I eventually got tired of forgetting to change my sock, so rarely do so anymore (but when I do: I immediately copy my current nic, fill-in the sock, post, and then past the current nic over the sock -- requiring me to at least comment one additional time in that, or another, thread so it persists).
God forbid if I ever[/i[ retire from working ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 11:21 PM (rwlGT)
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 11:22 PM (rwlGT)
Could not just plug and pray with tiles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:07 PM (Gol0p)
Every tile was unique. The tile system itself became very reliable after several years of flights due to continued improvements in tile adhesion processes. They were very fragile. Tile damage from ice and foam coming off the external tank was a known risk from the start of Shuttle flights but was not fully assessed and wasn't considered a major issue. Knowing what I learned after Columbia about the ETs ice and foam detachment issues and their probabilities, I am amazed a Columbia-type accident didn't occur earlier.
Up to Columbia, the conventional wisdom within NASA was that the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) panels were not susceptible to damage from foam coming off the ET. A terrible and fatal assumption.
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 11:22 PM (aBgBM)
There *is* help....
Posted by: sven at January 28, 2025 11:22 PM (X0I7i)
First stage failed to light. The General dithered for a bit before he sent out men to the pad. All the while the timer for the second stage was still running.
And well
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:23 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 28, 2025 11:23 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at January 28, 2025 11:10 PM (NLIak)
I never said anything about me personally thinking any fix was in. Many do feel that way. You don't seem to. I don't care enough about the NFL anymore for it to matter to me. Just wanted the perspective of a KC fan. Appreciate your thoughts.
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (W/lyH)
Never date schizophrenics.
I cleaned it up a bit.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 11:21 PM (rwlGT)
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Hope you make it out of the Barrel real soon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (6v8aM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (bA75n)
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Likely his autobiography (fantastic) entitled "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)."
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 11:25 PM (rwlGT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2025 11:25 PM (Gol0p)
Posted by: ShainS
Sheeeeeeet. I quit working about 18 months before I retired.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 28, 2025 11:25 PM (WXNFJ)
We six gals will always remember the launch days of those two wonderful crews, we hugged them all goodbye before they left Crew Quarters, wished them well and without consideration that would be the last time we spoke and touched each others hearts.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 28, 2025 11:27 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 11:27 PM (uoTIH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (RIvkX)
He didn't italicize anyone else's post. No Barrel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2025 11:27 PM (8zz6B)
They were all amazingly talented and brave people. A long time ago, I ended up reading Judith Resnik's entry in Wikipedia. I don't think I've ever encountered anything close to a superwoman before I read her entry. It's a shame that we never got the chance to see what else she would have done with her life.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I felt awful for Christa McAuliffe's kids. I heard they didn't want her to take that trip. I can't imagine being a little kid and losing your mom that way.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 28, 2025 11:28 PM (yDnYs)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:20 PM (W/lyH)
Never date schizophrenics.
I cleaned it up a bit.
Posted by: javems at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (8I4hW)
After his 2nd divorce, he had to take his kids to see a psychotherapist (he had full custody). There was a youngish woman there, and one of his daughters says, "She looks nice Dad, wanna date her?"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 28, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 11:28 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Gref at January 28, 2025 11:28 PM (aBgBM)
Good night Gref. Always good to see you!
Posted by: Doof at January 28, 2025 11:29 PM (uACWf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2025 11:27 PM (8zz6B)
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He didn't know that!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 28, 2025 11:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 11:32 PM (uoTIH)
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 11:25 PM (rwlGT)
Yes, I think that was it!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 28, 2025 11:32 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:24 PM (OS4gH)
I know I've seen at least one video of a failed Russian launch. Big ball of fire, then you realize there are people running away from it, and they are covered in flames.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 28, 2025 11:32 PM (05UY5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:33 PM (OS4gH)
Highly recommended. Feynman was a great writer.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 28, 2025 11:34 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:36 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:17 PM (OS4gH)
Yes. Grissom, Chaffee and White. On a pre-launch test.
Too much oxygen in the command module and a spark set the fire off.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
The Rogers Commission Report was created by a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during its 10th mission, STS-51-L
Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle, by R.P. Feynman
Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 11:36 PM (uoTIH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:07 PM (OS4gH)
It could have worked, but there were some bad choices made. For one thing, the orbiters were reusable but the launch system wasn’t. (Note how Musk’s heavy booster is reusable). This made it hugely expensive.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2025 11:36 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
He didn't italicize anyone else's post. No Barrel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
As long as you only use one set of tags in a comment, Pixy added a get-out-of-barrel-free card a while back. 60% of the time, it works every time.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 11:39 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Boss Moss
When all you have is a hummer, every problem looks like a nazi.
Posted by: mikeski at January 28, 2025 11:39 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 28, 2025 11:42 PM (zs7i8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2025 11:36 PM (7MHHr)
The coolest thing I've seen since we stopped really investing in space was when Musk caught the rocket with grappling hooks on the way down and into a 'basket'. Thinking outside the bureaucratic box. Reusable. I hope Musk ends up creating lots of engineers, space and otherwise. Civilization needs the nerds with the pocket protectors.
Posted by: RickZ at January 28, 2025 11:42 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:44 PM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Notorious BFD
I think I saw on x that Trump just asked Elon to bring them home
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 28, 2025 11:45 PM (OTdqV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:36 PM
I hate Illinois natzes.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 28, 2025 11:46 PM (4p0Xq)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 28, 2025 11:47 PM (4p0Xq)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 28, 2025 11:42 PM (zs7i
Well, if TravisKelce weren't gay, he'd be pulling a lot better trim than Tay-tay. Joni Ernst, maybe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2025 11:47 PM (8zz6B)
Jean Sheppard didn't make it up for "A Christmas Story."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 28, 2025 11:48 PM (JVCkA)
Do bars have Ladies Night anymore? Or did the scolds in the dems kill that too?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:48 PM (W/lyH)
Or like cattle brands - not a written language but just symbols with unique meanings. Without a formal written language to explain them they lose their meaning.
IOW - they are not a written languge at all.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 28, 2025 11:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 28, 2025 11:49 PM (JVCkA)
Posted by: Boss Moss
.......................
She's just representing her voters, which is Arkham Asylum apparently.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 28, 2025 11:50 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Teacher Features at January 28, 2025 11:51 PM (G5+As)
Translation poser (it's a cinch, really!):
Say it now
Say it loud
I'm a cow
And I'm proud
Where's my million bucks?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 28, 2025 11:52 PM (xG4kz)
______________________________
First a little context. That particular "engraving" was produced by an exiled sect of the Indus Civilization called the "Gadha". They didn't subscribe to the normal philosophy that all cows were sacred. As a little joke, they left these "engravings" lying around. You see, what you're looking at is a prank. It's a menu for Kazam Gupta's aap sabhee buphe kha sakate hain (all you can eat buffet). Now, don't get me wrong. Kazam was a solid man with extreme piety (which made him a target of the Gadahs). He had no idea they were placing these menus all over the village. He paid the price, however. Buried up to his neck and stoned.
Incidentally, the exiled sect...Gadah means "jackass." The little gizmo at the cow's head was a little joke with the Gadah's. It's a well cap. They used to lead the cows over to the well and entice them to drink, and everyone else in town had to wait until they were done.
Posted by: Orson at January 28, 2025 11:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 28, 2025 11:53 PM (Y+AMd)
What am I? Chopped crab apples?
Posted by: Mrs. Crabapple at January 28, 2025 11:53 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 28, 2025 11:53 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2025 11:55 PM (FbXjq)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 28, 2025 11:55 PM (JVCkA)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2025 11:55 PM (ep0RS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 28, 2025 11:55 PM (OS4gH)
Apollo 1 must have been the one that blew up on the launchpad.
Posted by: Boss Moss
It didn't blow up. Grissom, White and Chaffee died from a fire in the capsule, whose hatch was closed.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 28, 2025 11:58 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Just tweak the Crazy Horse monument.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 28, 2025 11:58 PM (/lPRQ)
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In line waiting to go into 10th grade Chemistry class, someone said "did you hear the space shuttle blew up?" (Pacific zone, so this was after the fact). Chemistry teacher confirmed, said "so, you may have heard something really bad happened today", then broke out some hydrogen for a demonstration.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 29, 2025 12:00 AM (62tN4)
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I'm a cooooooow
I'm a cooooooooooow
Suck my diiiiiiiiiiiick
I'm a coooooooooooooow
Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 29, 2025 12:01 AM (62tN4)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 29, 2025 12:03 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Just tweak the Crazy Horse monument.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 28, 2025 11:58 PM (/lPRQ)
It’s supposed to be him pointing, right? Just add a toupee, finish carving the hand, add some dejected-looking Mexicans in front of his finger and title it “GTFO”.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 29, 2025 12:03 AM (l3YAf)
"Life in a Northern Town"
Beginning around 1:50, where road signs for PA 51 appear, some of the exterior shots were from around Aliquippa, PA. My ex-FiL worked at the steel mill there.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:04 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 12:05 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 29, 2025 12:06 AM (0JWOm)
You probably remember where you were when seven Americans "slipped the surly bonds of Earth, to touch the face of God."
At work in the Orlon(TM) Technical Section, Plant II, May Plant, Camden (actually Lugoff), South Carolina.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:06 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Common Tater
Theater-goers were happy to see stage curtains labeled-Asbestos-back in the day. I installed lots of transite containing asbestos in Bell System telephone properties covering sensitive wiring and cables in the 70's and early 80's.
Posted by: Not Dead Yet at January 29, 2025 12:06 AM (G5+As)
Lunar Orbit Rendezvous was a superior method of getting humans first on the Moon and returning safely to earth within Kennedy’s “before this decade is out” but it was sort of a dead end from an engineering perspective going forward.
Congress or maybe William Proxmire cannot really be forgiven for throwing away the “clearly leading role” that America had invested in. How much of the “Americans were losing interest in space by 1970” was just media Gaslighting? That’s exactly what they would be expected to say, if you want to pull funding, wouldn’t it?
Crewed missions to Mars were planned for 1985 to 1986, the best “window” time period right in there. At any rate tourist flights to the Moon would probably be routine by now, probably not cheap but doable.
Right now they are still trying to recreate 1968 - orbiting the Moon, but the capsule has issues
Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:07 AM (ep0RS)
https://www.opm.gov/fork
Betting there will be some EEEEEE'ing over this.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel
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Type the word "Resign" into the "Subject" line of the email. Hit "Send".
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 29, 2025 12:07 AM (yDnYs)
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In line waiting to go into 10th grade Chemistry class, someone said "did you hear the space shuttle blew up?" (Pacific zone, so this was after the fact). Chemistry teacher confirmed, said "so, you may have heard something really bad happened today", then broke out some hydrogen for a demonstration.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 29, 2025 12:00 AM (62tN4)
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Oh yeah, I have no idea if this is true, but rumor had it that the head science teacher at my Jr. High was an actual scientist before becoming a teacher and had done some work with NASA and was one of the finalists to be on that flight.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 29, 2025 12:07 AM (62tN4)
The cow isn't part of the script, it's the geometric shapes above it
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Don' care.
315 is my final answer.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:08 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 29, 2025 12:06 AM (0JWOm)
It reads: "cows may come, and cows may go, but the bull in here goes on forever".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 12:09 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 29, 2025 12:09 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Teacher Features at January 28, 2025 11:51 PM (G5+As)
No love for Gabe Kaplan, huh?
Posted by: RickZ at January 29, 2025 12:10 AM (gKDq2)
Worker: We've dug up all these ancient buildings that have this set of big yellow arches on them. What do you think they could be?
Expert: They were obviously churches. See how they are spread out, so there's one in almost every neighborhood? That was so pilgrims could walk from church to church, worshipping at each shrine.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 29, 2025 12:10 AM (05UY5)
Do bars have Ladies Night anymore? Or did the scolds in the dems kill that too?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:48 PM (W/lyH)
The '80s Bud Light commcerial where guys with beards jokingly put on dresses for Ladies Night became a reality.
Posted by: RickZ at January 29, 2025 12:12 AM (gKDq2)
This is EXACTLY the problem a Marquardt engineer now in his 80s or 90s probably, listed in his Apollo Oral History engineering interview. They had lots of problems. Maybe the problem today is they won’t use Asbestos. Wouldn’t surprise me one fucking bit.
But the point is, they threw away 60 YEARS of hard won, expensive institutional and practical knowledge. The Shuttle was a flying brick. Very sad what assholes in government have done.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:12 AM (ep0RS)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 29, 2025 12:13 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 29, 2025 12:13 AM (pggNd)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
What kind of crap church has a broken ice cream machine?
Posted by: Son Of A Bishop at January 29, 2025 12:14 AM (G5+As)
https://www.opm.gov/fork
Betting there will be some EEEEEE'ing over this.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel
Whine away, gubminters! You're getting off easy -- we had to write a "What Is It, You'd Say, You Do Here?" job description when our time in the firing gunsights came back in the early 90s at DuPont. Then, and only then, would those doing the firing decide who would get the heave-ho.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:14 AM (xG4kz)
Worker: We've dug up all these ancient buildings that have this set of big yellow arches on them. What do you think they could be?
Expert: They were obviously churches. See how they are spread out, so there's one in almost every neighborhood? That was so pilgrims could walk from church to church, worshipping at each shrine.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Next building over.....
Expert: Consider how frightening their law enforcement must have been. Their prisoners wouldn't even try to escape from these tiny, cloth-walled cells that didn't even have doors on them.
Posted by: mikeski at January 29, 2025 12:14 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:16 AM (OS4gH)
Do bars have Ladies Night anymore? Or did the scolds in the dems kill that too?
Posted by: Diogenes
The '80s Bud Light commcerial where guys with beards jokingly put on dresses for Ladies Night became a reality.
Posted by: RickZ
I do recall, from my college days, that some bars changed it to "skirt night," whether due to lawsuits or just to be inclusive.
Then 375lb dudes in kilts drank them out of business and "skirt/ladies' nights" mostly ended.
Posted by: mikeski at January 29, 2025 12:17 AM (DgGvY)
That was for Krebs
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come
The ex-missus was from Beaver Falls, PA. In the Time of Joe Namath. Broadway Joe coming home to see his momma was a big deal to the locals.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:17 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:18 AM (ep0RS)
Several years later I learned from a sailor who was part of the recovery effort that the crew survived the explosion.
I certainly hope Bezos and Musk have built in better survivability.
You have to be a little nuts to run that risk.
Posted by: torabora at January 29, 2025 12:19 AM (azOw/)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 29, 2025 12:20 AM (pggNd)
How do you get resistance from a thruster in the vaccuum of space?
Posted by: Boss Moss
The resistance (source of the push, as it were) is against the nozzle of the thruster. It's the same thing for the rockets.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:20 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Son Of A Bishop at January 29, 2025 12:14 AM (G5+As)
Hmm.. yes.. clearly this was see as a place of healing. People would bring their broken-down soft serve machines and, along with an offering of sculpted chicken ingots, they would be placed upon the altar to seek intercession by the burger harlequin.
Posted by: 6000 AD Archaeologist at January 29, 2025 12:20 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: MammaB at January 29, 2025 12:22 AM (vvfvj)
This one his funding freeze on grants.
This shit will never end u til something is done to take away their power.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 29, 2025 12:22 AM (iBU20)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:23 AM (OS4gH)
Posted by: Boss Moss
It pushes on the Aether, of course.
"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" doesn't require there be something to push off of.
Consider taking a really Obama-like stance, and throwing a heavy weight. You don't move in the opposite direction because the air is pushing back on the weight, you move because momentum is conserved. You'd still move if you did the same thing on the Moon.
Posted by: mikeski at January 29, 2025 12:23 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:16 AM (OS4gH)
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You need to do the math.
/runs away
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 29, 2025 12:24 AM (GHvvy)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Grew up in Lawrence County. Chuck Tanner lived down the street from me.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 29, 2025 12:24 AM (sAmhv)
South Dakota Lt. Governor is discussing adding Trump to Mt. Rushmore.
Posted by: Boss Moss
Don't count your chickens before they get bird flu.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2025 12:26 AM (63Dwl)
Like the clowns who decided aliens or foreign nationals here illegally must be allowed or required to attend public schools at citizen expense.
That’s bullshit, and they should have been fired, and keep firing them till they get their mind right and read the Constitution properly instead of pulling shit out of their ass. The courts have done profound damage to this nation.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:27 AM (ep0RS)
This one his funding freeze on grants.
This shit will never end u til something is done to take away their power.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Then you do what democrat administrations do. Ignore them. They set those rules to play politics with. Return the favor.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 29, 2025 12:27 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:28 AM (ep0RS)
May have been an OMNI short story where every shuttle mission carried the main tank up into orbit and corraled them for someone to figure out what to do with them in the future.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Diet Coke and Mentos displays in space!
'Merica! Fuck, yeah!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:28 AM (xG4kz)
SPOILER ALERT: Linear B turned out to be an early form of Greek from the Mycenaean era, and hence, the earliest written form of any European language.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2025 12:30 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 29, 2025 12:32 AM (pggNd)
Do bars have Ladies Night anymore? Or did the scolds in the dems kill that too?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2025 11:48 PM (W/lyH)
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In CA, Ladies Day at car washes have been verboten by the pinch-faced scolds of the Left for at least the past three decades.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2025 12:33 AM (JkO4W)
I was worried it was a small refinery on the north side of town, so I turned on the TV. And then I saw the coverage of the landing and they were saying “we lost all contact with the shuttle 8 minutes ago” and I realized “oh shit, that really big rolling explosion happened 8 minutes ago” and I got this real sick feeling as I watched them wonder where it was.
People were picking up parts out of the East Texas woods for months.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2025 12:33 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:33 AM (ep0RS)
Another fine song to sing along with. Rock on.
https://youtu.be/iiw6aZTYpjA
G'nite, y'all. God grant you good days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sventh at January 29, 2025 12:33 AM (Wp9EI)
Worker: We've dug up all these ancient buildings that have this set of big yellow arches on them. What do you think they could be?
Expert: They were obviously churches. See how they are spread out, so there's one in almost every neighborhood? That was so pilgrims could walk from church to church, worshipping at each shrine.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Makes a good story. But, the truth of the matter is that they'll just ask Keith Richards to explain what it is.
Posted by: Orson at January 29, 2025 12:35 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Archer at January 29, 2025 12:35 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2025 12:33 AM (JkO4W)
I remember when strip clubs in Calgary would hold topless car washes on nice weekends.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 12:36 AM (8zz6B)
Un fucking real. They want gang leaders roaming the streets of the people they supposedly represent.
Will NYC voters ever wake the fuck up?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 29, 2025 12:36 AM (iBU20)
AOC is still on about natzes.
Posted by: Boss Moss
Has she married her schlub, Riley, yet? She'd better get a move on -- one of these days her incipient 'stache will come in strong and hard and be there for good.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:38 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:38 AM (QptYT)
I remember when strip clubs in Calgary would hold topless car washes on nice weekends.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Anyone who's built like that has got to be named, Charlene.
-- Dragline
Posted by: Archer at January 29, 2025 12:39 AM (IDphi)
I''m thinking it was supplied by aliens.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2025 12:41 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:38 AM (QptYT)
Apple computers are programmed in iTruscan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Nightwatch at January 29, 2025 12:42 AM (pggNd)
I''m thinking it was supplied by aliens.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2025 12:41 AM (JkO4W)
Any possible connection to Basque?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 12:43 AM (8zz6B)
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=VNWvv9QmeA8
What % of the annual drug consumption in the US went into producing that stuff...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 29, 2025 12:44 AM (NtUSo)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 29, 2025 12:44 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2025 12:45 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:45 AM (QptYT)
There are a few bilinguals which help with more important stuff, like how the language actually worked. enough to tell that it's not IndoEuropean (or Basque, or Berber, or whatever-else).
Posted by: gKWVE at January 29, 2025 12:45 AM (gKWVE)
5 [441 comments] 'whig'
6 [399 comments] 'Skip '
7 [390 comments] 'Bulg'
When are you three going to talk to Chad and Biff about getting the old band back together again?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:46 AM (xG4kz)
Indian Governor Offers $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decipher This 5,300-year-old Writing System
OK why does the governor of Indiiana care about this?
That's how I read it at first.
How's everyone tonight? Great day here, it hit 49, felt like a spring day.
Posted by: Farmer at January 29, 2025 12:47 AM (55Qr6)
The bit that stuck with me most was when they figured out that the Hittite word for water was… “water”.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Well, no shit, Sherlock
-- Helen Keller
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:48 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Just Got Here at January 29, 2025 12:50 AM (pu3mF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:51 AM (QptYT)
Posted by: Orson at January 29, 2025 12:35 AM (dIske)
Ha! Good one.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 29, 2025 12:53 AM (05UY5)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at January 29, 2025 12:55 AM (skRdM)
As an American, I will forever remain proud and in awe of the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo programs.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Damn right! As a kid, I was far more interested in them than any pansy-assed dinosaurs. "Don't bother me with Life's losers" was my motto.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 12:57 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 29, 2025 12:57 AM (05UY5)
312 IIRC, it was pure Oxygen. After that disaster, they mixed some Nitrogen with it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 28, 2025 11:49 PM (JVCkA)
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The problem was the extensive use of highly combustible polyurethane plastic in fhe Apollo capsule interior. The design specified use of an atmosphere of pure oxygen, but at a low pressure that provided same oxygen concentration as 1 atmosphere of air: 3 psi.
The ground testing on the pad used pure oxygen, but at atmospheric pressure (14.7 psi). In space, besides the low oxygen pressure, flame convection would have been suppressed by weightlessness. The fire would have at least spread much more slowly, or possibly not propagated.
After the fire, the Apollo capsule was redesigned to be non-flammable. This took about 18 months, and added 800 poinds to the weight of the capsule.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 29, 2025 12:58 AM (t1fZA)
Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2025 12:59 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 01:02 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 29, 2025 01:03 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2025 01:05 AM (fwDg9)
After the fire, the Apollo capsule was redesigned to be non-flammable. This took about 18 months, and added 800 poinds to the weight of the capsule.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
... and that, friends, is the heartbreaking reason why Danke Demoss was drummed out of thr corps of Apollo astronauts.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 01:05 AM (xG4kz)
She hated Tang.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 29, 2025 01:08 AM (mH6SG)
Playing Oregon Trail was like playing Clue, except that the cause of death was always dysentery.
Where you died and from whom you caught it was the only mystery.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 29, 2025 01:08 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: JQ at January 29, 2025 01:09 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2025 12:33 AM (7MHHr)
I have a very similar story. I was still in bed, about to get up to start the day, when I heard the sound of distant thunder, which I thought was unusual considering it was a clear morning. I quickly forgot about it and went about getting ready for the appointment at the dealership later that morning. While driving to the appointment, I was struck by the unusual message on the electronic signs on LBJ talking about shuttle debris, So I switched over to WBAP and listened to the unfolding tragedy until I got to the dealership, where everyone was huddled around the TV watching the first images of the breakup come in.
Posted by: goozer at January 29, 2025 01:12 AM (2yylN)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 29, 2025 01:03 AM (VwHCD)
I wonder if there is an online database of all known inscriptions in the Indus Valley script? Pair up the IV glyphs with known Egyptian ones, and see if the translations, rendered into English, make any kind of sense. If you could show convincingly that even one Egyptian glyph corresponds to a similar IV glyph in similar contexts, you'd be onto something. Say, if that diamond containing the smaller diamond appears in both Egyptian and IV inscriptions with a picture of a bull, maybe it means "dick".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:16 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2025 01:05 AM (fwDg9)
As a kid, I was a philtelist. Lots of stamps with space themes. My early favorite was the Gemini space walk pair that was full postage on each stamp.
Posted by: RickZ at January 29, 2025 01:19 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at January 29, 2025 01:21 AM (gKDq2)
Worker: We've dug up all these ancient buildings that have this set of big yellow arches on them. What do you think they could be?
Expert: They were obviously churches. See how they are spread out, so there's one in almost every neighborhood? That was so pilgrims could walk from church to church, worshipping at each shrine.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 29, 2025 12:10 AM (05UY5)
And will think the clown was worshipped.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:22 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: MammaB at January 29, 2025 12:22 AM (vvfvj)
That's not a cow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:22 AM (ynpvh)
Have a good rest of night everyone
Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2025 01:26 AM (fwDg9)
I even got about 3% of the ceiling covered with texture goop. That's hard work; my wrists kept cramping up. I am going to cut about 18" off the end of a broom stick and screw that into the roller handle so I can use it two-handed. Should help a lot. It's going to take a lot of the texture goop, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:27 AM (8zz6B)
Now she can sue NASA and Lyft.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 01:28 AM (Sgq8y)
Now she can sue NASA and Lyft.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 01:28 AM (Sgq8y)
If they ever carve her likeness into a mountain, they can call it Mt. Tushmore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:30 AM (8zz6B)
Now she can sue NASA and Lyft.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 01:28 AM (Sgq8y)
She has a heavenly body, which is to say she has the gravitational pull of a heavenly body...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:36 AM (ynpvh)
Now she can sue NASA and Lyft.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 01:28 AM (Sgq8y)
If they ever carve her likeness into a mountain, they can call it Mt. Tushmore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:30 AM (8zz6B)
Yo Mama's so fat, light bends around her...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:37 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:38 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:40 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:16 AM (8zz6B)
Well they both seem to have used the bull. The bull in ancient egypt was used a lot on pharaoh's obelisks. you would see the phrase "strong bull beloved of Ra, or strong bull arriving in thebes" shit like that. It's been a while since I studied this shit so I'm stretching my memory, but I don't remember if the bull was actually used as a hieroglyph itself. Egyptian is a little bit of a bitch, because the glyphs could be used as a single letter, or a bi-consonant , or a tri-consonant, or a determinative. But yeah, no clue what this other language is trying to say.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 29, 2025 01:46 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 01:50 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 02:01 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 02:01 AM (Sgq8y)
Well the only reason why I attempted that shit was because I was tired of going to museums and seeing all this stuff and nobody knew what it said. One day I said damn if I could only read the thing like Indiana jones, and it dawned on me I should give it a try. It all goes back to reading really. I never read crime drama, or fantasy, or sci-fi. It was always history or science stuff, so one thing just went into another.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 29, 2025 02:13 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 29, 2025 02:20 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 29, 2025 02:21 AM (VwHCD)
I shall ponder this. Good night, Horde, sleep well.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 29, 2025 02:22 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 29, 2025 02:54 AM (GHvvy)
Interesting the collusion even then of "justice" (DOJ) and mass media. And young Lana Turner was Hot in a sweater!
Posted by: Miflin at January 29, 2025 03:04 AM (aA6YN)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads "
She's on the upper right on the cute/smart graph.
Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2025 03:13 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2025 03:17 AM (fV+MH)
Life In A Northern Town takes me back. I always found it to be melancholic.
Reagan's speech was (and is) beautiful. I looked it up; I didn't realize the "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" line is a combination of the first and last lines of a poem called "High Flight" combined together, which is brilliant. I also didn't realize that Peggy Noonan wrote the speech. His delivery was still perfect.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at January 29, 2025 03:32 AM (lg881)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 03:53 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: NR Pax at January 29, 2025 03:55 AM (lXCUP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 03:58 AM (omVj0)
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She's on the upper right on the cute/smart graph.
Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2025
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I said yesterday that she's a General Products No. 2 hull with hyperdrive. Invulnerable, and she can flash across space at three days to the light year!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 03:59 AM (omVj0)
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