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I like how everyone gets all confused when znufrii is actually right about something. - TWuG Jul 16, 10:48
Nuke the moon! -- nm - Loyola Jul 16, 10:44 1
- WE LOVE THE MOON!!! BECAUSE IT IS GOOD TO US!!! -- nm - Spongemonkeys Jul 16, 10:48
Urban Outfitters stores: Take an extra 50% off items already on sale. Ends July 19th. -- (link) - con_carne Jul 16, 10:41 1
- Sweet, I need a few things. Thanks for the post. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:46
Facebook is becoming impossible to use lately. I think i might quit going there -- nm - Guy Jul 16, 10:40 7
- I still hate that they removed the "Recently Updated" page which listed what your friends updated in their profiles. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 16, 10:47
- The photos you post there are awesome, IMO -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 10:44 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - Guy Jul 16, 10:48
- I barely use it for anything other than Mousehunt. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:40 3
  - I am having horn withdrawls right now -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jul 16, 10:42 2
    - CT keeps beating me to it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:44
    - Human horn? (nm) - Space Alien Jul 16, 10:42
To answer Krusty: What is there to gain from going back to the Moon? Knowledge. - TWuG Jul 16, 10:36 41
- though if I was in charge of NASA, I would make sending a probe/orbiter to Europa my primary mission. -- nm - Jovian Jul 16, 10:41 2
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  - All these worlds are yours, except... -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:43
- just think what a Hubble type telescope installed on the dark side of the moon could accomplish? - Jovian Jul 16, 10:40 22
  - thats an impossible dream - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:42
  - We've already got a duplicate military Hubble on the dark side of the moon. Shut up about it or lose my respect. -- nm - President Bartlet Jul 16, 10:42
  - (spoilers) - znufrii Jul 16, 10:41 18
    - umm you sure about that? I could of sworn the moon doesnt rotate? -- nm - Jovian Jul 16, 10:42 17
      - the moon is heavier on one side than the other, so it's rotation is in lock-step with its orbit around earth; the same side always faces us -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:43 1
        
        No, that's not why. It's tidal locking. -- (link) - Reagen Jul 16, 10:44
      - it rotates at the same rate it revolves, so the same side is always facing the earth. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 10:43 14
        
        Beat me to it. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:43
        
        yes so the dark side is always the dark side -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:43 12
        
        ummm...no. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 10:45
        
        it's free of light pollution from earth, but it's not dark in the photonic bombardment sense. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:45
        
        No, every part of the moon gets light. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:45 5
        
        In this contaxt, the word "dark" means we don't see it from Earth. -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 10:46 4
        
        That's not the impression I got. The statement leads me to believe that someone thinks the same part of the moon is dark or never gets light. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:48 1
        
        That's because The Pink Floyd is dumb. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:49
        
        or, "evil." -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:47 1
        
        or "more" - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:47
        
        if you're located on earth it is - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:44
        
        wiki -- (link) - Beaker Jul 16, 10:44 2
        
        and upon further reading I am mistaken :) -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:45 1
        
        in 10 years you can see it for yourself - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:48
  - I was just thinking this too. -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:41
- Drill it for oil. Drill Drill Drill!!! -- nm - Sarah Palien Jul 16, 10:40
- Plus, I believe that's where all the hoverbikes are being stored -- nm - prayformojo Jul 16, 10:39
- I see it as a huge waste of money right now. I can't get over how much is spent each year. - Krusty Jul 16, 10:39 5
  - It's not like the money disappears. It's making a lot of people work -- nm - Guigue Jul 16, 10:45 1
    - And what isn't salary is a *huge* chunk of money. - Krusty Jul 16, 10:49
  - Well they're already printing money. What's a few trillion more when you're already 15 trillion in debt. Let's go to the moon! -- nm - Loyola Jul 16, 10:43
  - it's a question of how high on the list of priorities you put progress -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:41
  - How can we learn Warp travel unless we spend money! The Klingons will kill us all!! -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:40
- To kill Hitler -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jul 16, 10:37
- Right. It's a mistaken assumption that scientists have something in mind when they do research. - Pat Sajak Jul 16, 10:37 4
  - *puppy dog head tilt* (nm) - Vanna White Jul 16, 10:38 3
    - BL_W M_. - Pat Sajak Jul 16, 10:40 1
      - "BL_W MA"? *head tilt* (nm) - Vanna White Jul 16, 10:43
    - {Mini Thread of the Day} -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:40
- And cheese! Don't forget the cheese! (nm) - Wallace Jul 16, 10:37
"Our top story Tonight, Four-alarm fire rages through Downtown Tokyo. Also in the news, American Lunar Mission locked in death struggle." -- nm - Tokyo anchorman Jul 16, 10:34 1
- *screams in terror* -- nm - Pat Sajak Jul 16, 10:36
Hahaha a facebook picture of Jon Gosslin's new 22yo girlfriend -- (link) - Hotkiss Jul 16, 10:27 [Image] 16
- As someone who knows of this...what the hell happened? - Mel Profit Jul 16, 10:35 2
  - who knows nothing of this... -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 16, 10:36 1
    - the tabloids (so, take that into consideration) are calling her the 'wild child' girlfriend. -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 10:46
- *fiancee* -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 10:28 12
  - That has tried to be on numerous TV shows and decided that mailing him was her best shot. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 10:29 11
    - Mailed him a letter, "Will fuck, for fame." -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 10:29 10
      - Here it is. -- (link) - Spawn Jul 16, 10:34
      - The guy is stunningly unattractive. I also keep wondering what mix of ethnicities he is -- nm - Hotkiss Jul 16, 10:30 8
        
        according to this - Korean, Welsh and French - Andie Jul 16, 10:33 1
        
        that explains everything, then -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:33
        
        Korean. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 10:32
        
        his dad was a GI. -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:31 1
        
        Was he accelerated? -- nm - Shaun Jul 16, 10:32
        
        polynesian, i believe. (and i don't think he's unattractive, just not super-hot.) -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 10:31
        
        I think he's half-white, half-hawaiian or korean. Or some quartering thereof. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:31 1
        
        (oh, ok - as per andie's post, half-korean. *Raised* in Hawaii.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:34
What replaced all those trans fats? -- (link) - con_carne Jul 16, 10:26
sigh. - tRuMaN Jul 16, 10:26 4
- I saw a license plate the other days that read "MONKEYS". -- nm - Shaun Jul 16, 10:28 1
  - I really have considered gettting such a plate. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 16, 10:45
- maybe you need a helping hand. :0 -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 10:27 1
  - :) rather. stupid cap lock -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 10:27
There are different joke standards for hump days and non-hump days? who knew? -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:24 2
- It is all in the handbook. -- nm - Spawn Jul 16, 10:26
- Yo. Face. -- nm - Shaun Jul 16, 10:25
Is the Man on Mars project still happening or did that get axed? -- nm - Inigo Jul 16, 10:23 1
- Axed. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 16, 10:24
What's the point of research into the nature of atoms? - Reagen Jul 16, 10:23 45
- Learn stuff? Uhm, I'm American, I don't have to do that. (nm) - musubi Jul 16, 10:27
- surely we can all agree that the day pigs command space vessels is the day the program has gotten out of hand. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:26 2
  - Come over here and feel my velour bedspread. -- nm - Zapp Brannigan si Jul 16, 10:28
  - you shut your filthy mouth. -- nm - link hogthrob Jul 16, 10:27
- New element named 'copernicium' -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:24
- Then honestly, i'm cool with private industry doing things like that. The government has more real-world things they can waste my tax money on. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 16, 10:24 39
  - the problem is that the barriers to entry are so high, and the risk-reward ratio is unknown, at best, you're going to have trouble attracting - znufrii Jul 16, 10:37 15
    - So.....we should have govt do it becuase the people whose jobs' it is to make money/progress aren't sure it'd be worth it? - Will Hunting Jul 16, 10:40 3
      - yep, that's exactly it. the one exception being... - TFox Jul 16, 10:43 2
        
        Put it this way, if I thought our govt had any concept of fiscal sanity, i'd be on board with NASA going back to the moon. - Will Hunting Jul 16, 10:44 1
        
        i will also admit that we waste billions on way dumber things than space. but the other things are proving harder to fix and curtail. - TFox Jul 16, 10:46
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      - not coming. - znufrii Jul 16, 10:42 1
        
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    - "the risk-reward ratio is unknown, at best" is exactly why there is hesitation at tossing significant funds at it. -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:38 7
      - but wouldn't it be more within the sphere of public funding to make those investements, and take on those risks? - znufrii Jul 16, 10:40 6
        
        the fact that public funding doesn't consider risk and reward more is a huge problem, and mainly why we have many of these economic problems. - TFox Jul 16, 10:44
        
        Nope. - Will Hunting Jul 16, 10:42 4
        
        then you and I have completely opposite ideas of the proper function of government, in this regard. - znufrii Jul 16, 10:47 3
        
        which is fine if they have the money, and can do so within budget, but they can't. - TFox Jul 16, 10:49 2
        
        well, wether they *can* is a different argument than whether they *should* - znufrii Jul 16, 10:51 1
        
        well, it's whether we should in the real world, or should in imaginary land. -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:52
  - Hm. Private industry do research that they would then share with the world? What would the profit be from that? -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 10:29 16
    - they are sharing it via the act of profiting from it. there is no rule that scientific discovery needs to be shared for free. -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:31 15
      - I would trust private industry to exploit, fuck up, and destroy the moon and other planets. Like they did with strip mining, for example. - con_carne Jul 16, 10:37
      - I think both tracks are valid. Both public and private can push each other further than either alone. (nm) - musubi Jul 16, 10:34
      - Not sharing it for free impedes progress. Also, it's why the pharmaceuticals in your country cost a fuckton and tend to drive people to bankruptcy. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:32 10
        
        well, sort of. the reason pharmaceuticals cost a ton isn't because of the science, its because of the government's protections to induce them. - TFox Jul 16, 10:35
        
        If you force people to share for free, it just means things don't get made in the first place. -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 10:34 7
        
        and yet, you're using the Internet, which was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:34 6
        
        and on top of that, you're using the World Wide Web, over HTTP, created by Tim Burners-Lee while he worked at CERN. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:35 5
        
        This is true, but they weren't generally used until proprietary web browsers were developed. -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 10:40 2
        
        Way to miss the point. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:41 1
        
        Yes I did - I should have gone for "If someone invests $X in research, you can't expect them to give away the benefits of that research for nothing" - Roger More Jul 16, 10:55
        
        i think *space* exploration in very very important, i don't think the *moon* is a high priority. -- nm - Andie Jul 16, 10:37 1
        
        the moon is a perfect relay station for research, like Amundsen-Scott Base in Antarctica. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:39
        
        (And, of course, sharing it for free completely demotivates corporations to invest money in it) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:33
      - so i get the recipy for Coca Cola Classic when i buy one? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:32 1
        
        no, but you get to enjoy Coke. not everyone needs the recipe. -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:36
  - promoting science can hardly be called a waste -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 16, 10:28
  - I agree. I'm all for cutting NASA's budget a lot and taking care of the issues we have on Earth. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:27 1
    - a lot of issues could be solved by sending them into space though. - TFox Jul 16, 10:28
  - America should indeed concentrate on things like infrastructure upgrades, to prevent more bridges from collapsing. - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:27
  - "The Moon, a Weyland Yutani joint" -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 10:26 1
    - exactly. -- nm - Reagen Jul 16, 10:26
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- Yung Mi? (nm) - musubi Jul 16, 10:25
I'm an apprentice! -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 16, 10:21 3
- I got to it today too. - Krusty Jul 16, 10:23
- now fetch your pail of water and mop this place up. -- nm - Max Jul 16, 10:23
- You're Fired! -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 10:22
Is it some kind of fashion statement to wear white/black sneakers with a suit? (Like this picture) I saw some dude wear that at a black tie wedding. - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 16, 10:18 [Image] 15
- *nods* -- nm - Dr Who Jul 16, 10:32
- I can't imagine the statement being anything else than, "I'm a total douche" -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 10:25
- That style probably hasn't gotten down to the state school level yet. :) nm - Jim Jul 16, 10:25 1
  - State schools suck. -- nm - Shaun Jul 16, 10:26
- damn hipsters. -- nm - mafic Jul 16, 10:24
- I don't own dress shoes. -- nm - (500) Days of Dano Jul 16, 10:22
- All I know is I see it a lot in movies from the 80's -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 10:22
- Not related at all to the linked picture, but NABC coaches annually wear sneakers with their suits for cancer awareness. (link) - musubi Jul 16, 10:22
- i think it's supposed to add a touch of humour and whimsy. - Andie Jul 16, 10:20 3
  - "post-ironic". :) it's my fun word of the day. - Beryllium Jul 16, 10:22
  - Prom might be okay.. you are 18.. but I think once you enter the real world it just looks silly. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 16, 10:21 1
    - I agree. He needs to go buy some shoes. -- nm - Krusty Jul 16, 10:25
- maybe if you are in a Kanye West video. -- nm - TFox Jul 16, 10:19
- He looks like he fell out of a trash can. -- nm - Loyola Jul 16, 10:18 1
  - That's besides the point. :) -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 16, 10:22
*colonizes B1* -- nm - con_carne Jul 16, 10:17 2
- *pilages* -- nm - Beaker Jul 16, 10:31
- Get your "space probe" away from me!!! -- nm - B1 Jul 16, 10:18

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