On the way to Pluto at last!
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Hey, a Stuckey's!!! Can we stop?
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
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Heard the first bit of audio from the CD that is coming out 2015-08-14, to coincide with Closest Approach.
Maybe the CD should be titled Closest Approach. Nah. Anyhow, the orchestra sounds good.
Maybe the CD should be titled Closest Approach. Nah. Anyhow, the orchestra sounds good.
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Sleeping beauty awakens!
A signal is coming in from it.
Meanwhile, my record company has started their phase of the job...
A signal is coming in from it.
Meanwhile, my record company has started their phase of the job...
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HONK motherfuckers, HONK!
You can lead them to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
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It is certainly fucking Uranus, but that is not the point.
You are a honky. You will HONK!
--J.D.
You are a honky. You will HONK!
--J.D.
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We were supposed to start getting pictures already. Word on the street is that there's nothing to see yet—it's just a dot, but the autonomous navigation system is using the dot for course corrections.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
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"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
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Indeed.
HONK!

You can lead them to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
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Pluto and Charon orbiting each other, shot by NH a couple weeks ago and downlinked to Earth some time since then.
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Ain't science grand?
Oh, and HONK!
Oh, and HONK!
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NASA expect to have pictures better than Hubble's by the end of this month
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Hubble, Bubble, who gives a HONK?
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Where-i ... /index.php
(NASA sports graphics like something out of the 70es…)
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Don't we now know enough about the solar system, all its moons and asteroids, plutoids, Abdul's anuses and the rest to have concluded that there's fuck all out there of any value to humanity?
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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Maybe.
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You may diminish the importance of Uranus. . . .
--J.D.
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DocX: FTW. – sparks
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"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
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Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
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NBA CHAMPIONS!! Stanley Cup!
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DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
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There's an AMA on reddit with the guy who killed Pluto. Let's all go there and give him what for!

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comment ... planetary/
Such potential!
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Seriously, when I was a very wee camel, my mother made my brother and me watch the first moon landing, (I was four years old), and told us we must remember this because it was so important. I complied, and it's one of the few memories of early childhood that remain in my aging noggin. It also inspired a great interest in space exploration and love of science fiction.Doctor X wrote:You may diminish the importance of Uranus. . . .
--J.D.
The love of science fiction has not faded but my interest in space exploration has gradually faded to almost zero.
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Just about sums it up.
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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When I was that age, I thought we were all going to space really soon. So I worried about things that depend on gravity to function, like cars, and cups, and grand pianos.
Later, I got nauseous from riding an airplane through turbulence. It dawned on me that space would be like that.

Later, I got nauseous from riding an airplane through turbulence. It dawned on me that space would be like that.



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Hmmm. Now you've got me wondering if harmonicas would work in zero gravity.
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Only when you're not retchingasthmatic camel wrote:Hmmm. Now you've got me wondering if harmonicas would work in zero gravity.
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That could give an interesting variation on "throat vibrato". 

Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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When we were discussing Uranus?

--J.D.

--J.D.
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"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
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Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
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"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
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Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
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Sicko.
I was wondering if it would be possible to eject a multicoloured yawn through all ten holes of a diatonic harmonica at the same time.
On second thoughts, perhaps it's me who's the sicko.
I was wondering if it would be possible to eject a multicoloured yawn through all ten holes of a diatonic harmonica at the same time.
On second thoughts, perhaps it's me who's the sicko.
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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For your entertainment, I took these pics at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry. They really do have a large model Enterprise hanging from the ceiling in the aircraft hall. 









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That's a big bucket of Science being mixed up with a bunch of science fiction. It is a museum of science, right?
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Heh. It's actually a fantastic museum, trains, planes, automobiles, all sorts of industrial machinery including rebuilt, working steam engines, a mock up of Roman sewer works and much, much more. It does incorporate the very special Mancunian sense of humour.
Here's a few more for you.




And some Abdul porn.



Here's a few more for you.




And some Abdul porn.




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Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.
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DrMatt wrote:Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.

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Not very round, is it? Looking more like an unfinished Death Star.Witness wrote:DrMatt wrote:Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.

Such potential!
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HONK!
--J.D.
--J.D.
Mob of the Mean: Free beanie, cattle-prod and Charley Fan Club!
"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
WS CHAMPIONS X4!!!!
NBA CHAMPIONS!! Stanley Cup!
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"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome




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So you're saying the Maltese Falcon is a planet.
Some people's kids.....
Some people's kids.....
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See, they were right when they said "That's no planet!"Bruce wrote:Not very round, is it? Looking more like an unfinished Death Star.Witness wrote:DrMatt wrote:Another photo has been released. It has about twice the resolution of the photo from a month ago. Pluto definitely has features.
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Wot, you that down on Henny Youngman?Abdul Alhazred wrote:gnome wrote:See, they were right when they said "That's no planet!"![]()
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