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    Real-Life Stargate Discovered?

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    Image of Insomnia Bob Insomnia Bob
    11/16/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    I think your being to hard on the gizmo, Newitz.

    It doesn't seem that boring to me. #stargate
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/16/09

    @Insomnia Bob: Punderful. #stargate
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    11/16/09

    @Hamslicer: I try. #stargate
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/16/09

    @Insomnia Bob: The most ironic part is that it stops boring when it gets dull! Ta-DA!!!! Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal. ;-D #stargate
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    Image of Aethyr Aethyr
    11/15/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    Those things look awesome. Reminds me of that scene in Ocean's Thirteen where they caused an artificial earthquake with one. #bored #stargate
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/15/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    I remember reading some years ago an article on concerns about how easy these machines made boring. A century ago when you wanted a subway tunnel, it was so expensive and took so long that immense research, preparation and planning had to be done. Now it's so easy (relatively speaking) that far less planning is done, resulting in poorly thought out tunnels being bored.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/15/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    You had me at 'Real-life Stargate Discovered'.....

    But then you crushed my dreams like rock being crushed by a boring device!!

    How Boring!! #stargate
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    Image of phiphax phiphax
    11/15/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): my feelings exactly! #stargate
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    Image of Cribbage Left Cribbage Left
    11/15/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    Here's a video showing how these things work. It's a real nerdgasm. enjoy. #stargate
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/15/09

    @Cribbage Left: Definitely worth the four minutes. Thanks for posting this.

    I for one welcome our new boring masters. #stargate
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    11/15/09

    @Chip Overclock: @Yamato:
    Thanks. I was afraid it would be a bit...boring.

    ba-dum-kshh! #stargate
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    Image of leicester leicester
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    More of the bad boys.

    [www.theblogbelow.com] #stargate
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/14/09

    @leicester: Wouldn't it be easier to employ some Hortas? #stargate
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    11/14/09

    @Roklimber: Captain, the horta is a remarkably intelligent and sensitive creature... with impeccable taste.

    (more reasonable than graboids, at least...) #stargate
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/15/09

    @leicester:
    Horta:
    "please allow me to introduce myself
    I'm a man of wealth and taste" #stargate
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    Ok, since others have already made all the Stargate-related jokes and all the boring-related jokes I could think of, I'll try something else entirely.

    It looks to me like a giant beer cap. Where's the bottle? #stargate
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    Everyone knows that that's a fake Stargate that the SGC planted there to get the conspiracy theorists buzzing. They do crazy things like that every few years and make sure the right nutcases find out about it so that it'll take the light off of their real activities.

    And on closer inspection of that photo, I do believe that that's Teal'c standing next to the thing. Oh, that whacky Jaffa. #stargate
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/15/09

    @Smeagol92055: It's not as good as when they Wormhole X-treme. #stargate
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/15/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: But did they accidentally the whole Wormhole X-treme? #stargate
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    If you go to BLDG BLOG page for november ( [bldgblog.blogspot.com] ) and scroll about half-way down the page, you'll see that this tunnel boring machine is emerging from the construction site of the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear entombment facility. The hazardous waste products they want to store there have to be isolated from the environment for a million years or more before they properly decay.

    Apparently the Obama administration says the site is no longer feasible, but your congress is still providing some funding for it, just in case.

    It looks like a really interesting (if lengthy) story; worth checking out. #stargate
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    Image of botanicidal botanicidal
    11/14/09

    @Anekanta - Former Space Hippy!: Agreed! It's definitely and long, but very enjoyable article. #stargate
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    It was captured by the Department of Energy? Who did they capture it from, the Goa'ulds? #stargate
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    Good thing it wasn't buried in snow, those Norwegians would have blown it. #stargate
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    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    I'm listening to the audio version of the Tommyknockers and when I first saw the above picture my immediate thought was "Oh my God, not a remake of that dog of a movie!" #stargate
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    So thats where I left my screw driver. #stargate
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    Image of ergasiophobiac ergasiophobiac
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    Captured by the Department of Energy, eh? How long did it take them to find that Shai'Hulud? #stargate
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/15/09

    @ergasiophobiac: Not as long as it took them to learn to ride it and obtain the distillate of motion from them. #stargate
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    Image of zapan zapan
    11/14/09

    In reply to Real-Life Stargate Discovered?
    The question is, why is that construction guy looks like he's about to take a pee on it ? #stargate
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    Image of strideo strideo
    11/14/09

    @zapan: Hey, when you gotta go you gotta go! #stargate
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/14/09

    @zapan: Despite being clearly overshadowed by the massive drilling machine, that was the first thing I noticed too.. #stargate
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