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    Our Atmosphere: A Fragile Sliver Of Blue Against An Endless Black

    Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms

    Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets

    An Experimental Rocket Soars Over The Coast, On Its Way To A Pre-Planned Disaster

    Astronauts Drink Their Own Urine For The First Time

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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/01/09

    In reply to Our Atmosphere: A Fragile Sliver Of Blue Against An Endless Black
    It reminds me of the opening shot of 2001: A Space Odyssey. All the more cool for being real. My girlfriend is playing some trippy New Age music and this takes me back to my youthful trips to the planetarium or an episode of Cosmos. Where's Carl Sagan to narrate,"And so our journey begins billions and billions of years ago..."
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    11/30/09

    In reply to Our Atmosphere: A Fragile Sliver Of Blue Against An Endless Black
    Bonus points for the Iain Banks reference, Charlie.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/30/09

    In reply to Our Atmosphere: A Fragile Sliver Of Blue Against An Endless Black
    There were lots of great shots from STS-129. This one is my favorite:
    here
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/30/09

    @Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: The self portrait is very cool.
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/30/09

    In reply to Our Atmosphere: A Fragile Sliver Of Blue Against An Endless Black
    Is anyone else panicking about how tiny it is? We're gonna die!
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/30/09

    @geesejuggler: Seriously, I'm having trouble breathing all the sudden. There are a ton of people around me and my only thought is that they're using up all the oxygen. Stop using my oxygen!
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: That's not your oxygen, it's mine! Stop that respirating right now, RFF!
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/30/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Stop yelling! It's increasing our rate of respiration!
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    Image of winshape winshape
    11/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: No no no...keep yelling. It increases sales of my Perri-Aire.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Relax.... they're just borrowing it. Hooking it and it's friend up with a little carbon-based 3way. A trip through the nearest green thing and it'll be back, good as new.
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    11/22/09

    In reply to Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
    hopefully, we won't see the shuttle dragging its ass across the space station.

    #@!
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    Image of erzwatts erzwatts
    11/21/09

    In reply to Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
    "Some time later, a colony of C. elegans that had been on board was found in the crashed wreckage, alive and well."

    Creepy
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    Image of theCrippleCricket theCrippleCricket
    11/21/09

    In reply to Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
    Wonder if these worms will duke it out with the juiced up monkeys from yesterdays post...

    Either way, apparently cripple will be fixed in some wicked crazy comic book style way. I'm going to go buy a cape to prepare...
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/21/09

    In reply to Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms
    And you're absolutely sure this has nothing to do with turning watery worlds into deserts?
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    Image of theCrippleCricket theCrippleCricket
    11/21/09

    @Bill-Lee: The Spice must flow, dude. My cripple bene-gesserit program is gonna be totally awesome!
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/21/09

    @Bill-Lee: Oh, Dune. It's the sci-fi gift that keeps giving.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    07/21/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    No love for the zero-g toilet from 2001?
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    Image of Luziphir Luziphir
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    I don't know what that sign at the top of the page is from, but ZZ is male and ZW is female. Unless they're trying to get some hot human on alien action going then um... whoops?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/20/09

    @Luziphir: Those signs were put up at the Los Angeles WorldCon back in 2006. I've got photos of them myself. I don't know if they were promoting anything, or if they were just for the funny.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    07/20/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Mrs. Overclock saw them just back in February on the restrooms in the lobby of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
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    Image of Luziphir Luziphir
    07/21/09

    @Luziphir: Just to clarify, ZZ/ZW is the actual sex determination system in birds and some insects so it's not like they just came up with some random letters, they were going for something based on reality and either fucked it up or did it intentionally to avoid confusing morons who failed high school biology. Either way that's kind of annoying >:(
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    Image of Zapp Brannigan's Girdle Zapp Brannigan's Girdle
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    A slight correction, even though I really hate to sound like some sort of hyper-offended fanboy, but the brig toilet was seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, not The Undiscovered Country.

    I feel so dirty now.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/20/09

    @Zapp Brannigan's Girdle: It's OK. I noticed it too. Sybok would say you should embrace your pain.
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    Image of Shadowcat24 Shadowcat24
    07/21/09

    @Zapp Brannigan's Girdle: I noticed the brig toilet in ST V too. It was pretty conventional. It looks like what they use in a jail or prison today. My friends and I used to joke about the toilets on Star Trek. A ship the size of the Enterprise would have to have a LOT of toilets. Come to think of it, I don't think I saw a toilet in any episodes of the original series.
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    Image of Zapp Brannigan's Girdle Zapp Brannigan's Girdle
    07/22/09

    @Shadowcat24: As limited as the budget was in the original series, they probably couldn't even afford a cardboard toilet.
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    Image of palmer45 palmer45
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    Wonder where's the bathroom on the TARDIS, if it even has one! Though it has to since it has all those rooms we haven't seen in the new series...except the wardrobe room.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/20/09

    @ComradeLenin: There's a bucket in the corner.
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    What about Spaceballs? The toilets may not have been futuristic, but the video conference screens above them were pretty awesome... though it would be hard to conference with them while blasting a dookie.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    The Lexx licking toilet would kind of creep me out. Okay, replace kind of with totally.

    Starbuck staring/glaring at me while she pees is disturbing mostly because I prefer not to make eye contact while pissing.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    07/20/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Dude, stagefright. No talking, no looking, no singing, no eating. A minimum 30 feet from the door.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    he doesn't know what to do with the sea shells
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    Image of edosan edosan
    07/20/09

    @tetracycloide: Thank you for remembering that one.
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