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    Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light

    New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars

    Lava Caves Filled with the Most Beautiful Excrement in the World

    Undeterred by Time-Traveling Saboteurs, the LHC Begins Colliding

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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    11/26/09

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    DUDE. What do we need to go into space for? The Earth is fantastic and creepy enough to explore.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/25/09

    In reply to New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars
    As neat as this all is, the bottom line is the same as it was back in 1996: we won't prove a damn thing until we discover this sort of thing *on Mars*.

    Get. Your. Ass. To Mahs.

    (I don't want to go to Saturn-- I said Mahs!)
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    In reply to New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars
    I knew I shouldn't have peed on Mars when I was coming to Earth. But, hey, stupid engineers don't make decent bathrooms in spaceships, you know, and when you gotta go, you gotta go.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    Hah... someone has been reading the tips. :)
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    Image of fraying fraying
    11/25/09

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    The content of the video is interesting enough on its own. What's with the wacky horror movie type flashes?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/25/09

    In reply to New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars
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    Image of mekki mekki
    11/25/09

    In reply to New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars
    So this meteorite was found in Antarctica with Earth like bacteria. How do we know the bacteria simply didn't come from Earth itself and some how got onto the mertorite?
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/25/09

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    It's in my head! It's in my head! *Squirming immensely*
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/25/09

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    the old 'visible digestive system' is near the top on the 'Do Not Want' list.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/25/09

    In reply to Beautiful and Terrifying Creatures From The Edge Of Light
    When watching the video i kept waiting for the camera to get knocked and then swallowed by something with very very big teeth.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/25/09

    In reply to New Evidence Points to Fossilized Life on Mars
    One day a scientist is going to get stoned and lick one of those mars meteorites, the bacteria in his mouth will interact with the dormant bacteria in the meteorite and some time not long after Will Smith will be walking down a street alone.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/25/09

    @Jassen: or the zombie plague will really happen and we won't be sick of all these krappy zombie films cause it will become reality thanks to some martian spooges.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/25/09

    @gorehound: i must admit to really disliking the idea of being turned into a zombie because of martian spooge.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/25/09

    @Jassen: I agree, that's just icky.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/25/09

    @gorehound: We will no longer hate zombie films. We will use them as training aids.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/24/09

    In reply to Lava Caves Filled with the Most Beautiful Excrement in the World
    I wonder if you would trip if you eat a drop of photo #1 ? maybe it is some weird kind of magic microbe poop.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake.
    11/24/09

    In reply to Undeterred by Time-Traveling Saboteurs, the LHC Begins Colliding
    In a last minute press release, the varied members of the science community directly involved in the CERN project shocked the world with their real goals behind the experiment. Nerd spokesperson Professor Julius Kelp was quoted as saying, "We apologize sincerely for the lies and the secrecy but the Higgs Boson is a farce. The LHC is really an attempt to reset the Universe over and oevr again in the hopes that all of us can watch Jurassic Park for the first time again. That is all." One audience member at the press release had this to say, "I'm stunned but I understand. That shit was so intense and now it's all like, ok, that T-Rex don't look real at all. I guess I support this."

    blah...blah...blah...
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    Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was starred Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was unstarred
    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/24/09

    In reply to Lava Caves Filled with the Most Beautiful Excrement in the World
    From now on when my nephew makes poo in his diaper, I shall call it the "formation of intelligent life!"
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/24/09

    In reply to Lava Caves Filled with the Most Beautiful Excrement in the World
    The key to intelligent life on Mars is poop? I don't want to be an astronaut anymore if that's where the search for life begins. Ewwww.
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