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    Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Beautiful Music Video Launch

    Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms

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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    12/05/09

    In reply to Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Beautiful Music Video Launch
    I hate crying in public.
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    Image of GeneralBattuta GeneralBattuta
    12/05/09

    @Chip Overclock: I totally cried too.

    I cry every time I see a launch.
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    12/04/09

    In reply to Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Beautiful Music Video Launch
    Wow. Love the launch sounds, 4:30+ That hiss of fuel at the beginning, then the rush of ignition, and then the thunder. Fuckin flame ON!
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/04/09

    In reply to Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Beautiful Music Video Launch
    As being a long time follower of the space program. That was the coolest thing I have seen in along time. OMFG! The Apollo missions are imho the greatest scientific / exploritory achievement the human race has accomplished to date.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    12/04/09

    In reply to Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Beautiful Music Video Launch
    Simply awesome.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    In reply to Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Beautiful Music Video Launch
    OMFG, this is awesome, especially from 4:30 onwards.
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    Image of Shikome Shikome
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: Yepp, pure awesomeness indeed!
    My girl caught a glimpse of me while watching this... asked me if I was watching porn :P
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    12/04/09

    @Shikome: SPACE PORN!
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @Shikome: I watched it 3 times now and I'm still kinda speechless.

    As a kid, I used to keep newspaper clips about the space program and at one point I wrote to NASA for pictures, which they sent me, for free. I also followed with great interest the descent of SkyLab in 1979.

    That is to say, I'm a total sucker for space-related stuff.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: Oh I love it all. The Crawler is my favorite Earth bound vehicle. There is a competition for tickets to the last shuttle launch, and I just don't have the heart to enter. Its just too sad.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @LittleDragon: Here's an awesome picture of the crawler.

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    You know, it reminds me of Thunderbirds...
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    Image of Shikome Shikome
    12/04/09

    @LittleDragon: Look up the "Dirty Jobs" episode where he greases the Crawlers cogs :)
    Its hilarious in a Dirty Jobs kinda way!
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: That is a beautiful picture. I remember seeing it the one time I was at the space port. It was so cool. I just wanted to run over and climb on it. But there were heavily armed men who looked like they would not approve.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @LittleDragon: You allowed yourself to be stopped by a mere group of armed men? Who are you and what did you do with the evil genius I've come to befriend and respect here?
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: Even evil geniuses know to respect a squad of special forces. Especially when that EG is 18 and completely cut off from all resources, at the mercy of education facilitators.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @LittleDragon: Baloney! The LittleDragon I know would have thrown a couple of mini-blackholes towards those so-called facilitators and then she would have teleported the crawler away. :)
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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 Alexis Alexis
    05/01/09

    In reply to Celebrate Space Day With The Shuttle Astronauts And An ISS Webcam
    Did anyone ever go to Space Camp? That picture took me back.


    Not that I would do anything as nerdy as Space Camp...

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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    05/01/09

    In reply to A Gorgeous Day for Jet Planes and Space Shuttles
    Two shuttles at once? OMG run for the hills, Armageddon cometh!!!


    Without the Ben Affleck overacting, I mean...

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/01/09

    @Gearhead_42: These are no reindeer games.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/01/09

    @Gearhead_42: They always toss a second shuttle onto the pad for trips to the Hubble. The ISS can't be used as a safehaven if something goes wrong because it's too far away, so a second shuttle has to be on standby in case of a need for a rescue mission.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/01/09

    In reply to A Gorgeous Day for Jet Planes and Space Shuttles
    This is Space Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.


    Negative Space Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.


    No Lisa Nowack, this is not a good idea!


    Sorry Goose, but it is time to buzz the house of that cheating bastard!

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/01/09

    In reply to A Gorgeous Day for Jet Planes and Space Shuttles
    mmm. needs more Statue of Liberty and overreaction.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/01/09

    @Garrison Dean: Like video of idiots running towards the Goldman Sachs building?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/01/09

    @Garrison Dean: *wets pants* Wait, I'm in San Jose...
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/01/09

    In reply to A Gorgeous Day for Jet Planes and Space Shuttles
    Mmm... planes. Color saturation reminds me of a 70s era photo. Heh.
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    03/24/09

    In reply to Sitting In a Tin Can High Above the World
    Can you imagine what an incredibly strange experience it is to be floating like this, in actual space?

    I think about that a lot.

    I also ate a lot of 'shrooms a while back and I'm thinking maybe that had something to with it.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    03/24/09

    @Calraigh: I have been dreaming about it since I was 9 and I don't have the 'shroom excuse.
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    03/24/09

    @LittleDragon: To be honest, I think about all the time,which is a shroomless existence. So incredibly terrifying in lots of ways..
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