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    The Electric Rocket That May Put A Robotic Inchworm On The Moon

    Giant Fireball Blazes to Earth in Texas

    The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space

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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    06/05/09

    In reply to The Electric Rocket That May Put A Robotic Inchworm On The Moon
    Does that picture look like a Dalek to anyone else?


    Or has the Doctor Who hiatus finally twisted my brain?

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/05/09

    In reply to The Electric Rocket That May Put A Robotic Inchworm On The Moon
    The slow approach is really cool.


    I was also thinking - Did the X Prize say anything about size? Why not just send a little tiny rocket and a little tiny camera and little tiny vehicle. How much fuel could that take?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/16/09

    In reply to Giant Fireball Blazes to Earth in Texas
    Is anyone else surprised that MSNBC has a "Satellite Desk" in their news division?
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    02/16/09

    In reply to Giant Fireball Blazes to Earth in Texas
    This is how 'War of the Worlds' started... and 'Men in Black'... and 'The Blob'... and 'The Thing' and the Stephen King chapter of 'Creepshow'... and how Spider-Man bonded with the Alien symbiote in Spider-Man 3.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    02/16/09

    In reply to Giant Fireball Blazes to Earth in Texas
    I know what it is!!!

    [io9.com]
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    "If a chunk of a satellite or rocket crushes your car or injures you, who is responsible?"


    Dennis Haysbert.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    That first one, I remember watching it go boom on live hi-def TV.


    HDNet covers a lot of launches/landings. It was pretty obvious what was going to happen when the parachute didn't deploy. After that it looked like a Road Runner cartoon.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    I saw an article somewhere that had like a photographic history of crap that came down from above. Parts of rocket stages in the middle east, Columbia bits in Lousiana, that wing from Challenger that washed up on shore in Florida recently.


    The most common things seem to be those large spheres, which I'm fairly certain are fuel tanks.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/13/09

    @Skunky: Found it! [www.space.com]
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    I definitely read misread this title as "The Cabbage that Smashed into Earth from Space."


    That would have been cool. I bet space-cabbage tastes like sparkles.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    @Mount_Prion: Space cabbage results from an infusion of a Colour Out of Space. It's kinda gray and dusty.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/13/09

    @crashedpc: No way! My spacecabbage is way friendlier than the type that makes cows turn to ash.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    @Mount_Prion: If you consider vegetables "friendly", then I think we have bigger problems than sparkle flavored spacecabbages.


    "How about them melons?"

    "That squash is real big!"

    "Cucumbers are really friendly."

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    It's getting very crowded and dangerous up there:


    [www.eetimes.com]


    It's a hazard to astronauts, satellites, people on the ground and any space elevators we plan to build in the future. We have to think seriously about how we're going to clean this mess up.

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02/13/09

    @corpore-metal: giant electro magnet on the moon: the world's first green friendly doomsday device!
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    Image of CowboyRob CowboyRob
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    We should probably all start walking around with helmets on, to be safe.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    @CowboyRob: Why haven't you, already?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    02/13/09

    @crashedpc:


    All set!

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    @Belabras: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    imagine the late night television commercials of the future that will replace the asbestoes and heprin commercials of today.


    'injured by falling space debris? call the law officies of marcus, lillyhammer, and wineburg and we'll get you the money you deserve.'

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/13/09

    @tetracycloide: Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe
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    Image of diverguy diverguy
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    "Somebody has to pay those damages."


    I'd have to think that falls under the whole 'act of god' thing. Which means, anyone is responsible except for an insurance company.


    I've always wanted how that act of god part worked for us atheists...

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    @diverguy: I dunno if that'd work; I don't think god/gods created satellites that smash your Chevy Nova.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    02/13/09

    @crashedpc: i don't think god/gods created tornadoes that smash chevy novas either but they're still 'acts of god.'


    it's all just a random act of chance slightly modified by location and the size of the object being insured that takes place on a small scale and only hits one thing at a time. insurance handles situations like that all the time without much trouble, house fires for example.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    @tetracycloide: But tornadoes are considered "natural" as opposed to space debris, which can be manmade. Maybe "acts of god" really just stands for "man, you have shitty ass luck".
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/13/09

    In reply to The Garbage that Smashed to Earth from Space
    The traceable stuff is bad enough. But when you get unnatural unidentified "I dunno where da fuck this came from" magic rocks smashing into houses, I think the Elder Gods are throwing spitballs at us.
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