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I netflixed "The Flight of the Concords" the other day. I'm officially in love with Jemaine. Have you guys seen this show? Watch Season 1, Episode 9 "What Goes on Tour". The song 'Mermaids' has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Take a peak

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I netflixed "The Flight of the Concords" the other day. I'm officially in love with Jemaine. Have you guys seen this show? Watch Season 1, Episode 9 "What Goes on Tour". The song 'Mermaids' has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Take a peak

I also love their "The Humans Are Dead" too. By the way, your YouTube link was removed as we don't allow links to streaming video or audio sources. However, anyone can find lots of "Flight of the Conchords" videos on YouTube with simple searches.

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I also love their "The Humans Are Dead" too. By the way, your YouTube link was removed as we don't allow links to streaming video or audio sources. However, anyone can find lots of "Flight of the Conchords" videos on YouTube with simple searches.

 

 

Oh, sorry about that!

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OK...due to Random coninciding random ,randomizing on a frequent algorythm...::presses the button for MPFC....and SPAM...oh glorius SPAM...SPAM w/Eggs,and Pancakes...SPAM,SPAM..!!!

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I love Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on October 5, 1969 on BBC One television. Happy 40th, Monty Python!!

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Hrrrm...discussing King Lear today in English Lit...

 

I wonder if we'll discuss the character of Kent. :P

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"The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on October 5, 1969 on BBC One television. Happy 40th, Monty Python!!".....

 

God I was at the tender age of...well ok, Now I am older than dirt...but I still do truly love MPFC to the end..! :P

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Today marks the first Angels playoff game since 1979 that I am not able to attend. And the only reason I didn't attend those was because I wasn't born yet!

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Killer Rabbit slippers are an actual item available from ThinkGeek.com. I must get pair one of these years, and use them to torment my cats

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The recent mission to crash a rocket into the moon to look for water is staffed by Douglas Adams fans.

 

Here is a piece of a newspaper article from the UK's Guardian newspaper: As Nasa's LCROSS spacecraft travelled towards the moon at more than 9,000 kilometers per hour on Friday afternoon, it tweeted in the whale's words: "And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round ... it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! ... That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?"

And if you want to see the actual tweets, go to twitter and look at the user called LCROSS_NASA

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The recent mission to crash a rocket into the moon to look for water is staffed by Douglas Adams fans.

 

Here is a piece of a newspaper article from the UK's Guardian newspaper: As Nasa's LCROSS spacecraft travelled towards the moon at more than 9,000 kilometers per hour on Friday afternoon, it tweeted in the whale's words: "And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round ... it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! ... That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?"

And if you want to see the actual tweets, go to twitter and look at the user called LCROSS_NASA

 

OMG.

 

I now love NASA even more than I already did. :P

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The recent mission to crash a rocket into the moon to look for water (...)

 

Err Am I the only one who has a problem about crashing things on the moon ?!?!?

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Err Am I the only one who has a problem about crashing things on the moon ?!?!?

 

From what I understand, the probe's impact was no more severe than that of the meteorite impacts the moon undergoes every day.

 

According to an article on UniverseToday:

 

The LCROSS mission is going sending a upper stage of a Centaur rocket and a smaller spacecraft to impact the Moon. The two objects will create a crater — The 5,000-pound (2,270-kilogram) Centaur is expected to slam into Cabeus Crater on the Moon's south pole at a sharp angle at a speed of 5,600 mph (9,000 kilometers per hour). The Centaur's collision is expected to create a crater roughly 60 or 70 feet wide (20 meters wide) and perhaps as much as 16 feet (5 meters) deep, ejecting approximately 385 tons of lunar dust and soil — and hopefully some ice.

 

The LCROSS spacecraft itself, weighing in at 1,500-pounds (700-kilograms), will follow the Centaur by about four minutes and fly through the regolith plume thrown up by the collision, just before it too slams into the lunar surface, kicking up its own smaller plume of debris, all the while using its sensors to look for telltale signs of water, beaming the information back to Earth.

 

So, yes, it will make a rather big crater on the Moon. But one close-up look at the lunar surface will reveal that the Moon is full of craters, and still regularly receives hits by meteorites and larger space rocks – not as much as in the past, as most of the craters on the Moon are from an earlier period in our history when there was more debris left over from the formation of the solar system. The Moon was not "hurt" in the past, and it will not get hurt by this impact. Additionally, other spacecraft have hit the lunar surface with no adverse effects on the Moon or its orbit.

 

But will this impact change the Moon's orbit? Dr. Jeff Goldstein from the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education writes about this on his blog, Blog on the Universe:

 

The Atlas V Centaur upper stage has a mass of 2,000 kg (the more massive of the two vehicles impacting the Moon). It will be moving at 5,600 mph (2.5 km/sec.) BAM! By comparison, the Moon is orbiting the Earth at the measely speed of 2,300 mph (1.022 km/sec). On the other hand, the Moon is just a tad bit more massive than the specks on a collision course.

 

So let’s say we wanted to change the Moon’s speed by JUST 1 MPH (0.0004 km/sec)—which is less than 1/2,000th its orbital speed—and we were going to do it by hurling Atlas V Centaur upper stages at the Moon. How many would we have to hurl its way? HEY, let’s give every person on planet Earth an opportunity to hurl one. Would that do it? Uh … nope. Every person on Earth (all nearly 7 billion of us) would each need to hurl 1 MILLION Atlas V Centaur upper stages at the Moon. I’d rather just hurl one and not worry about it. Rest easy, sleep well, and let’s see if we can find water on the Moon at the South Pole.

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All the same - no, Xandra, you're not the only one who has a problem with crashing things into the moon.

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To quote Tim Robbins in the second Austin Powers movie regarding the moon.

 

 

"Would you miss it?"

 

 

:P

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Is it considered cruel and unusual punishment to be subjected to 8 to 12 hrs a day of a radio station that plays 4 extremely bad versions of "Stand by Me" within 2 hrs ... and will probably start playing a bunch of Chipmunk Christmas songs in about a week ?!?!!?

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I wasn't aware that there were four versions of "Stand By Me", much less bad ones.

 

I usually turn off the radio this time of year. If they're not willing to play White Zombie and Alice Cooper to get you in the mood for Halloween, I'm not interested in hearing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" five times a day for the next two months.

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I wasn't aware that there were four versions of "Stand By Me", much less bad ones.

 

It's really surprising the little gems this radio station can find ... and actually today it was 3 HORRRRRRRIBLE versions of California dreaming .. including one that sounded like it was recorded by someone on life support ... I'm seriously thinking about a plan involving a pair of wire cutter and the store radio ...

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My son wants to play with the emoticons - his precious "happy things". This is as good a place as any.

:) B) :wub: :P :P :P :ph34r: :o :( :) :P :P

 

( Yes son - the ninja does look startled. )

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My son wants to play with the emoticons - his precious "happy things". This is as good a place as any.

:) B) :wub: :P :P :P :ph34r: :o :( :) :P :P

 

( Yes son - the ninja does look startled. )

 

That's not a ninja!

 

White.gif<----- This is a ninja

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My son wants to play with the emoticons - his precious "happy things". This is as good a place as any.

:) B) :wub: :P :P :P :ph34r: :o :( :) :P :P

 

( Yes son - the ninja does look startled. )

 

 

That's not a ninja!

 

White.gif<----- This is a ninja

 

No, Wade. It's a Ninja that's failed at hiding, and has just gotten a katana in the gullet.

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Pirates are way cooler then Ninjas.

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Pirates are way cooler then Ninjas.

 

Nope, Ninjas are way cooler than Pirates. Anyone with a speedboat and AK-47 can be a pirate. It takes years of dedication and training to be a ninja

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