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OriginalGriff wrote: no room for the f-word. Forbidding mention of 'flatulance' will not make it go away . . . .
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And waving your hands about copiously will?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The flatulance, no. The effects of it - you betcha.
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It began barking too loud. and we had to put it down
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Time to break out Old Yeller so we can all learn something.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: What happened to it? On a separate server, with no internet access, in the basement. When hamsters do not behave, they are temporarily put in the wheel down there.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Where can I post it? Facebook ?
modified 23-Sep-20 5:10am.
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Rage wrote: Facebook ?
That's what I miss about CP... you can't post programming jokes to FB... nobody gets them.
Jeremy Falcon
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Eight bytes walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "Can I get you anything?"
"Yeah," reply the bytes. "Make us a double."
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nearly fifty years ago Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon.
Now NASA Artemis[^] is going back, aiming to land a crew in 2024.
Thank for that: we should have moon bases and a colony on Mars by now!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yeah! I always assumed my retirement home would be on the moon - low gravity is good for old bones.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm sorry to rain on both of our parades, but I don't believe that either the political or public will exists to support manned space travel, at least by the United States. That spirit died somewhere between the last of the Apollo missions and the end of William Proxmire's tenure in the U.S. Senate.
Frankly an announcement like this so close to a presidential election strikes me as a tactic, one to be discarded as soon as the election is over, one way or another.
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I think you're probably right
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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You wouldn't believe how furious it makes me that I have to make an observation like that. I'm of the opinion that Proxmire ought to be dug up, resurrected, and then publicly executed as a traitor not just to the United States, but to the entire human species. It's his fault that the momentum of the Apollo era wasn't maintained. He made it his goal to saddle NASA with management that was either outright opposed to their mission or incompetent to execute it.
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Sounds just like today down in the DC Swamp...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote: DC Swamp...
Sewer
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Oh, I disagree. Mr Trump wants to create a new branch of the military: the "Space Force". So far it is only talk, but the private enterprises (SpaceX and a few others) are gearing up. They will provide all of the launch vehicles.
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James Lonero wrote: a new branch of the military: the "Space Force" The so-called "Space Force" is posturing, nothing more.James Lonero wrote: the private enterprises (SpaceX and a few others) are gearing up. I sincerely hope they do.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: The so-called "Space Force" is posturing, nothing more. No, no, it's real. I saw it on Netflix a couple of months back. I assume it's a documentary. It certainly looked very realistic.
For anyone that hasn't seen it, check out the trailer. It's probably going to be the most entertaining 3 minutes you'll have for a while:
Space Force | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube[^]
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The "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme was quite popular a while back.
You may just find you'll need more than one rocket to get them all there
If we really can't find anyone we may assign some volunteers
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At the rate we're destroying this planet we better hurry our colonization efforts.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Soon there will only be 7 planets!
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Aliens will know our planet as 3rd garbage pit from the sun
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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You're too cynical.
If we continue destroying the planet at our current rate, and taking into account that most of these bad practices are positive feedback loops, we won't have to go to the barren surface of the moon at all.
It will be here.
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I laugh anytime I see people calling doomsday on planet earth.
Do poeple who think we are destroying earth only live in highly dense cities?
Most of the world is unoccupied, there is room to spare. In the US we call them Fly-Over states because there is nothing there and they are largest part of our country.
We haven't even started trying to repair earth because it is not broken. There is no evidence it is dying, just warming. The world will change. It constantly changes. Temperatures and weather fluxuates, earthquakes happen, techtonic plates move, etc.
We can now desalinize the ocean, but how many cities on the coast are actually doing this? Hardly any. We can pipe oil and gas around the world, but we haven't more than considered piping desalinized ocean water places. We haven't even tried to terraform. What would happen if we terraformed the Sahara desert into a lush green forest? How would that forest affect our atmosphere to have more forest. Lower our carbon ommissions is only part of it. Increasing the plant life is another part.
Everything Nasa does will help us here on earth.
The best part of trying to inhabit a planet such as the moon is we learn terraforming skills that we can apply to increase vegetation here on earth, thus lowering our carbon footprint. Imagine a 3d printer that is solar powered than can scoop silicates (dirt, sand, etc) from the ground and make an air-tight glass dome for places like the moon or mars. Imagine testing this in the Sahara and creating thousands of miles of glass domes to use a green houses to erase the desert and replace it with green life.
We could create waterways to below sea-level zones, allowing ocean to flow in an out, such as the dead sea and death valley, which will add life, add moisture to the surrounding air and increase green life in those areas.
What if we gain the technology to mine asteroids while trying to terraform the moon and mars, could we mine oxygen and other healthy air and return it to earth?
The next two-hundred years is going to fun to be alive, to bad I'll only get about 50 more years of it.
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