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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches (at last)

Posted by michael on from the astronauts-not-allowed-to-bring-nailfiles-on-board dept.

mumkin writes: "Hey, STS-108 has finally launched! In addition to bringing a new crew to the International Space Station and performing an EVA, Endeavour will be releasing Starshine 2, another orbiting disco-ball for ground-based observers to track."

90 comments

  1. Call me gonzales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yippee

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post... in space!!!

    this blather added because taco wants me to slow down. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!

  3. Then I guess I'm rodriguez. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn.

  4. 2nd post! maybe.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second useless post! maybe..
    btw when did disco become worthy of slashdot?

  5. jeez. by deglr6328 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    blech, that first picture on the "starshine 2" link is more startling than goatse.cx.

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    1. Re:jeez. by po_boy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      blech, that first picture on the "starshine 2 [azinet.com]" link is more startling than goatse.cx.


      slashdotted. still have it in your cache? or is it not worth it?
    2. Re:jeez. by Anonymous+Pancake · · Score: -1
      Slashdotted.

      Here's the required google cache link

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    3. Re:jeez. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      kneeha

  6. So what exactly does this massive student project by Daniel+Wood · · Score: 2
    "In addition to a new station crew and supplies, Endeavour is carrying a host of scientific investigations, including experiments from space agencies, schools and universities across the United States, Europe and South America as well as a small satellite that has involved more than 25,000 students in 26 countries. "

    So what exactly does this massive student project satellite do?

  7. This post for adequacy.org! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I <3 you adequacy!

  8. Memorial by bonzoesc · · Score: 1

    They also sent up a memorial for the 911 attacks. Most importantly, this explains that oddly shaped cloud I saw at 5:30 today.

    1. Re:Memorial by istartedi · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Was the cloud unusually bright? I've heard that sometimes that happens because the "cloud" is way up in the stratosphere where direct sunlight is still visible. I've never witnessed a launch, but I had the privelege to witness a sunset landing where the shuttle became visible as a bright white speck while making an approach turn. Then of course there was the CLAP! CLAP! double-sonic boom and the approach was close enough so that you could clearly see the windows of the shuttle. If you have the opportunity to witness a landing, don't sell it short. It was one of the highlights not only of my visit to KSC, but of my whole FLA vacation. Then again, I wonder if they will be allowing people that close to landings for a while.

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  9. More Cargo by flynt · · Score: 5, Informative

    In addition to the things already mentioned, the shuttle also has 6000 American Flags, which when returned from space, will be given to the members of the families of the World Trade Center victims.

    1. Re:More Cargo by Aerolith_alpha · · Score: 1

      That's quite a memorial considering how much it costs to ship stuff per pound into space... I suppose a flag doesn't have that much mass, but still...

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    2. Re:More Cargo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, I guess its fine but very expensive to do that. Lets say each flag weights 1 pound, and given the fact that it costs around $5000/lb for the space shuttle to bring something with it, that means this cost 5000*6000 = $11 million dollars to do this. Couldn't that have been spent on something a bit more productive. If one wants to spend it on the WTC's victim's families, then why not put it back into the pool to distribute for morgages, etc... Although, there are quite a number of homeless people in the NYC anyway, howabout giving it to them to help them out.

    3. Re:More Cargo by Masem · · Score: 2
      To be more specific: the 6000 flags, as well as one large American flag mostly in one piece that was found in the wreckage of the WTC, will spend one 'cycle' (5 months, based on the next crew change) on the ISS, not just through the week+ shuttle mission. The 6000 small flags will be redistributed to members of families affected by 9-11, the large flag possibly going to some historical archive (Smithsonian, most likely).

      (This based on an article from this week's USN&WR, on the failures of the NASA program and the ISS particularly).

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  10. is this a joke? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do shuttle launches make /. now?

    Christ.

    I'd switch to k5 but they're down more than CmdrTaco on Jon K@tz.

    Oh, and first post BITCHES.

    Cherish my balls!

  11. ISS module stuck by po_boy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Last I heard, there was a possible problem with a piece of something stuck in the way of some module (probably a Soyez, I gues) attached to the ISS and they didn't want the shuttle to knock the whole thing loose when it docked. Anyone know if they got that problem solved? I was wondering if someone had to spacewalk to get the thing freed up or something.

    1. Re:ISS module stuck by ocelotbob · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yep, they got it fixed. The whole reason for the delay of the shuttle's launch was to fix that problem before they got up there. Dunno if they had to do a spacewalk to fix it, though.

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    2. Re:ISS module stuck by sweatyboatman · · Score: 3, Informative

      If you're really curious to know, here's the story on CNN.

      http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/12/03/spacewa lk /index.html

      Half the time estimated. Maybe NASA's learning to double their estimates. It can only make them look better in the public's eye.

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    3. Re:ISS module stuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1
      Half the time estimated. Maybe NASA's learning to double their estimates.

      exactly... but they haven't quite got the hang of it yet. I saw a story saying they were planning to crash twice as many landers into mars next year.

  12. Why do we bother by Anonymous+Pancake · · Score: -1

    Why do we bother sending people to space when there are so many problems on earth?... Terrorist attacks against America, terrorist attacks against Israel, unemployment, economy problems, homelessness, bad education, health care problems, etc...

    why even bother

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    1. Re:Why do we bother by Computer+suck! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The desire to learn, explore, escape from all the problems 'down here', launch big missiles from space, mine other planets, use other planets as dustbins, rip off other cultures, fight new people, and finaly our 'ttle planet only has a limited life time, some day our sun will go BOOM and (unless we have moved on) we'll all go splat.

      CS!

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    2. Re:Why do we bother by Str1der · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why do we bother sending people to space when there are so many problems on earth?... Terrorist attacks against America, terrorist attacks against Israel, unemployment, economy problems, homelessness, bad education, health care problems, etc...

      Maybe to remind the world that there is a lot more to our existance than out (mostly) petty quarrels. Maybe to inspire a new generation to strive for a better education. Mabey to conduct zero-g research that will indirectly lead to inexpensive soulutions to many health issues. There have been countless spinoffs from the space program and there will be many more. I think it is a great way to spend that small fraction of our budget.

    3. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is the extreamist viewpoint.

      Why am I driving a nice car and living in a nice appartment when people are staving all over the world? The answer is we can't just stop the world and fix one problem. Then focus on another, then another. We would be running back and forth, never making headway. Some people deal with one problem, others deal with another.

    4. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Americans are driving fancy cars and have 3 to 4 tvs per family because most of the world is poor and they can be worked as cheap labor. It is in our interest to see that the world's problems never are solved. If they were we would not be able to overconsume goods that are made in the poorer nations. Our economy would fall out.

      Vietnam, China, Mexico etc. do most of the manufacturing of goods while Western European, the US, Japan etc. use their massive capital to buy the goods. It is the most dastardly system you could think of. They do all the work for cheap and we enjoy just because our economies are stronger. One day those nations will learn they have the true power, they are the foundation of the worlds economy, they hold the power, not us.

    5. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1
      Also realize that unless money is spent on R&D (and realize that all space flight is worth at least ten times as much in regular R&D), curing all the world's problems won't do jack squat.

      How would you like to be trapped in 2001 forever, hmm? If that Orwellian future isn't frightening, I don't know what is...

      Heck, for that matter, why even spend money on something as frivolous as entertainment?
      Let's go ahead and take every dollar spent on anything beyond the basic human needs and give it away to everyone until the whole world is one boring village of mediocre pan-ethnic morons who weigh exactly the average weight, eat exactly enough of the right food, and who slit their wrists when they turn 30 out of boredom.

      Realistically, that's not going to happen, but I for one believe that research is one of the main goals of the human race. What are intelligent apes good for if they don't try to learn? This is slashdot, for christ's sake, I'd give you ten to one just about everyone here (minus the trolls) is interested in learning throughout their lives.

    6. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You do not get it. More technology is not the answer.

      What are we gonna do? How long can we overconsume goods and products? What will we do when there is more copper, gold, iron, coal, etc. in our landfills then there is in the ground, as the temperature keeps rising higher and higher, when there are less than 100 billion trees left in the whole world? Are we to pin all our hopes on a few scientists enabeling us to mine asteroids and distant planets and colonizing space?

      That is moronic. Hopping from planet to planet and destroying each one we inhabit does not seem like a good plan for our species. We should be doing practical things now instead of putting this off. Instead of chopping down trees for paper, we should do what is better, what humans have been doing for 12,000 years. We should use grow industrial hemp and harvest it for paper. But no, we can not because Du Pont and petrol companies emerging in other nations outlawed it.

      Science is not the answer to social problems like this. If Science could invent a better paper, there would be a Du Pont company that is powerful in the established order of things that would block it, politically, or just as worse the technology would be controlled by a corporation, as usual, whose only goal is to make money. We need to change our habits, not peg our hopes on a group with such a paucity as scientists, it is madness. I do not expect the slashdot crowd to see that technology is not the anwser. Technology only trades one problem for another. Because in our society of specialists you do not see people mining coal and transporting to power stations to burn for your electricity, it is easy to forget this. You just plug in and you do not even know or care how it got there. Most of us do not want to see the trade offs.

      You can not avoid them, though, they are everywhere. Go from a urban area in summer to a residental one and you will notice the temperature drop in most areas as you move away from the city. Go from a village to a nearby city and you will notice an increase in temperature in most areas. What will we do as the heat rises, from our wanton lifestyle? Continue our lifestyle as is and hope scientists can solve our problems, or socially solve a social problem? I think the answer is clear.

      I have little adulation to give for scientists. Most of them seem to have a sort of religious faith in technology. They think technology is some sort of bloody magic and that it does not create problems of its own, which is erroneous. It seems philosophy, is out and plunging forward without thinking about consquences is the big thing these days in the scientific community.

      The space program is of little importance. We should try to harmonize our lifestyle more with what we know is good for our environment so it is habitable for a long time to come. Social improvements can make life more enjoyable for humanity than technological advancements under capitalism, that the people in affluent nations can only enjoy. Would you want to live in a brutal dictatorship with high technology, where the technology would be used to make telescreens to spy on you, or a more human society that is less advanced?

    7. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'd say you are wrong ass fucker!
      The answer, because you are a hedonistic bastard who doesn't give a fuck what happens to anyone else.
      Hopefully, you will develop cancer soon. When you go to the doctor he says, "Sorry man, can't stop the world just to fix one problem. You should focus on another problem, like trying to improve my golf game. If we try to cure your cancer, pretty soon everyone will want their cancer cured. We would be just running back and forth trying to cure cancer, never making headway into cures for new diseases."

    8. Re:Why do we bother by Spencerian · · Score: 1

      No amount of faith (important, to be sure) will stop one of several very, very large rocks in space from annililating (that's "destroy" for you Windows users or left-wingers) all advanced life on the planet. That means you, pal.

      God helps those who help themselves as best they can--and I believe that means we need to watch out for the one thing in space that can make a very big difference in the lives of everyone, barring some new revelation in space science.

      NASA gets less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the budget. The Congress has given more money in international aid to what turned out to be a booger on a map!

      Harmonize the environment, my ass! We DO need to watch what we burn and what we dump, but this is a matter of "save the humans", not the Earth. This place will keep spinning no matter how many rocks or PCP barrels land on it. The difference comes when we balance our use of technology--not forsaking it, but not worshipping it, either.

      The dinosaurs are gone because they couldn't stop a rock's fall. We really can do better, or we're just as stupid.

      I bet you go to college right now, or very recently. Your post is not based on the harsh reality of the world.

      And, oh--it was the freaking scientists that you scorn that created the technology that allowed you to post here. Don't be a hypocrite.

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    9. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is one of the best trolls I've seen in a long time, look at how many replies you have!

      You are probably exposing a beleif that your parents embedded in your brain while you were a child...
      "If some people are miserable, you have no right to be happy"
      or
      "You have to feel guilty of having things because some others don't"

      If some people choose to feel miserable or experience lack in their lives...so be it! That does not create a limitation in my ability to do exactly what I want, when I want to.

    10. Re:Why do we bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hell, I'd rather be up there right now than down here what with the threat of anthrax, terrorist planes and nuculear war.

    11. Re:Why do we bother by tim_maroney · · Score: 2

      Why do we bother sending people to space when there are so many problems on earth?

      Why do you bother posting to /. when you could be off working in a soup kitchen?

      Tim

    12. Re:Why do we bother by Str1der · · Score: 1

      What will we do when there is more copper, gold, iron, coal, etc. in our landfills then there is in the ground, as the temperature keeps rising higher and higher, when there are less than 100 billion trees left in the whole world? Are we to pin all our hopes on a few scientists enabeling us to mine asteroids and distant planets and colonizing space?

      Science gave us the ability to recycle. Recycling is vital to any long term space mission. It is likely more recycling technologies will be developed from the space program.

      Technology only trades one problem for another. Because in our society of specialists you do not see people mining coal and transporting to power stations to burn for your electricity, it is easy to forget this.

      Alternative power sources are also vital to space missions. Solar Energy was pioneered by NASA.

      Social improvements can make life more enjoyable for humanity than technological advancements under capitalism, that the people in affluent nations can only enjoy. Would you want to live in a brutal dictatorship with high technology, where the technology would be used to make telescreens to spy on you, or a more human society that is less advanced?

      I would rather live in a society where I won't die of a broken limb from a simple infection. I would rather live in a society where dictatorship is obsolete. Technology provides communication that allows the masses, the true power in this world, to unite against any such form of government. We've existed for millions of years without science and got nowhere, socially or otherwise. It was technology that changed us from club-swinging apes to who we are today. The space program is a driving force of technology.

  13. Conspiracy Theory by abrink · · Score: 0

    Did anyone else see the "Russian Rocket burning up in the atmosphere" last friday at about 10:30 CST?

    It was very interesting looking, almost looked like 15 or so meteorites....Now what I wanna know, is why this has gotten absolutly _no_ media attention at all. And Im wondering what this russian rocket was carrying for payload....maybe a new spy satellite or something fun like that...*grin*

    1. Re:Conspiracy Theory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bun is in the oven.

    2. Re:Conspiracy Theory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      And Im wondering what this russian rocket was carrying for payload

      That's classified.

    3. Re:Conspiracy Theory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      And the cat is back in the bag.

    4. Re:Conspiracy Theory by Wolfgang+Boxhead · · Score: 1

      http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast03dec_1 .htm has all about it. Apparently caused by re-entry of the first stages of a big russian launch. They were putting up some navigation satellites.

  14. Meh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t!

  15. Le Splat! by The+WIPO+Troll · · Score: -1
    THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.12 $

    Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?

    Whenever Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual orgies with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with the letter P in it, you're in trouble.
    So this time, he found you. Lucky you.
    CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. CmdrTaco's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants that only comes out in the presence of other men or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testes that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his, well, jizz. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means when he asks you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."
    Lastly, there is a practice he refers to as "Taco-snotting" and the more shocking "circle-snot."

    Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

    "Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the practice of sucking the penis of a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumored to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto his partner's (victim's) face and body. A long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."
    A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with each other's man juice. This can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.
    To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

    Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

    Hopefully.
    You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

    I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

    If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

    Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

    Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.
    CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."
    How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

    That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

    No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):
    You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.
    After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.
    Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

    Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.

    Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.
    As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

    ...Are you getting hard writing this?

    Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

    No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

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    READER COMMENTS

    1. Fucking hilarious too bad it didnt get a 5:Funny (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.02 19:01 (#2644105)

      this is good shit man

    2. Re:Taco-snotting@Home! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Dark_Cobra87 on 2001.12.01 23:03 (#2642180)

      Oops, forgot to check that Taco-snot option...

    3. Re:Fuck Linux! Fuck him hard! (Score:-1)
      by Fecal Troll Matter on 2001.12.01 20:55 (#2641791)

      Mmmmmmm, Taco Sauce...

      Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)

    4. Look (Score:-1)
      by ArchieBunker on 2001.12.01 20:19 (#2641679)

      I love trolling but this shit is getting old, fast. At least start mixing them up a little bit. How about the 'How OSM was Freed' series?
      http://www.naawp.org/

    5. Re:Congratulations! You have been WIPO'd!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.01 8:37 (#2640602)

      Stop posting this! I've got hangover and Taco Snotting doesn't make me feel any better.

      I'm really glad that Taco Snotting is illegal here in Europe.

    6. Re:Snot me baby, one more time! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.30 1:01 (#2634213)

      Get a life you loser! Don't you have anything better to do than insult CmdrTaco and the gay community? We are not perverts, we are human beings just like you. So give it a rest!

    7. Re:Hello, perdida!!! Won't you snot my face tonigh (Score:-1)
      by perdida on on 2001.11.27 14:13 (#2618764)

      Shut up you asshole.

      I am not great, I am merely adequate. I live in adequacy.

    8. Go back to Russia. (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.26 22:22 (#2616035)

      You weiner trool!

    9. Re:The Taco-Snotting FAQ Rides Again!! (Updated so (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)

      try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work

    10. Re:Snotting another first!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)

      WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...

      CmdrTaco

    11. Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)

      A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
      However...

      To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.

      Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).

      I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.

      • Re:It's Taco SPAM!!! (Score:0)
        by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)

        Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.

    12. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)

      oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.

    13. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)

      for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!

    14. Re:Microsoft's Taco-Snotting Connection (Score:-1, Troll)
      by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)

      WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?

      -Trollaxor

    15. Jon-Katz docking (Score:-1)
      by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)

      You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin ...
      "Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...

    16. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1)
      by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)

      Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?

      Excellent FP, sir.

      This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig

    17. Re:Snotting a first! (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)

      omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!

    18. GW, please.... (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)

      GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!

      But. ...if you can't find another topic, I'm gonna step over your dead mother's grave and kick your assuredly anesthetitized butt clear across the playground.

      Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?

      thanks

    19. Re:Help me Taco-Snotters!! (Score:-1)
      by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)

      I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.

    20. Re: What the hell is "taco snotting"? (Score:-1)
      by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)

      You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.

    21. YOU ARE WINNER (Score:1)
      by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)

      Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.

      --
      CNN declares War on Islam!
      Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!

    22. Re:On Taco-Snotting 1.9 (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)

      This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!

    23. Digusting and Shameful (Score:-1)
      by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)

      Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!

      For more info check out this /. article

    24. IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:-1, Flamebait)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)

      add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too

      • Re:IMPROVE THE FAQ (Score:0)
        by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)

        and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com

        other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!

    25. Re:CmdrTaco's filthy secret! (Score:-1)
      by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)

      Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
      --
      WIL WHEATON DOT NET

    26. WIPO speaks the truth (Score:-1)
      by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)

      Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:

      From: malda@slashdot.org
      To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
      Subject: were where you last friday? :(

      I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.

      --
      CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)
      You finding Ling-Ling's head?

    27. Taco snotting is WRONG!!! (Score:-1)
      by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)

      I do it wrong

      Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

      Massaging my nutsack she....

      WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

      Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

      "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

      "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

      I DO IT WRONG!!!!

      ---
      All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...

    28. Rob Malda Dead at age 25! (Score:-1)
      by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)

      I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the /. community will miss him -- even if you didn't enjoy his queer antics and boring ass website, there's no denying his contributions to the homosesual cultural development, particularly in the areas of Taco snotting. Truly an American icon.

      I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.

    29. TACO-SNOTTING is really Donkey-Punching (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)

      No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. . :-)

    30. Re:the effect of knowlege laws... (Score:1)
      by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)

      The WIPO Troll
      Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.

    31. Re:Taco-Snotting (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)

      Oh, man that's just sick !

    32. HOW DO I GET AN ANONYMOUS PROXY? (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)

      TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place. ;P

    33. Re:Taco-Snottage!?!?!? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)

      what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured

    34. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1)
      by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)

      Where the fuck do I sign up?!

      - I throw rocks at retarded kids

      "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

    35. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Troll)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)

      this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.

    36. Re:Taco-felching!! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)

      OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.

    37. Re:Ban this! It's disgusting!! (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)

      dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
      duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.

    38. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Flamebait)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)

      horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com

      Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!

    39. MOD THIS UP PLEASE!!! (Score:-1)
      by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)

      +5, Arousing

      For more info check out this /. article

    40. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)

      WINNER>

    41. Re:Taco-Snotting = HATE SPEECH (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)

      I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.

    42. Re:On Taco-Snotting (Score:0)
      by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)

      you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!

      WIPO trolls > linux

    ________________________________________

    $Id: tacosnotting.html,v 1.12 2001/12/02 20:07:02 wipo Exp $
    --

    J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
    Crapflooder Associates
    Slashdot.org

  16. Already unstuck. by Axe · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Piece of a rubber bumper tore off and stuck in the lock - Russians omn the station moved "Progress" a bit and managed to pull the piece out with a crooked stick.

    As the time goes by, we will see more of this russian style problem solving skills, and ISS will look more and more like Mir. That's the law of large technical systems - they get fucked up.

    Having worked with aero-sace folks for 12 years (thank god I am out) the only thing that surprises me is that all this shit actually works - it is way to complex for that.. I blame sheer luck. ;-)

    --
    <^>_<(ô ô)>_<^>
    1. Re:Already unstuck. by po_boy · · Score: 3, Funny
      ...managed to pull the piece out with a crooked stick.

      All hail the inanimate carbon rod.
    2. Re:Already unstuck. by istartedi · · Score: 1

      Not that the Russians aren't creative, but I hope we see some new procedures written as opposed to relying too much on creative solutions. I hope the checklist for the Russian undocking procedure now includes "check to make sure that no residual bits are stuck to the lock, and if they are, schedule EVA for removal of said bits before next docking".

      --
      For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
    3. Re:Already unstuck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Piece of a rubber bumper tore off and stuck in the lock

      Kind of a latter day O-ring?

    4. Re:Already unstuck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not that the Russians aren't creative, but I hope we see some new procedures written as opposed to relying too much on creative solutions. I hope the checklist for the Russian undocking procedure now includes "check to make sure that no residual bits are stuck to the lock, and if they are, schedule EVA for removal of said bits before next docking".


      That's right! We aren't launching astronauts (at roughly $10k per pound) into space to think, you know!

    5. Re:Already unstuck. by azpcox · · Score: 1

      Now where did they manage to find a hanger to pry it open? There's usually one or two in the parking lot where I lock my keys in my car . . .

      --
      What exactly do you mean by "Don't touch this button?"
  17. Because. by Axe · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Getting a lot of smart and curious people together and paying them to do something (anything) will yield a lot of good results, that was proven many times over.

    Who new, that a few physicists, trying to login into SLAC library, will code up the U.S first web server, sweaty cosmonauts will need the development of the Gore-Tex, and you will get you ticket by a laser radar.

    Fundamental research pays. Many times over.

    --
    <^>_<(ô ô)>_<^>
  18. To see the ISS & Shuttle yourself... by Tsar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to Heavens-Above and enter your location on earth, and it'll provide you with all the info you need to spot the ISS, the Shuttle, and a host of other orbiting objects as they pass over you before sunrise or after sunset. The site has a wealth of other information about satellites and space exploration in general as well, so it is with a very heavy heart that I expose one of my absolute favorite sites to the eminent threat of slashdottery.

    1. Re:To see the ISS & Shuttle yourself... by SilentChris · · Score: 2

      Unfortunately, little can be done with the site unless you can read celestial coordinates. I basically need a friend by my side saying "look there" while pointing a finger at some blurry object, to get anything good out of it.

    2. Re:To see the ISS & Shuttle yourself... by bn557 · · Score: 1

      the problem here is, unless you now your latitud and longitude, knowing the angle(from north) and the asimuth for you to look up at is very hard to do. the celestial coordinate system is actually pretty efficient if you're at a observatory(at the school I'm studying at, we have a 7m x 7m slab of concrete with angles labeled so all you need is asmuth) because it's the easiest way to do it.

      Oh well, I'm wasted right now
      g'night world

      Pat

      --
      Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
    3. Re:To see the ISS & Shuttle yourself... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unfortunately, little can be done with the site unless you can read celestial coordinates.

      Well it seems that all you need is an understanding of direction (SE, NNW, etc.) and the ability to estimate an angle in degrees above the horizon. Maybe you'll learn that in your next grade, ask your elementary school teacher.

    4. Re:To see the ISS & Shuttle yourself... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html
      works fine on Netscape under Tru64 UNIX as well as Linux!

  19. Satellite Sighting! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I invite you to check for ISS/shuttle sightings on the nasa website. Also Heavens above might be updated with the shuttle orbital information within the next few hours.

    For example, I see there will be a nice pass almost straight above San Francisco, Thr Dec 06, 05:26 PM for ISS, and 11 minutes later (05:37 PM) the shuttle catching up with it! So I suspect similar opportunies for other US cities in the coming days, weather permitting of course.

    Don't expect to see more than a moving point of light, but it is still quite cool.

    1. Re:Satellite Sighting! by MaxPower2000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      i took an astronomy class last year and one of the requirements was to watch the shuttle pass over blacksburg. well the time we decided to watch was special indeed. first the ISS passed overhead and then the shuttle (i forget which one) passed over head on its way to rendevous with the ISS. it was around the time when the ISS was being fitted with new and bigger solar panels.

      the whole thing was very cool, and extremly fast. the two objects looked like very bright stars, about the magnitude of venus, and crossed the whole sky in under 90 seconds. it gave a great feeling of the speed that those guys were zipping around earth at.

      if you get a chance check it out, you won't regret it.

      --
      Master Using It, and You can have THIS!!
  20. Mmm. First web page.. by Axe · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ..Looky here: first U.S. web page

    Can you see billions of dollars made and lost in the web craze? Hard to imagine it is just 1991.. ;)

    --
    <^>_<(ô ô)>_<^>
  21. It's been covered... by sweatyboatman · · Score: 2, Informative
    but it's not really news (at least from what NORAD's been saying). It's just a spent SL12 Rocket. Here's some information on this Russian Rocket

    oh, and here's CNN's little piece on it: Lights in the Sky

    --
    It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
  22. GAS Payloads on STS-108 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    STS-108 also contains GAS Payloads...which are basically just canisters that can be rented, usually by universities and space agencies. Experiments are flown in these canisters and they range anywhere from boiling water to growing plants, testing the effects of microgravity. I am the webmaster of the Utah State University GAS Team and we sent up a payload on this shuttle with 3 powered experiments and a few passive ones. Glad the shuttle finally got off the ground!

  23. wtf do you mean 'at last' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first off, let me say that i read some very nasty things about this 'michael' dipshit
    and what he did to the website he used to run, so basically
    i have no respect for him whatsoever, although im glad hes not a crackhead homeless person and slashdot
    gives him a place to live.

    second of all, what the FUCK do you mean 'at last'.
    you have any idea why the challenger disaster happened?
    BECAUSE FUCKS LIKE YOU KEPT SAYING 'WHENS IT GONNA GO'
    .
    idiot.

  24. Re:So what exactly does this massive student proje by ukryule · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From NASA:

    The experiments include: STARSHINE-2, the Prototype Synchrotron Radiation Detector, Collisions Into Dust Experiment-2, Capillary Pump Loop, and Space Experiment Module-11.

    STARSHINE 2 will be the third satellite of Project Starshine -- the Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Experiment -- to be deployed. More than 25,000 students from 26 countries will track STARSHINE 2 as it orbits Earth for eight months. The students will use the information that they collect to calculate the density of the Earth's upper atmosphere. Starshine will fly into space in a Hitchhiker canister in the payload bay of Endeavour and will be deployed 240 miles (387 kilometers) above the Earth.

    So 25,000 students will be monitoring it - it wasn't built by 25,000 students :-)
  25. Unbelievable... by alfredw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Check out the mission summary.

    Here it is, in full:
    UF-1
    Launch Date: Dec. 5, 2001
    Launch Vehicle: U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour: STS-108
    Elements: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), Photovoltaic Module batteries

    1. Provides for research work by delivering experiment racks for the U.S. Laboratory and two storage racks.

    Glad to know that NASA is spending their $600M well on this shuttle launch instead of sending three probes to Mars, something to Pluto, or researching a new technology.

    Seriously, can't this stuff be delivered on unmanned craft? (Well, obviously not the new crew, but they could catch a Russian Soyuz for a quarter of the cost)

    --
    In Soviet Russia, sig types you!
  26. Not so fast there, speedy! by I.T.R.A.R.K. · · Score: -1

    El Kabong!!
    *bap!*

    --

    "Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."

  27. an ill conceived operation by mark+knopfler+69 · · Score: -1

    with all the trouble and errors they have been having, maybe it is better to abort the mission than to kill the crew on board.

  28. My thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone that does not like linux! Must not know how to use it! Thats my opinion! but really who cares which operating system you use? I use them all!!! Mostly Unix based but I use Win 2000 and hey its not to bad at all!! A little memory hungry but it is good.... But the reason people brad about Linux so much is for the reasons that have been mentioned in the message before me! And one thing it is stable!!! I have Windows 2000 and it crashes! Not heaps but it does spit the dummy.. If you are running a good install of linux it hardly ever happens!! And really this site was a waste of the money it cost to register the domain!!!! USE WHATEVER U LIKE!!!!!!!

    1. Re:My thoughts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Cool!

      I think you rae right about Win200 it is good, but it doesnt crash for me. So I think it is just as good as Linux. But I have Linux too and it doesn't crash for me too. So they are both good. just my $0.02!!!

  29. I have the first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!!

    I can't belive I got it!

    1. Re:I have the first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      first reply!

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  30. The Queen switches to IIS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Dateline London:http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-808096 0.html?tag=mn_hd

    The Queen of England chooses the superior Microsoft solution for web services.

    The Sun never sets on the Microsoft empire.

    1. Re:The Queen switches to IIS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I guess you can't take the truth, eh? Amiga is the way to go!?!?!?!?

  31. Soy Beans... by heliocentric · · Score: 2

    I caught on the local 11 O'Clock news that some local highschool students were in Fla. to see the launch because they were sending some Soy Beans up for an experiement. I just looked all over the website of said news site and I couldn't find an applicable reference. But this shows that the students aren't just working on the satelite of this mission.

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    Wheeeee
  32. Hitchhiking Space Probes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    According to NASA the STARSHINE2 will ride in a Hitchhiker canister...

    I hope it's got a towel!

    We miss you Douglas.

  33. Woohoo! More shuttle missions! by the_furies · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a joke. How much longer are the American taxpayers going to let NASA waste our dollars on these "scientific" efforts? They should just turn the space program into a for-profit tourist service for bored billionaires, and spend our tax dollars on something useful like a superconducting supercollider or an AIDS vaccine.

  34. where can i get a prostitution license? by GaylordFucker · · Score: -1

    need one ASAP... thanks :-)

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    Get that rats nest off your head, you numbskull -- Wesley Willis
  35. Re:Woohoo! More shuttle missions! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That is the biggest bunch of crap I have ever heard. NASA is one of the few things the government funds that is actually worthwhile, and it is people like you that are causing it to get less funding than it deserves by whining that you would rather have an AIDS vaccine. If people would spend time doing something constructive like space research instead of sleeping around there wouldn't be such an outbreak of AIDS and then we wouldn't need a vaccine. And bored billionaires are the last thing that we need in space.

  36. increment post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Number of posts submitted to this article has just been incresed by 1.

  37. Postponed due to bad weather? by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1

    Oh come now. They have a launch wehicle, that is exposed to what? 5G during launch. It can reenter the atmosphere and avoid burning up. It can stay in space and survive the higher levels of radiation, but it is not durable enough to be exposed to RAIN? What's it made of? Sugar?

    If the most expensive wehicle on earth (well ... maybe the B2-bomber is more expensive) can't stand up to rain, what are my chances of driving my car home from work in bad weather today?

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    We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
    1. Re:Postponed due to bad weather? by jstockdale · · Score: 2, Informative

      yes yes i know this is offtopic but i thought i'd just address the mentioned price of the Shuttle vs B2 Bomber:

      B2: US$1.2 Billion (Source: USAF)
      STS: US$2 Billion (Source: ABC News)

      ok you may now commence the modding
      -1 Offtopic ;)

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      **AA: a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes
    2. Re:Postponed due to bad weather? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The issue with weather is that they want perfect visibility in case they have to abort after liftoff and land safely. They also want to be able to see the the shuttle clearly so that they'll have footage to analyze if something goes wrong.

    3. Re:Postponed due to bad weather? by mortonda · · Score: 1

      I just read that the main threat was static electricity - they were afraid that the motion of the shuttle through the cloud could spark a bolt of lightning, which could disable the computers a rather critical time. (T-1m to T+3m being *ahem* slightly critical)

      Also, the tile on the underside are extremely sensitive to water; they are brittle, and if water got in them, it would freeze in space and crack the tiles, just like roads in the north...

      Yup, they get nervous when there's a large cloud in the way...

    4. Re:Postponed due to bad weather? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ask former astronaut Alan Bean, who was the commander for Apollo 12, about what it's like to fly through a cloud, whose electricity may or may not be "static". IMNSHO, lightening isn't static - it's moving, and if it happens to move through your $1.2B machine, I'm sure it would be cause for at least some concern!

    5. Re:Postponed due to bad weather? by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1

      But still - if you paid 2 BILLION dollars for your machine - wouldn't you want it to be able to handle something as "simple" as water and thunderstorms?

      Granted - I've only seen a single car being hit by lightning while driving (trust me - you'll more than likely wonder if you just shit/pissed your pants), but that one kept driving. I think the lights went out for moment, but then again I was blinded by the lightning. We were driving behind the car by the way.

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      We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
    6. Re:Postponed due to bad weather? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Remember what happened to Apollo 12? The rocket was struck by a bolt of ligntning. Massive power surge, a piece of the telemetry system blew, many circuit breakers tripped, and the mission was nearly aborted.

  38. American crap technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They should have used french tecnology instead! Then things wold have worked more smouthly!

    Vivela France!

    /Michelle

    1. Re:American crap technology by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 1, Troll

      I'm not convinced. After all it is a well known fact that in European hell all the engineers are French!!!

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      Only to idiots, are orders laws.
      -- Henning von Tresckow
  39. Good for them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I always thought there was something a little queer about NASA. I'm glad they've finally found a way to celebrate their sexuality. Ride on, space cowboy! It might not be raining men, but at least they're floating above us.

  40. Smooth for the first 36 seconds anyway by Wolfgang+Boxhead · · Score: 1

    The last 500 million euro fireworks display was caused by: "The internal SRI software exception was caused during execution of a data conversion from a 64-bit floating-point number to a 16-bit signed integer value." See this link for more stuff http://www.math.ufl.edu/~cws/3114/ariane-siam.html

  41. Re:Woohoo! More shuttle missions! by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1

    Actually it would be nice to put bored billionaires in space. We could even give them a free ride up there, and then charge a bundle to get them down again :-)

    And if they stay, they have to pay for food, and if you thought food was expensive at the local pizzaria, you have no idea what they charge to deliver pizza to space. And no - you don't get it free of charge, if it isn't there in 30 minutes.

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    We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
  42. Re:So what exactly does this massive student proje by Snard · · Score: 1

    Prediction of first radio message sent to the Starshine satellite:

    Good morning Starshine, the earth says "hello".

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    - Mike
  43. heh heh heh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You notice it's a Troll, then you go ahead and engage the conversation anyway. That's fucking rich.....

    "Hey, look, a glass of hemlock! glug, glug, glug..."