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An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian reports on an attempt at the record for the highest balloon flight. 'A bag of helium the size of the Empire State building to challenge Nasa record.'" We had an article about them a few months ago.
You fat fucking smelly Greek whore! Do you even wash on the rare occasions when your husband wants to fuck you? I bet your arse smells like a pig farm after eating all of the fucking pork and potatoes you cook-- you do nothing but sit all day, sweating and farting. It must smell like a swamp where criminals dump bodies in the sweltering heat.
Do you even shave? You sound like a lazy fucking wart of a housewife who wouldn't even bother. I bet the place is a mess too: dishes needing done, a layer of dust over everything, and stains and spills here and there. What a fucking pig-- a hairy fucking Greek bitch-pig.
Oh yeah, and your "skills" are laughable. You can't code for shit-- there's more holes in your PHP site than in a Greek brothel. Your English is terrible, which is pathetic for an editor-in-chief of a news site that reports in the language. Your obvious biases and slants make you look even more silly and unprofessional, as well as your multi-paragraph rants and fits of rage you write in your own forums. It's no wonder no one takes you seriously.
In short, ELQ, FUCK YOU. You are a loser, a no-lifer, a wanna-be, and a fecal smear in the world of technology. You are a detriment to the community you claim you serve. I challenge you to refute one thing I have said. You can't; it's all true.
And you know it.
an altitude of 132,000ft, or about 25 miles.
Man, I'd have to be REALLY HIGH to get that high.
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"So a few days ago"
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read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/03/
This flight has no scientific value whatsoever.
It's merely a publicity stunt for Qinetiq (formerly part of DERA, formerly the RAE).
From a resident of Farnborough, UK.
A new WORLD RECORD !!
YOU have just posted the most USELESS and BORING news ever on Slashdot!!
-1? You stupif fucking moderators make me fucking sick with your bullshit moderating. If I had put in a pro-Linux or a tired-ass Beowulf Cluster reference in that post, I'd have gotten a +4 Interesting at LEAST.
Fuck you, Slashdot. Bunch of fucking queers.
I know that you meant this as a joke but there is acyually an idea (very much at the conceptual stage at the moment) along similar lines produced by the chinese space agency.
What they have proposed is to put a large platform at about 20000 ft, from which they could launch small rockets, thereby greatly reducing the amount of fuel that needs to spent overcoming the giant gravity well. Both the platform and the rockets could be put into position by the use of balloons, although hydrogen rather than helium would probably be used as it has a higher specific impulse.
Now to be fair this is really only a conceptual idea, and the new chinese space shuttle will probably render it unnecessary but it prove to be useful for smaller space industries who lack the infrastructure needed for traditional launches.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
There would no lift in vacuum you fool.
I wonder why arbitrarily stupid people have the right to post on slashdot.
Impractical, crash-prone faggotry. Strictly for homos who have nothing better to do.
You cannot deny this, m0therfuckerz.
You know, that shit called humor... the stuff that doesnt have reality applied to it--- Geez, pull the coal out of your ass its a diamond by now.
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otherwise known as fucking rich cunts with way too much fucking money and way WAY too much fucking free fucking time.
imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
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