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Still No Contact from Beagle 2
Many of you have submitted this, so this will be a condensing of the relevant information. WebfishUK writes: "The BBC has just released this story which announces the failure of the latest and possibly best chance to contact the British built Mars probe, Beagle 2. Given that Mars Express was designed to communicate with Beagle (unlike the earlier attempts with NASA's Mars Odyssey), this may indicate that something catastrophic has happened to Beagle 2." From Bromrrrrr: "[The]
ESA is reporting that the Mars Express, which everybody was hoping would be able to get through to the poor lost puppy, has failed its first attempt. 'We have not lost hope yet to contact Beagle 2, but we also know that it has landed on an unforgiving planet,' said David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science." and I-R-Baboon adds: "The Mars Express mothership from the EU passed 350 km over the intended landing site of the Beagle 2 hearing only silence. Although nothing was heard, hope has not been given up yet, as scientists will keep trying until February, with more passovers of the Beagle 2's landing site on January 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 14th." Additional updates can be obtained from the Beagle 2 homepage as well as from the ESA's homepage for the Mars Express. Here's hoping that the lander is only down, and not out.
I can see a bastard!
Yep, too bad you didn't think of it first :) Better luck next time.
Mod parent and everyone who participates in "Yeah!/Boo! America" in this thread down please.
common sense: noun
What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.
The worst part is that it's a freakin' repost, too...
Not possible, sorry. This one was written on the spot. Similar, maybe, but reposted, no way.
Sorry, we're going to be sore over here for a while until we get over being called imperialists for wanting to fix a problem that cost us 2500 or so of our fellow citizens in one day, on our own soil. Blasting the shit out of the Arabian peninsula and the near environs is about the only choice short of rolling over and dying that we had left, but that doesn't seem real obvious to the critics in Europe, now, does it?
I understand that Blair helped out and all, but we know the Brit public wasn't behind us, and the general xenophobia thus created is not going to be easy to shake. Don't expect much in the warm feelings department in the near term.
Stop back in a decade, maybe we'll be better then. Then again, people like me haven't forgotten about France and those F-111s bombing Tripoli and overflight rights...
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Ok, how many people on /. declare US as inferior?
Let's face it, we ALL have our faults. Man kind, nation, social, educational, everyone.
Everytime I read on /. someone makes a comment about another country, this is starting to sound like children bickering. How about we ignore those post for a change, don't feed the fire?
What we ought (is that even a word?) to be doing is asking what went wrong and given possibilities until we are able to narrow down what happened.
Hmm, seems like that's already been done (for the most part).
OK, what's next? We learn from that mistake. All space programs will learn from this.
I could go on, but that would take this further off topic.
"Do or do not. There is no try." -- Master Yoda (Half man, half muppet)
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda stepped off the bus and was led into the yard of the Michigan State Correctional
Institute. He had been given ten years for participating in a stock fraud. Five with good behavior. Years
spent basking in the glow of a CRT had been hard on him. His body was frail, his skin pallid. He knew he
could never make it through ten years in the general population with his virginity intact. He had to get
into solitary.
As soon as the burly guard unshackled him he made his move. Exhaling a feminine "hmmph" he weakly slapped
the guard. He was quickly taken to the ground, receiving a swift kick to the ribs before being
restrained. As he was dragged to the solitary confinement cell he felt nothing but relief. "At least in
solitary," he thought "I'll be safe." Unfortunately for CmdrTaco he had picked the wrong guard to mess
with.
The next few days were uneventful. The time in his cell he spent evenly between sleeping, reading a "Perl
for Dummies" book he had gotten from the book cart, and masturbating furiously. His self-flagellation was
interrupted on the fourth day. The burly guard he had attacked earlier stepped into his cell. The gleam
in the guards eye and the mean grin on his face made CmdrTaco's pecker quickly shrivel in his hand. "You
fucked with the wrong man when you fucked with Michael Simms," said the guard. "The inmates here call me
The Asshole for a reason. Now come with me, punk."
The guard led him down the hall to one of several empty shower stalls. He roughly threw CmdrTaco in the
stall and locked the door. CmdrTaco was petrified. His mind raced as he imagined the myriad of different
tortures that could be in store for him. His worst fears were confirmed when the guard returned. In his
hands were a short black dress, black stilleto heels, and a curly blonde wig. "Strip down and put this
on, bitch." CmdrTaco did as instructed and was pleased to notice that the dress fit well and the heels
gave him a nice slimming effect. The burly guard admired the drag queen. "The GNAA is gonna love you!"
The guard left the shower stall, only to return minutes later. He opened the door and led 20 large black
men into the stall. "CmdrTaco, meet the Gay Nigger Association of America. GNAA, meet CmdrTaco. I'm sure
you all will get along fine." With that the guard slammed the shower door closed and walked away
laughing.
The men approached CmdrTaco, backing him into a corner. The apparent leader stepped forward. "No matter
what I'm gonna fuck that purdy lil' ass of yours. Now I can fuck it dry or you can lube it up for me."
CmdrTaco knew he had no choice. He kneeled in front of the leader, who began to slap his face with his 10
black inches. Puss from syphilictic sores quickly covered CmdrTaco's cheeks. When the leader was
sufficiently aroused he placed his throbbing cock up to CmdrTaco's lips. As soon as CmdrTaco opened his
mouth the leader violently shoved his manhood to the back of CmdrTaco's throat and exclaimed "Swallow my
shit you cracker bitch!" CmdrTaco gagged as he was violently face fucked.
Just when he was about to pass out the leader pulled out, turned him around and shoved his cock into
CmdrTaco's ass. CmdrTaco began to scream in agony but his cries were quickly muffled by one of the other
gang member's cocks. They rode him like that for the better part of an hour. When one man finished
another quickly took his place. Just as CmdrTaco was getting used to the throbbing pain in his anus the
men stopped. One man lay down on the floor and CmdrTaco was told to get on top of him and take his dick
inside him. Exhausted and humiliated, CmdrTaco had no will left to fight. As soon as he inserted the
penis another man came up behind him and began to force his cock into CmdrTaco's already filled anus.
Again his screams of agony were muffled, this time by a smelly black anus.
For another hour he was violated in this way. When the men were finished with him he couldn't wa
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Listen man, if I say I don't like the current US stance towards the UN, or on Kyoto, or whatever, that doesn't mean I hate America.
I really didn't say anyone hated america. I just get tired of everything we do or don't do, being considered so wrong or abusing our power of whatever it is. And I think i've repeated myself a few times in other posts, but, my problem isn't so much with the people who are critical, it's that there is a lot ignorant, stupid remarks that other people seem to think are insightful or interesting or whatever. Like for instance comparing Hitler and Bush.