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Next Goals For The ESA

zeux writes "With all the news we got recently from space I tried to gather some information about the next goals of the ESA (European Space Agency). Along with a space vehicle designed to carry supplies to the ISS between 2004 and 2013, they are working on the new 'Vega' launcher (2006) and still playing with the SMART-1 probe which is slowly heading to the moon testing an ion drive that is ten times more efficient than the usual chemical systems (1500 hours cumulated thrust time so far)."

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  1. goodbye, goatse... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it is a sad day on christmas island. to quote andy warhol: '...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.' --Andy Warhol

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

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  3. Here's what I think about this subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    When I think of dirty old men, I think of Darl McBride and when I think about Darl I get a hard-on that won't quit.

    Sixty years ago, I worked in what was once my Grandfather's Greenhouses. Gramps had died a year earlier and Grandma, now in her seventies had been forced to sell to the competition. I got a job with the new owners and mostly worked the range by myself. That summer, they hired a man to help me get the benches ready for the fall planting.

    Darl always looked like he was three days from a shave and his whiskers were dirty white, shaded by the brim of his battered felt fedora.

    He did not chew tobacco but the corners of his mouth turned down in a way that, at any moment, I expected a trickle of thin, brown juice to creep down his chin. His bushy, brown eyebrows shaded pale, gray eyes.

    The old-timer extended his hand, lifted his leg like a dog about to mark a bush and let go the loudest fart I ever heard. The old fellow then winked at me, "Darl McBride is the name and playing pecker's my game."

    I thought he said, "Checkers." I was nineteen, green as grass. I said, "I was never much good at that game."

    "Now me," said Darl, "I just love jumping men . . ."

    "I'll bet you do."

    ". . . and grabbing on to their peckers," said Darl.

    "I though we were talking about . . ."

    "You like jumping old men's peckers?"

    I shook my head.

    "I reckon we'll have to remedy that." Darl lifted his right leg and let go another tremendous fart. "He said, "We best be getting to work."

    That summer of 1941 was a more innocent time. I learned most of the sex I knew from those little eight pager cartoon booklets of comic-page characters going at it. Young men read them in the privacy of an outside john, played with themselves, by themselves and didn't brag about it. Sometimes, we got off with a trusted friend and helped each other out.

    Under the greenhouse glass, the temperature some times climbed over the hundred degree mark. I had worked stripped to the waist since April and was as brown as a berry. On only his second day on the job and in the middle of August, Darl wore old fashioned overalls. Those and socks in his high-top work shoes was every stitch he wore. When he bent forward, the bib front billowed out and I could see the white curly hairs on his chest and belly.

    "Me? I just love to eat pussy!" Darl licked his lips from corner to corner then sticking his tongue out far enough that the tip could touch the end of his nose. He said, A man's not a man till he knows first hand, the flavor of a lady's pussy."

    "People do that?"

    He winked. "Of course the taste of a hard cock ain't to be sneezed at neither. Now you answer me, yes or no. Does a man's cock taste salty or not?"

    "I never . . ."

    "Well, old Darl's willing to let you find out."

    "No way."

    "Just teasing," said Darl. "But don't give me no sass or I'll show you my ass." He winked. "Might show it to you anyway, if you was to ask."

    "Why would I do that?"

    "Curiosity, maybe. I'm guessing you never had a good piece of man ass."

    "I'm no queer."

    "Now don't be getting judgmental. Enjoying what's at hand ain't being queer. It's taking pleasure where you find it with anybody willing." Darl slipped a hand into the side slit of his overalls and I could tell he was fondling and straightening out his cock. "Now I admit I got me a hole that satisfied a few guys."

    I swallowed, hard.

    Darl winked. "Care to be asshole buddies?"

    ***

    We worked steadily until noon. Darl drew a worn pocket watch from the bib pocket of his loose overalls and croaked, "Bean time. But first its time to reel out our limber hoses and make with the golden arches before lunch."

    I followed Darl to the end of the greenhouse where he stopped at the outside wall of the potting shed. He opened his fly, fished inside, and finger-hooked a soft white penis with a pouting foreskin puckered half an inch past the

  4. MOD PARENT UP: WAY OF THE FUTURE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Offtopic? Cmo'n how much more on topic could this be?

  5. Bye bye Goatse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  6. 1500 hours of thrust time? by Qinopio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know about the other Slashdot readers (male or female), but I could get there about 15000 times in 1500 hours of thrust time :)

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  7. do not weep for the goatse man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. eyecon0meter: goals have not changed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. the prize of survival by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  10. no where to hide? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just time passing now. tell 'em robbIE?

  11. time for another storIE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  12. won-eyed girl no match for corepirate nazi,, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  13. so robbIE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  15. robbIE bets yOUR .asp on corepirate nazi sponsors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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