News from Mars

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @04:15AM from the it-just-keeps-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While the Beagle 2 may have been gobbled up by Mars--Eater of Spacecraft, the main part of the ESA's recent Mars mission is doing well. The Mars Express Orbiter has sent back some amazing pictures of The Grand Canyon of Mars (Valles Marineris). Yes, this is the same gigantic geological feature that was missed by Mariner 4, 6, and 7 but finally found by Mariner 9. In other news, the Spirit rover is getting ready to grind the rock Adirondack (picture)."

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Mars? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What's that all about?

Is it good or is it not so good?
Is it just me by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

or does Dean sound like Hulk Hogan, brother!

Whatcha gonna do when the Deaniacs run wild..on..you!!
1. Re:Is it just me by Chuck+Bucket · 2004-01-20 04:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Thanks for posting this, I heard this on NPR this morning, and wished I could find it to share. I'm a Dean backer by the way, I think this is the kind of passion is what our country needs (though I suspect most think Kerry is more 'presidential').
  
  CB
  
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WHY THE GOATSE BLACKOUT, TACO? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

K5's run the story.
Metafilter's run the story.
Hell, memepool's even made note of it!
Why is the whole "goatse.cx suspended by it's registrar" story not worthy of mention on slashdot? I guess Michael isn't worked into a froth because the .cx registrar RETROACTIVELY changed the TOS just to get rid of goatse.
News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters , indeed!
1. Re:WHY THE GOATSE BLACKOUT, TACO? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Michael isn't worked into a froth because he thinks it funny to see everyone posting about the goatse.cx blackout, and then not doing anything about it.
2. Re:WHY THE GOATSE BLACKOUT, TACO? by hyperstation · 2004-01-20 04:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  god seems to agree...
3. Re:WHY THE GOATSE BLACKOUT, TACO? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Of course this is offtopic, the story is about Mars, not Uranus ...
4. Re:WHY THE GOATSE BLACKOUT, TACO? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 05:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I couldn't care less. This is 'news for nerds' not 'news for trolls'.
  
  Now FOAD.
5. Re:WHY THE GOATSE BLACKOUT, TACO? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 09:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  That's the funniest damned picture i've ever seen.
Truss me....it's whack!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Do YOUR part! by Thud457 · 2004-01-20 04:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Have YOU submitted the goatse suspension story to slashdot TODAY?!!!

(Here's a conspiracy theory for ya... Somebody made the comment that nic.cx has been deleting the posts from their comment messageboard on this matter. I can't verify the claim. But apparently that sort of doublethink from a domain registrar isn't newsworthy.)

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the picture by ajs318 · 2004-01-20 04:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Note that wallpaper ain't just for Windows! KDE users can download it, open a root console, and copy it to /usr/share/wallpapers/, from where any user can then set it as their desktop wallpaper. {This may or may not also work for GNOME -- haven't been able to test as I don't have Gnome installed on this machine}.

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Re:Press release is kind of funny... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 05:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Only they would think it's logical to say "would of" instead of "would've" or "would have". I mean, even if the spelling is confusing, surely the context isn't? What sense does it make to say "would of"?
"than I could have" by glrotate · 2004-01-20 05:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

not "could of". idiot.
while we're being pedantic by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 08:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

how about "then" instead of "than?"