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Loud Metallic Noise Heard at ISS
Z4rd0Z writes "Russian Cosmonauts at the International Space Station today heard a loud drumlike noise for the second time since November. The sound seemed to be coming from the same place as before. In February a space walk to find the source of the sound was cut short."
The difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut being what, exactly?
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A biology graduate student went to Borneo to take some samples for his
thesis work. He flew there, found a guide with a canoe to take him up the
river to the remote site he where he would make his collections. About noon
on the second day of travel up the river they began to hear drums. Being a
city boy by nature, the biologist was disturbed by this. He asked the guide,
"What are those drums" The guide turned to him and said "Drums OK, but
VERY BAD when they stop."
Well the biologist settled down a little at this, and things went
reasonably well for about two weeks. Then, just as they were
packing up the camp to leave, the drums suddenly stopped! This hit the
biologist like a ton of bricks (to coin a phrase), and he yelled at the guide
"The Drums have stopped, What happens now?"
The guide crouched down, covered his head with his hands and said
"Bass Solo"
(From: GARYE@MAX.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU)
ystnytnicode for the russian translation.
arnrnk' characters.
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Translation, please?
Translation, please? (Score:3, Funny)
by Aaron_Pike on 05:14 AM Saturday April 03 2004
Russian Cosmonauts at the International Space Station today heard a loud drumlike noise...
What's Russian for "fool of a Took!"?
"Would it be better if I flat out lied and pretended to feel strongly?"
Would it kill you to try? What you're saying in essence is that if you saw a baby on a railroad track with the 5:30 from Pittsburg bearing down on it, and that baby wasn't a close friend or relative, you'd have a tough time working up the requisite concern to scoop said child off the track. They have a word for that in psychological circles: sociopath. Granted, requesting that you burst out in tears for a couple of complete strangers in a space station hundreds of miles above your head in non-iminent danger is a bit of a stretch, but nobody asked you to do that. Actually, no one asked you anything, but you felt it neccesary to enlighten us that you feel nothing for anyone that you "don't personally know". Somehow, you felt that this was a reaction with some exchangeable parity with sincere, if somewhat muffled, sympathy. Call us back, Mr. Grinch, when your heart isn't two sizes too small.
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Captn' Theres a tear in the space time continum,
slashdot seems to be stuck on 1 April!
No' we can-ne fix it,
we don't have enough di-lithum crystals!
talk about won s(t)inking dinosaur landing itself onto another? lookout bullow.
tell 'em robbIE? there can be only won?
Same thing happens to me when I pull a friends computer apart and afterwards I've got a shitload of screws left over. My friends here metallic clanking noises too!
:(
I wonder why I have no friends
I've read through all of the parent comments at -1 and I don't think I found a single serious comment.
Given that most of the comments in this story are variations of the same joke, why are most not modded redundant? Are people just scrolling down to random comments and discovering latter repeated jokes for the first time?