Japanese Deploy Solar Sail

Chuck1318 writes "The Japanese ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science) announced the launch and deployment of the first ever large-scale solar sail. In the news release they state "Because it carries no fuel and keeps accelerating over almost unlimited distances, it is the only technology now in existence that can one day take us to the stars.""

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Troll?

[rsilvergun]

This is a reference to Galaxy Express 999. It's a joke near as I can tell. Not a fair mod in my eyes

Re:Creepy fortune at the bottom of the page:

[jlanthripp]

That's a few lines to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, from his 1981 album "Face Value".

Here's the full lyrics to that song:

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I've been waiting for this moment, all my life, Oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord

Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment all my life, Oh Lord, Oh Lord

Well I remember, I remember don't worry
How could I ever forget, it's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show; but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you or me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord...

Computer games lead to violence!

[ArsenneLupin]

If first-person-shooters lead to school shootings and amok runs, what do games such as solitaire make people do?

Easy: double suicide.

"It was a small fight, something silly," said Chrisostomides' cousin and downstairs neighbor, Paul Michaelides. "It started about who would play solitaire on the computer."

The fight escalated, and Ioannou eventually hurled herself from the balcony, they said. She fell onto a concrete driveway that winds behind the apartment building.

I don't dare to speculate about the gruesome events that the venerable pong may trigger...

Re:mod parent up

[DataCannibal]

Here you go then:

A woman goes to the doctor and says. "Doctor my vagina makes a noise like someone breaking wind."
So the doctor says "Please lie on the couch and let me examine you".
The woman takes her knickers off and lies on the couch and the doctor has a look.
Amazingly, the woman's vagina is making little farting noises.
"I just want to get a second opinion from a colleague", says the doctor a telephones another doctor.
"George" he says, " have listen to this" and holds the telephone close to the woman's vagina. He then speaks into the phone again.
"Well George, what do you think of that"
"It sounds just like some cunt farting into the phone", say his colleague