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Cassini's Robot Lab Successfully Separates
toomanyairmiles writes "The BBC has an article indicating NASA's Cassini probe has successfully launched its robot lab on its three-week journey into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. 'Such is the chemistry and temperature (-180C) on Titan that scientists suspect it may harbour lakes, even great seas, of methane or ethane.' Seemingly we have very little idea of what we'll find there: 'Even Cassini's remarkable instruments have struggled to get at the facts. Scientists can see dark and bright regions on the surface, but quite what they represent no one is really sure.'"
Maybe on another world people like this don't have to go on eBay to get laid!
If you want to solve the nation's problems like unemployment, disease and the general lack of direction, (a) stop giving power to entities which concentrate only on making their own profit, and (b) vote for someone that puts these goals ahead of others. If the money wasn't being spent on NASA, it would be distributed among other departments of the government, not channeled directly to health care or whatever. I personally prefer learning a little about the universe than "liberating" foreign nations or building up space weapons / missile defense.
Hey, I've got a "clue to fighting AIDS":
Don't have indiscriminate sex with multiple partners.
It works real good you should try it some time.
eBay
by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Yeah
A used pink bathrobe
A rare mint snowglobe
A Smurf TV tray
I bought on eBay
My house is filled with
This crap
Shows up in bubble wrap
Most every day
What I bought on eBay
Tell me why (I need another pet rock)
Tell me why (I got that Alf alarm clock)
Tell me why (I bid on Shatner's old toupee)
They had it on eBay
I'll buy your knick-knack
Just check my feedback
"A++!" they all say
They love me on eBay
Gonna buy (a slightly damaged golf bag)
Gonna buy (some Beanie Babies, new with tag)
From some guy
I've never met in Norway
Found him on eBay
I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa
Got Paypal or Visa, what ever'll please ya
As long as I've got the dough
I'll buy your tchotchkes
Sell me your watch, please
I'll buy (I'll buy)
I'm highest bidder!
Junk keeps arriving in the mail
From that worldwide garage sale
Hey, a "Dukes Of Hazzard" ashtray
Oh yeah (I bought it on eBay)
Wanna buy (a Pac-Man Fever lunchbox)
Wanna buy (a case of vintage tube socks)
Wanna buy (a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre)
Found it on eBay
Wanna buy (that Farrah Fawcet poster)
Pez dispensers and a toaster
Don't know why
the kind of stuff you'd throw away
I'll buy on eBay
What I bought on eBay
I live in the District of Columbia, so afro-American outbursts aren''t really all that unique. Anyway, about three years ago I was walking to a club area (Adams Morgan) with a bunch of friends and we stopped to wait for a traffic light (something only white DC residents do) and we hear this guy from behind us say something like: ""wait right there, I wants to hab a word wit ya bout some business.""
So we turn around and there is this older black crack head guy in typical ratty street clothes squatted about 10 feet away from us next to some stairs, right on the sidewalk. He is literally blowing mud all over some yuppies cement stairwell. Real geyser style diarrhea, punctuated with loud booming farts. The shit is splashing all aver the stairs and he is doing this while making eye contact with us and nodding.
I didn''t know whether to laugh or vomit. As we are all standing there slack-jawed he pulls up his pants and starts ambulating toward us. We ran away in horror as he called us all sorts of horrible names...... mostly ""white devil"" ""racist"" the usual sobriquets.