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Russian Supply Ship Docks At ISS
CryptoJoe writes "Space.com and CNN report a successful docking between the Russian-built cargo ship Progress 16 and the International Space Station (ISS). NASA had indicated that a failure of Progress 16 would lead to the evacuation of the ISS because food supplies are critically low."
The real truth is that all the members of the ISS team are actually on a weight loss program and are currently fasting.
Man, it's a slow news day. Next headline: Man eats christmas dinner, says it's pretty good.
We'd first have to go through Roland Piquepaille's ad-blog to read about that Christmas dinner!
Well at least the crew had plenty of alcohol. Remind me what the problem was?
"Russian ICBM Accidentally Fails to Destroy Space Station: Next Attempt Will Carry Live Warhead Instead of Food."
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Dear Mary,
I yearn for you tragically,
A.T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.
You don't understand the real purpose of the space station - it is there to have a real pair of human eyeballs watching for a missile launch. It is a final confirmation for the super powers that somebody is up to no-good, before they launch a counter strike and kill millions. The scientific stuff is secondary and to keep the guys from getting bored out of their skulls.
Oh well, what the hell...
what are they going to do if the missiles are launched - "hey houston, you're fucked. over"
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1. Accuse someone of making a stupid comment.
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Outside:
Temperature: Unknown
Pressure: 0
Humidity: Divide by Zero Error!
It'd probably freak out and order shuttles full of vodka.
And the problem with that is.... ;-)
The purpose of government is, beyond defense, to deplete the surplus productivity. In an age where workers become ever more productive their exceess leisure would otherwise lead to great unhappiness and unrest.
While research ventures like NASA seem to be unlimited sinkholes to pour excess productivity into, actually the reverse is true. In the long term research always pays off, producing results which make people more productive.
To balance this we need even more bureaucracy and middle management in NASA, several layers of oversight for funding, safety and artistic merit, and that's still not enough.
As a beginning solution to the excess productivity problem I suggest we expend more public funds in the care and nurturing of feral cats.
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