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The Forgotten Huygens Experiment
jdray writes "An experiment onboard the Huygens probe didn't run as planned because someone forgot to turn it on. The team lead for the experiment has put eighteen years of his life into the project, just to watch it not happen after a seven year ride to its destination on Titan."
Sounds like my life.
1. Doh
Doh (d)
Interj.
a) A Gen-X colloquialism conveying an overall feeling of frustration.
b) Used to express a feeling one has after realizing they have been tricked, misled, scammed, swindled, etc..
c) Used to boast or chide the victim of such tomfoolery
d) Coined by the animated sitcom character Homer Simpson in the mid to late eighties, "Doh" is similar to other one word, one syllable explicatives in that it is a quick and succinct summary of one's aggravation, but differs in that it was an accepted substitute to similarly censored words.
I forgot to turn on my cellphone this morning, and missed a call from someone dear to me. Still, reading this makes me realise that somewhere out there, someone is feeling even worse over forgetting to turn something on.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
Welcome to the real world.
Put this guy on a suicide watch. I'm about as far removed from this as anything, and *I'm* depressed...
Lets just hope noone forgets to turn on the anti-missile lasers on the orbiting satellites. Bigger mistakes can happen. :)
Codito, ergo sum.
i spent 23 years of my life to get a girlfriend. i deleted all my pr0n for her. now she is gone. life is truly a misery.
I never understood why the apostrophe is there. What letter has been omitted? Maybe Homer somehow believes that saying "some water" in French is swearing or something.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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I'm sure they'll have plenty of time to try again.
They send these missions all the time don't they?
Find the person who was responsible for this, send him or her up there to turn it on, and tell them not to expect any overtime for it. In fact, the costs for sending them up should be taken out of their salary.
Might sound a bit hard, but it's the only way they'll learn.
The belief in a biblical god is an ignorant one
...DOH!
But Officer, I DID read the f**king article!
off. site. backup.
women come, women go, but pr0n is forever
Suchetha
learn from yesterday, plan for tomorrow, party tonight
or one out of three ain't bad
Sure they have!
They just realized what was at point 2.
Signatures are for stupids.
Yes, and I'm not sure why we'd have to go to French to get a meaning for D'oh. Homer is English-speaking and "dough" is an English word. Plus it it what doughnuts are made from. I figure since Americans shortened "doughnuts" to "donuts", and Homer is lazy and likes donuts, he just shortened it to "D'oh". (=
It also could be a contraction for "damn, oh!" or preferably "oh damn".
I thought that only a screen writer would use a plot that would have the 'channel B' have a less stable oscillator than 'channel A.' Then someone forgets to turn on channel A.
It looks like this experiment was doomed before the craft ever left the ground.
Edmund Blackadder: Right, let's get the book. Now; Baldrick, where's the manuscript?
Baldrick: You mean the big papery thing tied up with string?
E: Yes, Baldrick -- the manuscript belonging to Dr. Johnson.
B: You mean the baity fellow in the black coat who just left?
E: Yes, Baldrick -- Dr. Johnson.
B: So you're asking where the big papery thing tied up with string belonging
to the baity fellow in the black coat who just left is.
E: Yes, Baldrick, I am, and if you don't answer, then the booted bony thing
with five toes at the end of my leg will soon connect sharply with the
soft dangly collection of objects in your trousers. For the last time,
Baldrick: Where is Dr. Johnson's manuscript?
B: On the fire.
E: (shocked) On the *what*?
B: The hot orangy thing under the stony mantlepiece.
E: You *burned* the Dictionary?
B: Yup.
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
Someone should tell him to come post in the /. poll...
If you are paying for it, you are doing it wrong.
Which is, what's the most expensive hardware you've ever ruined?
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.