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Write Your Valentine On a Spacecraft
GingerSnaps writes "Looking for something more fun and less predictable than roses and chocolates this Valentine's Day? Write your love on the side of a satellite. This unusual approach to courting comes courtesy of students at MIT and Georgia Tech, as part of a larger initiative to pay for their research spacecraft, the Mars Gravity Biosatellite. For a tax-deductible donation anyone can post a picture or message of choice on the spacecraft. All donations help the students pay for the development and construction of their Earth-orbiting satellite, to be launched in 2010. The data gathered will be critical to preparing for human missions to Mars and beyond."
Nothing says "I love you" like etching your girlfriend's name onto a cold metal construct and shooting it into the black oblivion of space.
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My love for thee burns like the flames of re-entry
The people who are willing to give their girlfriends the "gift" of writing their names on the sides of spacecraft..... aren't usually the type of people that have girlfriends.
Mike or Joel?
God spoke to me.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
You fools! Don't you see what's happening?
1. The MIT team is raising money for a satellite that will go to Mars.
2. They are getting people to give them the names of their Valentine's to put on the side of another satellite.
3. People who would pay for something like this are geeks; geeks are mostly males; and most males are attracted to women.
4. Ergo, a team of scientists with STRONG MARTIAN CONNECTIONS is collecting the names of hundreds--maybe even thousands--of EARTH WOMEN.
That's right-- MIT IS HELPING MARTIANS STEAL EARTH WOMEN!
(Don't believe me? Here's photographic proof.
Arr! Read The Government Manual for New Pirates!
True. But those women are also all pixelated where it counts. That just doesn't do it for me.