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Bigelow Aerospace Deploys Genesis 2 Space Module
ThePopeLayton writes "Space.com is reporting that Bigelow Aerospace has successfully launched its Genesis 2 Space Module. This is significant as Bigelow Aerospace is one of a few private groups currently developing space technologies. The module was launched in a compact form and upon achieving a stable orbit will be inflated using compressed air. Bigelow's website is reporting 'the second experimental pathfinder spacecraft has been successfully launched and inserted into orbit.' The module has a variety of things on board: Scorpions, Hissing Cockroaches, Ant colonies, and even a Bingo game."
Scorpions? Cockroaches? Ants? Bingo? See this is what happens when scientist have too much free time on their hands... Bigelow Aerospace, July 2005: SCIENTIST1: "Wouldn't it be cool to send scorpions to space?" SCIENTIST2: "...And have them fight giant space-cockroaches!" SCIENTIST3: "And play bingo!" All: "This is so cool!!! *snort* *snort*"
The mutant space scorpions will have to have something to play, while they wait for re-entry.
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They should have sent up this instead. It would have been more fitting.
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Cockroaches, scorpions, ants and Bingo? Sounds like Phoenix not space. What are they trying to do establish a new place to send all the baby boomers when they get old?
Space gigolo!
Ow ow ow ow stop hitting me!
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I, for one, welcome our new mutant space scorpion overlords.
Scorpions on a Spaceship - where's Samuel L Jackson when you need him?
Does it have hookers? And blackjack?
Well... sort of. If your idea of hookers is venomous exoskeletal arachnids with claws then you're in luck! Just bear in mind that "getting a piece of tail" will have a different meaning for her than it will for you.
Bingo might seem like a poor substitute for blackjack, but this is Space Bingo! Anything is better with "Space" affixed to its name! Think about it; Which would you rather drink- "beer" or "Space Beer"!
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Well, only really old fogeys will have enough money to visit the space hotel and they will probably want to play bingo...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Just imagine the incentive to develop light and cheap ground-to-space missiles ;-)
And I would go for the "inspiring absence of any message".
Or George Lucas could buy one and make it look like the Death Star...
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Now maybe we can finally know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space.
Genesis in space? wha?
Khan... Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan. You're gonna have to come down here. You're gonna have to come down here.
I've done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive.
KHAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!
-- QED