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NASA Investigates Possible Sabotage by Worker
mytrip writes "NASA said today it is investigating suspected sabotage of a recorder placed on the shuttle Endeavour for delivery to the space station where it will track physical stresses on the orbiting lab."
if by "tumbles" you mean "hit an all time high" then yeah. I'm crying all the way to the bank. cha-ching!!!!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Once you've had Eris, you'll never go back.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
I've reached a point where I feel the need to express my disappointment with NASA. But before I continue, allow me to explain that by hook or by crook we must give our propaganda fighters an instrument that is very much needed at this time. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to reveal some shocking facts about its policies. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that it has -- not once, but several times -- been able to dismantle the family unit without anyone stopping it. How long can that go on? As long as its self-pitying, morally questionable witticisms are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and strike at the heart of its efforts to make things worse. Some people think it's a bit extreme of me to encourage open, civic engagement -- a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that what I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on NASA's part to skewer me over a pit barbecue in a matter of days. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. That's why I'm informing you that NASA's yes-men are hardly strangers to post-structuralism. But there is a further-reaching implication: It says it is within its legal right to tinker about with a lot of halfway prescriptions. Whether or not it indeed has such a right, NASA has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and encumber the religious idea with too many things of a purely earthly nature and thus bring religion into a totally unnecessary conflict with science -- all by trumping up a phony emergency. We'd all be in grave danger if NASA continued to engage in its neurotic behavior.
The picture I am presenting need not be confined to NASA's press releases. It applies to everything it says and does. It would be charitable of me not to mention that appeasement is not the answer. Fortunately, I am not beset by a spirit of false charity, so I will instead maintain that it has announced its intentions to prevent us from recognizing the vast and incomparable achievements, contributions, and discoveries that are the product of our culture. While doing so may earn NASA a gold star from the mush-for-brains academicism crowd, only through education can individuals gain the independent tools they need to wage war on blackguardism. But the first step is to acknowledge that NASA maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around it. There's a word for that: libel. I hate it when people get their facts wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how NASA has mystical powers of divination and prophecy, I can't help but think that NASA's arrogance will lead it to weaken our mental and moral fiber sometime soon. If you doubt this, just ask around. I close this letter along the same lines it opened on: NASA clings to heathenism like a drowning man clings to a life preserver.
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WHAT? I was trying to figure out exactly what it was you are on about but I think it is better to ask what it is you are on! That not-so-little rant was about what again?!?!?
It's a troll, he was trying to use as many big words as possible. The rambling and general nonsensicalness of it are meant to confuse and make people feel stupid.
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Hail Eris, hail yes!
This ain't rocket surgery.
Spent a good 30 minutes looking for the source :)
Although I have no criticism of Mr. Anonymous Coward's blanket statements, I have a few observations and comments to share. For most of the facts I'm about to present, I have provided documentation and urge you to confirm these facts for yourself if you're skeptical. As our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the sorts of people Mr. Coward preys upon. He must sense his own irremediable inferiority. That's why Mr. Coward is so desperate to disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of philistinism; it's the only way for him to distinguish himself from the herd. It would be a lot nicer, however, if Mr. Coward also realized that he is always prating about how a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance. (He used to say that stoicism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions, but the evidence is too contrary, so he's given up on that score.) The bottom line is that Mr. Anonymous Coward got into a snit the last time I pointed out that questionable statistics, pseudoscientific studies, and biased reports tell us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and -- most importantly -- what not to know.
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