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Messenger Flies by Mercury
Riding with Robots writes "Today, more than three decades after the last spacecraft visited Mercury, Messenger buzzed just 200 kilometers above the planet's surface. During the encounter, the robotic spacecraft conducted a range of scientific observations, including imaging swaths of Mercury's surface that have never been seen up close before. A few of the first pictures are now available, with many more to come in the next few days."
Or... a Predator! *ducks*
That can't be real! There aren't any stars in the background!
Technoli
The Planet?
They just took a few shots of the moon if you ask me.
Perhaps you took the astrology course by mistake?
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
We all know about the Face on Mars, but I wonder if they will finally find the Butt on Mercury?
That's no moon...
Mr. Universe: "They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."
It's pretty obvious no one wants to go THAT close to Uranus.
I for one welcome our Predator ducks overlords.
Sorry.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Nothing beats those astrology and cosmetology courses.
*clearly* he meant 01/15/8000000000008 , which in in the Mecurian calendar means the first month, fifteenth day in the 8-Trillion-and-8th Mecurian solar rotation.
Plus, the Mercury citizens have learned to simply abbreviate as '08' on their paper calendars-- if you write all the zeros, the paper calendars usually catch fire before you are done-- so it's important to write quickly!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
It's just taking them a bit longer than usual to 'shop out all the UFO's.
Something like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Duckula
>> Every time we send probes to other planets we find out really cool stuff.
cool stuff? Now come on, this is Mercury.
"Cats like plain crisps"
There's a planet with a serious global warming problem.
I'm going to use that format from now on, and I'm going to call it the Reverse Polish Stardate.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Just make sure you word you request for the Selenium properly, or Speedy will end up going in circles and you could die.
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all. -- Thomas J. Kopp
Yes, I know. The question was asked rhetorically.
You forgot to add:
You can look up rhetorically in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorically
...quite a complex orbit, with mercurial days...
Yeah, but the emo nights are the worst. Planets can be so bipolar!
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.