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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
Perhaps you took the astrology course by mistake?
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
That's no moon...
Mr. Universe: "They can't stop the signal, Mal. They can never stop the signal."
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.
That would be one hot ass!
*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.
>> 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.
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