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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."
Do there seem to be a disproportionate number of trolls on this story? Only 5 or so comments and half are trolls. Are there multiple "N1ggrs sux!" guys or just one, very devoted, racist?
so.... you're a girl, huh?
Yes, I know. The question was asked rhetorically.
Oh it was flamebait you know. I used the word "stardate" which, as all geeks know, is the codeword that William Shatner used on the original Star Trek to get past the censors. If you look at the original script, instead of "stardate" it says "cunt".
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
No worries here. All metamoderators know if you metamoderate -all- moderations you're given to metamoderate 'fair', you lose karma and likehood to get mod points, so they usually pick any 'dubious' moderations and metamod them 'unfair'.
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