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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."

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  1. Messenger's next destination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, step aside my friend
    I've been doing it for years
    I say, sit on down, open your eyes
    And open up your ears

    Say
    Put a tree in your butt
    Put a bumblebee in your butt
    Put a clock in your butt
    Put a big rock in your butt
    Put some fleas in your butt
    Start to sneeze in your butt
    Put a tin can in your butt
    Put a little tiny man in your butt
    Put a light in your butt
    Make it bright in your butt
    Put a TV in your butt
    Put me in your butt
    Everybody say

    I, hey, that's, man, I ain't putting no trees in nobody's butt,
    no bees in nobody's butt, putting nothing--
    You must be out your mind, man,
    y'all get paid for doing this?
    Cause y'all gotta get some kind of money
    Cause this don't sound like the kind of--
    I'd rather golf, to be perfectly honest,
    than put somethin in somebody's butt
    to be truthful

    Well step aside my friend and let me
    show you how you do it
    When big bad E just rock rock to it

    Put a metal case in your butt
    Put her face in your butt
    Put a frown in your butt
    Put a clown in your butt
    Sit on down in your butt
    Put a boat in your butt
    Put a moat in your butt
    Put a mink coat in your butt
    Put everything in your butt
    Just start to sing about your butt
    Feels real good

  2. Re:F1RST P0ST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm a troll.

    No, you aren't.
  3. trolls by Pescar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?

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  4. Misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And here I thought this story was about using various amounts of mercury, the poisonous substance, inside of the common housefly to send messages!

  5. Re:Cant wait by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, I know. The question was asked rhetorically.

  6. America's Ambassador to the Universe by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People around the world are learning to hate Americans, but these science missions that we publish are a gift to everyone that they should appreciate. As long as the Mercurians don't notice that we've invaded their planet right as solar power starts to get a lot of investment.

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  7. Re:Correction by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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".

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  9. Re:Correction by SharpFang · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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