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NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails

jw3 writes "The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory scheduled for launch today has failed its mission: the payload fairing failed to separate and the launch managers declared a contingency. George Diller, NASA launch commentator, said, 'It either did not separate or did not separate in the way that it should, but at any rate we're still trying to evaluate exactly what the status of the spacecraft is at this point.'" Update: 02/24 14:17 GMT by T : Reader fadethepolice points out a Reuters report which says that the craft crashed into the ocean just short of Antarctica.

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  1. Re:An Introduction to Anal Masturbation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not to mention that GGP wasn't posting as AC. But yeah, when people get modded down, the visibility of their comments ARE reduced, at least to the people who don't want to read anal sex stories. Just let the /. moderation system do its job, as it does quite well.

  2. Re:An Introduction to Anal Masturbation by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Iâ(TM)d mod YOU an insensitive clod!

    WHO THE FUCK cares about YOUR view of how to think of it.
    Oh, you just followed group-think?
    Well, after imposing your views on others, this is the second point where you are imitating fascism in a highly perfected way.

    So with having mentioned the Nazis, I close this thread down. ;)

    And why am I the only one, who stands by his opinion, by not posting anonymously?
    Maybe I am the only one who is not ashamed of his views, because he knows he is right...

    And, I actually did what GGP suggests. So what? It was fuckinâ(TM) hot to me. Iâ(TM)m still more of a straight guy than you probably will ever be. ;)

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.