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ESA and NASA Establish a Joint Mars Exploration Initiative
Matt_dk sends in a Spacefellowship article: "The ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood, met NASA's Associate Administrator for Science, Ed Weiler, in Plymouth, UK, to establish a way for a progressive programme for exploration of the Red Planet. The outcome of the bilateral meeting was an agreement to create a Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI) that will provide a framework for the two agencies to define and implement their scientific, programmatic and technological goals at Mars."
Can someone just put this into a car analogy for me? I'm not really sure what this MEJI is supposed to do. What is it used for?
this article has nothing to do with Michael Jackson, buried.
So how'd we go from "zomg! we've got 8 years to get to the moon. Go Go Go!" 40 years ago but today we're just launching probes and taking walks in space outside of an orbiting station occasionally. What have we been doing? Where would we have been if we'd kept up the pace from the moon landing?
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
UAC.
Prepare for Hell on Earth soon, everyone.
January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.
On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.
As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.
Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.
Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.
Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.
Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.
The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.
Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.
Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee
...on cm vs inches?
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Please tell me that there going to define a standerd first, i don't want my tax dollers to fund a 10 billion bullet that hits mars dead square at 12000 mph, or misses it by 3 million miles.
"*Boom* uuh we have a problem, was that perigee in Miles or Kilomoters?"
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One country uses the imperial system. One country uses metric. What could possibly go wrong?
According to Parkinson, independently of the fleet out there, every organisation will, over the years, successfully build out a bureaucracy. And I rather be behind a desk than stowed small anywhere on a ship.
In the good old days an ESA launch was French when successful and strictly ESA otherwise.
Hey bro, what is a bicycle?? We use canoes here please get your facts straight!
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...twice the bureaucracy, at least twice the cost and time to completion.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The EU is not a federal government, power still lies with the national governments. In fact the EU is only an association of sovereign states, a supranational state.
The European Parliament is powerless, the Commission has some powers.
And the EU only has 27 member countries out of 47 European countries! The EU is in NO way synonymous with Europe.
This is a common mistake that many Americans make nowadays, assuming that the EU is some kind of federal government of Europe. It is most certainly not.
As if the 3 year journey to Mars weren't bad enough, now American astronauts will be forced to eat shitty British food along the way!
And the United States of America consists of 50 independent sovereign states and 3 territories out of the 91 states in North America (US, Canada, Mexico, apologies to the smaller Caribbean and Central American states). Or at least, the states started as sovereign until a certain president violated the constitution to wage war against the Confederacy over their legal and rightful succession.
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Nothing more to say... smartass.
Why not call it "Mars Association for Roving and Study"?
ESA does NOT want to get left out in the cold -- its COLD in SPACE !!!
The new plasma engine is a MASSIVE breakthrough and could take off economically any day now, I think most people will be taken by surprise for a few years by this NEXT BIG THING, ESA is smarter then it looks !!!!!!!