New Unmanned Japanese Re-Supply Vessel For the ISS

Joshua writes "JAXA, Japan's version of NASA, has scheduled the launch of its new rocket, the H-IIB, for September 11th, 2009. The rocket will be carrying up the first in a series of unmanned supply vessels for the ISS called the HTV. The new Japanese addition to the international space fleet comes as a huge welcome sign to NASA, who has scheduled the space shuttle to retire in 2010. The HTV will be able to transport vital supplies, equipment, and experiments to the ISS, a job that the US space shuttle has been doing largely up until now. Yearly launches for the H-II2 and HTV are scheduled between now and 2015. Until NASA can finish the next generation Ares I rocket, which isn't likely to be finished before 2017, taking astronauts into space and to the ISS will likely become the job of Russia."

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Panties STINK!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Panties Stink!
They really, really stink!
Sometimes they're red, sometimes they're green,
Sometimes they're white or black or pink
Sometimes they're satin, sometimes they're lace
Sometimes they're cotton and soak up stains
But at the end of the day, it really makes you think
Wooooooo-wheeeee! Panties stink!

Sometimes they're on the bathroom floor
Your girlfriend- what a whore!
Sometimes they're warm and wet and raw
From beneath the skirt of your mother-in-law
Brownish stains from daily wear
A gusset full of pubic hair
Just make sure your nose is ready
For the tang of a sweat-soaked wedgie
In your hand a pair of drawers
With a funky feminine discharge
Give your nose a rest, fix yourself a drink
cause wooooooo-wheeeeeee! panties stink!

Re:Panties STINK!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Man, do they ever. The cotton ones ain't all that bad, they let the kitten breathe. Thongs, though. Thongs are considered sexy, but what you must remember is that the thong is wedged between the butt-cheeks. What else is between the butt-cheeks? The butthole!

And what comes out of the butthole? SHIT does! Now, you may not know this, but women shit just like men do. Many women also have butthole hair like men do. Some women wax it(Yee-OW!), some women pluck it(Ouchie!), but many women just leave it be.

People shit at least once throughout the course of the day. No person is capable of cleaning up their ass 100% without a shower, and taking midday showers is often not feasible. So what they're left with is flecks, possibly microclumps, of shit stewing in the sweaty boody-juice of a hard day's work. If hair is present those flecks act as an adhesive and fasten loose panty-lint to the butt-hair, creating what are known as dingleberries . Some taste like chocolate, others taste like vanilla. The often artificial fabric of the thong string fosters the development of the Bacillus Stinkius, a specialized bacteria often found on unwashed thongs and the bodies of foreign exchange students.

In summa, panties do indeed stink.

Re:Spacecraft visiting the ISS

[TheRealPacmanJones]

We should also have Dragon flying by the end of 2010 if things go as planned, which will amount to another supply ship on par with the ATV, but with payload return capability.

In Soviet Russia dragons fly on you!

H-IIB

[natehoy]

Am I the only one who initially read that as "H-1B" and thought "gee, the displacement of American workers has now reached the Astronaut level?" :)

Re:I think Aldrin has it right.

[master_p]

Mr Aldrin should have known that renting an outdoor filming studio costs a lot more these days...