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NASA Revamps Historic 4-Million-kg Mars Antenna
coondoggie writes NASA is working on some difficult renovations to reinvigorate its 70-meter-wide 'Mars antenna.' The antenna, a key cog in NASA's Deep Space Network, needs about $1.25M worth of what NASA calls major, delicate surgery. The revamp calls for lifting the antenna — about 4 million kilograms of finely tuned scientific instruments — to a height of about 5 millimeters so workers can replace the steel runner, walls and supporting grout."
Man, that joke was so clever and insightful, did you RTFA to come up with it?
To keep your fingers out of the gap!
As an aside when I was reading Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed there was a bit on the Easter Island statues that made the builders seem all too human(rather than strange people who carved weird heads). Jared talked about someone lifting up one of the statues and finding a finger bone underneath it. At that point I could just imagine the hapless native going "D'oh" (in his own language) when the rest of his work party dropped the damn statue on his hand.
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They should really avoid holding it that way.
OK, try to think of something besides porn.... Nope, not gonna happen.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.