You would probably need some pretty heavy / thick enough shielding to protect the crew from the heat and radiation of the sun, if you were to do a slingshot of Venus or Mercury.
I would think doing a transfer of space vehicle in earth orbit or whatever would be alot cheaper.
Though of course, with a slingshot of Venus or Mercury, well, you would have an oppurtunity to do some further exploration / scientific stuff.
>Dammit! Why can't Sweeden be an Evil Communist Regime(tm)?
Well, they are already socialist, a slight bend of US opinion, and they can be seen as the Evil Communist Regime(tm), them Neutral Hippy Socialist Bastards =)
Thought they fixed that up with win 98 se cause that's what I use for my dial in server (yes, I know, I'm lame, I'm lazy, you name it =P), and I had a 101 day uptime, till we had a power cut.
>My 'other' machine, a dual 1GHz machine with a >64MB GeForce 2 and 512MB of RDRAM is lucky to >keep playable at 1600x1200. (It's a work machine, >we just have occasional games of Unreal >Tournament or Quake 3.)
Damn that is a kick ass work machine, wish I had something similar like that =)
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You would probably need some pretty heavy / thick enough shielding to protect the crew from the heat and radiation of the sun, if you were to do a slingshot of Venus or Mercury.
I would think doing a transfer of space vehicle in earth orbit or whatever would be alot cheaper.
Though of course, with a slingshot of Venus or Mercury, well, you would have an oppurtunity to do some further exploration / scientific stuff.
If only I had some mod points.
Haven't had a good laugh in a long time.
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I think they did the nuclear tests to the other Christmas Island, the one in the Pacific, not the one in the Indian ocean.
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That none of us Aussies will ever get to see this show, unless of course it's been on tv without me knowing about it.
Oh well...
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>Scientology's one foothold is among the Hollywood Left, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta, etc
Umm, didn't Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman split up because of this scientology issue, or was that just me wanting Nicole for me?
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> but rogue states like Iraq, India
I wouldn't call the largest democracy in the world (India) a rogue state.
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No, they run a farm in Columbia. That provides most of the revenue for Google to keep running.
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One problem I can see here, is that the British drive onf the left hand side of the road, while everyone else in Europe drive on the right hand side.
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>complete control faster than you can say anti-competitive
Are they in control yet?
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>Dammit! Why can't Sweeden be an Evil Communist Regime(tm)?
Well, they are already socialist, a slight bend of US opinion, and they can be seen as the Evil Communist Regime(tm), them Neutral Hippy Socialist Bastards =)
No offense to any swedes out there, hehe.
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Well, part of France is in the Western hemisphere, if you consider the start of the Western Hempishere at 0 deg longitude
Just some minor nitpicking
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Last time I checked, India was the largest democracy in the world, and that it did not have a communist government.
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AFAIR he turned out to be a hoax - he was a brothel owner (with no background in physics) who made a quick buck out of the press.
Of course, that's what the US government wants you to think =P
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No, Windows 2150 will need double these specs to even run!
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47 day uptime?
Thought they fixed that up with win 98 se cause that's what I use for my dial in server (yes, I know, I'm lame, I'm lazy, you name it =P), and I had a 101 day uptime, till we had a power cut.
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Get myself a couple of these babies and then I could back up my dvd collection.
Oh hang on, I'm not allowed to do that, aren't I, hehe.
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Maybe I should get one of these degree's, instead of failing university like I did last year (I blame Counter-Strike)
Might end up been cheaper, hehe.
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Yeah, I get heaps of spam about Viagra!
That wasn't in your list.
Dunno why I get them, considering I'm only 19.
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>and some parts that are more like the frozen tundras of Seattle.
Does that mean Hell has frozen over (well, Microsoft is based in Seattle)
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Guess I'd better hurry up and invent the lead to gold converter then, I'll be rich I tell you, RICH =P
Time to go back to the insanity ward.
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>My 'other' machine, a dual 1GHz machine with a >64MB GeForce 2 and 512MB of RDRAM is lucky to >keep playable at 1600x1200. (It's a work machine, >we just have occasional games of Unreal >Tournament or Quake 3.)
Damn that is a kick ass work machine, wish I had something similar like that =)
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>ransacked and robbed neighbouring countries
How does one ransack and rob neighboring countries without a military, huh?
Though, yeah, I agree, it would be worth it.
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Well, afaik, Italy is a member, not Spain.
The eighth country on the list is Russia.
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What if, the Americans did do this.
The Soviets would think, I'll go one up better, and detonate a nuke in the center of the sun, and turn day into night...
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Maybe, when this thing is launched, it might catch a wave of tachyon beam thingies, which then propels it to warp speed, on a course to Cardassia.
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