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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/22/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    52% failure rate? so? what's the big deal?

    send two of 'em. #marsmissions
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    we could go there right now if we hadn't ejaculated so hard over getting to the moon, and instead of napping after that glorious orgasm of an achievement, had gone straight from refractory period back to balls deep.

    part of me thinks that the 'other' space program has already put men on mars. #marsmissions
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    Image of Andrew Dickerson Andrew Dickerson
    10/21/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    52% failure rate? were these xbox satelittes? #marsmissions
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    Image of Rejexted Rejexted
    10/21/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    Kennedy is smiling from heaven. #marsmissions
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    Image of dallasmay dallasmay
    10/21/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    To be fair, 14 of those failures were Soviet systems. They cared more about launching rockets and looking good for their own State Press than actually getting to Mars. #marsmissions
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/21/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    So the US keeps sabbotaging the competition. Thus they never make it.* Cool. Space war.

    *TIS ONLY A JOKE. #marsmissions
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    Edited by psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! at 10/21/09 9:44 PM psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was starred psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was unstarred
    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    10/21/09

    In reply to Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
    You also have to keep in mind that most of the failures were before the 70's AKA the dawn of the computer age. As you mentioned from the 70's the ratio is more like 80-90% #marsmissions
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    Image of youlookdivorced youlookdivorced
    10/01/09

    In reply to Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff
    Google doesn't innovate, they buy.
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    Image of JobHamster JobHamster
    09/30/09

    In reply to Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff
    I think you should just buy Facebook and Pandora already
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    Image of CustomFirmware CustomFirmware
    09/30/09

    In reply to Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff
    GOOGLE = SKYNET.
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    Image of medopal medopal
    10/01/09

    @CustomFirmware: and thats only for 11 years, imagine how it would be after 100, they will buy Skynet!!
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    Image of Jayson Wiser Jayson Wiser
    09/30/09

    In reply to Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff
    does that look like a subway map to anyone else?
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    Image of Matthew Niederberger Matthew Niederberger
    09/30/09

    @Jayson Wiser: Think that is the point.
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    Image of norfizzle norfizzle
    09/30/09

    In reply to Google Acquisitions and Investments Map Shows How Much Google Likes Buying Stuff
    So when does Google officially become the new Microsoft?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    09/30/09

    @norfizzle: Whenever some "clever" internet person discovers a way to put some sort of money sign in the name like in "Micro$oft". Ugh.

    (On a related note, why do we never see Son¥ or App£e?)
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    Image of McDonutz McDonutz
    10/01/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: Googl€?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/01/09

    @McDonutz: I'll take it!
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    09/03/09

    In reply to NASA's 2009 Cryosphere Video Is Really Cool, Literally
    Jesus Jesus, did you watch the video with the sound off? The findings summarized in this video: after 12,000 years the antarctic Larsen ice shelf collapsed in just 5 years as temperatures increase; most glaciers are shrinking; permafrost may not be so permanent; arctic ice has shrunk dramatically in a few decades (and more open water leads to more warming); the flow rate out of one Greenland glacier has doubled in six years.

    And your summary is "high def is so cool" and a completely unsubstantiated "We are still so clueless"! The big issue these days in climatology is how to update short-term climate models when huge chunks of ice are melting into the ocean unexpectedly quickly. But those arrogantly ignorant f***ing denialists will say "Oooh, they keep changing their models, that just shows it's all bunk".
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    Image of SeraphX2 SeraphX2
    09/02/09

    In reply to NASA's 2009 Cryosphere Video Is Really Cool, Literally
    It's amazing they can be so sure Global Warming is for real and they are just now discovering that the cryosphere exists and that it helps regulate the earth's temperature.
    Maybe, just maybe, this is earth's mechanism to counter "Global Warming" (if it does indeed exist). And since there is no concrete proof that anything is irreversibly melting, they need to just shutup and let the earth take care of itself. It always has and always will.

    Maybe before making dire predictions of the end of the world if we don't stop "polluting" it by merely existing, they should make sure they know how it all works.
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    09/02/09

    In reply to NASA's 2009 Cryosphere Video Is Really Cool, Literally
    Mr. Freeze is going to be pissed.
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