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    Image of Kenneth Dalton Pangburn III Kenneth Dalton Pangburn III
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    I don't believe this story one bit. I was an intern at NASA for 3 years. I worked at Kennedy Space Center and Lewis Research Center. KSC had extensive multi-leveled security. Just to get to my office i had to use 5 different badges (all with different levels of clearance). This was all pre 9/11 and the guards certainly didn't wave interns through. Most doors didn't even have guards. Different doors with varying security levels required various special badges. I worked with the Partial Payload Checkout Unit (PPCU), a system used to verify the data and electrical interfaces of space shuttle payloads before forwarding them to integrated testing and, finally, to the space shuttle orbiter cargo bay. This wasn't even close to the highest level of security and the antics described in this story wouldn't have gotten you halfway into my office. I call bullshit.
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    Image of Mr. Moto Mr. Moto
    05/06/09

    @Kenneth Dalton Pangburn III: Google the names and you will see it is true.
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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    05/06/09

    @Mr. Moto: kenneth dalton is questioning the heist details. I do too, that's why we made a disclaimer. The guy is a criminal. not the most reliable ource. But he DID steal these rocks. The how of how he did it is totally questionable, though.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    The lesson is "Don't steal anything until you have a buyer."
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I'm amazed that many an egghead just don't take Fence Rule to heart.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I wonder if a certain NASA computer terminal had a hand in this.....
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    Image of macabron macabron
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    Don't all interns do the same?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/06/09

    @macabron: Benny the Intern simply stole lots of dignity.
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    Image of DangerousDac DangerousDac
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    I think Im not the only one whos interested in a pic of Tiffany...


    What? Your all thinking it.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @DangerousDac: She's the one on the right:
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    Didn't Mythbusters cover this neoprene suit vs thermal motion sensors bit already?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: Yeah, but that was really dis-information put out by NASA. Mythbusters "proved" the moon landing was real, and placed it in the media that wetsuits don't fool motion sensors, and Adam got a REAL spacesuit, and Jamie got mustache wax that defies gravity reverse engineered from Area 52.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/06/09

    @HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave: Area 52? Isn't that where they invented the Big Mac's special sauce before adding two all beef patties, lettuces, pickles, and onions on a sesame see bun?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: Yes, and Area 53 is where they added the most sinister(even more so than aglets) ingredient. The cheese.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/06/09

    @Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: The Big Mac's special sauce is just a blend of liquefied horse tallow, thousand island dressing and the same compound used in the makeup worn by Ronald McDonald.


    Area 52 is where they kept Dick Clark until it was determined that he's safe to release into the general population.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Everyone knows he's an android and his "stroke" was the first confirmed attack of the Conficker worm.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    @AriellaDrury: It read like a horrible amateur fiction posted on some crappy fanfic forum. Am I the only one who thought it started off like some sort of space age smut?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/06/09

    @Pessimipposaurus:

    The triple moons were just rising over the horizon here on planet Hora, and my automated slavemaiden was disrobing for our morning canoodle
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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    05/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: love you, dude.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    "In the morning I want them on the south ridge

    working out those condensers", I commanded her.

    "Already done, Sir. I am programmed to anticipate your needs. And I see a large matter of yours that needs attention right now", she said as she rotated the Fleshlight attachment forward on her manipulator arm.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/06/09

    @HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave: Fool! You forgot the stargate attachment. All fleshlights in scifi must contain a stargate.
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    Image of Mandatory_Field Mandatory_Field
    05/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Stargate attachment? To where? I dunno, man, that sounds like some kinda weird intergalactic glory-hole. Who knows what could be at the other end? I'll take my sci-fi fleshlight sex the old fashioned way, from the robotic slavemaiden, thank-you-very-much....
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/07/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: What about the puddle vortex?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    So I get the part about Tony Almeida stealing moonrocks. But getting Chloe to help him... never saw that coming.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    I suppose he stole them with simple appreciation of where the rocks came from, as he'd obviously have an easier time selling a grilled cheese sandwich with the face of Nick Nolte, Jesus Christ or Joyce DeWitt burned into the nooks and crannies of the bread than selling what he'd claim to be "LQQK****AUTHENTIC MOON ROCKS FROM NASA!!!****LQQK!!!"
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    Image of grewal12 grewal12
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    does that mean the girl set them up? when 40 agents with 40 guns came. haha.

    just a little confused.
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    Image of robot-shmobot robot-shmobot
    05/06/09

    @grewal12: I think the assumption is that Emmermann got so suspicious of the low price of the rocks that he called the FBI.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @robot-shmobot: While he was going to St. Ives, He met 40 agents with 40 guns. Each gun had 13 bullets, and the helicopter had a 50 cal. So answer me this McClaine, how many people were going to St. Ives. You have thirty seconds.
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    Image of mfusion mfusion
    05/06/09

    @HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave: 1, took all of 2 seconds
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/07/09

    @mfusion: Very good McClaine. You will get you next riddle at the corner of 1st and 1st. You have 20 minutes to get there, or I blow up another briefcase!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/07/09

    @mfusion: Actually, the answer was two. The posing FBI agent and Thad.
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    Image of AriellaDrury AriellaDrury
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    Utter BS, and badly written BS by the thief at that. He is no doubt seeing how hard it is to get hired with a felony conviction, so he's hawking a crap story.

    The rocks are in a nitrogen environment, but that is inside glove-boxes that researchers use. The idea that the whole lab is nitrogen is not only laughable, it shows that the subject wasn't even Googled. Scroll down and look at the lab picture on this page:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @AriellaDrury: My question is how do you get "fingerprint oil" inside a Level100 clean room? You wear bunny suits except for gloves? I mean, finger oil wouldn't contaminate porus moon rocks, no sir-ee.
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    Image of mfusion mfusion
    05/06/09

    @AriellaDrury: you use wikipedia as a source????!?!? bwahahahhahaaa!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/07/09

    @mfusion: It's a perfectly cromulent source. It embiggens his comment. ;)
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    But EVERYONE knows that we never went to the moon, so this is a moot point. As Joe Rogan told me, all the "Moon Rocks" were gathered by some Verner guy in Antartica before the staged event took place. I mean, Joe Rogan can't be wrong, right? He does sen dep!
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    They should have made the punishment fit the crime. Send him up to the moon and have him get some more.


    (BTW - long story short, the lunar landing tapes weren't stolen).

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    Image of Deaf Mute Deaf Mute
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    I read that whole thing, it was very interesting. At first I thought it was completely fake (especially that bit about them having sex on the rocks)
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    05/06/09

    @Deaf Mute: Who wants to have sex on rocks? Without erosion, those things are gonna be pointy.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/06/09

    @The Lab: Erotic dermabrasions for both humans and rocks alike.
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    Image of Mondoz Mondoz
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    None of the guards at JSC would ever ask if you got a new car. No one I know ever spends any time talking to them on the way in either; if you did, you'd hold up the line of other people that wanted to get in behind you.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/06/09

    @Mondoz: Well. It said afterhours. Maybe the car didn't have the usual parking pass?
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    Image of TonyWonder TonyWonder
    05/06/09

    In reply to How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks
    jesus christ my Masters paper wasn't that long...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    05/06/09

    @TonyWonder: That could explain the paper hat you wear at work, and how you can rattle off "would you like a drink with that order" w/o thinking.
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