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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    10:44 PM

    In reply to God's Home
    To put the size of this thing into perspective, the closest star to us is about 4.22 light years away...
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    Image of back_at_it back_at_it
    10:53 PM

    @32ndnote: Did the Sun get demoted from star status along with Pluto being demoted from planet status? Couldn't help myself :D
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11:07 PM

    @back_at_it: Lol, you got me!

    *edit* 4.22 light years from the center of our little solar system, of which earth is about 15.8 micro-lightyears away from.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    10:16 PM

    In reply to This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500
    My father was close personal friends with Jim Irwin (Apollo 15), and I got to know him pretty well when I was younger. When they returned to earth, Jim tried to keep a small piece of moon rock, which NASA flatly denied. If they didn't let the Lunar Module Pilot keep a rock, the chances of them letting anyone else have one are pretty slim.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    07:42 PM

    In reply to This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500
    That table looks awesome for plotting my invasion of the moon on....or the more likely scenario, for playing a tabletop campaign of Warhammer.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Little did this particular turkey realize that his father's crazed ramblings about how his son would one day fly in space actually came true.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    I doubt that "sneaking" the turkey into space really entailed violating some security rule. I bet that astronauts are allowed to bring some weight in personal fixings when they go into space.
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    Image of JTX JTX
    11/27/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: I bet those "personal fixings" are thoroughly examined as well, and approved on a strict and individual basis. I'm sure it's far worse than airport security. We're talking a multi-billion dollar international facility. Nothing gets on it without being checked at least a few dozen times first.

    Now, these meals could have been placed in someone's personal fixings and have been approved, but I doubt they were snuck on without anyone's knowledge.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/27/09

    @JTX: They could have snuck the food in using their rectal cavities.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Is it just me, or does that photo look like a jumping head-crab from HL2 is about to pounce on the shuttle Atlantis?
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    Image of Trey Trey
    11/27/09

    @Kirkaiya: It's definitely not just you.
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    Image of SacredByte SacredByte
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Come on, astronauts sneaking things into space isn't really a new thing -- it goes back at least as far back as the Apollo missions where Alan Shepard brought everything he needed to play some golf on the surface of the moon. That basically amounted to modifying the head of a 6 iron to screw onto a rod needed for other scientific equipment, and some golfballs.

    You've got to realize that the people who get to go into space these days (and especially in the early days) were the best and the brightest; Figuring out how to do something crazy (like playing golf on the moon) would have been worth it just to be able to do it.
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    Image of MavrixWK MavrixWK
    11/27/09

    @SacredByte: I often wonder where that golf ball went, and what alien race now worships it as their god.
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    Image of geekymitch geekymitch
    11/27/09

    @MavrixWK: Indeed - you remember the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" where a soda bottle wound up being some holy object? This is probably something similar to some aliens someplace :)
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/27/09

    @geekymitch: The premise behind "The Gods Must be Crazy" is probably the best set-up to any movie ever.
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    Image of TrapOx TrapOx
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    The story is pure bull. You don't "sneak" anything into one of the most secure facilities on earth, especially into a ship where launch calculations are based around every gram of material loaded onto it.

    A turkey and fixings may not amount to much for you and I on earth, but to engines that have to accelerate that mass to 23,000mph a 13lb turkey is like asking a Viper to pull a 2,000lb trailer to 250mph.

    If this story is actually true, its pretty horrifying. If somebody can collaborate to sneak an entire intact turkey into an extremely secure government facility without the ground crew knowing, whats to stop a corrupt astronaut from smuggling 13lbs of C4 onto the spacestation?
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    Image of sickforska sickforska
    11/27/09

    @TrapOx: No where in there does it say anyone brought an entire turkey on board. It just says "...turkey—smoked and irradiated..."
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    Image of FalconFour FalconFour
    11/27/09

    @TrapOx: In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I figure I should give you thanks for creating the post-9/11 state of mind. Thanks for being that paranoid individual that causes hundreds of ridiculous rules and regulations to be created for every possible bomb-carrying scenario. After all, that guy driving next to you on the road might just have a bomb in the trunk. Let's outlaw driving. *facepalm*
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    phunnyballs promoted this comment FalconFour was starred FalconFour was unstarred
    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    11/27/09

    @FalconFour: No its actually physics.

    To send stuff into space takes a lot of fuel. Fuel costs a lot of money.

    I think estimates are about $10,000 per pound to launch something.
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    11/27/09

    @TrapOx: I think your tin foil hat is on a bit too tight there, chief.
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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Funny, I always thought Jesus lived in Spain, where they make paella for Spanish Thanksgiving, a celebration of the historic meeting of a guy from Madrid who had a flat metal pan and nothing to eat, and another guy from Barcelona who had a lot of rice and seafood but no decent flat metal cookware. They decided to cooperate one afternoon and made supper together, but got into a heated argument afterwards. The guy from Barcelona beat up the guy from Madrid with his fists, until he was purple. The guy from Madrid beat up the guy from Barcel0na with a red-hot slotted spoon used to stir the paella, until he was striped red. Then they apologized to each other and drank a lot to forget their pain and each went home very plump but not feeling very good. This is the origin of Spanish Thanksgiving, and also why Madrid's scarf color is purple and Barcelona's is red striped. Most people never think about Spanish Thanksgiving, partly because it is overshadowed by pushy Americans with their inelegant sweetened squash and homely bean casseroles and common cranberry condiments and quaint ways of stuffing ducks inside chickens inside turkeys and all that, but it is a real holiday, as real as can be, and that is something we can all be thankful for.
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    Image of iheartpie iheartpie
    11/27/09

    @ninjagin: You might forget, but thanksgiving is the celebration of when you stole a country from its indigeounous people. You may dress it up with sales and turkey, but that's what it is.

    I know you were only joking but most other countries are ashamed of that kind of past; and tagging on heart-string-pulling 'thanks for life n that' speaches doesn't make it any more appropriate.

    Just sayin'.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/27/09

    @iheartpie: Yes, sorry about that, truly, but since I was born here, I am sort of indigeounous now too. The only "native homeland" I have is Cleveland.
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    Image of robshapiro002 robshapiro002
    11/27/09

    @iheartpie:

    Thanksgiving is not at all a celebration of us stealing land from the native Americans - we did that years later.

    Thanksgiving celebrates the Natives (namely, Squanto) helping the Puritans to survive in the new land where they would have otherwise died.

    The Indians showed the Pilgrims what to plant, how to farm it in American soil, what seafoods were edible, etc.

    In fact, the 'first thanksgiving' not only included all the foods that the Pilgrims farmed and prepared, but also many foods that the Natives hunted and brought as well.

    It was truly the first American 'neighborhood dinner party'.

    Yes, we kicked their asses, destroyed their culture and stole their land over the next few hundred years, but at that time, during that Thanksgiving, we were all cool.
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    omgwtflolbbqbye promoted this comment Curves approved this comment robshapiro002 was starred robshapiro002 was unstarred
    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    11/27/09

    @iheartpie: Yes, it was in jest, but partly to try and elucidate where Jesus is living these days. Thanksgiving is a made-up, secular holiday for people in the US. For most people, it's a holiday based around gluttony and sports. For more than 200 years, Thanksgiving as we know it was not celebrated. It was a one-hit wonder of a holiday. Frankly, I love paella and Spanish football, and I was trying to draw a ludicrous parallel between paella and football. Where I differ with you (and you're not American so I don't expect you to have done any reading about the holiday) is that Thanksgiving is a marker or a reminder of when British colonists were more starving, humble and powerless than they ever were in the years that followed, and the indigenous people of America feasted with these people as visitors -- not welcome guests, not friends, and not conquerors. It was Spain, and Spaniards, that murdered the aboriginal people of the Americas, stole their wealth, and destroyed their civilization to a greater extent than all other visitors. If anyone should feel thankful for the c0lonization of North America, it is Spain and Spaniards.
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    Image of fryhole fryhole
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    Astronauts are fucking genius
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    Image of superhappyfuntime superhappyfuntime
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    I'm glad to see the Space Shuttle has less strict security than our airports.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/27/09

    @superhappyfuntime: Yeah, because heaven forfend some ruthless scoundrel should bring baggies of food aboard the plane.
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    Image of Th12eat Th12eat
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    This is meant as partial sarcasm ... but, how in the hell do we have rigorous security in aviation all across the country; then a government funded space program lets leak a turkey dinner onto the space station. Not that the space station has some turkey detector (though the thought of one sounds freakin' sweet), but seriously, you'd think they would double check astronauts bags and supplies to confirm what is and isn't on board.
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/27/09

    @Th12eat:
    I think there's very little chance that the space shuttle will get hijacked by terrorists...
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    Image of Nick1693 Nick1693
    11/27/09

    In reply to Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station
    How do you sneak a turkey anywhere?
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/27/09

    @Nick1693:
    In your anus?
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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    11/27/09

    @Xagest: Mmmmmm, double stuffed sutffing!
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/27/09

    @Jacubious: That's Martha Stewart's favorite recipe actually!
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    Image of LordGriffin LordGriffin
    11/26/09

    In reply to Space Station Is Full: No Vacancy for Space Tourists
    Pfft. I bet that doesn't mean that NO tourists will be allowed. It just means that the price tag went up by one or two orders of magnitude. If Bill Gates wanted to go up, he'd go the heck up!
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    Image of Brett Benedict Brett Benedict
    11/26/09

    In reply to Space Station Is Full: No Vacancy for Space Tourists
    Is there actually a difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut or is it just semantics?
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    Image of Gonzalo Oxenford Gonzalo Oxenford
    11/26/09

    @Brett Benedict: Cosmonauts are from Russia. Astronauts from are from USA.
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    Image of bzwingzero+giz bzwingzero+giz
    11/26/09

    @Brett Benedict:
    American trained space explorers are "Astronauts".

    Russian trained space explorers are "Cosmonauts".

    Chinese trained space explorers are "Taikonauts", however this isn't official terminology.

    A person trained by one of these groups, but has their trip funded out of pocket is a "Private Space Explorer", although they are often called "space tourists". No "space tourists" have actually flown without being an integral member of the crew they've been a part of. The only difference was who was footing the bill for their flight.
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    Image of appletoad appletoad
    11/26/09

    @Gonzalo Oxenford: Cosmonauts are comrades. I don't know wtf astronauts are.
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    Image of Brett Benedict Brett Benedict
    11/26/09

    @Gonzalo Oxenford: More like communauts, amirite?
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