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    "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"

    Shuttle-Riding Bat Dies The Most Glorious Death Imaginable
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    *lights bat-shaped Halloween candle*
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    I imagine a day, 10,000 years from now, when this is the only evidence archaeologists will find that our culture existed, and they shall be heard to utter the phrase, "WTF". Other than that, pretty amusing.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @Purple Dave: I would think they would more likely say OMG!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Don't be sad. Laika will keep Spacebat company so he's not alone...
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    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Adam West should read the eulogy...
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    he probably did it on a dare to get into a fraternity.


    his bros didn't think he was gonna do it. which is what i want on my tombstone.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/19/09

    @nutbastard (Everyone come to snowmodo!!!): I want "I'm with stupid --->" on my tombstone.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:


    I want a little nook carved out to forever 'hold my beer'.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Maybe one day, when aliens land on this planet, they can pay tribute to that one hapless soul that got crushed by their landing gear and clung to the ship for the entire trip back on their world.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Cornelius?

    [www.filmdope.com]">
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/19/09

    @SpaceBat_GitEmSteveDave: But he lived. LOL
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:


    Wall-E lived through it, too.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: How can you be dead and still "cling"?
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    Image of HoboZero HoboZero
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most [choke] human.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/19/09

    @HoboZero: I have been, and forever shall be, your bat.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    @HoboZero: SPACEBATTTTT!!!!!!!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/19/09

    @HoboZero: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.


    Something a bat was trying to tell me... on my birthday.

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    Image of Tric Tric
    03/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:


    He was A Tail of Two Wings, riding on the contrails of man. [ How sad his sacrifice ? Even Dickens could never imagine:( ]

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/19/09

    @Tric: Kirk quotes it at the very end of the movie, as he and his slutty baby-mama and his bastard douchebag son gaze wistfully in the Enterprise's 150" Kuro display.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Thank you all. I know I am missed. But at least I'm in your hearts, and your hearts will go on.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @SpaceBat_GitEmSteveDave: Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but does the big tank actually make it into space?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/19/09

    @SpaceBat_GitEmSteveDave: Of course you're assuming that the bat survived the massive g-forces as it accelerated to like Mach 25.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @Lite: thinks Scotty doesn't know.: Of course he did. He's SpaceBat!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Smooth sailing our hairy hero. You launched into space a no one and will live on in infamiy as a hero.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    03/19/09

    @Curves: We shall never forget him nor the last time we saw him, as he prepared for his mission and waved good-bye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God...


    And then God was all like 'Ewww! A bat!!!'

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/19/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: +1
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/19/09

    @Hiphopopotamus, @bosskev: Speaking of that, where the hell is your star, Hiphopopotamus? You sure deserve one by now...
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/19/09

    @bosskev:


    seconded. i'll petition BLam.

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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    03/19/09

    @nutbastard (Everyone come to snowmodo!!!): Starred. Congrats.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/19/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: By odd coincidence, a few weeks ago a bat showed up in my office, MUCH to my screaming horror. He was captured and set free......I wonder if it was MY bat.


    I agree on the "Why dont you have a star" from Kev. As you know, I have followed you for ages, and its due to the high quality of BS you write. Youre already a star in my book.

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    Image of ARP ARP
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Spacebat was attached to the tanks, right? So, he/she probably burnt-up on reentry, spreading his tiny little ashes all over the world. It will eventually reach the stratosphere we'll become one with Spacebat as we breathe.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @ARP: So are you saying we are all SpaceBat stuff?
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    Image of rocketbear79: threadkiller rocketbear79: threadkiller
    03/19/09

    @ARP: Spacebat burnt up way before the tank even detached due to ascent heating.


    @SpaceBat_GitEmSteveDave: I like to think each of us was born with a little space bat in our hearts.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @rocketbear79: Then I will tell you a great secret, Rocketbear. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this website, and the air outside, that burn(ed) inside the SpaceBat itself. We are SpaceBat stuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a Bat to die in space.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    @SpaceBat_GitEmSteveDave: I'm glad to see you didn't bring up any midichlorian references...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: I'm sticking to Babylon 5/Carl Sagan. You know, "real" science things.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    @F-15SBD_GitEmSteveDave: Good!
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    Image of Cedryc Noumsi Cedryc Noumsi
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    is it dead
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/19/09

    @Cedryc Noumsi: "is it dead"


    ...asked the Facebooker.

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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    What's worse, Space Bat was just two weeks from retirement according to my sources. Had already bought a fishing pole and was planning to go to look at some john boats this weekend.
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    Image of Ariel Sergio Wollinger Martins Ariel Sergio Wollinger Martins
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    Space bat barbeque!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/19/09

    @Ariel Sergio Wollinger Martins: Get away from me, you monster.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/19/09

    @Ariel Sergio Wollinger Martins: Bat-B-Cue?
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    Image of Razorgirl Razorgirl
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    I can't watch this at work! Someone PLEASE tell me it was set to "The Final Countdown" by Europe? Some things are just meant to be...


    Stupid streaming media block kills all my fun. :(

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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    03/19/09

    @Razorgirl: its the theme from Star Trek Voyager, "i've got Wings" for lack of knowing the official title.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/19/09

    @Razorgirl: Watch it with Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man". It will make you sad in the heart.
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    Image of rocketbear79: threadkiller rocketbear79: threadkiller
    03/19/09

    @deliciousburglar: Actually thats the theme for Enterprise, which in my opinion was one of the best opening credits for any sci-fi show ever.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/19/09

    @rocketbear79: "...one of the best opening credits for any sci-fi show ever."


    Agreed, an excellent, even inspiring, opening credit sequence. However, I might amend your comment to say:


    ...one of the best opening credits for the most boring sci-fi show ever.

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    Image of rocketbear79: threadkiller rocketbear79: threadkiller
    03/19/09

    @bosskev: I can definitely live with that amendment. I lost interest after the first season.


    But I'm also not really a Trekkie. I'm looking forward to the new movie but mainly because I convinced my wife that she might like it (for all the reasons most posters here say they will hate it).

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/19/09

    @rocketbear79: "I'm looking forward to the new movie..."


    I must say I am not looking forward to it. Trailers make it look like a ridiculous, poorly-cast and badly-acted explosion-fest. The only thing that might save it for me would be if the script included warm, emotional touches, like maybe featuring an endearing pet or mascot.


    Say...! Could they maybe edit in some footage of SpaceBat? THEN I'd be TOTALLY up for the new flick!

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    @Razorgirl: It was set to the dulcet tones of "You Light Up My Life."
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/19/09

    @rocketbear79:
    One of the best, provided it's the 80's and you're Bryan Adams biggest fan.
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    Image of snowstellie snowstellie
    03/19/09

    In reply to "Spacebat Tribute" Video Will Make You Cry Like "We Are the World"
    aw sad! someone make a shirt for space bat! maybe i will....
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    Image of CrispyAardvark CrispyAardvark
    03/19/09

    @snowstellie: Let's hope it's Snorg, so that it's advertised by their cute model.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    03/19/09

    @CrispyAardvark: +1 for Snorg Cute chick
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