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    Deadly Viper Killed by iRobot Roomba

    Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!

    Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship

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    Image of Slinkytech Slinkytech
    11/27/09

    In reply to Deadly Viper Killed by iRobot Roomba
    If they only had roombas on that plane, oh! Oh, so many innocent lives killed by snakes on a plane.
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    Image of BobotheTeddy BobotheTeddy
    11/27/09

    @Slinkytech: Did you even read this article?
    The message between the lines is clearly… Roomba´s are MORE dangerous than snakes. Even on a plane. ;)
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    kagekiri promoted this comment BobotheTeddy was starred BobotheTeddy was unstarred
    Image of BobotheTeddy BobotheTeddy
    11/27/09

    In reply to Deadly Viper Killed by iRobot Roomba

    Damn it Metal Gear Roomba won.
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    The5thElephant promoted this comment BobotheTeddy was starred BobotheTeddy was unstarred
    Image of Mooshie Mooshie
    11/27/09


    @BobotheTeddy:
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    Michai promoted this comment Mooshie was starred Mooshie was unstarred
    Image of BobotheTeddy BobotheTeddy
    11/27/09

    @Mooshie: Haha. Don´t worry. In my foresighted wisdom, i wiped out all robots in my surrounding.
    [cache.gawker.com]
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    Image of Crashnburn01 Crashnburn01
    08/07/09

    In reply to Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!
    To be truly effective, these need to be launched out of a tube...
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    dirtybacon promoted this comment Crashnburn01 was starred Crashnburn01 was unstarred
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    08/07/09

    @Crashnburn01: true, but those landings in the tube is another story...
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    Image of AlphaPepper AlphaPepper
    08/07/09

    In reply to Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!
    I bought a bunch of Estes kits to build and launch with my 5 year old son. He wasn't that into it, but I was. Big Bertha, Baby Bertha, and Der Red Max. May Baby Bertha RIP after poor wind tracking on my part caused her to land in a tree.
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    SigmundTheSeaMonster promoted this comment AlphaPepper was starred AlphaPepper was unstarred
    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    08/07/09

    @AlphaPepper: Memories...!
    I loved the smell of the Dope. And D CELLs! (D-0)
    Alas, my rockets were lost to the wind or woods...
    I remember putting a bee in the clear payloader model...and it survived the launch and return!!
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    Image of theimmc theimmc
    08/07/09

    In reply to Build Your Own Battlestar Galactica Viper Rocket!

    Not my launch, but my photo.
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    dirtybacon promoted this comment theimmc was starred theimmc was unstarred
    Image of balls187 balls187
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    Virgins...
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    Wtf? Why is the guy on the top of the picture fellating the black viper?
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    Image of irish_stickman irish_stickman
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    spot the virgins
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    Image of Sortafast Sortafast
    01/26/09

    @irish_stickman: It's awesome how douchebags on the internet assume you're a virgin because you like LEGO.


    About 80% of the guys in the photo are married.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/26/09

    @Sortafast: You're no fun.
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    Hello Mister Walrus was starred Hello Mister Walrus was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/26/09

    @irish_stickman: LEGO can actually be one of the many sources of attraction. A person who can't understand the love of LEGO is a person not worth being with.
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    Image of TBM-Fan TBM-Fan
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    What can't be made out of lego?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/26/09

    @TBM-Fan: The nagging suspicion that you left the water running.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    SO SAY WE ALL!!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    No words to describe it. They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea.



    Except for the steam punk Viper, everything was frakkin amazing. I really like the different colored Vipers. Reminds me of Robotech.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    Why is it that all I can think of is Jimmy Dean sausage?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    01/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:
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    Image of DangerousDac DangerousDac
    01/26/09

    In reply to Lego Galactica Clusterfrak So Big It Can Probably Crush a Real Cylon Baseship
    Simply *Amazing*.


    Why must this show end? :(

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/26/09

    @DangerousDac: Because the ratings didn't justify the costs, which even the creators knew, which is why they wrote an arc that would allow for an end.


    Also, you fast-forwarding through commercials killed BSG. Buffers kill programs!

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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    01/26/09

    @DangerousDac: Because all things have to end, even if the ratings were amazingly high.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    01/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I find it hard to believe that the small population of Travellers could have such an impact on shows survival rates.
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    GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday was starred GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/26/09

    @SWM,30isoSWF_GitEmSteveDave: BSG got a small ratings bump but, even towards the end, were nothing great. As MSNBC put it in August, "Galactica's" numbers - to put it politely - have begun to stink. The latest Nielsen ratings seem to indicate the show's viewers are as hard to find as the fleet's mythical destination of Earth. The series averaged 2.8 million viewers an episode during Season 1. During the most recent run of 10 episodes, the show averaged 2.2 million viewers, a slight dip overall but up from Seasons 2 and 3. The series lost some of that steam by the midseason finale, falling to just 1.8 million viewers." [www.msnbc.msn.com]


    This isn't to say that only 1.8 million were watching on a regular basis. Many people were watching on DVD (thanks to Netflix) and/or on DVR. There were other outlets like iTunes and there are also those who torrent it. But that stuff does not get added to ratings. This might sound technologically backwards but there is arguably a legitimate reason not to add torrenters, DVD, and iTunes to the ratings.


    The ratings are a tool used by advertisers to gauge how many potential viewers their ads will reach. Ads don't reach those watching on DVD, iTunes, or torrents. Arguably, they don't reach the DVR crowd either. On top of that, SciFi often has local cable ads that get put over the national feed (the SNL fake commercials like "Marble Columns" and "Sofa King" are extraordinarily accurate).


    BSG had bad timing. It's audience was likely to watch the show outside of traditional means which screwed up the metrics. On top of that, its ratings flagged while on NBC which is run by a highly impatient programming division. Additionally, the writer's strike directly led to the cancellation by allowing a force majeur opt-out. [theamericanscene.com]

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    01/26/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: OK, I think my joke failed. Buffers are what Travellers call non-Travellers. There is an estimated 350,000 Travellers living in the world today, compared to the 6.5 billion total population. I was trying to allude that the ~7,000 Travellers in the US could have "saved" the show, and that it was the "buffers" that save shows. Bad joke. It was early. I apologize.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/26/09

    @DangerousDac: Not only do the ratings stink right now (they have not been very good since after they left New Caprica), but the show stinks. None of the plot lines they are using right now make any sense at all. It is as though the writers forgot what happened the first two seasons. Don't get me wrong - I am glad someone likes the show now, but we deleted it from our DVR this week after one of the worst episodes yet.


    That said -- these Lego vipers rock.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/26/08

    In reply to How Big Is the ISS Compared to Science Fiction Spaceships?
    I wonder how big the MV Nostromo or the Sulaco would be compared to this thing?
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    11/26/08

    In reply to How Big Is the ISS Compared to Science Fiction Spaceships?
    I put the Death Star and then took it out. It's 160KM across. At this scale, it just looks like a line.
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