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Re: Out of the Blue |
Dec 11, 2012, 12:25 |
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Nice to recognize the Apollo 17 landing, although it's a good thing the command module didn't make the actual landing or else they'd still be there (the CM stays in orbit while the LM separates and lands). This reminds me of an interview with Jim Lovell during the 40th anniversary of Apollo 8. Someone asked him if his crew had considered executing an unplanned landing. I think his response was simply "no, because we didn't have a LM."
And speaking of lunar landings, we will be making 2 of them next week, as Ebb and Flow (the twin GRAIL probes) reach the end of their mission and will be deliberately crashed into the lunar surface. |
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Oct 30, 2012, 12:37 |
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| Good to know that a power outage is the only issue you've had in the storm, Blue. You deserve the day off. |
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Sep 28, 2012, 13:48 |
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The sudden and unexpected falling apart of 38 Studios...
Bullshit. EVERYONE knew this was a bad deal from the start. Everyone but the morons at the EDC that is.
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Sep 11, 2012, 13:34 |
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| Wow, I've been so busy this is the first time I've been to Blue's in over a week. What'd I miss? |
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| News Comments > Rhode Island & Mellon Bank Taking Possession of 38 Studios |
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Re: Rhode Island & Mellon Bank Taking Possession of 38 Studios |
Aug 10, 2012, 19:41 |
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LightAssassin wrote on Aug 10, 2012, 13:14:
Which can take weeks to complete... What the hell... Who is taking weeks to copy files or image hard drives then wipe them???
Must be a gov. organization 
It's not any ordinary government, it's Rhode Island! Actually, I expect nothing to be gained from retrieving the assets. In fact, I don't expect the assets to be retrieved at all. The computers will probably end up in storage somewhere after they hire an intern to sift through the data, file a meaningless and inaccurate report on what is there, and that will be the last we hear about it. |
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Jul 26, 2012, 13:19 |
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That is one of the most poorly written articles I've seen in quite a while. Spelling and grammatical errors galore, and WPRI (not WRPI) is a television station, not a publication.
Here's the source article. |
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Jul 23, 2012, 12:35 |
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| FPV quadricopters are becoming quite popular in the hobbyist market. These are essentially "personal drones." I'd love to get one, not that I want to use it to spy on someone, but they give a unique perspective to familiar surroundings and would be fun to take on trips to exotic locations. (Look at Team Blacksheep on Yourube or do a Youtube search for "TBS Discovery".) |
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| News Comments > Saturday Metaverse |
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Jul 15, 2012, 13:11 |
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| Sites like Digg never did anything for me. It was one of the first content aggregator sites that really add nothing to my web experience other than adding another click to get what I want to read. Just give me the source link and skip the middle man. Same goes for Reddit, Boing Boing, Videosift, etc. |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Jul 6, 2012, 20:31 |
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Bet wrote on Jul 6, 2012, 17:16:
20,000 years is not when the dinosaurs were here, wtf.
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Bad use of dino. Bad. Unless...ignoring science...
Heh, that's the first thing I noticed too. Reminds me of a recent trip I took to La Brea, where their oldest fossil was around 32,000 old ago and they have a sign specifically saying that "no, we do not have dinosaurs"
Maybe the people that created the infographic were part of the "young earth" movement or whatever it is called. |
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| News Comments > Independence Day Metaverse |
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Jul 4, 2012, 12:55 |
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Ratty wrote on Jul 4, 2012, 12:34:
I guess I use iGoogle. I just like a bunch of news feeds on my google start page. I think I started doing that a few years back then they started calling it iGoogle or something and now they're not. Big whoop de doo.
If iGoogle is what they called the customized start page, than I guess I have heard of it (and used it occasionally until Google+ was introduced). |
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Jun 29, 2012, 16:23 |
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Yeah it's odd with the holiday on a Wednesday, it's almost pointless. I may end up working through and taking another day off later to make a long weekend.
Fireworks started over a month ago in my neighborhood and will probably last through much of the summer. And it seems just about every weekend there is an officially sanctioned (as in, not kids popping them off in their backyards) fireworks display somewhere within earshot of here. I remember when fireworks were shot off only 2 nights a year, now it seems they are done so often that it takes away from the "special occasion" factor. And it would be really awesome if the 4th of July was recognized as something other than just an occasion to blow stuff up.
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Jun 27, 2012, 12:46 |
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InBlack wrote on Jun 27, 2012, 10:35:
The plot holes as giant as fucking spaceships...
Spaceships shaped like giant, curled-up poop. 
For what it was, I enjoyed the film. What I was quite surprised about was all the "how unscientific" commentary there was about it. Um, yeah, that's why it's called science FICTION.
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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In Rhode Island, lying online is no longer a crime. |
Jun 27, 2012, 12:37 |
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| Never knew there was a law for that to begin with. It's a good thing I was never fined for taunting my opponents in UT2004 and deceiving them as to my whereabouts and actions on the field of play. |
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