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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

In case anyone is interested, you can follow the decent of Mir here. http://www.flatoday.com/news/space/

CNN will also be showing the decent live at midnight, eastern time tonight.

Dos'vedanya, tovarich...

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In this crazy world of lemons, baby...you're lemonade!

Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

I want my Taco.

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Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

Is it just the people in the US? If yes, then that isn't fair, cuz there are a lot of Taco Bell restaurants in Canada as well, that's one of the biggest national prejudices in the world. Everything you see is just in the US, that sucks quite frankly, and it is just SO not fair.

j/k I don't care about any of that I just want my ****ing taco

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"Well if it's gonna be that kind of a party, I'm putting my dick in the mashed potatoes!"

-Nimrod 16/4/2001

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Well, go and buy one, then. You were bragging about the superiority of your wealth in an earlier thread, so use it.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Good goddess...

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

MMMWWWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!....sngggnkgkg....*snort*.....teehee....

Darwinian theory in action, I suppose.

-Edward Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Oh my dear sweet non-existant god ...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I rather strongly doubt he was the paragon of mental health prior to this.

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

Well...

After 15 years of operations, Mir has returned.

*raises drink in a toast*

Damn, i'm gettin' misty here...

You'll be missed.

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In this crazy world of lemons, baby...you're lemonade!

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Am I to understand nobody will put fun on his "decent" wording? DAMN!

Now we'll see how the fish develop where she came down. I bet it'll be nasty!

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[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited March 23, 2001).]

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

"Enjoyed this story?!"

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

I am SO dissapointed in the lot of you. It may have not meant nothing to you Mir but to me and the Mir team, it meant everything.

Thanks to you, the next words we hear from the moon may well be in Chinese.

Don't let us become the next Portugal. Let's blaze a trail right to the stars. And anyone who say's "It can't be done." will have to answer to ME.

Ad Astra pro astera.

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In this crazy world of lemons, baby...you're lemonade!

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Er. . . "from the stars, to the stars?"

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"Kif, I have made it with a woman! Inform the crew!"

- Zapp Brannigan

Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :

Certainly, it was an emotional moment for many people who were involved closely with the station... as one of them said: "imagine building up your own house... then, years later, be forced to take it down again."

And I can't believe my VCR just *had* to brake down today, so I can't rewatch the live footage!

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

My hat is over my heart, farewell Mir!! (I guess "farewell" maybe isn't the right phrase for something that crashing into the ocean, but you guy's gt the idea.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

To keep Mir alive, we must continue. We must push ever forward, expanding humanity ouward to the stars.
Additional space stations, habitats, and developments in Earth orbit or Near-Earth space.

Moonbase.
Mars.
Europa.
Titan.

There is so much still to be done, so much we are capable of, if we only TRY... and who knows how much time before the next Dino-killer arrives?

I once wrote a short story (more a political piece, to be truthful) about a solo astronaut, stranded in space, and his last message to the people of Earth, via his radio. The text was lost in the burn of '96, but it had a little bit like this:

"Don't you DARE stop now. Don't you even THINK about stopping. Don't let this all have been for nothing. If you want my death to MEAN something, then for God's sake you HAVE to keep coming out here. Do you understand? THIS is where it is. THIS is our big chance. THIS is the meaning of life. To LIVE. To GROW. To EXPAND."

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Posted by Antagonist (Member # 484) on :

Hogwash. The alledged "Space station" was nothing but a model being exposed to high intensity heat in a soundstage in Neveada. Yeah, and that footage of debris falling? Nothing but fireworks released by a high-atmospheric jet craft!

For great humor.

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Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

You'll have to excuse us if we don't beleive you, but I don't know of anyone that thinks very highly of conspiracy theories.

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"Well if it's gonna be that kind of a party, I'm putting my dick in the mashed potatoes!"

-Nimrod 16/4/2001

Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

Lee: We were born of star stuff. So it fits.

First: Right on, brotha.

I go sleep now.

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In this crazy world of lemons, baby...you're lemonade!

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Anybody see how the moon landings were faked? Fox showed it this week. Anyone with a brain cell could blow away the argument made on fox, but it was funny, up to the point that they accused NASA of killing the crew of Apollo 1.

For anyone without a brain cell handy, you can read the debunking here:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Infinity: He said 'For great humor'. Thusly meaning, it was in jest.

-Edward Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.

Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :

Yes he joke.

However, I'm truly afraid every time I run into another person who actually believes that the moon landings were fake. Really seems we are on the edge of another dark age here folks.

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Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

Didn't catch the last bit, but then again I never do, I just read the first part of the post and then reply

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"Well if it's gonna be that kind of a party, I'm putting my dick in the mashed potatoes!"

-Nimrod 16/4/2001