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Quatre Winner
Active Member
Member # 464

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In case if you've been following this, the NEAR/Shoemaker spacecraft has successfully touched down on the asteroid Eros.

Here's the story.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/nearlanding_preview_010212.html

Later...

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"Okashii na... namida ga nagareteru. Hitotsu mo kanashikunai no ni."
(That's funny... my tears are falling. And I'm not sad at all.) - Quatre Raberba Winner

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Nim
The Aardvark asked for a dagger
Member # 205

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Score one to the good guys!

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

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Epoch
Geology Rocks
Member # 136

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Finally they didn't screw up.

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Death before Dishonor!
However Dishonor has
quite a disputed defintion.

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The359
The bitch is back
Member # 37

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NASA can hit a small, fast moving rock in space yet they can't even get close to a large, slow PLANET in space...

Bogles the mind

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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"

Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)

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First of Two
Better than you
Member # 16

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What, Mars? Oh, I thought you might be talking about Voyager, Cassini, Galileo...

For a group that regularly launches things aboard what are essentially giant firecrackers, they don't do so bad. Smaller error rate per mile than most of you drivers, I'd wager.

What was it somebody said about the Neptune encounter... like sinking an 18-mile putt?

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"My knowledge and experience far exceeds your own, by, oh, about a BILLION times!" -- Q

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