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DRB

DRB

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6780598/

Blow things up? I'm there. Yeah, I don't have any issue with that," says Richard Grammier, manager of the project for Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The gist. NASA is going to run a 865 lb thingy into this comet and see what happens. So I'm sure the science is good but this sounds like some sort of science experiment I would come up with.

Let's bash the hell out of it with a hammer and see what happens.

"You've got an object the size of a bushel basket running into an object that's 9 miles in length, so we're not going to do any real damage to the comet," Yeomans says. Some scientists, however, contend the comet will shatter into several pieces.
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Wouldn't that produce a gigantic "Oh sh!t."

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/
 
biggins

biggins

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May 18, 2003
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we once saw a portugese man-o-war laying on the beach and we decided to throw large shells at it. Will i threw a huge jagged peice of coral at it and the thing popped splattering jelly all over us. it immediately started stinging like hell and continued for the next 48 hours. it sucked.
 
Jr_Bullit

Jr_Bullit

I'm sooo teenie weenie!!!
Sep 8, 2001
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It sounds like the Simpsons episode where they tried to up their tv ratings by bringing an average guy along for the ride.
 
MTB_Rob_NC

MTB_Rob_NC

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biggins said:
we once saw a portugese man-o-war laying on the beach and we decided to throw large shells at it. Will i threw a huge jagged peice of coral at it and the thing popped splattering jelly all over us. it immediately started stinging like hell and continued for the next 48 hours. it sucked.
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Freakin RedNecks!

You know if you would have Pee'd on each other it would have helped. :nuts:
 
MTB_Rob_NC

MTB_Rob_NC

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DRB said:
You know we are in trouble when Super Brainy NASA scientist says "Hey ya'll watch this."
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I was actually crackin on Biggins, but that would be funny too.

In college the agricultural majors always had the best pot :rolleyes:
 
biggins

biggins

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DRB said:
You know we are in trouble when Super Brainy NASA scientist says "Hey ya'll watch this."
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the rednecks famous last words "hol muh beer n watch this"
 
biggins

biggins

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Mtb_Rob_FL said:
I was actually crackin on Biggins, but that would be funny too.

In college the agricultural majors always had the best pot :rolleyes:
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dude i was like 10. i had not completely developed my redneck yet so at that point it was just young stupidity.


so if you get stung by a jelly fish i can pee on you??
 
DamienC

DamienC

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I'm all for the pursuit of knowledge and the betterment of humankind through the technological advancements that come about through such things - it's how I make a living after all - but most of us in space sciences like to f*ck sh!t up and watch stuff explode just like anyone else :D.
 
Westy

Westy

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DamienC said:
I'm all for the pursuit of knowledge and the betterment of humankind through the technological advancements that come about through such things - it's how I make a living after all - but most of us in space sciences like to f*ck sh!t up and watch stuff explode just like anyone else :D.
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I've always wanted to know what would happen if you chucked a mouse into a particle accelrator.
 
MTB_Rob_NC

MTB_Rob_NC

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biggins said:
dude i was like 10. i had not completely developed my redneck yet so at that point it was just young stupidity.
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Well you conveniently left that out of the story now didn't ya??

biggins said:
so if you get stung by a jelly fish i can pee on you??
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I would almost be inclined to say yes.


:think: However I fear if I did, you would hunt one down, save it and throw it in my sleeping bag at the SE MonkeyFest, only to run into my tent peeing on me holding a printed version of this thread.






so.........













NO!
 
biggins

biggins

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Mtb_Rob_FL said:
Well you conveniently left that out of the story now didn't ya??



I would almost be inclined to say yes.


:think: However I fear if I did, you would hunt one down, save it and throw it in my sleeping bag at the SE MonkeyFest, only to run into my tent peeing on me holding a printed version of this thread.






so.........













NO!
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damn you know me too well already.

when i used to surf there would be freaky ass jelly fish migrations, whole schools(?) of them in the water. When we would get bored we would throw them at each other. they were the round kind about 6 inches in diameter and pink/clear in color.
 
mrbigisbudgood

mrbigisbudgood

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You probably already have, in the form of CocaCola, Tofu, Vodka, Ethanol........

I'm not growing anything illegal, I leave that up to that guy with the farm in his basement.
 
mrbigisbudgood

mrbigisbudgood

Strangely intrigued by Echo
Oct 30, 2001
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Well, my house is in a huge state of suck. It either needs to be completely redone, with half the house completely tore off and rebuilt....or just burned to the ground. We're buying a house in town as a temporary solution with the intention to build in the near future. There is a spot on the south side of the property with the trees/draw come up into the field in a U shape. We're planning on building inside that U for an even more "out there" feeling. Already working on damming up a draw that will yield a 40 acre Y shaped pond. Time and money is all it takes.
 
DRB

DRB

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Westy said:
I've always wanted to know what would happen if you chucked a mouse into a particle accelrator.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24525554/

Here's your chance Westy...
The machine is the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, or LHC — the most powerful, most expensive particle-blaster ever invented. On Wednesday, Europe's CERN particle-physics lab is due to start shooting beams of protons through the LHC's 17-mile-round (27-kilometer-round) ring of tunnels beneath the French-Swiss border.
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As big as the numbers surrounding the LHC are, the mysteries it was built to address are bigger:

* What was the newborn universe made of?
* What causes things to have mass?
* Why is most of that mass hidden?
* Where did all the antimatter go?
* Is our entire universe a mere sliver of all that is?
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Though it makes me wonder if before the Big Bang, some dumbass flipped the switch on a very similar machine saying "I wonder what this does?"

I'm gonna be pissed if they blow up the universe.
 
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