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| wildhorse wrote: | | Old School wrote: | | My Little Tool |
Hi Johnny Depp! |
Ouch!
That's heartless! 
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| wildhorse wrote: | | Old School wrote: | | My Little Tool |
Hi Johnny Depp! |
lol
Not much of an insult.
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| wildhorse wrote: | BTW: The Russians were also the first to build a space station. After building a trash can called Skylab, the Yanks decided they need help from Europe. But because of their Nazi attitude, the Chinese had to stay out. Now the Chinese build their own space station. Again: 
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Yes, the Russians did build a space station of sorts, although their first one doesn't count since everybody who went there died, and their second one doesn't count because nobody ever reached it before it crashed. The third one only had one of three crews reach it successfully and only managed to stay a matter of days (and that was secretly military mission only). This was followed by Skylab -- a successful and long-term scientific mission lasting six years.
Meanwhile, the Europeans shortened their work weeks, took long lunches and went on the dole, while the U.S. shouldered the burden of their defense and technology R&D. And still, nobody but an American has ever been anywhere but the Earth, and the Spaniards can't even correctly make their one little token part to go along for the ride with us to Mars. If it weren't so tragic because you're supposed to be our allies, it might be humorous.
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Saljut 1 was a great success and it was the first manned space station. Just because the crew decided to die after they left the space station means nothing. In any case it deserves the "Mission accomplished!" award.
Compared to the Russian space station programme, the US American space station was only manned for 2.7% of the time (just 171 days). LOL at "a successful and long-term scientific mission lasting six years".
In the meantime, Europeans worked on projects like Arianespace, the first and most successful commercial space endeavour and the greatest enterprise since the colonisation of the third and fourth world (Africa and the Americas). |
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Mission Accomplished my ass.
| wildhorse wrote: | | In the meantime, Europeans worked on projects like Arianespace, the first and most successful commercial space endeavour and the greatest enterprise since the colonisation of the third and fourth world (Africa and the Americas). |
Pffft.
How many Spaniards have even been in space? One? And probably just tagging along with the Russians. We have tourists who do that.
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The one Spaniard that went to space returned with both hands swollen and bruised. The doctors were perplexed until the descendant of mass murderers explained: "Every time I reached for something, the cosmonauts would slap my hand and scream, 'Nyet! You must touch nothink!'"
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The space bunny quit hopping.
Sorry, wildhorse. Your heroes didn't do so well. This was announced on Opportunity's 10 year anniversary on the surface of Mars.
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This is a momentous achievement, though, because it proves that we can launch an object to the moon, land it safely and have it operate successfully, even if for a shorter than expected time period. Who knows what humanity may be able to accomplish, given that we can do this! We might put a man on the moon! Rovers on Mars! We might even launch a probe out passed the heliopause!
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I was looking at some photographs of the other rovers on the graph in your article and could not help but laugh at the fact that the Luna 17 has what looked to me like a little chainsaw which I suspect could only serve one purpose (which is to chop down our flag pole).[/runonSentence]
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| bogamol wrote: | | This is a momentous achievement, though, because it proves that we can launch an object to the moon, land it safely and have it operate successfully, even if for a shorter than expected time period. Who knows what humanity may be able to accomplish, given that we can do this! We might put a man on the moon! Rovers on Mars! We might even launch a probe out passed the heliopause! |
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| Old School wrote: | The space bunny quit hopping.
Sorry, wildhorse. Your heroes didn't do so well. This was announced on Opportunity's 10 year anniversary on the surface of Mars.
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Too bad. But the mission was a success and the untimely end is not a big deal.
Somehow I doubt that they would just drive a vehicle for ten years over the dust. The Chinese will continue with new missions, faster than your government can increase its debt-ceiling.
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| wildhorse wrote: | | The Chinese will continue to duplicate decades old missions |
Fixed that for you.
| Quote: | | the untimely end is not a big deal. |
Yeah, I'm sure they got everything accomplished in a third of the time they planned on.
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Asian efficiency at its best.
I predict the Chinese will launch a Mars mission, and by the time it reaches Mars, China will have collapsed and there will be nobody there capable of monitoring it, kind of like the Russians trying to figure out how to work the old Soviet subs, or the early Greeks trying to figure out who the 'giants' were who must have built the citadel of Mycenae out of impossibly large stones. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:55 pm Post subject: Re: ESA says the space bunny has landed |
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FAIL!
Must have been those people with brown between their legs and ears.
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We actually put a little fault into the bunny's design. That is how we control the Chinese.  |
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This is one tough little bunny. It's awake!
(Oh, and this is the best article I could find for you guys.) |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | BTW: The Russians were also the first to build a space station. After building a trash can called Skylab, the Yanks decided they need help from Europe. But because of their Nazi attitude, the Chinese had to stay out. Now the Chinese build their own space station. Again:
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Yes, the Russians did build a space station of sorts, although their first one doesn't count since everybody who went there died, and their second one doesn't count because nobody ever reached it before it crashed. The third one only had one of three crews reach it successfully and only managed to stay a matter of days (and that was secretly military mission only). This was followed by Skylab -- a successful and long-term scientific mission lasting six years.
Meanwhile, the Europeans shortened their work weeks, took long lunches and went on the dole, while the U.S. shouldered the burden of their defense and technology R&D. And still, nobody but an American has ever been anywhere but the Earth, and the Spaniards can't even correctly make their one little token part to go along for the ride with us to Mars. If it weren't so tragic because you're supposed to be our allies, it might be humorous. |
'technology R&D'?
oh, you mean industrial espionage. Yeah, the USA are leading in that category.
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energyman, you are way behind the curve. The Chinese overtook the US about a decade ago.
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| BoneKracker thinks you folks are still a decade ahead of China. |
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| wildhorse wrote: | | BoneKracker thinks you folks are still a decade ahead of China. |
In aerospace technology, we are decades ahead (note the 's') of China, and centuries ahead of Spain.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | | BoneKracker thinks you folks are still a decade ahead of China. |
In aerospace technology, we are decades ahead (note the 's') of China, and centuries ahead of Spain. |
Don't be so hard on Spain.
They will have a regular cultural and scientific awakening when the Muzzies take over again.
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What they'll have is another "Inquisition", Taliban-style. At least maybe the Taliban would put a stop to the ridiculous bull-fighting in pink pants.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | In aerospace technology, we are decades ahead (note the 's') of China, and centuries ahead of Spain. |
No, you are not. You folks have just been stealing our European technologies for decades. |
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