Moon to Turn Japanese?

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Japan. Robots. The moon. Need I say more?

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is considering putting a robot on the moon by 2020 and an astronaut by 2030, a report from a government office showed on Friday, amid fears that the country will be left behind in Asia’s space race.

The plans follow China’s first space walk and India’s launch of their first unmanned moon mission last year. Beijing officials have said that China is looking to eventually put astronauts on the moon, though the government has not revealed any schedule. …

A space development panel also discussed on Friday the possibility of Japan eventually starting its own manned space program, a government official said.

“Some experts are concerned that unless there is an independent program, then Japan may be left behind in terms of space development,” said an official from the Strategic Headquarters for Space Policy (SHSP), under the Cabinet Office. “If large scale space development projects, such as moon probes or space solar power system, are conducted, not only robots but also people will have to be there. The technology of manned space programs will certainly become the foundation in such cases,” he said.

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256 comments
1 jones  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:21:54pm

I thought the Japanese always traveled in big groups.

2 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:22:15pm

An Asian space race- this should be interesting.

And 0bama wants to gut our space agency. Sad.

3 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:22:20pm

Why would anyone want to go to the moon again? It's not made of green cheese like previously believed.

4 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:22:41pm

The Japanese are going to send robots to the moon to start breeding?

5 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:22:50pm

re: #3 ConservatismNow!

LIES! Darwinian lies!

6 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:23:54pm

re: #5 Sharmuta

LIES! Darwinian lies!

Oh how I wish they were lies!

7 vxbush  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:23:55pm

Yes, but will the robot moonwalk?

8 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:24:06pm

Obama cut our space program because there's no inhabitants on the moon to tax.

9 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:24:25pm

re: #7 vxbush

...and Charles you can make a new thread now. This one has reached the pinnacle of awesome.

10 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:25:46pm

Can you see the Turtle Stack holding up the earth from the moon?

11 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:26:21pm

re: #7 vxbush

Yes, but will the robot moonwalk?

Send MJ....

12 The Other Les  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:27:40pm

Just watch out for Planet X. Okay guys?

13 jaunte  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:28:33pm

Japanese robot calligrapher:

Youtube Video
14 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:29:28pm

ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA

15 Truck Monkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:30:00pm

We've been there and done that. These countries are essentially 40 to 50 years behind us when it comes to space exploration.

16 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:30:11pm

re: #14 Sharmuta

USE THEM IN WISDOM, USE THEM IN PEACE.

17 Gus  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:30:38pm

Does this mean we're going to have the Japanese version of the moon "hoax" conspiranuts?

18 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:31:04pm

All your moon now belong to us.

19 USBeast  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:31:11pm

I have no problem with Japan launching a Moon mission. I just hope they are greeted by Americans.

20 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:31:39pm

re: #18 monkeytime

You are on your way to destruction

21 Salem  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:31:48pm

Robots are the future of space exploration.

22 ArmyWife  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:32:05pm

Good night, guys! I'm off to take the soldier and his wife out. Be good!

23 oh_dude  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:32:09pm

Danger Barack Obama! Danger!

24 SFGoth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:32:09pm

Hello Moon Kitty

25 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:32:13pm
26 FrogMarch  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:33:48pm

But they are going to fake it a back hollywad lot.

/REM

27 USBeast  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:33:55pm

re: #21 Salem

Robots are part of the future of space exploration.

Fixed it for ya.

28 abolitionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:34:21pm

re: #14 Sharmuta

ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA

2010 - Peter Hyams - The Birth Scene

29 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:34:25pm

re: #15 Truck Monkey

We've been there and done that. These countries are essentially 40 to 50 years behind us when it comes to space exploration.

We should offer to send along a couple of astonauts as Tour Guides......

30 eorep  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:35:02pm

For some reason I thought the Chinese had just crashed something on the moon, contaminating it. I guess I dreamed it.

31 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:35:34pm

They can afford to start a space program (in part) because they got a free ride through the Cold War, and still have since.

32 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:35:52pm

re: #29 LGoPs

We should offer to send along a couple of astonauts as Tour Guides......

Why doesn't GPS work up there?

33 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:35:59pm

re: #25 screaming_eagle

Do the Japs think they are showing off putting a robot on the moon? I mean George Soros put a robot in the White House. So what's the big deal.

The difference is that the moon robot will actually be competent

34 stevieray  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:36:14pm

re: #30 eorep

For some reason I thought the Chinese had just crashed something on the moon, contaminating it. I guess I dreamed it.

Melamine everywhere!

35 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:36:33pm
Moon to Turn Japanese?

What, is it applying for Japanese citizenship?

36 Lincolntf  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:37:03pm

I wish they'd just go back to making digital watches and joysticks like their ancestors...

37 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:37:03pm

They sure love their robots.

38 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:37:26pm

re: #15 Truck Monkey

We've been there and done that. These countries are essentially 40 to 50 years behind us when it comes to space exploration.

But they have the ambition and technology to pass our program in 5 years.

39 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:37:38pm

re: #33 ConservatismNow!

The difference is that the moon robot will actually be competent

The one in the White House is competent, I mean it can read a teleprompter.

40 albusteve  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:38:15pm

re: #37 Killgore Trout

They sure love their robots.

it's simply an extention of their character

41 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:38:40pm

Making Udon Noodles for dinner tonight. I'm trying to see if I can get one pork chop to last all week.

42 saberry0530  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:38:57pm

Mr. Roboto

/somebody had to

43 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:39:06pm
44 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:39:46pm

re: #40 albusteve

They are really odd people. The rules and manners are really complicated but they are very forgiving to lapses by foreigners.

45 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:01pm

re: #41 Killgore Trout

Making Udon Noodles for dinner tonight. I'm trying to see if I can get one pork chop to last all week.

Then don't invite that Komodo dragon to dinner.

46 cdat88  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:03pm

Japan needs to send 5 robots, and then they can combine, and make one totally awesomness robot that will take over the moon, firing laser and rockets, and then, and then...


wow..that was a geek rush coming from WAYYYY back.

47 stevieray  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:31pm

Robots on the moon? Hell, yes!

Youtube Video
48 albusteve  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:36pm

re: #41 Killgore Trout

Making Udon Noodles for dinner tonight. I'm trying to see if I can get one pork chop to last all week.


[Link: www.ricearoni.com...]

49 Ruebacca  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:37pm

Got He3?

50 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:37pm

re: #42 saberry0530

Monkey vs. Robot

Youtube Video
51 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:40:41pm

re: #46 cdat88

Baby steps. Baby steps.

52 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:41:03pm

Obligatory for a robot thread.......

Youtube Video
53 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:41:47pm

re: #47 stevieray

One of the greatest videos ever.

54 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:41:54pm

re: #48 albusteve

Too expensive. Buy the ingredients in the bulk section and make it yourself.

55 albusteve  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:42:34pm

re: #44 Killgore Trout

They are really odd people. The rules and manners are really complicated but they are very forgiving to lapses by foreigners.

maybe so...but I am my fathers son and he did not approve of the Japanese...I withold judgement on his behalf

56 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:42:40pm
57 stuiec  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:42:48pm

This program is vital to Japanese national self-defense. No other nation on Earth is as prone to attack from giant ravaging monsters from outer space. It's essential that they set up a defensive perimeter on the Moon.

58 albusteve  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:43:51pm

re: #54 Killgore Trout

Too expensive. Buy the ingredients in the bulk section and make it yourself.

I'm too stupid...there is no hope for me...but I enjoy your posts about exotic food making!

59 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:44:04pm

OT, but damn:

Adidas: "Show your love for the former USSR"

60 Lincolntf  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:44:12pm

re: #57 stuiec

Those who don't learn from "Creature Double Feature" are doomed to repeat it...

61 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:44:18pm
62 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:44:49pm

Who's that in the picture? Lobbie the Robot?

63 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:45:40pm

re: #57 stuiec

This program is vital to Japanese national self-defense. No other nation on Earth is as prone to attack from giant ravaging monsters from outer space. It's essential that they set up a defensive perimeter on the Moon.

You're right. They'll be the first to put Godzilla on Mars.

64 jaunte  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:46:02pm

Space.com: How the Moon Was Made
[Link: www.space.com...]

65 Gus  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:46:14pm

re: #62 HelloDare

Who's that in the picture? Lobbie the Robot?

Rooks rike it.

/Sorry I couldn't resist.

66 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:46:14pm

re: #43 ploome hineni

The Church of England recently banned its clergy from joining the BNP; should it not equally ban them from siding with the forces of Islamofascism?

What is it with the "free speech" Euros always wanting equal censorship? The CoE can do whatever it wants. They just really don't understand the whole freedom thing.

67 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:46:33pm

re: #41 Killgore Trout

Making Udon Noodles for dinner tonight. I'm trying to see if I can get one pork chop to last all week.

And hows that working out?


/S

68 Yankee Division Son  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:46:54pm

Well, as long as our aircraft carriers are not there when they arrive, we'll be fine.

/

69 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:46:59pm

re: #58 albusteve

You should learn. It's not really that tough.

70 Lincolntf  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:47:16pm

re: #66 Killgore Trout

It's almost like they are so backward that they still have Kings and Queens...

71 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:47:55pm

re: #67 Dustyvet

I'll let you know. I'm pretty sure I can make 5 days on one porkchop. 7 will be a challenge.

72 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:47:58pm

re: #43 ploome hineni

Excellent read, ploome. Thanks for posting it.

73 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:48:36pm

Could we put Godzilla on Mars, and the robot, too, and let them fight it out? Pay-per-view would be awesome.

Seriously, or as seriously as I get on a Friday afternoon (West Coast), I've determined that I never want to live in a big city again, because when the superheroes battle the evil villain mega-robots/aliens/bugs, they always wipe out the cities. You never see the suburbs getting chewed up, with asphalt flying, and buildings being crumpled like a dixie cup when some invincible dude gets thrown straight into it. Just wouldn't work with a strip mall.

Gotta think carefully about the future.

74 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:48:52pm

Russia welcomes 'positive signals' from US
Published: 03.06.09, 22:10 / Israel News
Russia has received "very positive signals" from the new US Administration but wants a missile shield plan scrapped or reworked to eliminate Moscow's concerns, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Friday.

Dmitry Peskov suggested Russia sees the new American Administration's moves on missile defense as a crucial test of its stated intention to revamp ties. (AP)

I don't know about you, but I always get a sick feeling in my stomach when our enemies start "liking" us?

75 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:49:57pm

re: #70 Lincolntf

It's almost like they are so backward that they still have Kings and Queens...

But you're forgetting that we have King Zero and his comical sidekick, Princess Michelle.

76 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:50:15pm

re: #71 Killgore Trout

I'll let you know. I'm pretty sure I can make 5 days on one porkchop. 7 will be a challenge.

Thanks...:)

77 USBeast  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:50:17pm

re: #71 Killgore Trout

I'll let you know. I'm pretty sure I can make 5 days on one porkchop. 7 will be a challenge.

7 days on one porkchop makes one week. :)

78 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:50:30pm

re: #64 jaunte

Space.com: How the Moon Was Made
[Link: www.space.com...]

That was really cool- thanks!

79 saberry0530  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:51:17pm

re: #71 Killgore Trout

I'll let you know. I'm pretty sure I can make 5 days on one porkchop. 7 will be a challenge.

Whats the over/under?

80 Digital Display  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:51:24pm

re: #78 Sharmuta

That was really cool- thanks!


I love space.com..as they say..Something new every day!

81 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:52:14pm

re: #79 saberry0530

Whats the over/under?

I can't set the line for this one. I have inside information. (It's a pretty big pork chop)

82 Salem  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:52:32pm

re: #27 USBeast

Fixed it for ya.

Those and maybe genetically modified beings, if that isn't too creepy for you. I think robots are less creepy.

83 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:52:36pm

re: #77 USBeast

7 days on one porkchop makes one week. :)

One word that will help out a lot: Refrigerator.

84 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:54:07pm

re: #74 Nevergiveup

Russia welcomes 'positive signals' from US

A plastic 'Overcharge" button and a brown-nosing letter asking for help with a problem Russia helped create.

85 Salem  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:55:09pm

ROBOOOOOOTS!

86 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:55:16pm

Kepler To Launch Tonight!

NASA is set to launch a revolutionary new space telescope on Friday that will seek out other Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists hope Kepler will find planets potentially hospitable to life.

Set to launch on March 6 at 0348 GMT (10:48pm), the Kepler telescope will mark the agency’s first mission to seek out life-sustaining planets. Kepler will launch via a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Delta II rocket will use nine solid-fueled booster rockets and three stages to lift Kepler to its proper vantage point.

"Kepler is a critical component in NASA's broader efforts to ultimately find and study planets where Earth-like conditions may be present," Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at the US space agency's Washington headquarters, told a press conference last month.

87 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:55:20pm

re: #83 Soona'

I'm going to slice into individual portions and store with my new Ziploc Vacuum Pump

88 USBeast  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:55:27pm

re: #81 Killgore Trout

I can't set the line for this one. I have inside information. (It's a pretty big pork chop)

It would have to be, if you're going to try to survive 7 days on it. I hope you have a nice ribeye to tide you over on day 3.

89 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:56:21pm

I'm glad Japan is getting in the moon race. We clearly are entering a new phase of runar exploration.

90 jaunte  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:56:29pm

How did the moon=green cheese myth start?
(Contains non-cheesiosity)
[Link: www.straightdope.com...]

91 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:56:37pm

re: #80 HoosierHoops

I love space.com..as they say..Something new every day!

Space has always fascinated me, so I love reading up on new discoveries and such. Videos are always great.

92 Three Hundred  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:56:53pm

“Some experts are concerned that unless there is an independent program, then Japan may be left behind in terms of space development”


Your excellency, we must not allow a space development gap!
-Gen. Turgidson

93 coquimbojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:57:10pm

....I really think so

94 snowcrash  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:57:18pm

Is that Robbie the Robot from the Forbidden Planet?

95 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:57:58pm

re: #86 Racer X

Kepler To Launch Tonight!

NASA is set to launch a revolutionary new space telescope on Friday that will seek out other Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists hope Kepler will find planets potentially hospitable to life.

Set to launch on March 6 at 0348 GMT (10:48pm), the Kepler telescope will mark the agency’s first mission to seek out life-sustaining planets. Kepler will launch via a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Delta II rocket will use nine solid-fueled booster rockets and three stages to lift Kepler to its proper vantage point.

"Kepler is a critical component in NASA's broader efforts to ultimately find and study planets where Earth-like conditions may be present," Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at the US space agency's Washington headquarters, told a press conference last month.

I wish they'd hurry with finding another habitable planet. It'll take me years to get there and I'm not getting any younger.

96 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:58:07pm

re: #61 ploome hineni

[Link: www.christianzionism.org...]

Dig around...

HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND?
Christians in the West must ask themselves questions about
the influence of Christian Zionism on US public opinion. It
grieves the member communions of the National Council of
the Churches of Christ in the USA to note that many
Christians visiting the land of Jesus’ birth, death, and
resurrection are not even aware of the existence of Arab
Christians, and do not have opportunities to interact with
local Christian communities. One step toward addressing this
concern is for Christians in the West to become better aware
of Christian Zionism and its effects, including the history,
theology, and forms of biblical interpretation underlying this
ideology. Please take the time to learn what this movement
is all about, get involved, and continue to “pray for the
peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6).


National Council of Churches.... another commie front group.

97 jamgarr  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:58:17pm

Will 40 gallons be sufficient?

98 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:58:21pm

re: #90 jaunte

How did the moon=green cheese myth start?
(Contains non-cheesiosity)
[Link: www.straightdope.com...]

"The rustics". I wonder if that's what 0bama calls us.

99 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:59:00pm

Shoe thrown at Ahmadinejad


Shoe reportedly thrown at Iranian president Ahmadinejad

Protest allegedly happened as president waved to crowds from an open-top car in the Iranian city of Urumiye

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]

100 Achilles Tang  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:59:23pm

For those in Florida, the Kepler space telescope is due to launch this evening at 10:50 pm. It should be visible from much of Florida tonight. We usually get a good view from the Tampa Bay area.

101 Achilles Tang  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:59:43pm

re: #86 Racer X

Beat me to it.

102 jaunte  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:00:13pm

re: #98 Sharmuta

We put the oi! in hoi polloi.

103 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:00:23pm

Kepler Launch Update
Looking to see if they will show it live.

They launch less than 3 hours from now.

104 coquimbojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:00:42pm

The moon turning Japanese? The very idea gives me the vapors.

(did someone already post this?)

105 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:00:44pm

re: #87 Killgore Trout

I'm going to slice into individual portions and store with my new Ziploc Vacuum Pump

LOL. Perhaps if you hadn't bought the Ziploc Pump, you'd have enough money to buy another pork chop. :)

106 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:02:52pm

re: #44 Killgore Trout

They are really odd people. The rules and manners are really complicated but they are very forgiving to lapses by foreigners.

A country that crowded, politeness is a survival skill.

107 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:03:33pm

re Kepler - Live NASA feed

Showing a press conference now. Hopefully they will show the live launch.

108 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:03:42pm

re: #105 Soona'

Heh.

109 zombie  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:03:48pm

Will they put the dreaded Japanese Nazi Coke toy robot on the Moon?

110 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:04:01pm

re: #107 Racer X

Cool.

111 USBeast  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:05:05pm

re: #82 Salem

Those and maybe genetically modified beings, if that isn't too creepy for you. I think robots are less creepy.

But they ain't people. I like my species. I want them to survive and prosper. I believe that space exploration and colonization is essential to this goal. Robots will be necessary as scouts and, perhaps, environmental remodelers. As for genetic modification, evolution will take care of that. Back to Moon and on to Mars!

Excelsior!

112 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:05:08pm

With a moonbot they could selectively brighten parts of the moon's surface and make it a shining hello kitty face at night.

113 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:05:12pm

re: #99 Dustyvet

Shoe thrown at Ahmadinejad

Shoe reportedly thrown at Iranian president Ahmadinejad

Protest allegedly happened as president waved to crowds from an open-top car in the Iranian city of Urumiye

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]

I wonder if Short Shit had to stand on his child protection seat to be seen by the crowd?


/S

114 pat  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:05:14pm

This an area where Japan is vastly behind the USA and Russia.

115 saberry0530  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:06:47pm

re: #113 Dustyvet

I wonder if Short Shit had to stand on his child protection seat to be seen by the crowd?

/S

Why the sarc? Sometimes the truth is the truth.

116 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:07:26pm

re: #114 pat

This an area where Japan is vastly behind the USA and Russia.

maybe, but they probably make most of the parts for the space station?

117 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:07:27pm

OT: Good News: O'Reilly is going to go after the Ayers/Churchill meeting of evil in Boulder tonight. The bad news, Ann Coulter will be his guest when he does so.

118 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:08:09pm

re: #109 zombie

Will they put the dreaded Japanese Nazi Coke toy robot on the Moon?

I'm thinking it will either be Jet Jaguar or Ultraman.

119 Digital Display  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:08:32pm

re: #109 zombie

Will they put the dreaded Japanese Nazi Coke toy robot on the Moon?

Zombie..my friend..There is a very strategic reason to create a moon base..If someday we have water and air there..we can launch anywhere in the solar system cheaply...

120 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:09:33pm

re: #117 Dark_Falcon

OT: Good News: O'Reilly is going to go after the Ayers/Churchill meeting of evil in Boulder tonight. The bad news, Ann Coulter will be his guest when he does so.

That's okay. Ayers/Churchill need to be called a various asundry of rude and crude names.

121 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:09:42pm

Here is the NASA web page on the Kepler Launch.

122 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:10:09pm

I wonder who will be the first to find the monolith.

123 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:10:56pm

Kepler on the pad.

124 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:11:12pm

re: #117 Dark_Falcon

OT: Good News: O'Reilly is going to go after the Ayers/Churchill meeting of evil in Boulder tonight. The bad news, Ann Coulter will be his guest when he does so.

Will Ann finally reveal herself to be a terminator?

125 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:12:05pm

Time for the commute home. If I don't get online for a while, have a good night lizards.

126 Mich-again  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:12:16pm

re: #124 CyanSnowHawk

Will Ann finally reveal herself to be a terminator?

Will Ward Churchill show up?

127 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:13:15pm

re: #123 Ojoe

Kepler on the pad.

I pray the launch is a good one. I hope the zero and the greenies didn't make them fill the rocket up with ethynol and sunshine.

128 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:14:16pm

re: #127 Soona'

Powdered aluminum & synthetic rubber in the solid boosters I believe.

129 UncleRancher  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:14:17pm

Not related to anything--

HYPNOTIST AT THE SENIOR CENTER
It was entertainment night at the Lufkin, Texas Senior Center and over 300 seniors came to see the show.

Claude the hypnotist exclaimed: 'I'm here to put you into a trance; I intend to hypnotize each and every Member of the audience.

The excitement was almost electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch from his coat. 'I want you each to keep your eye on this antique watch. It's a very special watch. It's been in my family for six generations.’

He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly chanting, 'Watch the watch, watch the watch, and watch the watch...'

The crowd became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light gleaming off its polished surface.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until, suddenly, it slipped from the Hypnotist's' fingers and fell to the floor, breaking into a hundred pieces.

'SHIT!' said the Hypnotist.

It took three days to clean up the Senior Center.

130 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:14:36pm

re: #126 Mich-again

Will Ward Churchill show up?

He was at the event. He'd never come on The O'Reilly Factor because Bill would call him out as the terrorist sympathizer he is.

131 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:15:06pm

NASA: Wednesday night shuttle launch is official

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – It's official: NASA has finally settled on a Wednesday night launch for space shuttle Discovery.

The flight to the international space station was originally set for mid-February, but was delayed four times because of concern over critical shuttle valves. On Friday, senior NASA managers meeting at Kennedy Space Center put the valve issue to rest for Discovery and cleared the shuttle for flight.

Seven astronauts will ride Discovery into orbit, taking with them one final set of solar wings for the space station.

132 Gus  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:15:51pm

8:30 EST p.m. - Kepler Mission Launch Coverage (launch is scheduled for 10:49 p.m ET.) - KSC (All Channels)

133 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:16:12pm

My father was a ball gunner on a B-24J Liberator bomber in the Pacific during WW2.

My father said that the last B-24 in flying condition was going to be at a little airshow nearby, and he wanted to go see it. Would I take him?

[Link: sippicancottage.blogspot.com...]

Nice story

134 Soona'  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:16:45pm

Have a good weekend, everyone. I'm gone.

135 Mich-again  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:17:33pm

Oh re: #117 Dark_Falcon

Churchill said he was battling the university "not for myself but for the possibility of younger generations to hear what they have a right to hear, which is their teachers' version of the truth."

How much do you want to pay per credit hour for your son or daughter to hear Ward Churchill's version of the truth.

136 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:19:14pm

Space exploration is so worth doing.

IMHO

Watching for planets beats watching Oprah, reading People magazine &c.

Awe vs. quasi lobotomies.

oh well

137 whiterasta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:19:28pm

re: #133 Nevergiveup

That was your father?

Thanks for a very touching story. I read that a few days ago, here.

May G-d bless him and keep him.

138 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:20:08pm

re: #135 Mich-again

Oh


How much do you want to pay per credit hour for your son or daughter to hear Ward Churchill's version of the truth.

I wouldn't want them to be paid to listen to him, let alone pay for the privilege.

139 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:20:11pm

re: #135 Mich-again

Oh


How much do you want THE GOVERMENTto pay per credit hour for your son or daughter to hear Ward Churchill's version of the truth.

Fixed that for you. You forgot who our President is.

140 UncleRancher  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:21:50pm

re: #133 Nevergiveup

Thank God for people like your father and what a nice adventure for him.

141 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:21:51pm

re: #133 Nevergiveup

My father was a ball gunner on a B-24J Liberator bomber in the Pacific during WW2.

My father said that the last B-24 in flying condition was going to be at a little airshow nearby, and he wanted to go see it. Would I take him?

[Link: sippicancottage.blogspot.com...]

Nice story

Down came the hands. No one needed to be told who that man was, or why he was there. Everyone behind paused to wait patiently and respectfully, and everyone within reach helped me pick that old, frail, brave man up to look on the nuts and bolts of that totem of his distant life. And they thanked him, and they asked him questions, and marveled at him. A Brigadier General and a sailor and a J.A.G. and Vietnam vets by the handful pressed his hand for the piquant residue of that life that might be on it.

I'm crying.......

142 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:22:07pm

re: #135 Mich-again

Oh

How much do you want to pay per credit hour for your son or daughter to hear Ward Churchill's version of the truth.

Not one red cent. Chief Dances-With-Facts (as Dennis Miller refers to Churchill) not worth a wooden nickle.

143 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:22:31pm

re: #137 whiterasta

That was your father?

Thanks for a very touching story. I read that a few days ago, here.

May G-d bless him and keep him.

No not my father. Just a story from an article on ace's site. My dad was a grunt on the ground.

144 Digital Display  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:23:13pm

Hey all you lizards that love basketball..
Cavs vs Celtics tonight..so far a great game

145 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:23:32pm
146 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:23:48pm

The advantages of being a woman......
1. We got off the Titanic first.
2. We can scare male bosses with mysterious gynaecological disorder excuses.
3. We can be groupies. Male groupies are stalkers.
4. We can cry and get off speeding fines.
5. We’ve never lusted after a cartoon character or the central figure in a computer game.
6. Taxis stop for us.
7. We don’t look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
8. Free drinks, Free dinners, Free movies (you get the point).
9. New lipstick gives us a whole new lease on life.
10. No fashion faux pas we make could ever rival The Speedo.
11. We don’t have to fart to amuse ourselves.
12. If we forget to shave, no one has to know.
13. We can congratulate our team-mate without ever touching her butt.
14. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there.
15. If we’re dumb, some people will find it cute.
16. We have the ability to dress ourselves.
17. We can talk to people of the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.
18. If we marry someone 20 years younger, we’re aware that we look like an idiot.
19. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.
20. We’ll never regret piercing our ears.
21. We can fully assess a person just by looking at their shoes.
22. We’ll never discover we’ve been duped by a Wonderbra.

147 CLLRusso  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:23:55pm

Why are the Japanese now looking at going to the moon when there are Godzilla movies yet to be made? Actually I haven't seen a good monster film in just ages. They were somehow so innocent and I love them.

Zombie, your Japanese Nazi Coke toy is just great! Could be a featured player in a new monster film, without the swazzies, (don't want to look up how to spell that). Couldn't be that politically incorrect.

148 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:24:36pm

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

Not one red cent. Chief Dances-With-Facts (as Dennis Miller refers to Churchill) not worth a wooden nickle.

Damnm and I was looking forward to seeing Churchell in his off the rack Sittingbull outfit...

/S

149 UncleRancher  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:25:35pm

re: #135 Mich-again

Oh

How much do you want to pay per credit hour for your son or daughter to hear Ward Churchill's version of the truth.

I would go for $10,000 payable to me in cash and in advance with no restrictions on my remaining silent during the performance. Not one penny less.

150 oh_dude  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:26:08pm

re: #144 HoosierHoops

My favorite team is the Lakers and anybody who beats the Celtics.

151 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:26:24pm
152 whiterasta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:26:50pm

re: #143 Nevergiveup

A great story, all the same.

All those old guys are part of the "Greatest Generation."

A generation that will never be equaled, whether they were Grunts or Generals.

153 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:26:51pm

THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING A MAN......
1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
2. You know stuff about tanks.
3. A five day holiday requires only one suitcase.
4. Saturday Night Football.
5. Your bathroom queues are 80% shorter.
6. You can open all your own jars.
7. Old friends don't annoy you if you've lost or gained weight.
8. Dry cleaners and hairdressers don't rob you blind.
9. When clicking through the channels you don't have to stall on every shot of someone crying.
10. A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
11. You can wear a white shirt to a water park.
12. You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.
13. You can go to the bathroom without a support group.
14. Your last name stays put.
15. You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
16. When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
17. You can kill your own food.
18. The garage is all yours.
19. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
20. You see the humour in Terms of Endearment.

154 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:27:06pm

re: #25 screaming_eagle

Do the Japs think they are showing off putting a robot on the moon? I mean George Soros put a robot in the White House. So what's the big deal.

"eagle" -

Good Call. That is all. Truthfully, Japan should be aiming at Mars - The Planet we abandoned when "Earth Days" began.

-S-

155 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:27:25pm

re: #152 whiterasta

We will equal them again when the need arises you may be sure.

156 Digital Display  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:27:50pm

re: #150 oh_dude

My favorite team is the Lakers and anybody who beats the Celtics.

I grew up in California...My favorite team is the Warriors..But I love balling

157 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:28:02pm

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina mother who reported for Army duty with her two young children said Friday she is happy and relieved that the military granted her an honorable discharge.

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

Good for her. She served honorably.

158 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:29:02pm

A serious post--my last one was pretty silly. Intentionally. Long week.

My grandfather , who died when I was a teenager, was also on the ground, in the Pacific Theater, in WWII. He had some experiences there that left him with problems with the Japanese. I found out about this years later, as an adult.

On my LDS mission, I had several companions who were Japanese. We got along great. After I found out about my grandfather's experiences, and his feelings, I was grateful to him for not feeling the need to pass those on, to perpetuate some need for tribal hatred, like some cultures do.

159 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:29:58pm

re: #154 Dr. Shalit

"eagle" -

Good Call. That is all. Truthfully, Japan should be aiming at Mars - The Planet we abandoned when "Earth Days" began.

-S-

Diet Pepsi on Mars...


Youtube Video
160 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:30:31pm

re: #153 Racer X

Racer X -

#17 is WRONG-O! - See - Gov. Sarah Palin. Men and women are "Equal" - NOT - "Congruent." That is all.

-S-

161 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:30:33pm

re: #155 Ojoe

We will equal them again when the need arises you may be sure.

Maybe, but with Obama cutting the shit out of the defense budget, what will we fight with?

162 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:30:36pm

Do not also forget that the greatest generation raised the boomers.

163 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:31:12pm

re: #158 EmmmieG

A serious post--my last one was pretty silly. Intentionally. Long week.

My grandfather , who died when I was a teenager, was also on the ground, in the Pacific Theater, in WWII. He had some experiences there that left him with problems with the Japanese. I found out about this years later, as an adult.

On my LDS mission, I had several companions who were Japanese. We got along great. After I found out about my grandfather's experiences, and his feelings, I was grateful to him for not feeling the need to pass those on, to perpetuate some need for tribal hatred, like some cultures do.

Your grandfather sounds like a wise man. He had cause for his feelings about the Japanese. But was wise enough not to pass them on.

164 Gus  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:31:13pm

OK, the Kepler launch coverage is on.

109 minutes!

165 UncleRancher  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:31:40pm

It's been fun --Gotta run.

166 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:02pm

re: #161 Nevergiveup

We'll ramp things up almost too late like Britain in WW2, I think. I hope I am wrong.

167 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:03pm

re: #160 Dr. Shalit

I stand corrected.

;-)

168 zombie  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:08pm

Every couple of months or so, I round up the most entertaining emails I receive at the Mohammed Image Archive and post them on the "Emails From Readers" page.

For your amusement, here are a few I'm just uploading now:
(Note: The first one was in inch-tall fire-engine red letters):

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From: A, Hussain (Halifax, U.K.)
Subject: STOP

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!?!?!?!?!
 YOU Know if i report this site i could take you to court!
NO....ACCTUALLY I'LL PUT IT UP ON MEDIA SO THE WHOLE MUSLIM COMMUNITY AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD CAN SEE IT!

YOU KNOW THIS IS RACIST TO THE ISLAMIC MUSLIM COMMUNITY

YOU HAVE 5 DAYS TO DELETE THIS SITE BEFORE I REPORT YOU TO THE MEDIA AND THE POLICE!

DELETE THESE PAGES BEFORE I ROPRT YOU TO THE POLICE AND THE MEDIA

AND THATS A PROMISE

5 DAYS!

REMEMBER I'M WATCHING YOU!

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From: R. Septyawan (Indonesia)
Subject: go to hell

dear hell man
i hope you erase all of your false picture. Cause every picture are false, even the picture from persian(it from sect syiah who derived from jews and they are syirik)

you say freedom of expression but we all know that freedom has limitation. Respect other people, it's forbidden to draw picture Rasulullah SAW. i don't know what your purpose to post that picture, but all i know is you are kafir and stay in hell forever if you don't taubat.

Freedom in expression, i think it same with any some terorrist guy who bombing around. i don't agree with them, they false and get prohibited by many muslim teacher cause they translate verse in Qur'an especially about jihad wrong, without knowledge and stupidity. But i'm agree if they bombing your place or everyone who draw that picture.

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From: MEHMET ALI G. (Turkey)
Subject: you are just a bastard:@

why are you doing like this? you cant blaspheme Mohammed (sav) and Islam...you have to be considerate to all holy relicions..I may be Moslem but I never revile all beliefs....but you have to be sure ...one day you will be so contrite....ALLAH will show you real pain...ahmet f.k:@

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From: Najat F. (Morocco)
Subject: Gulp down your steaming shit; it'll turn on you!

The depictions I have for you will better serve to depict your partial scatological ignorance of a great religion that has and is and will ever be spreading whether despicable narrow-minded biased and ill-informed blokes of your kind like it or not. Prophet Mohammed PBUH had you eyes that really see and ears that really hear and a mind that seeks the truth and probes the scientific facts embeded in the Koran, the thousands examples of humility, tolerance, peace and love and respect of the environment and the animals, all mentioned in Mohammed PBUH sayings, you would impartially get to understand how this illiterate man toppled the pagan despots of his time by simply rallying a bench of "bedwin" tribes around ISLAM, that is one God, one man and woman, one heart and one destiny. Here's just one reference, among thousands, for any sensible reasonable mind to read and know about Mohammed far from the excrement you tell and show: UNFOLDING ISLAM. Suffice it to say that this - but just 1 - book has been reprinted many times. So, please yourself in the worthless muck you wallow in, but remember and bear witness that you all SHALL RISE to answer for all your offences if you do not repent; just then we'll all see who would have the last laugh. Do your best then and keep up your extrata; it affects us nothing. Truth will prevail.

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From: Munyr M.

what the fuck are yall doing man? it is sinful to draw pictures of The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). can u please take the pictures down?

169 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:11pm

re: #162 Ojoe

Do not also forget that the greatest generation raised the boomers.

I'm thankful to be a member of what's called the Silent Generation.

170 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:15pm

re: #158 EmmmieG

I know what you mean. My uncle was killed in Europe, WWII. When I was a teenager, I brought home a Germand girlfriend. My mom was not thrilled, but she stiffled it and for the 2 years I dated the girl, my mom was a gracious as can be. It was only afterwards she told me what she was holding back. She knew it was "wrong", but it's what she felt.

171 whiterasta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:51pm

re: #162 Ojoe

And the Boomers raised the present POS, selfish morons who are now running the country....

(Sigh)

172 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:32:57pm

A snippet from my all-time favorite of these email "men/women" lists:

How to tell when you have estrogen issues:

Your husband is suddenly agreeing with everything you say.

173 Buster Bunny  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:33:56pm

re: #168 zombie

You know zombie .. with all those mails .. you are probably bringing it to their attention.

Watch them seethe.

174 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:34:18pm

re: #168 zombie

That last one DID say "please".

175 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:34:27pm

re: #168 zombie


Boy, are they going to be disappointed when they find out you don't live in a country where they can take you to court for having opinions.

176 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:34:36pm

re: #166 Ojoe

We'll ramp things up almost too late like Britain in WW2, I think. I hope I am wrong.

Except when the shit hits the fan, GM and Chrysler will be out of business and probably half of our military industrial complex. I am afraid all we will producing is socialism?

177 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:34:37pm

re: #168 zombie

From: Munyr M.

what the fuck are yall doing man? it is sinful to draw pictures of The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). can u please take the pictures down?

Well, since you asked so nicely.....

178 Taqyia2Me  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:34:52pm

re: #168 zombie

Every bit as "thick" skinned as your garden variety liberal, them emailers!

179 whiterasta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:35:17pm

re: #174 pre-Boomer Marine brat

But he meant: "I keel you!"

180 Gus  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:35:18pm

NASA Television - Delta II/KSC Keplar Launch

Real Player

Windows Media Player

Quicktime

181 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:35:45pm

re: #172 EmmmieG

A snippet from my all-time favorite of these email "men/women" lists:

How to tell when you have estrogen issues:

Your husband is suddenly agreeing with everything you say.

Do you Dustyvet take this women...to have, ETC.

Dustyvet: I do.

MS. Dustyvet: Oh no you don't!


/S

182 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:35:52pm
183 CapeCoddah  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:36:17pm

re: #168 zombie

Nice Friends Zombie! Jackasses.

184 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:36:23pm

Hmmm.... what to invest in.....

185 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:36:47pm

re: #168 zombie

NO....ACCTUALLY I'LL PUT IT UP ON MEDIA SO THE WHOLE MUSLIM COMMUNITY AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD CAN SEE IT!

Uh, isn't that why it's posted on a website already?

Thanks for sharing, zombie!

186 Buster Bunny  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:37:22pm

To anyone who tries to read my new latin on my profile pic .. its meant to be this

EGO ago pro fructus vas pro meus parum vetus era

I eat from the fruit vessel for my little old mistress

Yes .. its littleoldladys fruit cup .. in Latin.

187 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:37:34pm

re: #168 zombie

How lovely.

Have you read Orhap Armuk's "My Name is Red" ? The novel contains a facinating discussion of painting and portraiture in Islam. The topic is not so clear cut as your scatalogical pen-pals assume.

188 zombie  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:38:00pm

re: #175 EmmmieG

Boy, are they going to be disappointed when they find out you don't live in a country where they can take you to court for having opinions.

Not yet at least.

When Obama lets the UN have its way -- I may find myself on the witness stand after all!

189 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:38:17pm

re: #187 Kenneth

Orhan Pamuk, that is.

190 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:38:36pm

re: #170 Kenneth

I know what you mean. My uncle was killed in Europe, WWII. When I was a teenager, I brought home a Germand girlfriend. My mom was not thrilled, but she stiffled it and for the 2 years I dated the girl, my mom was a gracious as can be. It was only afterwards she told me what she was holding back. She knew it was "wrong", but it's what she felt.

We are jewish and one of my dad's cousin went to West Point and while on duty in Germany met a german girl and married her. Well you can imagine how his family reacted back here in the USA. My dad was one of the only relatives who supported him. I was young at the time , but I remember.

191 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:38:55pm

re: #188 zombie

Not the witness stand, the prisoner dock with the rest of us.

192 Steffan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:38:57pm

re: #168 zombie

Heh. Just as well you aren't in the UK... I have the sneaky feeling that the first one's threat might be valid there, considering the dhimmitude of the UK government....

As for the rest.... Islam is a race? I thought the OIC's latest gambit was to bar criticism of Islam as a religion.

Well. I'm glad I know better now.

/do I need to say it?

193 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:39:08pm
194 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:39:17pm

re: #190 Nevergiveup

Ouch.

195 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:39:17pm

re: #159 Dustyvet

Diet Pepsi on Mars...

[Video]

Dustyvet -

Amazingly, "Diet Pepsi" - the ORGINAL - with good old cyclamates - was BANNED at about the time "Earth Days" started. The RATS that got bladder cancer would have had to drink Gallons of the stuff per day to get the cancer. which they did under lab conditions by drinking concentrates - might have been the origin of JUNK SCIENCE - continuing to this day. Knowing something - As I Do - about Pharmaceuticals, the answer is - Dosage, Dosage, Dosage - as it is in Real Estate with Location, Location, Location. That is all.

-S-

196 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:39:18pm

re: #152 whiterasta

I beg to differ, whiterasta. The current generation is doing quite well at matching the Greatest Generation's achievements. I think you'll find a lot of those old vets will agree with me.

197 Buster Bunny  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:40:11pm

re: #187 Kenneth

How lovely.

Have you read Orhap Armuk's "My Name is Red" ? The novel contains a facinating discussion of painting and portraiture in Islam. The topic is not so clear cut as your scatalogical pen-pals assume.

There are a lot of artists from Iran that have been presenting their work in London that suffer anonymity because if they were found out, they would be prosecuted in Iran for God-knows-what. The point is .. despite the show of force, there are people there that just want to get on with life.

198 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:40:29pm

Ok, I'm a grown man, but I may just start playing with
Dolls.

199 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:41:09pm

re: #193 Iron Fist

You know, you should have given A (for asshole) Hussein a two word response: "Bring it!"

Or a little more colorfully, you could have invited him to bring it after he was through giving his favorite goat a good-bye fuck.

LOL!

200 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:41:11pm

re: #196 ConservatismNow!

I beg to differ, whiterasta. The current generation is doing quite well at matching the Greatest Generation's achievements. I think you'll find a lot of those old vets will agree with me.

Well Hollywood certainly ain't matching it's ancestors patriotism!

201 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:41:37pm

re: #195 Dr. Shalit

Dustyvet -

Amazingly, "Diet Pepsi" - the ORGINAL - with good old cyclamates - was BANNED at about the time "Earth Days" started. The RATS that got bladder cancer would have had to drink Gallons of the stuff per day to get the cancer. which they did under lab conditions by drinking concentrates - might have been the origin of JUNK SCIENCE - continuing to this day. Knowing something - As I Do - about Pharmaceuticals, the answer is - Dosage, Dosage, Dosage - as it is in Real Estate with Location, Location, Location. That is all.

-S-

Okay, I just liked the ad because of the MARS Rover up on cinder blocks...and the sound of air wrench's...:)

202 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:41:38pm

re: #191 Kenneth

Not the witness stand, the prisoner dock with the rest of us.

Camps in the S.W.........

203 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:41:51pm

re: #168 zombie

I love when you post the hate mail. It's funny that these so called muslims don't even know their own reilgious history.

204 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:42:37pm

re: #200 Nevergiveup

Well Hollywood certainly ain't matching it's ancestors patriotism!

I can't remember when hollywood was patriotic.

205 CLLRusso  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:42:48pm

re: #146 Racer X

Both of these lists are so funny. I sent them both to my kids. Thanks for the levity.

206 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:43:44pm

re: #195 Dr. Shalit

Dustyvet -

Amazingly, "Diet Pepsi" - the ORGINAL - with good old cyclamates - was BANNED at about the time "Earth Days" started. The RATS that got bladder cancer would have had to drink Gallons of the stuff per day to get the cancer. which they did under lab conditions by drinking concentrates - might have been the origin of JUNK SCIENCE - continuing to this day. Knowing something - As I Do - about Pharmaceuticals, the answer is - Dosage, Dosage, Dosage - as it is in Real Estate with Location, Location, Location. That is all.

-S-

ALAR was the same thing 20 years ago, wreaked the WA apple industry for a few years. To get an equivalent dosage as used in the study a person would have to consume 30,000 lbs of apples per day, or drink gallons of ALAR straight.

207 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:43:52pm

re: #202 jcm

Oh man, that was creepy. Before the election, I was having an email discussion about Obama & Ayres with a moonbat friend. He was fine with it, unitl I showed him that. It openned his eyes.

208 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:44:21pm

re: #201 Dustyvet

Okay, I just liked the ad because of the MARS Rover up on cinder blocks...and the sound of air wrench's...:)

Youtube Video
209 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:44:53pm

After the Americans went to the Moon, Leonid Brezhnev announced that the Soviets would be sending a man to the Sun.

The engineers objected. "If you send a man to the Sun, he will burn up!"

"What do you think I am, stupid?" he replied. "We'll send him at night!"

210 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:45:07pm

re: #168 zombie

Well, that struck a nerve! Good on you, Zomibe. Don't ever give in to those censorious bastards.

211 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:45:45pm

BBL

212 lostlakehiker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:45:51pm

re: #3 ConservatismNow!

Why would anyone want to go to the moon again? It's not made of green cheese like previously believed.

Let's say you wanted to build satellite solar power systems. You'd need a certain amount of raw materials to work with, and it would be prohibitively expensive to bring them all up from earth. An electonic rail gun, aka mass driver, could launch stuff from the moon. Since there's no atmosphere, you can just accelerate the thing laterally up to some sort of orbital velocity and there you have your raw materials.

To build this mass driver on the moon you'll need both humans and robots working there.

Why satellite solar power stations? No weather, 7/24 sunlight, microwave tight beam it down to a receiving station on earth, anywhere you like. No need of long transmission lines.

Maybe it can be done, and maybe it can't. Japan doesn't have Arizona to play with if it wants a lot of solar power. But nobody owns space. They seem to think it's worth looking into.

213 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:46:25pm

What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter?
Moon pi.

214 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:47:18pm

Computer buying with Abbott & Costello.......

COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO : Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking
about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO : No, the name's Lou .

ABBOTT : Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

ABBOTT : Mac?

COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou .

ABBOTT : What about Windows?

COSTELLO : Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

ABBOTT : Do you want a computer with Windows?

COSTELLO : I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?

ABBOTT : Wallpaper.

COSTELLO : Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

ABBOTT : Software for Windows?

COSTELLO : No. On the computer! I need something I can use to
write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?

ABBOTT : Office.

COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

ABBOTT : I just did.

COSTELLO : You just did what?

ABBOTT : Recommend something.

COSTELLO : You recommended something ?

ABBOTT : Yes.

COSTELLO : For my office?

ABBOTT : Yes.

COSTELLO : OK, what did you recommend for my office?

ABBOTT : Office.

COSTELLO : Yes, for my office!

ABBOTT : I recommend Office with Windows.

COSTELLO : I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm
sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

ABBOTT : Word.

COSTELLO : What word?

ABBOTT : Word in Office.

COSTELLO : The only word in office is office.

ABBOTT : The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO : Which word in office for windows?

ABBOTT : The Word you get when you click the blue 'W'.

COSTELLO : I'm going to click your blue 'w' if you don't start with some
straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything
I can track my money with?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO : That's right. What do you have?

ABBOTT : Money.

COSTELLO : I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT : It comes bundled with your computer.

COSTELLO : What's bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT : Money.

COSTELLO : Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT : Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO : I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

ABBOTT : One copy.

COSTELLO : Isn't it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT : Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO : They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT : Why not? THEY OWN IT!

(A few days later)

ABBOTT : Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO : How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT : Click on 'START'..............

215 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:47:50pm

re: #158 EmmmieG

A serious post--my last one was pretty silly. Intentionally. Long week.

My grandfather , who died when I was a teenager, was also on the ground, in the Pacific Theater, in WWII. He had some experiences there that left him with problems with the Japanese. I found out about this years later, as an adult.

On my LDS mission, I had several companions who were Japanese. We got along great. After I found out about my grandfather's experiences, and his feelings, I was grateful to him for not feeling the need to pass those on, to perpetuate some need for tribal hatred, like some cultures do.

The WWII-era Japanese military culture was so extremely brutal, it's no wonder people who served in the PT came back with feelings like your grandfather did.

My dad was sort of an exception to this. He was on Iwo Jima, and he came home with tremendous respect for the Japanese. In fact, I didn't really learn about Japanese atrocities in WWII until the 1990s, when I started to study things that happened on Iwo and in the PT. He never said a word about it, either. I've been trying to understand why he felt this way (he passed away in 1996, so I cannot ask him), and all I can come up with is that he was a corpsman and I don't think he saw anything especially unusual in the course of performing his duties; he had friends and a cousin killed there, but it was from mortar and machine gun fire, not anything torturous as the Japanese were known for.

Amazing how the culture and its image has been transformed. And thank goodness.

216 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:48:43pm

re: #212 lostlakehiker

Let's say you wanted to build satellite solar power systems. You'd need a certain amount of raw materials to work with, and it would be prohibitively expensive to bring them all up from earth. An electonic rail gun, aka mass driver, could launch stuff from the moon. Since there's no atmosphere, you can just accelerate the thing laterally up to some sort of orbital velocity and there you have your raw materials.

To build this mass driver on the moon you'll need both humans and robots working there.

Why satellite solar power stations? No weather, 7/24 sunlight, microwave tight beam it down to a receiving station on earth, anywhere you like. No need of long transmission lines.

Maybe it can be done, and maybe it can't. Japan doesn't have Arizona to play with if it wants a lot of solar power. But nobody owns space. They seem to think it's worth looking into.

Till one of the robots who's job it is, is to watch the power beams back to earth screws up and it roast a bunch of stuff......
--Asimov, I, Robot.

217 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:49:11pm

Gotta head home. See all you lizards later........

218 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:52:13pm

re: #197 Buster Bunny

There are a lot of artists from Iran that have been presenting their work in London that suffer anonymity because if they were found out, they would be prosecuted in Iran for God-knows-what. The point is .. despite the show of force, there are people there that just want to get on with life.

Buster Bunny -

PERSIA not the "so called Iran" is an ancient nation with many talented people. Was "Then" - is NOW. Without the "Islamic Yoke" put on the nation in 1979, Nuclear Generated Electricity there would be a FACT - not a subterfuge to build a Thermo-Nuclear Bomb. Thank you Former President James Earl Carter III, and others, for Less Than Nothing
in allowing this to happen. Not sure about "abu Mika" in this one. At least he got it right in Afghanistan.

-S-

219 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:53:38pm

re: #206 jcm

ALAR was the same thing 20 years ago, wreaked the WA apple industry for a few years. To get an equivalent dosage as used in the study a person would have to consume 30,000 lbs of apples per day, or drink gallons of ALAR straight.

jcm -

Bet all 'y'all remember the NBC exploding Chevy Truck as well!

-S-

220 stuiec  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:55:40pm

re: #212 lostlakehiker

Or, you could put the solar collectors on the Moon and beam the power back to the satellite array.

221 Racer X  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:55:52pm

Top Ten Country Western Songs.....
10. I Hate Every Bone In Her Body But Mine
9. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With an Ugly Woman But I've Woke Up With a Few
8. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me
7. I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'
6. Wouldn't Take Her To A Dogfight 'Cause I'm Scared She'd Win
5. I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like You're Still Here
4. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Miss Him
3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger
2. She Gets Better Lookin' with Every Beer

And the Number One Country & Western song is...
1. It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day

222 irongrampa  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:56:50pm

re: #196 ConservatismNow!

This vet agrees. I'm a bit more current than the WW2 guys, but I firmly believe these young men and women ARE our Greatest Generation.

223 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:59:47pm

re: #221 Racer X

I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'

should be #1

224 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:01:51pm

re: #222 irongrampa

This vet agrees. I'm a bit more current than the WW2 guys, but I firmly believe these young men and women ARE our Greatest Generation.

WWI (one living American veteran, Frank Woodruff Buckles)
WWII
Korea
Vietnam
GWI
Kosovo
Somalia
Iraq
Afghanistan
All the little unknown battles of the GWoT.

All Great. Everyone.

225 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:02:03pm

re: #221 Racer X

Top Ten Country Western Songs.....
10. I Hate Every Bone In Her Body But Mine
9. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With an Ugly Woman But I've Woke Up With a Few
8. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me
7. I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'
6. Wouldn't Take Her To A Dogfight 'Cause I'm Scared She'd Win
5. I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like You're Still Here
4. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Miss Him
3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger
2. She Gets Better Lookin' with Every Beer

And the Number One Country & Western song is...
1. It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day

Of course, She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft is a REAL song, but it fits.

226 wiffersnapper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:02:13pm

The Moon: Been there done that

227 stuiec  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:03:05pm

re: #73 EmmmieG

Could we put Godzilla on Mars, and the robot, too, and let them fight it out? Pay-per-view would be awesome.

Seriously, or as seriously as I get on a Friday afternoon (West Coast), I've determined that I never want to live in a big city again, because when the superheroes battle the evil villain mega-robots/aliens/bugs, they always wipe out the cities. You never see the suburbs getting chewed up, with asphalt flying, and buildings being crumpled like a dixie cup when some invincible dude gets thrown straight into it. Just wouldn't work with a strip mall.

Gotta think carefully about the future.

It's elementary. Consider how many split-level ranchers you have to scrape up to get the same protein content as a modest skyscraper, or even subway car... plus, the subway cars are about as easy to use as a box of Tic-Tacs. Just open one end and shake!

228 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:04:59pm

re: #226 wiffersnapper

The Moon: Been there done that

wiffersnapper-

True - AND - we didn't go further - WHY PRAY TELL?

-S-

229 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:06:05pm

re: #224 jcm

WWI (one living American veteran, Frank Woodruff Buckles)
WWII
Korea
Vietnam
PANAMA
GWI
Kosovo
Somalia
Iraq
Afghanistan
All the little unknown battles of the GWoT.

All Great. Everyone.

Which is what started the no photos of military caskets. The media showed a split screen of the first Bush briefing and a casket being unload at Dover at the same time. Bush then declared the ban during Desert Storm. W only re-inforced it.

230 whiterasta  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:09:21pm

re: #196 ConservatismNow!

I surely hope you are correct....

231 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:11:16pm

If anybody would like a copy of the essay by Cloward & Pivet, click my blue nic and I will send you the essay. 9 pages pdf file.

This is the seminal document about the strategy of community organizers to overload the system with the intention of causing it to collapse & cause a crisis. The crises then becomes an opportunity to force political change.

AKA: the Obama admin policy book.

232 lostlakehiker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:11:29pm

re: #216 jcm

Till one of the robots who's job it is, is to watch the power beams back to earth screws up and it roast a bunch of stuff......
--Asimov, I, Robot.

Robots, if you postulate superhuman intelligence, can be a danger with or without satellite solar power.

The microwave beam would not be intense enough to roast anything. Less flux than raw sunlight.

233 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:13:39pm

re: #229 screaming_eagle

Which is what started the no photos of military caskets. The media showed a split screen of the first Bush briefing and a casket being unload at Dover at the same time. Bush then declared the ban during Desert Storm. W only re-inforced it.

Forget Grenada, Beirut... all the little actions....

FMSM! Wanker Crankcase. Feb. 27, 1968. Bastard.

234 Dr. Shalit  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:14:07pm

re: #229 screaming_eagle

Which is what started the no photos of military caskets. The media showed a split screen of the first Bush briefing and a casket being unload at Dover at the same time. Bush then declared the ban during Desert Storm. W only re-inforced it.

Eagle -

Of course - the MSM shows caskets to BASH a President, not to show Honor to the Soldier who gave the Last Full Measure. You forgot one other FACT.
Bush 41 started "the ban" - Pres. William J. Clinton Continued it - Wonder Why?

-S-

235 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:14:32pm

re: #232 lostlakehiker

Robots, if you postulate superhuman intelligence, can be a danger with or without satellite solar power.

The microwave beam would not be intense enough to roast anything. Less flux than raw sunlight.

Don't harsh my Asimov buzz man!
/;-P

236 DisgustingOratory  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:15:58pm

Screw the moon! Japan needs to make giant mechanized suits and either huge swords or huge guns.

237 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:16:55pm

re: #233 jcm

Yes those as well. There's a reason Operation Just Cause sticks in my mind though.

238 Claire  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:17:00pm

Wait- I thought we were going back to the moon in the ORION vehicle? No?

239 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:17:51pm

re: #228 Dr. Shalit

wiffersnapper-

True - AND - we didn't go further - WHY PRAY TELL?

-S-

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

240 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:18:56pm

re: #233 jcm

Forget Grenada, Beirut... all the little actions....

FMSM! Wanker Crankcase. Feb. 27, 1968. Bastard.

The untimely death of the very short-lived "fair observer" media.

241 screaming_eagle  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:19:12pm

re: #234 Dr. Shalit

Eagle -

Of course - the MSM shows caskets to BASH a President, not to show Honor to the Soldier who gave the Last Full Measure. You forgot one other FACT.
Bush 41 started "the ban" - Pres. William J. Clinton Continued it - Wonder Why?

-S-

Yes W's only reinforced it. He just reminded the press of it. The MSM only say Bush started it. Trickery on their part.

242 lifeofthemind  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:25:20pm

Moon can't turn Japanese, he's Korean and they don't like each other.

243 anubis_soundwave  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:38:33pm

re: #236 DisgustingOratory

Screw the moon! Japan needs to make giant mechanized suits and either huge swords or huge guns.

It's a GUNDAM! Next they'll be building space colonies ruled by the Duchy of Zeon.

/I got my GUNDAM series confused, I'm sure.

244 Eclectic Infidel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:08:26pm

re: #2 Sharmuta

An Asian space race- this should be interesting.

And 0bama wants to gut our space agency. Sad.

I know! Our nation should be setting goals of lunar colonization in the next decade. We've diddled around far too long on this rock of a planet, it's time to venture forth, into...the unexplored country.

245 Dar ul Harb  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:19:27pm

The guys on the NASA feed were just discussing the myth that NASA just "launches taxpayer money into space." Most all the money, they said is spent on salaries for engineers and other NASA employees here on Earth.

It's really a shame they feel they have to be defensive about what they do.

T-minus 15 minutes and holding for the Kepler launch. Hold will be over in another 8 min, they said.

246 Alberta Oil Peon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:22:58pm

re: #221 Racer X

Top Ten Country Western Songs.....
10. I Hate Every Bone In Her Body But Mine
9. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With an Ugly Woman But I've Woke Up With a Few
8. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me
7. I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'
6. Wouldn't Take Her To A Dogfight 'Cause I'm Scared She'd Win
5. I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like You're Still Here
4. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Miss Him
3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger
2. She Gets Better Lookin' with Every Beer

And the Number One Country & Western song is...
1. It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day

You know that last one actually is a real country song. I heard it on the radio last weekend. Needless to say, the band is noted for doing send-ups of "straight" country tunes.

247 Caboose  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:35:27pm

A classic rock tune from Sopwith Camel's album "THE MIRACULOUS HUMP RETURNS FROM THE MOON"

MONKEYS ON THE MOON

(Kraemer, MacNeil)

The archangel's sleeping.
The devil is weeping.
The heavenly host
is white as a ghost.

The old man himself is
mad as a loon
'cause all his kids are
singing a tune.
Look out pa!
There's monkeys on the moon!

Monkeys on the moon.
Monkeys on the moon.
See how they bounce from
dune to dune
Came a long way in a gold
cocoon.
All the way from a green
balloon.
Just to plant flags for the big
baboon.
Look out pa!
There's monkeys on the moon!

Saturn is blinking.
Jupiter's winking.
And old Sol's thinking.
His system is sinking.
But who's to say if it's
bad or a boon.
When all the kids are singing
a tune.
Look out pa!
There's monkeys on the moon!

Used to be so peaceful in space.
Now there's hot-rods all over the place.
And old Lady Moon, in her silvery grace
now has these words tattooed
on her face.
Better get ready! It's coming soon!
Look out pa!
There's monkeys on the moon!

Long time from now
in a place very far.
In the court of a castle
on a star.
A mad jester tunes
his fiery guitar.
And with a grin he says
to the Czar:
I'm gonna sing you a
ancient tune.
"Look out pa!
There's monkeys on the moon!"

Monkeys on the moon.
Monkeys on the moon.
See how they bounce from
dune to dune.
Came a long way in a gold
cocoon.
All the way from a green
balloon.
Just to plant flags for the big
baboon.
Look out pa!
There's monkeys on the moon!

©1973 Great Honesty Music, Inc. (BMI)

(Buy a copy of the CD here!)

248 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:37:36pm
249 Caboose  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 8:14:28pm

re: #248 Iron Fist

Fist, the Japanese bought Hiroshima and Nagasaki with alot more than just those two. After the Doolittle Raid, when the Japanese got wind of the Chinese helping in the effort, something to the effect of 250,000 Chinese were slaughtered because of this. And don't forget the rape of Nanking, where Japanese troops used Chinese babies for bayonet practice. The nation of Japan is still deep in debt for the atrocities that they inflicted on the areas that they occupied. But they refuse to own up to it. Bastards.

We saved millions of lives, both Japanese and Allied, by dropping the bombs. Many of us alive today would not be here otherwise, since our fathers would have died in the taking of Japan. Thank G*d for the Bomb, indeed. (You are an ignorant fool if you think otherwise. Think about it, o foolish one, maybe YOU wouldn't be here if it wasn't for those two bombs. Your father would have died in the invasion and YOU wouldn't be here.)

I have been in the bomb bays of both the Enola Gay (when it was being restored in Suitland MD before going to the Smithsonian) and Bock's Car at Wright-Patterson AFB; while both were just a bit creepy, it was ultimately being in a hallowed space, since out of the death that was dealt from there, much life was saved. On both sides. That seems to be forgotten by many.

My next door neighbors' father is well up into his 80's. He is a Marine that served in the Pacific, wielding a flamethrower. (Flamethrowers were always accompanied by at least two riflemen, since the Japanese knew that these guys were walking Death. Plus, I have to think that there was a certain humanitarian aspect to having someone that could put a flamethrower out of his agony if his tank was hit by a round...shudder). My neighbor tells me that his Dad told him that the Marines never had the opportunity to liberate a village or a town after the Japanese pulled out of it, since in every case, the Japanese massacred every living soul they could find when they retreated. Scorched earth, indeed. It has troubled this poor man to this day that they were never able to liberate anyone, like was done in the ETO. (Fortunately, this same neighbor is a priest and has done a lot to salve his father's anguish over this and what he had to do in the war.) I know this gentleman has not long to go and I hope that I might be able to be his pallbearer when he goes to his final peace.

"Listen to the old ones speak, of all they have been through..."

250 Seax  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 9:36:12pm

"Most all the money, they said is spent on salaries for engineers and other NASA employees here on Earth."
Ummm....OK.....
Was in a room and a question was asked of a person that I know who is a PHD in Nuclear Physics. The question ran like this...
"Ok so you're a nuclear physicts right?"
"Yes that is right."
"So why aren't you working for NASA?"
The person asked looked startled and burst out laughing.
"So exactly why aren't you working for NASA?"
"I don't work for NASA because their pay is shite."

251 So?  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:13:10pm

re: #1 jones

I thought the Japanese always traveled in big groups.

Only when they go to the Red Light districts like the one that used to be in Amerstdam.

252 bullskin  Sat, Mar 7, 2009 1:53:40am

re: #14 Sharmuta

ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA

I barely remember the monolith being a self copying machine made up by all wisdom and minds of a whole civilization dated eons ago. It also resembles God by this excerpt which recalls me another one:

"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it".

253 Mr Spiffy  Sat, Mar 7, 2009 8:47:25am

re: #125 CyanSnowHawk

Time for the commute home. If I don't get online for a while, have a good night lizards.

coincidence with the Keplar launch?
Something you're not telling us Snow Hawk?
LOL

254 Mr Spiffy  Sat, Mar 7, 2009 9:16:19am

re: #216 jcm

Till one of the robots who's job it is, is to watch the power beams back to earth screws up and it roast a bunch of stuff......
--Asimov, I, Robot.

Asimov wrote two stories covering this idea.
The first (which you cite) actually takes place on Earth, where a technician inadvertently orders a robot to construct a machine to transmit energy.
After a small argument the robot complies, the top of a mountain is sheared off, and after ordering the robot to forget everything, the tech skedaddles, leaving behind a useless robot who got the energy from 2 flashlight batteries.
In the other story, IA's robot repairmen confront a robot whose God-given mission it is to aim a particle beam to a certain location.

P.S. Robots will become household appliances when the improve the Asimo to version 5.

255 Alan K. Henderson  Mon, Mar 9, 2009 2:21:10pm

re: #159 Dustyvet

Diet Pepsi on Mars...

What do you have against Mars?

256 Alan K. Henderson  Mon, Mar 9, 2009 2:28:12pm

Ah, forgot to watch the Diet Pepsi video - different context than what I imagined...


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