Doesn't that mean they can't launch again for years and years?
No, the launch window goes into mid-February, IIRC. But it they launch it that late, they'll miss the chance for a gravity assist from Jupiter, which would add years to the mission.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2006 10:32:18 am PST #4836 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
brenda m - Jan 17, 2006 10:32:25 am PST #4837 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
You know, I might have to go see that after all.
Toddson - Jan 17, 2006 10:34:57 am PST #4838 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I laughed hysterically through the entire thing (I apologize to the two people on the other side of my friend who were very unhappy about my giggling). I laughed walking out with my friend and all the way to the bus stop. I had to duck into a doorway and try to catch my breath.
It opens with a black screen and the words "Britain - the dark ages". The entire theater laughed at that one. Also when Isolde took off her clothes the first time.
Scrappy - Jan 17, 2006 10:44:26 am PST #4839 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I sw that, Toddson, also at a screening. So laughable. I liked Sewell's performance and thought the girl had some moments, but the anachronisms and the flat clicheed dialogue were egregiously bad. As was James "One Expression" Franco.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2006 10:47:47 am PST #4840 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just read that they're trying again tomorrow to launch.
erikaj - Jan 17, 2006 10:48:05 am PST #4841 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
He's cute, but no master thespian at that.
Toddson - Jan 17, 2006 10:51:29 am PST #4842 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not even that cute - the black leather pants didn't do much for his hotness factor (imho).
billytea - Jan 17, 2006 10:57:20 am PST #4843 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Like the bird flu could eventually turn into a pandemic! . Not that we're in danger of a pandemic! mind you. Just that if the pathogen mutates in about ten specific ways, a pandemic! is possible. Not that we want you to worry or anything... Because it's no more likely than any other bug evolving and wiping out people. No, really, don't worry any more than usual.
But it's bird flu! We always knew it'd be the birds!
Vortex - Jan 17, 2006 10:57:58 am PST #4844 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
the black leather pants didn't do much for his hotness factor (imho).
see, that's just sad. black leather pants should give everyone a +5
Cass - Jan 17, 2006 11:00:22 am PST #4845 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
We always knew it'd be the birds!And Hitchcock knew it all along...
Next you'll be telling me that there's something twitchy about that nice boy that lives with his mother. Not that I've seen her for a while, come to think of it...
eta: context so that it was clear that Hitchcock's knowledge was avian and not how hot black leather pants should make you.