I'm offically mortgage applied.
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2009 6:08:04 am PDT #11265 of 30000
Sue - Mar 18, 2009 6:09:53 am PDT #11266 of 30000
hip deep in pie
You people are applying logic to these shows. Why can't you just accept them for their unintentional comedy value.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2009 6:10:23 am PDT #11267 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
History channel, Kathy. Last night they aired one on Krakatoa and a very dry desert whose name I forget.
Sigh. My Monday ER visit did break the back of that migraine, but I'd really like to feel well again, you know? Really pain-free. Pain management guy this morning. I am trying not to get tense about it beforehand. But the chances he actually discussed pain management with my migraine guy seem slim. I'm sure he'll want to do another procedure in a few weeks.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 6:13:21 am PDT #11268 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gud, I don't know if you're an SGU fan or not, but they did an interview with Yau-Man Chan a while back where they talked about ghost hunting shows and how absurd they are. (Yau-Man's day job is designing and building those kinds of scientific instruments, so he's able to go into hilarious detail about exactly how stupid it is to interpret a reading you don't understand on an instrument you don't know how to use as proof of paranormal activity.)
Gudanov - Mar 18, 2009 6:17:53 am PDT #11269 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I'm a regular SGU downloader, it's a good podcast.
sarameg - Mar 18, 2009 6:18:11 am PDT #11270 of 30000
ita, I hopepain management guy has talked to migraine guy.
Uhg, craziness at work.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2009 6:18:50 am PDT #11271 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
For that matter, I DO believe in UFOs -- that there are unexplained flying objects (or at least sky phenomenon) that are out there. I just don't believe they're aliens.
Yeah, I've seen a UFO, but my assumption is it was some kind of helicopter with an unfamiliar light pattern. As opposed to Tars Tarkas stopping by for a visit.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2009 6:19:57 am PDT #11272 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've seen a UFO, but my assumption is it was some kind of helicopter with an unfamiliar light pattern
That's just what the alien governments want you to think.
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2009 6:21:39 am PDT #11273 of 30000
brillig
All those fit young men sweating under the south Pacific sun. In and, if it was hot enough, maybe a little bit out of uniform. Mmmmmmm.
World War II as a vehicle for teh hot gay sex. Isn't there a whole genre of movies on this? And if not, why not?
About the only thing I miss about cable is Dirty Jobs and MythBusters.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2009 6:21:51 am PDT #11274 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Discovery's Surprise: Did Bat Hitch a Ride to Space?
I would tend to think if the bat didn't just let go, it would have lost its grip when the shuttle went supersonic, but....
The bat, seen clinging to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery before its launch on Sunday, apparently clung for dear life to the side of the tank as the spaceship lifted off.
And what a ride.
The shuttle accelerates to an orbital velocity of 17,500 milers per hour, which is 25 times faster than the speed of sound, in just over eight minutes. That's zero to 100 mph in 10 seconds.
Did it make it into space? No one knows yet. But photos of Discovery as it cleared the launch tower showed a tiny speck on the side of the tank. When those photos were blown up, it became apparent that the speck was a bat.
Flight director Paul Dye said no one has seen the bat since.
"I heard that it was clinging to the tank at liftoff, but I don't think anyone has seen it since," he said.
Launch controllers spotted the bat after it had clawed onto the foam of the external tank as Discovery stood at Cape Canaveral's Launch Pad 39A.