Friend's husband was a helicopter mechanic in the AF. Let's just say that they never ran out of work with those things. And he avoided flying in them as much as possible.
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'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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 - May 02, 2011 7:42:16 am PDT #6473 of 30001
Jessica - May 02, 2011 7:43:34 am PDT #6474 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Remind me again, why is that kind of thing OK?
Because it's an accident and liberals have no sense of humor. Or so I've been lead to believe.
le nubian - May 02, 2011 7:49:51 am PDT #6475 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
WH is debating whether to release photos of OBL in death.
Burrell - May 02, 2011 7:50:19 am PDT #6476 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Except if it's an accident it only happens the one time because you FIRE the eejit who failed to properly proofread the headline. Ugh. But yeah, I see your point.
Glamcookie - May 02, 2011 7:50:37 am PDT #6477 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I am a total lurker lately, but I just love coming here after an Event and getting tons of quotables from my Buffistae. Loves!
Zenkitty - May 02, 2011 7:57:24 am PDT #6478 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Even if they put bin Laden's head on a pike outside the WH, conspiracy theorists would still claim he was alive. It's his brother's/son's head! After all, do we really know what he looked like?! The crazy cannot be appeased.
Nora Deirdre - May 02, 2011 7:58:41 am PDT #6479 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
The crazy cannot be appeased.
See also: birthers.
tommyrot - May 02, 2011 7:59:54 am PDT #6480 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, microbes from Earth did not survive on the moon for two and a half years, as was commonly reported. Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved
On Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean made a precision landing on the lunar surface in Oceanus Procellarum, Latin for the Ocean of Storms. Their touchdown point was a mere 535 feet (163 meters) from the Surveyor 3 lander -- and an easy stroll to the hardware that had soft-landed on the lunar terrain years before, on April 20, 1967.
The Surveyor 3 camera was easy pickings and brought back to Earth under sterile conditions by the Apollo 12 crew. When scientists analyzed the parts in a clean room, they found evidence of microorganisms inside the camera.
In short, a small colony of common bacteria -- Streptococcus Mitis -- had stowed away on the device.
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"The claim that a microbe survived 2.5 years on the moon was flimsy, at best, even by the standards of the time," said John Rummel, chairman of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Panel on Planetary Protection. "The claim never passed peer review, yet has persisted in the press -- and on the Internet -- ever since." [Coolest New Moon Discoveries]
The Surveyor 3 camera-team thought they had detected a microbe that had lived on the moon for all those years, "but they only detected their own contamination," Rummel told SPACE.com.
Gudanov - May 02, 2011 8:00:27 am PDT #6481 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Jessica - May 02, 2011 8:01:06 am PDT #6482 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gud, your link is broken but considering where it's supposed to go I'm ok with that.