I've got tix to go see the landing (or really, just listening to people in the control room panic, I guess), but I have no friends so I have to go by myself. :(
I'd totally go with you!
Not sure if it's worth flying to LA, though.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
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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.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2012 12:51:03 pm PDT #10844 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.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2012 12:52:15 pm PDT #10845 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.
14 light minutes?! That's so far!
Why is that the part that is wigging me out?
The moon is about 2.5 light-seconds away. The sun is about 8 light-minutes away.
Does that help, or make it worse?
Allyson - Jun 22, 2012 12:52:21 pm PDT #10846 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
heh. There will be many JPLers there to hang with and it lands at some crazy time at night.
Pix - Jun 22, 2012 12:53:46 pm PDT #10847 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
ND is going to be SO jealous of you, Allyson! I am too, but he's a bigger space geek than I am. What an amazing experience!
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2012 12:57:06 pm PDT #10848 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, it's not animism. It's something I have filed next to furry (it encompasses people who think they're truly the elongated Smurfs from Avatar) but I can't get any closer than that in my brain.
-t - Jun 22, 2012 1:02:27 pm PDT #10849 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Otherkin?
Does that help, or make it worse?
No change, that's information I already had filed away. But it is the root of the wiggins, I think. Farther than the sun!
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2012 1:05:55 pm PDT #10850 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
THANK YOU, -t. That's precisely what my brain couldn't find.
(eta: all that for one word in one post I wanted to make--jesus overkill christ)
Tom Scola - Jun 22, 2012 1:39:14 pm PDT #10851 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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Ginger - Jun 22, 2012 1:59:34 pm PDT #10852 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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sarameg - Jun 22, 2012 2:30:48 pm PDT #10853 of 30001
When Lori first described the landing process few years ago, I just started laughing. Then I asked whose 9 year old came up with the design. Cause that's so something we would have come up with in legos around that age.
Going to be one tense mission control room that night.