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Britain's badger population.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Jimmy Hoffa wrapped in a newspaper.
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A penguin run over by a SnowCat[^]
A nun skydiving from a helicopter, in an updraft.
A skunk crossing a rifle range.
O.J. Simpson's last meeting with his ex-wife.
Michael Jackson petting a hungry pit bull.
A black FBI agent discovered - undercover - at a Klan rally.
Will Rogers never met me.
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[obscure reference]
South Africa after a 99.
speramus in juniperus
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A nun playing goalie for a darts team 
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Awesome! Where can I get a connection like that? 
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That was for the first byte. All subsequent ones were much slower.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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kmoorevs wrote:
Old DSL on a good day...6MB down/512MB up  - $114/mo*
Wow, and I dropped my ISP when they raised their rates from $20 to $25.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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That was the first thing my mind paused on too..
Excellent! So I'm not the only tight-arse here then. 
I pay $29 for 6.5 weeks of mobile phone and internet. Net is 5GB at 3.79Mbps, phone is good for 4 hours of 1 minute calls.
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I'd blow that net quota in 2 or 3 days. My monthly usage is 70-100GB down, and IIRC 5 or 10GB up.
I'm paying ~65/mo for 15/1.5 because I'm too lazy to call them up and switch to the 20/2 plan they're offering at the same price but a different name.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Are you mixing up B(ytes) and b(bits)?
I currently get ~75Mbs down and ~16Mbs up on a normal day, well pleased with that. It makes a big difference compared to my old ADSL service at ~9/~1.
Enjoy your new connection. 
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See Here[^]
That leaves only John Glenn of the original Mercury Seven.
Sad that we are losing all the real space pioneers, the men whose names will live on forever.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Pardon an insensitive question, but: why is this important to you? You consistently maintain that NASA is a fraud. By that reasoning, Carpenter and Glenn are both frauds as well, and therefore not deserving of notice.
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I never maintained that we didn't put men in space, only that we didn't go to the moon.
They were brave that sat atop an intercontinental ballistic missile and hoped for the best.
NASA has done some remarkable things, Voyager for example, but Mercury was the bravest.
Then the Apollo mission that followed showed how unprepared they really were.
That is why after Apollo they had to go for the Gemini missions.
And why were they so concerned about radiation when doing the Hubble repairs if they had previouslly been to the moon safely?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
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The Gemini program consisted of ten flights in 1965 and 1966: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_program[^]. The Gemini missions were basically test beds to develop technology used for Apollo.
The Apollo program began in 1961, with first flight in 1968, and ran through 1972: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program[^]. The intent for Apollo was to develop a three-man craft capable of reaching the moon. It did so, several times.
Dalek Dave wrote: And why were they so concerned about radiation when doing the Hubble repairs if they had previouslly been to the moon safely
Radiation shielding inside a spacecraft, even a 'tin can' like the Apollo command module, is quite a different thing from shielding in an EVA suit.
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People always assume that others would do as they would do.
... But not everyone is a tory accountant.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: is quite a different thing from shielding in an EVA suit
Just like they wore on the moon's surface?
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Dalek Dave wrote: That is why after Apollo they had to go for the Gemini missions.
Huh?
Time for a little tuneup on the Tardis, Dave. Gemini was the test program that allowed Apollo to proceed. Yes, there was a bunch of overlap in the development cycle, but not the launch cycle. Sure, we faked the landings just to make the Russians pee their collective pants, but the orbital bits were real. Hubble repairs were dangerous because of the EVA time required - a tin can is pretty good shielding, but a plasticized cloth suit isn't so great.
The moon walk times were faked, of course, just a few miles from where I live. At least the landscape is identical. There would have been very little radiation exposure here, unless you count IR and UV, which can quickly kill you if you're not wearing an air conditioned suit, or a sunscreen of at least 30 SPF. They didn't have sunscreen lotions back then, hence the suits we saw on TV.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger, Apollo started YEARS before Gemini, so perhaps my TARDIS is working adequately
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1962 - 1961 = years?
No, really, I want to do my own tax return this year!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: They were brave that sat atop an intercontinental ballistic missile and hoped for the best.
I read somewhere that one astronaut was asked what it felt like to sit on top of the most complex machine ever created. His reply: how would you feel sitting on top of something that was the product of the lowest bids?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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The real pioneers of space. R.I.P.
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Yeah... I still remember the teacher rolling a TV into the classroom every time one of those magnificent 7 went into space so that we could watch their progress all day. The Mercury missions were only hours long - nothing like the 6 month assignments we see today. Imagine yourself in Scott's place, being asked to sit on top of a poorly controlled hydrogen/oxygen explosion, many of which you'd just recently witnessed exploding on the pad, and entrusting your family jewels to the care of a government contractor who got the job by bidding the lowest price. That takes some big, brass cojones, heavy medication, or an IRS agent pursuing you for a "little chat" to accomplish. Talk about the "Right Stuff." The Apollo guys had it easy...
Thank you, Scott, for showing us all that, if we really screw things up here, going somewhere else is possible. Maybe not easy, but neither was what you did easy. Godspeed, old friend...![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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