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What the Hell is wrong with these people I keep reading about in the paper who want to go and live on Mars? I've been to the top of Tenerife which is probably similar and there's nothing there - just rocks and thin air. It was rubbish!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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There are very few things left that give the recognition of Columbus or Magellan, didn't you ever want to be the first person to do something people would recognize for the rest of recorded time?
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In the immortal words of James T. Kirk; "Beam me up Scotty there's no intelligent life down here"
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Mike Hankey wrote: In the immortal words of James T. Kirk; "Beam me up Scotty there's no intelligent life down here"
Ahem:
Though it has become irrevocably associated with the series and movies, the exact phrase was never actually spoken in any Star Trek television episode or film.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think some of them were volunteered by family and friends 
(I know I nominated DD, as I looked forward to getting a message posted from the studio out in the desert telling us how it is all a fake)
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Rob Philpott wrote: there's nothing there - just rocks and thin air
No soap operas?
No lolcats?
No lawyers?
No airport security guards?
No bankers?
No teenage singers?
No NSA?
No SPAM?
No traffic jams?
Hell, sounds like Heaven, to me. Sign me up!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All true, neither is there any trees, oceans, beer, pizza or hookers. The latency for online gaming would be appalling. It's a slightly one-sided angle you're arguing here!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: one-sided angle
Hey!
In this house, we obey the laws of Physics!*
* How's that for a TV-show-of-the-day quiz?**
** Yes, I do know it was "thermodynamics"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good point. Please replace with 'narrow perspective'.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: narrow perspective
Perspective is about changing width.
You're really on a losing streak, today.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: * How's that for a TV-show-of-the-day quiz?**
That's too simple, son!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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See Here[^]
It is the crew I feel sorry for.
Still listening to Terry Jacks and The Brotherhood of Man.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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That's just what Mr Nielsen[^] said.
speramus in juniperus
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It takes a long time for the signal to reach me.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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It seems so distant and yet so close. 17 light hours away, that's a long way away but at the same time rather pitiful on universal scale.
I've got a DVD by Stephen Hawking, and I will admit to only half paying attention watching it but if I recall correctly he reckons you can get to the other side of the universe in 80 years, if you're going really bloody fast, nearly light fast. But it'd be a whole lot longer on earth.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Amazing achievement, I wonder if years from now space travelers will pass it and the captain will say; If you look out the right post hole you will see Voyager I...
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It doesn't seem that far - it would only take a jet 2395 years[^] to travel the same distance.
And it will only take Voyager 40,000 years to reach the nearest star.
To quote a character from a book I was reading the other day, "Space is too f***ing big!"
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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> Voyager 1 Has Left The Solar System
That's what, the 9th time it left the solar system "for real this time"?
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...Visual Studio opens itself when you login! Never done that before!
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Did Clippy appear and say, "It looks like you're trying to write a program..." by any chance?
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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spooky, anyway...
Do. Work. Now!
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Big Daddy Farang wrote: Did Clippy appear...
It does that for me... Clickety[^]
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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So.. it is you!!! 
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New management motivational gimmick?
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