apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Real men carry flares and smoke grenades, not froooo-froooo phones.
It survived a 2.5 mile drop. That's not frooo-frooo.  (And yes, I know about terminal velocity etc, 2.5 miles still sounds impressive). |
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Real men carry flares and smoke grenades, not froooo-froooo phones.
It survived a 2.5 mile drop. That's not frooo-frooo. (And yes, I know about terminal velocity etc, 2.5 miles still sounds impressive). The phone might have, but that glass didn't and really... when your whole interface is based on a touch screen, the glass is as important as the stuff underneath it. But yes... it is sorta impressive. |
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James Doohan was a combat veteran who lost a finger on D-Day. So yeah he could wear the skin of aborted babies and I would still show him respect.
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Goddamned Canadians.
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Bunk
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Just to be clear, Jimmy Doohan was born in Vancouver, BC. So yes, he actually got shot by his own men.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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 Of all the shuttle pictures I have seen since the first one went up when I was 8 years old, this is the first time I have ever seen this type of shot... Re-entry heat signature seems abrupt from that picture along with my ignorance of this type of stuff. |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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And here I was thinking: This is what it looks like when Superman plays Golf.
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Darwinism is the Gateway Science.
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"Use the Soy Sauce, Luke!" WHOM, ZASH, CLISH CLASH! "Umeboshi Kenobi!! NOOO!!!"
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Cue the clever analogy comparing Christopher Reeves and our space program.
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The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case. Smoking saves lives. |
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pxib
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Re-entry heat signature seems abrupt from that picture along with my ignorance of this type of stuff.
In order to maintain its orbit about 200 miles up, the ISS has to travel at 11,000mph... three miles per second. A shuttle which has docked at some point is still traveling about that fast. Rather than wasting a lot of fuel braking, the shuttle does most of its speed reduction by hitting the stratosphere, the yellow portion of the atmosphere visible in the image. It doesn't get thick enough to make the shuttle's tiles glow until it's about 60 miles high. By the time it hits the troposphere (the thick blue breathable portion of the atmosphere under the yellow part) it's slow enough that it no longer glows. The tropopause is the name of the space between them, about 7 miles up where intercontinental airplanes fly. Based on how blurry the image is, I imagine it's several minutes of exposure on a nearly dark Earth, and 150 miles of parallax keeps things relatively still. You can see a few pink spots of sunrise near the edge of the image, and the shuttle landed at 5am. I'm guessing the exposure ends at the hottest portion of the descent, about 40 miles altitude, while it's roughly over the Gulf of California on its way to Florida. |
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Forensic Aeronautics.
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Prospero
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Seriously. What the fuck do you do for a living that you know all that? Mad props.
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Sand
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Seriously. What the fuck do you do for a living that you know all that? Mad props.
Agreed! (Now watch he comes back and tells he just read that shit on wiki or something hah hah.) |
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"Use the Soy Sauce, Luke!" WHOM, ZASH, CLISH CLASH! "Umeboshi Kenobi!! NOOO!!!"
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I believe he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
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"Pity hurricanes aren't actually caused by gays; I would take a shot in the mouth right now if it meant wiping out these chucklefucks." ~WayAbvPar
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pxib
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I believe he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
This. Armchair NASA geek since I was a kid. |
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Merusk
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I think I saw that show at Sea World when I was a kid.
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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The Aurora one? That's where I saw it. Still awesome today... |
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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The page I shamelessly ripped it from did indeed claim it was from Sea World Florida in the 70s.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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There is a joke to be made about Aquaman.
I can't think of it but I know it exists!
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Merusk
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The Aurora one? That's where I saw it. Still awesome today... Yep, Aurora, OH. Now closed and owned by Cedar Parks entertainment from what I hear. Which is fine, the folks Anheiuser Busch sold it to were horrible. |
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Who are the two Female Super Heroes standing on Aquaman's shoulders? Only two in the picture I cant place.
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Darwinism is the Gateway Science.
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The lady in blue, and black, is Black Canary. Not sure who the lady in green is.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
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Trippy
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Mera.
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Aquaman's wife, for the uninitiated.
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Sand
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I thought aquaman was gay.
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Lakov_Sanite
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I seem to remember them giving him a hook hand and a beard.
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Trippy
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Peter David made some significant changes to the character of Aquaman in the 90s including the hook and bread.
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Lakov_Sanite
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TheWalrus
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Peter David made some significant changes to the character of Aquaman in the 90s including the hook and bread.
How did he eat bread underwater? |
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Trippy
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Good question, can't remember now, and my comics are buried in storage.
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TheWalrus
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Excellent recovery! Bravo!
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Furiously
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Too scared to eat.
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Author
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