We forgot something

That of course being the "Most Valuable Space Newsgroup Contributor Of
The Year Award".
And we know why we forgot it also.
Because, let's face it, it's inevitably you-know-who.
Yes, the prize is now known as the Rusty Barton Award.
Although I'd like to establish the "William Mook Award" for the "Where
The Hell Did That Idea Come From?" category. This award to be delivered
via a GPS guided, laser powered, flying lunchbox that sneaks up on you
from behind due to its soundless rocket engines.
Mr. Mook, here's one to you on Christmas day.
If "thinking outside the box" is a virtue, you're not only succeeding in
doing that, you're somewhere in the middle of the next block.
"Let's Terraform The Sun" ....my God, the very _grandeur_ of the
conception. :-) :-) :-)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
That of course being the "Most Valuable Space Newsgroup Contributor Of
The Year Award".
And we know why we forgot it also.
Because, let's face it, it's inevitably you-know-who.
Yes, the prize is now known as the Rusty Barton Award.
Although I'd like to establish the "William Mook Award" for the "Where
The Hell Did That Idea Come From?" category. This award to be delivered
via a GPS guided, laser powered, flying lunchbox that sneaks up on you
from behind due to its soundless rocket engines.
Mr. Mook, here's one to you on Christmas day.
If "thinking outside the box" is a virtue, you're not only succeeding in
doing that, you're somewhere in the middle of the next block.
"Let's Terraform The Sun" ....my God, the very _grandeur_ of the
conception. :-) :-) :-)

The Mook rocket powered intercontinental pizza and coffee delivery
system was fairly ingenious too. That would really help us out a lot,
after the next category 5 hurricane slices through the central Bahamas.

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

Pat Flannery wrote:
That of course being the "Most Valuable Space Newsgroup Contributor Of
The Year Award".
And we know why we forgot it also.
Because, let's face it, it's inevitably you-know-who.
Yes, the prize is now known as the Rusty Barton Award.
Although I'd like to establish the "William Mook Award" for the "Where
The Hell Did That Idea Come From?" category. This award to be delivered
via a GPS guided, laser powered, flying lunchbox that sneaks up on you
from behind due to its soundless rocket engines.
Mr. Mook, here's one to you on Christmas day.
If "thinking outside the box" is a virtue, you're not only succeeding in
doing that, you're somewhere in the middle of the next block.
"Let's Terraform The Sun" ....my God, the very _grandeur_ of the
conception. :-) :-) :-)

Pat


Who could forget the Amish Nuclear Reactor? A wagon hitch on top of the
cast iron reactor vessel allowed a team of plough horses to move the
control rods. The worlds first atomic powered blacksmith shoppe.

Rusty

Rusty wrote:


Who could forget the Amish Nuclear Reactor? A wagon hitch on top of the
cast iron reactor vessel allowed a team of plough horses to move the
control rods. The worlds first atomic powered blacksmith shoppe.



I always thought Heisenberg's heavy water filled cauldron reactor looked
like something that should show up in a Wagner opera, probably with Loki
singing a aria over it. :-)

Pat

"Rusty" wrote in message
ps.com...

Pat Flannery wrote:
That of course being the "Most Valuable Space Newsgroup Contributor Of
The Year Award".
And we know why we forgot it also.
Because, let's face it, it's inevitably you-know-who.
Yes, the prize is now known as the Rusty Barton Award.
Although I'd like to establish the "William Mook Award" for the "Where
The Hell Did That Idea Come From?" category. This award to be delivered
via a GPS guided, laser powered, flying lunchbox that sneaks up on you
from behind due to its soundless rocket engines.
Mr. Mook, here's one to you on Christmas day.
If "thinking outside the box" is a virtue, you're not only succeeding in
doing that, you're somewhere in the middle of the next block.
"Let's Terraform The Sun" ....my God, the very _grandeur_ of the
conception. :-) :-) :-)

Pat


Who could forget the Amish Nuclear Reactor? A wagon hitch on top of the
cast iron reactor vessel allowed a team of plough horses to move the
control rods. The worlds first atomic powered blacksmith shoppe.




That's not far fetched...look at this Amish conspiracy
http://www.geocities.com/beaver_militia/nasa.html





Rusty

Jonathan wrote:


That's not far fetched...look at this Amish conspiracy
http://www.geocities.com/beaver_militia/nasa.html





Do you have any idea the funding boost that NASA could get if it could
prove there's life on Mars?
They'd be flying probes all over the thing.
Far from trying to cover it up, they're frantically looking for any hint
of it, down to the point of immediately deciding those liquid flows in
the crater are water, and not the far more likely liquid CO2.
Because a lifeless Mars is a boring Mars, and you don't get funding to
explore boring places.

Pat

OM wrote:
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:07:00 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

That of course being the "Most Valuable Space Newsgroup Contributor Of
The Year Award".

...The year isn't over yet, Patrick. This year, I think it's a tossup
between Rusty's PDF fetish, and Rand finally putting Chumpko in his
killfile.

Naw, you flip-flopping between brown-noser and plonker is clearly the
most legendary...


OM
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Jonathan wrote:


That's not far fetched...look at this Amish conspiracy
http://www.geocities.com/beaver_militia/nasa.html





Do you have any idea the funding boost that NASA could get if it could
prove there's life on Mars?
They'd be flying probes all over the thing.
Far from trying to cover it up, they're frantically looking for any hint
of it, down to the point of immediately deciding those liquid flows in
the crater are water, and not the far more likely liquid CO2.
Because a lifeless Mars is a boring Mars, and you don't get funding to
explore boring places.


But this is a conspiracy only scientists can pull off.
The rovers were designed to look for only evidence of
water, they cannot detect organic material.
The next lander can test for habitability, but not
evidence of biological activity.
http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/science03.php

After that the next mission can detect organics
and the building blocks of life, but yet again it
cannot test for life.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...uture/msl.html

Then the next step, the one that could actually prove
life, would be the sample return mission. Which
would take something like seven years just to
fly the sample back to earth.
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...eMissions.html

You get the picture? They are not now, or in the near future
even looking for life, but everything else first. Why make
the big discovery now, when they can MILK it for
another twenty or thirty years. About the remaining
length of their careers....funny about that.

It's the oldest govt conspiracy there is, milk the gravy
train as long as possible. What makes this entire
gravy trail go is the mystery, the possibility.
Make the discovery now, and it will suddenly
become...been there...done that...let's move
on. As long as they can dangle the mystery and
possibility, they can continue to milk this story
for all it's worth.




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Pat

"Jonathan" wrote in message


It's the oldest govt conspiracy there is, milk the gravy
train as long as possible. What makes this entire
gravy trail go is the mystery, the possibility.
Make the discovery now, and it will suddenly
become...been there...done that...let's move
on. As long as they can dangle the mystery and
possibility, they can continue to milk this story
for all it's worth.

You do realize there's other intelligent life existing/coexisting on
Venus, don't you?

It's not even hocus-pocus or otherwise the least bit outside the regular
laws of physics.
-
Brad Guth


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: "Brad Guth"
: You do realize there's other intelligent life existing/coexisting on
: Venus, don't you?

Nope. Nor do you. You imagine and perhaps believe there are.

: It's not even hocus-pocus or otherwise the least bit outside the
: regular laws of physics.

True; no problem with the laws of physics.
It merely contradticts actual observation to suppose
anything like DNA-in-water style life is there.


Wayne Throop http://sheol.org/throopw