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

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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

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:44:31 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Do you have any idea the funding boost that NASA could get if it could
prove there's life on Mars?

....Life, shmife. All they need to do is to find proof of water in
abundance within reasonable drilling distance, and Marsifest Destiny
will be ordained overnight. Rest assured, had Venus turned out to be
the swampy tropics everyone predicted for centuries, we'd already have
not only been colonizing it, Red Lobster would have been serving
whatever crustacians they could ship back.

OM
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OM wrote:

...Life, shmife. All they need to do is to find proof of water in
abundance within reasonable drilling distance, and Marsifest Destiny
will be ordained overnight. Rest assured, had Venus turned out to be
the swampy tropics everyone predicted for centuries, we'd already have
not only been colonizing it, Red Lobster would have been serving
whatever crustacians they could ship back.



What about dinosaurs? Astro had to fry one of their faces in "Tom
Corbett, Space Cadet" just to keep the toothy ******* from gnawing on him.
Okay, Astro wasn't the smartest thing in the world, and Roger Manning
was a complete prick, but we Solar Guard guys have to stick together. :-)

Pat

OM wrote:
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:44:31 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:


Do you have any idea the funding boost that NASA could get if it could
prove there's life on Mars?


...Life, shmife. All they need to do is to find proof of water in
abundance within reasonable drilling distance, and Marsifest Destiny
will be ordained overnight. Rest assured, had Venus turned out to be
the swampy tropics everyone predicted for centuries, we'd already have
not only been colonizing it, Red Lobster would have been serving
whatever crustacians they could ship back...

....and, we'd also be watching the tenth series of "Venusian Fire Women
Gone Wild" on DVD.


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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

--grateful dead.
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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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