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The Apollo program sent a crew around the moon and back before attempting a landing.

I dunno Rob, you could throw a greater payload farther with a trebuchet, but I guess it doesn't break down into your pickup truck as easily...

Actually, no, it couldn't. You'd have to tack on a Centaur on top of the Atlas, and even then you wouldn't get to take a lot of extra luggage. You weren't planning on coming back, were you? That's a whole other question.

Don't worry Ivan, the camera just lays there because it fell off his un-helmeted head, its not due to the doofus laying unconscious in the snow. The scene changes when ski patrol picks it up and puts it in their pocket. I'm curious though, have you found you prefer your snuff porn on a full stomach?

You might get Mark Hudon to join in, it was his thread on the subject on Supertopo that set my mind down that path. I might try it for that pesky Neuroma thing that ails me.

Err, has the East changed you that much E?

Its stretching it to call this a video, really its just a slideshow with soundtrack, but here you go. [video:vimeo]4086318

The TSA has a perfect record: they've never caught a terrorist yet. Yes, they've caught some folks who weren't following the rules, and they've caught some folks after the fact whose shoes and underwear failed to wreak major havoc, but the fact remains, when it comes to their mandate, they are batting zero. They did however keep my 92 year old mother in law from taking on her antique Italian nail clippers and almost caused serious injury by insisting the tottering 4'11" tall 90 pound elder get out of her wheelchair and put her feet on the widespread yellow footmarks for frisking. I feel so much safer knowing these louts are so diligent.

That's okay, you didn't want cholera anyway.

What, are you the new mullah of snow slope purity? Some two planker prophet assuaging a tiny phallused phalanx's inferiority complex?

For the extra point, sit in a bathtub of cold water for ten minutes at a time, it doesn't need to be deeper than the top of your thighs. Please don't post a TR with pictures, though a sound recording may be entertaining.

Or at least post their final moments to youtube

And hey, grand prize is a 10% discount on your next one way ticket to Somalia! [video:youtube]7QDv4sYwjO0

Silly rabbit, I'm talking prediction, not repeating a news report. 5K called for Assad on 4/15/13. True, Dru originally called a fuzzy February date for Chavez, and stirred this thread up with his late in the game reassessment, but his closest competitor was Ivan with a 4/20 prediction for Chavez, and by the Price Is Right rules he called, he has gone over the price.

Ding ding ding! It looks like we have a winner, congratulations Dru.

Oh you fact checkers are hopeless, what use is flimsy truth when faced with faith based political belief? You know, it just feeeels like Obama is a murderous dictator, so lets put a Hitler mustache on him and stand around outside the post office and talk about how bad its going to get.

Silly short boarding side slipper, poor baby was way out of his depth and should have stuck to the park. From the comments on youtube, sounds like he survived and is ambulatory, but hasn't learned much.

3-D Printing: because the world doesn't have enough cheap plastic crap already Folks are always all excited about this stuff on boing boing, but when you look at it they're talking about plastic train replicas and how to smooth a little plastic animal figurine. I don't need a 3-D printer, what I need is a toaster that won't burn whatever I put in it.

Only if I can print a better heel bail for my crampons.

FGW, clearly that truck is aid. Here's my old rig, a 67 bus: last year for a split screen but first year for factory 12 volt wiring. For time reference, the young lad on the right is now 31, and 3 of 4 people are wearing old Scumbag fleece jackets from way back when I sewed gear instead of ran a construction company.

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You should send that link to members of Congress, what with their concern about Hegel accepting donations from "Friend of Hamas" and all. Its a good primer for the gullible, though strangely, they'll be unlikely to believe it.

Uh Jib? Pretty much no one in this thread has posted since 2007...

There's some pure poetry on that blog, I love a well turned phrase.

Thanks for the links Kev.