ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. - February 13th, 2008
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11:39 am
[Link] | Lockheed announces breakthrough in decomposing CO2 back into something that could one day be gasoline.
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02:09 pm
[Link] | Doctors have extracted a bullet from an 88-year-old man from when he was shot 70 years ago in the Spanish Civil War.
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02:57 pm
[Link] | Ever since the dawn of the space age lunar base proponents have had a difficult time explaining exactly why a lunar base is needed and what it can do that justifies its immense cost. NASA is currently struggling with that issue right now. But in the late 1950s the United States Air Force had what its leadership believed was a clear rationale for building a base on the Moon: use the Moon to spy on the Earth and throw nuclear bombs at America’s enemies from the ultimate retaliatory high ground. Dr. Strangelove would have approved. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed.
This is not their story.
Instead, this is the story of the contractor teams that for a brief time were given a nearly impossible goal by the US Air Force: find something useful to do on the Moon, preferably involving bombs.
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03:46 pm
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03:46 pm
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It's an anus remover. For deer.
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03:53 pm
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Guess the state!
Pop quiz, Junior Police Cadets. A suspect in custody refuses to follow your instructions. And by "refuses to follow your instructions", of course I mean "is a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, and you've just ordered him to stand up"?
If you're from this state, you tip his wheelchair and dump him facefirst on the floor!
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08:50 pm
[Link] | ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kadath speaks wisdom:Eating:
Something that must be done every day. Sometimes even more than once in a single day.
Who knew?
I hate my body. It's all, "You can't sit in one position for 8 hours." "You have to lose consciousness for a third of your life." "Oh, I'm going to bleed for a quarter of your life, too."
This means that between 8 and 9 percent of my time is spent unconscious and bleeding. WHY AM I EXPECTED TO TAKE THIS IN STRIDE?
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08:50 pm
[Link] | How soon before Titan suddenly starts "stockpiling weapons of mass destruction"?
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10:59 pm
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What happens when pro-life wackos actually make law.
As they do in any investigation, the police collect evidence by interviewing everyone who knows the accused and by seizing her medical records. But they must also visit the scene of the crime, which, following the logic of the law, often means the woman's vagina.
"Yes, we sometimes call doctors from the Forensic Institute to do a pelvic exam," Tópez said, referring to the nation's main forensic lab, "and we ask them to document lacerations or any evidence such as cuts or a perforated uterus." In other words, if the suspicions of the patient's doctor are not conclusive enough, then in that initial 72-hour period, a forensic doctor can legally conduct a separate search of the crime scene. Tópez said, however, that vaginal searches can take place only with "a judge's permission." Tópez frequently turned the pages of a thick law book she kept at hand. "The prosecutor can order a medical exam on a woman, because that's within the prosecutor's authority," she said.
In the event that the woman's illegal abortion went badly and the doctors have to perform a hysterectomy, then the uterus is sent to the Forensic Institute, where the government's doctors analyze it and retain custody of her uterus as evidence against her.
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