The Evil United States strikes again.

FTA: "That means increasing the amount of calories the men are taking in, he said, and giving them food that tastes good."

Bacon!


/Just finished eating a roast pig knuckle...yum!

Just throw some MREs and board games down there. They'll be fed and entertained.

Lending their unique and deep experience in managing the stress of isolated living in a dangerous environment stuck among a very few peers?

Money well spent. Of course, I'm a submariner so I've been there. Minus the free iPods, overtime, internet access, and all the copper I could mine!

Considering that one of their goals is the advancement of scientific knowledge I'd say this is a good application of what they've learned for preparing people to live in close-quartered isolation for long periods of time.

By last Thursday, their meals included bread with ham and turkey, wine cookies, stroganoff with pasta primavera, peaches in juice, nutritional supplements, bread with caramel spread, chicken in sauce and plantains.

Golly. Beats the tar out of my Ramen-based diet.

Trance750: Emptyjade: Just throw some MREs and board games down there. They'll be fed and entertained.

What? No porn?

What? No beer?

Wasn't this posted earlier? And they also said "no smoking or drinking"?

I'm pretty sure that is "something to do".

If you can help, help. I bet the miners are pleased about it.

a little condescending, eh there subby?


as if saving lives isn't important

Cheesehead_Dave: Considering that one of their goals is the advancement of scientific knowledge I'd say this is a good application of what they've learned for preparing people to live in close-quartered isolation for long periods of time.

Gravity is normal down there. I'm sure the US Navy has more relevant experience than NASA.

...er, nuke it from obit?

Wine cookies?

Trance750: What? No porn?

If I were trapped with a bunch of dudes I would request that porn not be included.

crab66: Trance750: What? No porn?

If I were trapped with a bunch of dudes I would request that porn not be included.

I couldn't stress this enough.

Cheesehead_Dave: Considering that one of their goals is the advancement of scientific knowledge I'd say this is a good application of what they've learned for preparing people to live in close-quartered isolation for long periods of time.

But NASA is such a waste of money on whimsical space-age daydreams and shouldn't be funded in times of crisis because there's no real application of their research to our lives! Now let's cut their funding and put it into defense like the America we know and love.

Joce678: Gravity is normal down there. I'm sure the US Navy has more relevant experience than NASA.

Not really... even in a mine there's not nearly enough things to clean to make any Navy paradigm apply. I guess they could strip, paint, re-strip, and re-paint the interior of the shelter a few times.

nunoyo:But NASA is such a waste of money on whimsical space-age daydreams and shouldn't be funded in times of crisis because there's no real application of their research to our lives! Now let's cut their funding and put it into defense like the America we know and love.

0/10 too easy...

Bolo Jungle: NASA's mission is to explore our universe - include our own planet!

You're not keeping up.

"When I became the NASA administrator, [President Obama] charged me with three things," Bolden said in an interview with Al-Jazeera. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

/Where's your space exploration now, losers? (pops)

NASA Rocks!!!

Casfacto: nunoyo:But NASA is such a waste of money on whimsical space-age daydreams and shouldn't be funded in times of crisis because there's no real application of their research to our lives! Now let's cut their funding and put it into defense like the America we know and love.

0/10 too easy...

Sarcasm =/= trolling. The important difference is that trolls intend people to take their comments seriously.

Casfacto: nunoyo:But NASA is such a waste of money on whimsical space-age daydreams and shouldn't be funded in times of crisis because there's no real application of their research to our lives! Now let's cut their funding and put it into defense like the America we know and love.

0/10 too easy...

You may want to adjust your sarcasm detector.

In a briefing after its arrival last week, the team said creating a strict organizational structure for the miners' daily lives would be important

Ok Bob, we've all agreed the bathroom is over there. Stop Shiating in the dining room!

Bunnyhat: The Paint fumes! Weeeeeee I can taste colors.

If you're not tasting sea-foam green, you aren't working hard enough!

farquette: By last Thursday, their meals included bread with ham and turkey, wine cookies, stroganoff with pasta primavera, peaches in juice, nutritional supplements, bread with caramel spread, chicken in sauce and plantains.

Golly. Beats the tar out of my Ramen-based diet.

You're not stuck 2300 feet below the surface of the earth.

HawgWild: /oblig

Yeah. I submitted a funnier headline for end of August: "NASA downgraded to chili extractors"

Feepit: HawgWild: /oblig

Yeah. I submitted a funnier headline

No. You didn't.

hoo_hoo_fred: crab66: Trance750: What? No porn?

If I were trapped with a bunch of dudes I would request that porn not be included.

I couldn't stress this enough.

Yea, but getting the pr0n down there is a LOT easier to get to them. I mean, how the hell are you going to get a midget and donkey down there in the mean time?

jaimejaim: farquette: By last Thursday, their meals included bread with ham and turkey, wine cookies, stroganoff with pasta primavera, peaches in juice, nutritional supplements, bread with caramel spread, chicken in sauce and plantains.

Golly. Beats the tar out of my Ramen-based diet.

You're not stuck 2300 feet below the surface of the earth.

Basements only go so deep, give the guy a break

What those gentlemen need is a giant ball of opium. It'll be like time travel.

Wasn't there one miner they were worried would be too fat to fit through the rescue shaft?

Avonmore: Feepit: HawgWild: /oblig

Yeah. I submitted a funnier headline

No. You didn't.

This.

oakleym82: Wasn't there one miner they were worried would be too fat to fit through the rescue shaft?

It's cool, he hasn't had any honey in a while. He'll get out just fine.

fat boy: Send down some handheld games preloaded with DigDug,and some LSD.

Dear lord no! In a month only one miner will be left, the rest exploded violently by unknown means!

Feepit: HawgWild: /oblig

Yeah. I submitted a funnier headline for end of August: "NASA downgraded to chili extractors"

What part of that was supposed to be the joke?

Bacon!


/Just finished eating a roast pig knuckle...yum!

I wonder what a GIS with no safe search might turn up...

Feepit: HawgWild: /oblig

Yeah. I submitted a funnier headline for end of August: "NASA downgraded to chili extractors"

No, you didn't.

Nothing to do? I thought their main priority now was the work on their Muslim Outreach program?

Well, just as long as they don't have the idea to throw a missile at it.

You know, it's really boring down there, trapped with all those half naked men (not boring if you're gay). They should just send them some handheld game systems with video games. Those things could run on batteries. They can play together or against each other using the multiplayer mode.

Nothing is more boring than spending what seems to be infinity in prayer, reading books, and telling stories while trapped in a dangerous place.

DocTravesty: Feepit: HawgWild: /oblig

Yeah. I submitted a funnier headline for end of August: "NASA downgraded to chili extractors"

No, you didn't.

Well, no, but you can imagine what it would be like if he did...

Great, grand, everybody on the bus... NO SHOUTING ON THE BUS!!!

Trance750: Emptyjade: Just throw some MREs and board games down there. They'll be fed and entertained.

What? No porn?

I find it can be hard to take full enjoyment from pornography when surrounded by and in close quarters to 29 other men.

Not impossible; but hard.