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bitteroldman
2008-01-04 5:45:54 PM  
That was cute, Subby.
 
whidbey
2008-01-04 6:06:04 PM  
Earth to NASA:

Could we like, GET AWAY from shooting up expensive airplane looking things that can't even leave Earth's atmosphere and like START BUILDING REAL SPACESHIPS AGAIN? You know? That could REACH one of Jupiter's moons? Anyone? Anyone?
 
birdmanesq
2008-01-04 6:40:28 PM  
whidbey: Earth to NASA:

Could we like, GET AWAY from shooting up expensive airplane looking things that can't even leave Earth's atmosphere and like START BUILDING REAL SPACESHIPS AGAIN? You know? That could REACH one of Jupiter's moons? Anyone? Anyone?

Earth to widbey:

I was at a day spa. D-A-I-Y-E. Okay?
 
Spontaneous Defenstration
2008-01-04 6:40:50 PM  
whidbey

This would require actually making human progress a priority. The US government spends over 70% of its discretionary budget on the military and war (~ 700 billion). Of the rest, we spend less than 15 billion each on college loans/aid, space travel, and non-space research, respectively. As a result, the US basically has to wait for the private sector to do anything for it to actually happen.

We could make something like fusion a priority and hardly even touch the military budget. Yet it seems that those who make the decisions are content with humanity not making it further than the moon not just in the 20th century, but in the 21st as well.
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2008-01-04 7:13:22 PM  
Maybe they'll launch it, maybe.
 
ubermensch
2008-01-04 7:13:26 PM  
OMFG, SOMEONE SCREWED UP A HEADLINE!!!
 
proteon
2008-01-04 7:14:26 PM  
Wow 2008 ought to be a hell of a year for Fark!
 
TalkingBass
2008-01-04 7:16:15 PM  
Also redundant:

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ManBearPig
2008-01-04 7:19:31 PM  
You are now blinking and breathing manually, and have become aware of your anus?
 
onemanarmy80
2008-01-04 7:20:30 PM  
As if NASA didn't spend enough of our money Now we have to spend $ to lauch the ENTIRE LAUNCH into space? WTF?!?!?!
 
TSE
2008-01-04 7:24:34 PM  
whidbey: Earth to NASA:

Could we like, GET AWAY from shooting up expensive airplane looking things that can't even leave Earth's atmosphere and like START BUILDING REAL SPACESHIPS AGAIN? You know? That could REACH one of Jupiter's moons? Anyone? Anyone?

You mean like Galileo or Cassini? I guess you're talking about manned ships... ok then.
 
StarryEyed
2008-01-04 7:25:26 PM  
TalkingBass: Also redundant:

Who is this chick? I keep seeing her in threads...
 
Winktologist
2008-01-04 7:29:26 PM  
It's been quite some time since I've seen a headline from the Department of Redundancy Department for quite some time now.
 
idrow
2008-01-04 7:29:40 PM  
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I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords.
 
Winktologist
2008-01-04 7:31:15 PM  
ubermensch: OMFG, SOMEONE SCREWED UP A HEADLINE!!!

I'm going to place a code Golf Tango Foxtrot Oscar on your "I'll pretend it's sarcasm when someone points out that I have no sense of humor" post.
 
imgod2u
2008-01-04 7:33:40 PM  
StarryEyed: TalkingBass: Also redundant:

Who is this chick? I keep seeing her in threads...

We really should add this to the FAQ.

During a thread about homeschooling, many farkers were bashing home-schoolers. One particular home-schooler, in an effort to fight back against the brutish internet tough guys who were hurting his wittle feelings, decided to make a post about his life achievements to prove how cool he was. He attached a picture of his pretty wife as further proof of such.

This, however, backfired as it provided Fark with another cliche. We are now all on a continued quest to prove just how stupid an idea it is to post your wife's picture (possibly without her approval) on the intertubes.
 
DV1976
2008-01-04 7:34:22 PM  
Spontaneous Defenstration
DD Harriman unavailable for comment
 
Winktologist
2008-01-04 7:34:58 PM  
onemanarmy80: As if NASA didn't spend enough of our money Now we have to spend $ to lauch the ENTIRE LAUNCH into space? WTF?!?!?!

NASA doesn't spend enough of our money. At all.

/yes, I see what you did there, but I'm a bitter geek *shrug*
 
Winktologist
2008-01-04 7:36:31 PM  
imgod2u: StarryEyed: TalkingBass: Also redundant:

Who is this chick? I keep seeing her in threads...

We really should add this to the FAQ.

During a thread about homeschooling, many farkers were bashing home-schoolers. One particular home-schooler, in an effort to fight back against the brutish internet tough guys who were hurting his wittle feelings, decided to make a post about his life achievements to prove how cool he was. He attached a picture of his pretty wife as further proof of such.

This, however, backfired as it provided Fark with another cliche. We are now all on a continued quest to prove just how stupid an idea it is to post your wife's picture (possibly without her approval) on the intertubes.

She's def been to the Photoshop Dentist.

/i'd hit it
 
XNtr3k
2008-01-04 7:36:42 PM  
I believe they meant to say 'lunch', as in bas lunches for the astronauts would be sent into space to feed the hungry astromen and women in orbit. Sandwiches will be safe to send, as any crumbs will quickly be cleaned up by the infamous Space Vacuum.
 
Dodanto
2008-01-04 7:36:52 PM  
While a very poor headline, I'm not sure it's redundant.

FTA: "But the next launch attempt was more likely to happen in early February".

So it sounds like they will launch (as in start) the shuttle launch in January but don't expect launch (as in take-off) to actually happen until February. They might have been trying to be cute with the play in words. but.... FAIL (and I don't have the graphic)
 
XNtr3k
2008-01-04 7:37:22 PM  
My post should have read 'BAG lunches'. My appologies. You may now hurl handfuls of mashed potatoes at me.
 
meddlin' kid
2008-01-04 7:40:25 PM  
aw subby, you make my cockles swoon...
 
mark12A
2008-01-04 7:45:52 PM  
I have great confidence the shuttle will launch on time because it was scientically designed by scientists!
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2008-01-04 7:47:23 PM  
imgod2u: StarryEyed: TalkingBass: Also redundant:

Who is this chick? I keep seeing her in threads...

We really should add this to the FAQ.

During a thread about homeschooling, many farkers were bashing home-schoolers. One particular home-schooler, in an effort to fight back against the brutish internet tough guys who were hurting his wittle feelings, decided to make a post about his life achievements to prove how cool he was. He attached a picture of his pretty wife as further proof of such.

This, however, backfired as it provided Fark with another cliche. We are now all on a continued quest to prove just how stupid an idea it is to post your wife's picture (possibly without her approval) on the intertubes.

However, the original thread has been pulled. It was there as recently as yesterday. Despite the treatment the pic received, she is pretty. But as mentioned above, it's usually not a good idea plop a photo like that in a place full of Photoshop piranhas.
 
GentlemanJ
2008-01-04 7:48:20 PM  
...and the Natural Guard.
/Hey, they're gonna surround us!
//Obscure?
 
sorhed
2008-01-04 7:50:02 PM  
mark12A: I have great confidence the shuttle will launch on time because it was scientically designed by scientists!

Ah yes, but do you have great confidence that the shuttle launch will launch on time because of it's scientifically designed by scientists design that you are confident of?
 
Bungalo
2008-01-04 7:57:33 PM  
imgod2u, many many many thanks, that cliché puzzled me for weeks!
 
EthelPP
2008-01-04 8:08:15 PM  
Golf clap, LOL, etc...excellent Subby.

Their headline ranks right up there with PIN Number, VIN Number, and ink pen.
 
elided
2008-01-04 8:21:05 PM  
Department of Redundancy Department!

LOLlerskates!
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( )) ( ))
 
elided
2008-01-04 8:21:44 PM  
Aw, hell!
 
skabbo
2008-01-04 8:35:08 PM  
(Reporting by Irene Klotz, editing by Jim Loney and Stuart Grudgings)

Two editors, no less.
 
danceswithcrows
2008-01-04 8:37:56 PM  
They were just trying to do something like this:

[image from img247.imageshack.us too old to be available]
...yay for uncyclopedia, eh?

EthelPP: Their headline ranks right up there with PIN Number, VIN Number, and ink pen.

Pens can contain things other than ink, like white-out or opaquing material. Although I've heard some people say "personal PIN number".
 
DaBishop
2008-01-04 8:49:32 PM  
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DUkskkEA
2008-01-04 8:52:35 PM  
instead of "NASA hopes to launch space shuttle explosion this month."
 
derekdoubleut
2008-01-04 9:19:28 PM  
idrow: I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords.

Can we have a thread about space without this appearing everytime. Please only use the Kent Brockman picture for Alien Overlord related threads. Thank you.
 
Johnny Mash
2008-01-04 9:20:01 PM  
I'm posting a message on Fark.
 
Xenu's Giant Pink Replicock
2008-01-04 9:20:50 PM  
Hang on, I need to go to the CityBank bank and use the ATM machine to withdraw $30 dollars from my IRA account.
 
Xenu's Giant Pink Replicock
2008-01-04 9:22:03 PM  
Oh hell, Dante just told me I should never go to the ATM.
 
BlackAngus
2008-01-04 9:40:38 PM  
I always thought it was the Redundancy Department of Repetition.
 
molsonandlee
2008-01-04 9:46:59 PM  
Really? Typos are links now? snooooooooooze.
 
fivenodes
2008-01-04 9:47:07 PM  
BlackAngus: I always thought it was the Redundancy Department of Repetition.

The Redundancy Department of Repetition Department? Oh meh... If only I was clever enough to figure out how to make it perpetual.
 
jaymzz
2008-01-04 10:13:03 PM  
Ha, I get it...

/sort of like that Xerox thread a few months ago.
 
MrEricSir
2008-01-04 10:13:57 PM  
Shouldn't that be the Department of Redundant Redundancy Department?
 
ripple123
2008-01-04 10:25:54 PM  
The space shuttle is what happens when politicians have the final say on the overarching design of something. Ewwww.
 
Belltower
2008-01-04 10:43:27 PM  
I was running a roleplaying game or something like that once when one of the players asked if a city had a Department of Redundancy Department. Without missing a beat I responded that it had several.
 
Belltower
2008-01-04 10:45:43 PM  
imgod2u: We are now all on a continued quest to prove just how stupid an idea it is to post your wife's picture (possibly without her approval) on the intertubes.

And yet the dozens who have done the same in their profiles are not subject to this quest. Meanwhile this guy gets to see his wife referred to as a babe regularly. So I'd say it's failing.
 
thestr1ker
2008-01-04 10:51:35 PM  
Sometimes I wonder how we even got to the moon.

/or did we
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-01-04 11:04:50 PM  
Winktologist: It's been quite some time since I've seen a headline from the Department of Redundancy Department for quite some time now.

"But if this ever-changing world in which we live in..."

beattrend.com

/approves

"No I cannot forget from where it is that I come from..."

i.realone.com

/approves
 
danceswithcrows
2008-01-05 12:09:16 AM  
thestr1ker: Sometimes I wonder how we even got to the moon.

FORTRAN, slide rules, engineers who knew WTF they were doing, and management who knew when to STFU and get out of the way. These conditions may not be present in wherever you are; if so, FSM help you.
 
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