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Nasa
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Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the
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― Live! from Planet Earth
― Live! from Planet Earth
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I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.
Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.
On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call
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― Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
― Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent …more
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Do you devour memoirs by astronauts? Follow all seventeen NASA Twitter accounts? Have you watche…more
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We launched this club to dig deeper into books about aviation and space and discuss them with ot…more
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For fans of the author Stephen Baxter.
The Xeelee Sequence,
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Northland Serie…more
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