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Monday Open Thread | 59 comments (59 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

So, uhm, we've gone from a mortgage crisis to a credit crisis to a food crisis in the last, oh, week. Why do I feel like I am in one of those bad Hollywood disaster movies?

In other bad news, Russia's sending some monkeys to Mars... (Those monkeys they just bought from Uganda?)

Anyway, Laika! We will never ever forget!!

New monument to spacedog-martyr:

Probably it is a good thing they're putting monkeys on Mars, as it looks like the human race is about to fizzle out here on earth. Primate colonization of Mars seems like as good a "Plan B" as any...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 01:56:11 PM EST

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How are they defining a successful mission?

'Russia. We have put the monkeys on the Mars.'

[everyone in mission control looks at each other, shrugs, and starts filling out their next job application]

Are they bringing them back? Because bringing them back would be cool.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 03:37:09 PM EST
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Well, did Laika come back? Poor little Laika... Like some weird national pasttime, shooting poor animals into outerspace, never to return...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 03:45:56 PM EST
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success: if the monkey survive, mate, colonize Mars, build a spaceship and return to Earth ;-)

by zoe on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 03:46:53 PM EST
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And so the cycle repeats.... ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 03:50:32 PM EST
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Looks like interplanetarytribune.com is still free.

Pizza, anyone?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 04:23:41 PM EST
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Well who's going to teach them the proper sayings for when they get back?

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 04:41:16 PM EST
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because monkey have come from Mars in a spaceship before?

by zoe on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 04:39:22 PM EST
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Well judging by most of the evidence, Inteligent life isn't dominant here.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 14th, 2008 at 04:42:48 PM EST
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