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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Technocrats, Luddites of the world will unite to bring down your regime!
We're gonna need a lotta cottage looms to keep Primark happy ๐Ÿ˜ž


Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Didn't Nasa spend zillions of dollars researching a pen that could write in zero gravity
while the Ruskies used a pencil, numb nutz?
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

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Originally posted by Mimor
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Please don't bother Robbie with facts. ๐Ÿ˜•

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Sorry pal, but all the water in Europe is someone else's sewage. I drink ONLY beer made from Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water. Comes straight from a virgin spring guarded by Russ' minions. It's patrolled by lizardmen in Illuminati UFOs.
Top that me matey ๐Ÿ˜›
Us Lizardmen have to take a leak too, we're only Lizard after all.

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Please don't bother Robbie with facts. ๐Ÿ˜•
I don't know why I don't know better.๐Ÿ™„


Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I think it's high time we explored Uranus. ๐Ÿ˜•
I think Uranus has already been explored....


Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Didn't Nasa spend zillions of dollars researching a pen that could write in zero gravity
while the Ruskies used a pencil, numb nutz? Some of these assertion are ludicrous,
like water purification from, sweat and urine, like thats gonna benefit us, how?
You know, there is actually a problem using pencils in space. A pen puts down a liquid that gets absorbed in the paper and quickly dries out, but in a pristine atmosphere of a space craft (well, attempted pristine anyway๐Ÿ™‚ a pencil writing on paper sloughs some of the graphite off into the atmosphere which at close to zero gravity means graphite will be floating around the craft and may clog filters, and because it is conductive, cause shorts if enough is floating around.

So pens work better in that regard. Of course, you love to put down American science, but exactly how many Russian probes have landed safely on Mars do you think?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
You know, there is actually a problem using pencils in space. A pen puts down a liquid that gets absorbed in the paper and quickly dries out, but in a pristine atmosphere of a space craft (well, attempted pristine anyway๐Ÿ™‚ a pencil writing on paper sloughs some of the graphite off into the atmosphere which at close to zero gravity means graphite will be flo ...[text shortened]... n American science, but exactly how many Russian probes have landed safely on Mars do you think?
Plus pencils are flamable. The lead breaks and can be a minor health hazard and even a major electrical problem. ๐Ÿ™‚

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Originally posted by sonhouse
I think Uranus has already been explored....
You said you'd never tell. ๐Ÿ˜ž

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Originally posted by Mimor
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
gulp, busted again.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
You know, there is actually a problem using pencils in space. A pen puts down a liquid that gets absorbed in the paper and quickly dries out, but in a pristine atmosphere of a space craft (well, attempted pristine anyway๐Ÿ™‚ a pencil writing on paper sloughs some of the graphite off into the atmosphere which at close to zero gravity means graphite will be flo ...[text shortened]... n American science, but exactly how many Russian probes have landed safely on Mars do you think?
I couldn't care less whether they are Russian or American, all technocrats need their
bums felt! especially those sado nerds who camp out overnight to get the latest apple
product.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I couldn't care less whether they are Russian or American, all technocrats need their
bums felt! especially those sado nerds who camp out overnight to get the latest apple
product.
http://gizmodo.com/5932176/apple-knows-about-a-massive-hack-exploitand-has-done-nothing

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Originally posted by sonhouse
You know, there is actually a problem using pencils in space. A pen puts down a liquid that gets absorbed in the paper and quickly dries out, but in a pristine atmosphere of a space craft (well, attempted pristine anyway๐Ÿ™‚ a pencil writing on paper sloughs some of the graphite off into the atmosphere which at close to zero gravity means graphite will be flo ...[text shortened]... n American science, but exactly how many Russian probes have landed safely on Mars do you think?
Or Scottish probes, for that matter.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
Or Scottish probes, for that matter.
Speaking of Scottish probes, did you know that six of the 12 American astronauts who have walked on the
moon (Neil Armstrong, et al.) were of at least partial Scottish ancestry? I wonder where they went wrong?

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