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Hurricane Dean menaces Jamaica, sends shuttle packing

Anonymous Coward

Why bother... 

...it's gonna burn up anyway.

Isn't it?

Anonymous Coward

@Anon 

Miserable git. Are you my boss?

Andy Tyzack

re Why bother... 

what a thing to say,

no wonder u posted that anonymously, you freak of nature

Steve ten Have

Quite possibly... 

As awful as it is to think - I think we all are half expectin this one to end in fireworks as well and with the other teacher onboard...

Ashley Pomeroy

And then we're going to Washington, to take back the White House 

I can't be the first person to have a vision of a giant Stay-Puft/Howard Dean crossbreed menacing Jamaica. He is hiding in that cloud. He stomps along, throwing marshmallow at people, and shouting YEEAAARGH! at the top of his voice.

Anonymous Coward

Cali? 

What's wrong with Edwards Air Force Base in California?

Jim

What's wrong with Edwards Air Force Base? 

Cos the positioning flight is a bitch?

Parax

What's wrong with Edwards Air Force Base? 

no posting the shuttle back to florida is the bitch... you know how many stamps that needs?

Nasa is trying to save money!

Parax

can I point out just one lil thing 

isnt the landing approach to Florida directly over the Yucatan?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/landing.html

They'll get a really 'good' view if they come down on 202.