We lose CDs and confidental data #
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 15:07 GMT
NASA loses whole comets.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 13:45 GMT
Dialogue on the bridge:
Junior Officer: Your divine tentacleness, we have successfully completed the course correction. The earthlings will miss us by several million of their "kilometers". We can now safely orbit till we are behind the sun from them and switch on the main engine.
Captain: Excellent, your appendages should be redecorated in imperial purple for this. You are an example to the entire fleet. That is the way things are supposed to be done and not the way that idiot junior officer of "Holmes" turned his main engine when facing the earhlings' planet.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 14:07 GMT
Tch... puh-lease. They'd refer to several million of our brontosauruses in line with the Register's standard distance metrics - possibly even billions of linguine. Judging by some comments, the aliens are already here and reading these pages to monitor our ways.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 14:13 GMT
there's a comet called "Hartley"?
I s'pose that Comets Topov, Octavia, and Pig are out there somewhere as well?
If they are really comets and not alien scoutships from Zeta Reticuli! Well pointed out, Anton, on the accepted usage of the Type-37 plasma induction drive whilst in primitive planetary systems.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 14:16 GMT
On spotting Tempel-1 being twatted by a 360 kilo hunk of metal:
"Sod *that* for a game of soldiers, I am so out of here".
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 15:07 GMT
NASA loses whole comets.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 15:54 GMT
Need help losing something ?
Anything ?
Ask HMRC.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 15:54 GMT
Did HMRC have anything to do with this??
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 15:54 GMT
so there was this hunk of amalgamated frozen space debris and ice hurtling safely around the galaxy until some git decides to chuck 1/3rd of a tonne of metal at it... brilliant, NOW we THINK there MIGHT be a couple of lumps of this frozen hunk of space debris careering off in different directions because we've lost sight of it entirely.
eh... that means that there is now an increased chance that at least one of those lumps is heading straight for us.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 16:09 GMT
Indeed, however if HMRC had anything to do with it at least you're pretty much guaranteed never to find it again, and if you did it would probably be in the basement of some Russian hackers or on ebay (surprised it's not up there already)...
door's open, it's bloody cold out
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 18:07 GMT
Nope; two different comets:
360 Kg anal probe - Tempel-1
Gone walkabout - Boethin
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 18:07 GMT
"Comet LINEAR-S4 was discovered on September 27, 1999 ..."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast05jul_1m.htm
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 18:07 GMT
Is the cause of this! The aliens are coming now to discover what happened during the last episode of 'Single White Lawyer'.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 20:44 GMT
...gone to join Dancer, Prancer, Dasher, Vixen, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen and Rudolph of course.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 21:37 GMT
A callback of a " Futurama " plot?
I bow to your greatness.
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 23:51 GMT
Single Female Lawyer, surely?
To quote Bender:
"Single Female Lawyer, Fighting for her clients
Wearing sexy mini skirts, And being self-reliant "
I'm off to watch that again. Utter genius.
Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 01:19 GMT
Maybe someone nailed it with a few high speed chairs and changed its course.
... that's the IT angle
Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 08:34 GMT
Futurama -
Can anyone remember what episode Leila said to Fry
"Fry, this is much more important than a marble eating contest"
Genius
Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 10:52 GMT
@ John Macintyre: good point - well made. NASA, however are more likely to loose the truth, not the comet.
@ Mike Moyle: oh crap. well - it was nice knowing you guys.
Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 11:03 GMT
It was the Raging Bender episode, funnily enough I watched that one only a mere day or so ago.
I agree, Genius