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Please remember to add something, such as your own comment, to such articles, rather than just posting them here with quotes. Just a little reminder that we don't want to just collect links. Thank you.
Even obviously absurd topics.
Even obviously absurd topics.
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All is NOMINAL with NASA
In many Nasa videos etc, you will notice that the use of the word "nominal" is pervasive:
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3L7crGudVU
First Words of Safe Landing on Mars - Tango Delta Nominal
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/n ... 0821f.html
What is 'Nominal'?
One definition is "existing in name only"
One synonym of 'nominal' is 'symbolic'
I suppose Nasa's idea of rubbing our noses in the joke is by calling their endeavors "Nominal"!
https://www.google.co.th/search?num=100 ... ddKU8-yKnA
nom·i·nal
ˈnäminəl/
adjective
1.
(of a role or status) existing in name only.
in name only, titular, formal, official;
2.
(of a price or amount of money) very small; far below the real value or cost.
"some firms charge only a nominal fee for the service"
synonyms: token, symbolic;
In many Nasa videos etc, you will notice that the use of the word "nominal" is pervasive:
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3L7crGudVU
First Words of Safe Landing on Mars - Tango Delta Nominal
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/n ... 0821f.html
What is 'Nominal'?
One definition is "existing in name only"
One synonym of 'nominal' is 'symbolic'
I suppose Nasa's idea of rubbing our noses in the joke is by calling their endeavors "Nominal"!
https://www.google.co.th/search?num=100 ... ddKU8-yKnA
nom·i·nal
ˈnäminəl/
adjective
1.
(of a role or status) existing in name only.
in name only, titular, formal, official;
2.
(of a price or amount of money) very small; far below the real value or cost.
"some firms charge only a nominal fee for the service"
synonyms: token, symbolic;
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Totally priceless, Starbucked - what a classic ! Dare I say, "phe-nominally funny find" ?Starbucked wrote: I suppose Nasa's idea of rubbing our noses in the joke is by calling their endeavors "Nominal"!
Gosh did I hate that irritating word incessantly plugged by NASA commentators... but now I think I'm gonna love it!
But wait, you forgot to mention these other three synonyms of "nominal" :
"purported; supposed; pretended " http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nominal
I think we (we Cluesforum neo-linguists) may be excused for stretching this a tiny bit - and use 'nominal' as a synonym of 'fake' or 'hoaxed'.
Some day in the future, we may find ourselves having a chat with a friend in the pub - along these lines :
- " Hey, do you remember that Sandy Hook sham?"
- " Aye, that was fucking nominal, dude!"
- " How about them Moooon Landings?"
- " Ha ha, yeah - some dense, nominal shit that was too!"
- " The 9/11 terror attacks?"
- " Nominal like a three-dollar bill ! *Burp*"
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Btw, Starbucked...
That Antares rocket you posted above must have been very powerful indeed.
I wonder what figure on the Richter scale that earthquake at take-off was !
But hey, it might just be an artifact introduced by the use of some Youtube video stabilizer plug-in...
Btw, Starbucked...
That Antares rocket you posted above must have been very powerful indeed.
I wonder what figure on the Richter scale that earthquake at take-off was !
But hey, it might just be an artifact introduced by the use of some Youtube video stabilizer plug-in...
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Oh, I assumed that warbling was just caused by radiant heat waves, but it must be a YouTube artifact
I hope I don't go to hell for this
I hope I don't go to hell for this
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http://sploid.gizmodo.com/holy-crap-nas ... 1589001939
Yawn. This guy "Doctor" Harold Sonny White has been pushing warp drives for a while now. Straight out of science fiction movies! If the people can relate NASA with science fiction shows and films, it must be true!
Yawn. This guy "Doctor" Harold Sonny White has been pushing warp drives for a while now. Straight out of science fiction movies! If the people can relate NASA with science fiction shows and films, it must be true!
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Here is a tall story about how NASA got people to move away from their 125,000-acre "testing grounds" in the wetlands of Mississippi by installing "a huge loudspeaker playing white noise to simulate the sound of a rocket".
Soooo real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_sI_WC6EOY
The poster thinks the reporter´s last words are some kind of inside joke: "NASA is playing God and making its own weather." I´d say the whole comedy merely serves to reinforce public belief in NASA´s fanciful rocket science.
Soooo real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_sI_WC6EOY
The poster thinks the reporter´s last words are some kind of inside joke: "NASA is playing God and making its own weather." I´d say the whole comedy merely serves to reinforce public belief in NASA´s fanciful rocket science.
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I love how it takes over a minute after launch for the rocket to start producing a smoke trail...
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctyu5LJWsN4
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctyu5LJWsN4
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Delayed rocket trails must've been an aspect of the gimmick in those days, they occur at 3:19 & 13:04 here...
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-lcNeysg18
... It's a good movie; the dawn effect at 18:20 & 18:28 is really 'pretty' oh & check out the 'flapping thingy' at 21:57 & 22:07.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-lcNeysg18
... It's a good movie; the dawn effect at 18:20 & 18:28 is really 'pretty' oh & check out the 'flapping thingy' at 21:57 & 22:07.
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Drying the laundry in the solar winds, perhaps?Critical Mass wrote: oh & check out the 'flapping thingy' at 21:57 & 22:07.
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For your weekend's reading entertainment:
"Larry, Moe and Curley ‘Blast-off’ to the International Fake Station"
by "George Jetson"
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/IFS.htm
Also, do not miss...
"Baikonur Beauty Salon"
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/baikonur.htm
And last but no least...
"NASA ‘Slam-Dunks’ New Alien Planet Discovery"
by "Buck Rogers"
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/Alien.htm
Thank Heavens, judging by whoever wrote those funny pieces, there actually IS intelligent life on Earth after all... Humor will set us free. And NASA will, sooner rather than later, become this entire planet's favorite laughing stock. The future is looking good!
For your weekend's reading entertainment:
"Larry, Moe and Curley ‘Blast-off’ to the International Fake Station"
by "George Jetson"
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/IFS.htm
Also, do not miss...
"Baikonur Beauty Salon"
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/baikonur.htm
And last but no least...
"NASA ‘Slam-Dunks’ New Alien Planet Discovery"
by "Buck Rogers"
http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/Alien.htm
Thank Heavens, judging by whoever wrote those funny pieces, there actually IS intelligent life on Earth after all... Humor will set us free. And NASA will, sooner rather than later, become this entire planet's favorite laughing stock. The future is looking good!
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NASA now claims that they can not only hear but also record "sounds from space."
Ironically, these recordings sound almost exactly like what you hear throughout Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
If anyone can find some clips from that or other films for comparison, I think we can have a laugh.
http://www.thedailyepic.com/nasa-probes ... errifying/
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs
Ironically, these recordings sound almost exactly like what you hear throughout Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
If anyone can find some clips from that or other films for comparison, I think we can have a laugh.
http://www.thedailyepic.com/nasa-probes ... errifying/
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs
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Can it get any more ludicrous?!anonjedi2 wrote:I think we can have a laugh.
It sounds like they may also have been inspired by the 1974 Weather Report album "Mysterious traveller": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ44_P6iM18
Wonderful music, by the way.
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Delayed rocket trails & UFO ghosts at 11:11...
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmaKXA5oDQ8
The docking scene at 14:51 fairly obviously involves a scale miniature... particularly egregious at 23:41
Rather sub-standard movie all in all.
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Dear Critical Mass, hope you don't mind me adding to your post this animated gif I made of Gemini's "sideways ascent"...
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmaKXA5oDQ8
The docking scene at 14:51 fairly obviously involves a scale miniature... particularly egregious at 23:41
Rather sub-standard movie all in all.
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Dear Critical Mass, hope you don't mind me adding to your post this animated gif I made of Gemini's "sideways ascent"...