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boostah has 7 letters. dakka has 5. 7-5= ... 2. Never mind. Uhh...boostah is the same thing as booster, and booster has only 7...oh. Um... 0111narwhalz has three 1s in his username. Illuminati confirmed! 1^7=?

I question the circumstances under which the Magic Boulder would come into contact with a Launch Stability Enhancer... Do not attempt to move Magic Boulder! You will be put on the Naughty List!

Darth Junior.

Granted, but the dog becomes too smart and takes over the world. I wish for no more political wishes in this thread.

Shurnarkabtishashutu! Sorry, ever since I saw that one in Star Chart I've been waiting for an opportunity to use it...

A good way to tell if the object you're seeing (and the method I always use) is a space object and not an airplane is to watch it and see if it has blinky lights. If it does, it's a boring common airplane. If not, you've spotted an object in low Earth orbit! There are so many things though, it's very difficult to actually figure out exactly what that particular object is. The ISS is much brighter than most other objects (biiiiiig solar panels) so it's easy to spot in high-light-pollution areas. Many smaller bits and bobs can only be seen from darker areas. It turns out you can see it from most places in the world. Unfortunately, none of those places have many humans and so are usually a little out of your way. Here's a map showing light pollution worldwide, it's good for finding out where good, convenient places might be. I live in a red zone, and I can easily notice the Orion Nebula, and sometimes Andromeda. The best spot I've stargazed at is at the edge of the Badlands, just south of Wall, SD. There you can see the Milky Way and Andromeda, but only after almost an hour of adjusting to the darkness. After a while, you can see Andromeda as a fuzzy blob, and the Milky Way as a soft band across the sky. Millions of stars are visible, and meteors are a common occurrence. Last time I was there I saw a real fireball! I'm sure someday you'll get to see all those things! Make sure, wherever you go, that you are there when the Moon is at a minimum, so that the bright reflected sunlight doesn't keep your eyes from being able to adjust and see all the stars.

Something is trending in the media? <me> 'The Media'? Isn't that that place where millions of people obsess over the daily lives and personal issues of a few hundred or so celebrities? Hm. Sounds like an awful place. Hey, did you know the future started on Friday?

"Because it's there." Why not go to space? What the author is asking is that we keep to ourselves, leading boring, repetitive lives, never bothering to look out the window and see that there is something else out there. This author (if he really believes the things he writes) would make for a great member of the Thought Police.

If you're in a place with little light pollution, you can see all sorts of spacecraft and debris after dusk and before dawn. I get an email every time the ISS will be potentially visible, so I've seen it plenty of times. Never with a cargo ship behind it though! It's just barely small enough that you can't make out it's shape with the naked eye, but it's almost possible to see the rectangular shape of the solar panels. It's amazing to think that that thing is in space, people made it and put it there, there are people in it, and space is right there, right above me. I can go there.

Geez, that's pretty fast!

Just making sure. It is possible that the docking procedures have changed, it has been many decades after all. And that crazy Kerb hasn't been off the Mun for a long time. It wouldn't be unlikely.

Does Hallock know the docking procedure for the Memory of Tomorrow? I feel like I've seen this situation before...

I'm sorry, there is no lifeguard on duty in this soup. We can't help you. Waiter! There is a pinball in my soup!

Shurnarkabtishashutu.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Welcome to the future.

The USSR would get really freaked out, for one thing.

Hardly counts as "art" as I just overlayed some text onto a cool screenshot, but here's a (fake) movie poster from my Ike mission I launched today:

Moon'); DROP TABLE Names;-- Randall Munroe would approve.

Xevious.

When you consider it a compliment when someone calls you a nerd. Nerds get the coolest jobs though! Nerds get to work with awesome things like robots, supercomputers, particle accelerators, spacecraft, jet engines, vacuum chambers, and scores more!

Listening to Carl Sagan always makes me feel good, but I've never tried it while angry so I wouldn't know. Umm...stupid funny internet videos? Yee Stunt it

You know you're a nerd when you constantly think about how weird it is that the galactic superclusters are shaped like neurons.

Do not ignore the Magic Boulder when it is telling you a story! The Magic Boulder does not like when it is ignored and it would feel sad.

What do fellow Kerbonauts say to each other when going to bed on Duna's moon? "Good n'Ike!"