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GreeningGalaxy

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5. Add a bigger nuclear reactor until your ship is powerful enough to go where you want.

6. Fire a high-energy laser at it. If it still doesn't work, use a bigger laser. Lasers are best known as "the solution looking for a problem" and can therefore overcome literally any obstacle in any situation ever.

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9. Make the wingspan longer until your takeoff speed is low enough. They say this can greatly increase your drag and make it impossible to fly very fast, but who cares about that if you can get in the air?

10. Edit the cfg so that the engine has a 45-degree gimbal range. Now you can mount your engines as far off-center as you want!

11. Write a graphing calculator program to do the calculations for you.

12. Put on more eyeliner.

13. Put zipties on all the loose wires. ALLLLLLLL of them.

14. Have a snack and try again in ten minutes.

15. Play some Europa Report soundtrack.

16. Try using graph paper instead of college-ruled.

17. Drink some water and take a bathroom break.

18. Discard all the data that can be reasonably considered "outliers", "suspiciously obtained", or "loitering with the intent to cause mischief" until you get the right answer. Note: your professor may yell at you for this, but this is normal and can be disregarded as long as you record an elaborate story for each discarded data point in your report.

19. Ask someone on IRC.

20. Grow houseplants. Fact: all projects are 100% more likely to succeed if planned within ten meters of a houseplant.

21. Listen to World of Goo music.

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34. Turn on more lights. Working in the dark is hard.

35. Try plugging it into a different USB port. If you have an eSATA port, use that, because computers will never be ornery will anything plugged into an eSATA port.

What do you mean, of course magic smoke can be refilled! Why do you think they sell magic smoke refilling kits?

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That is, of course, a fake. The only way to really get your magic smoke back is to chase it down right after it escapes, lasso it, and slap it with a slide rule until it agrees to get back inside the chip. Better hurry before it gets too far, too, because most software has terrible support for smokeless components.

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38. Superglue your elbow to the table.

39. Use a magnifying glass to carefully inspect the floor. Written in the carpet, you will find the names of all the people who care about your failure.

Ohh! burn!

40. Try stepping out the water and putting some shoes on before working with electrical connections.

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