Posted on 10/08/2014 10:49:46 AM PDT by aardwolf46
All over the internet recently, sciFy vs. reality and a Mars satellite for petty cash:
That breaks the monopoly. Faced with the spectre of other nations publishing uncensored Mars images, NASA and JPL have started publishing some much more obvious images than they have in the past including a totally uncensored video (JPL) showing large-scale structure.
A few items...
JPL uncensored video showing large-scale structure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W7-4nSye4lM
Raw JPL video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka08deWohpQ
Electrical device of some sort with helical coil wound around it
Device is on the left, about a third of the way down on the image
Raw image showing gear:
Raw NASA/JPL image:
Metallic container with handle
Raw image:
One final game-over category image
Facebook group dealing with Mars anomaly images:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheMarsReality/
Other resources:
http://marsanomalyresearch.com
http://whatsupinthesky.com
A lot of things go over your head when you’re a short person.
I’m still a short person. Exactly five feet tall.
During my Senior Prom, my date leaned over during a dance and started singing in my ear Randy Newman’s song “Short People”
You and ‘Face will make a pair.
Like Mutt and Jeff, right?
Our neighbors are all decorating. I don’t even know what we have for outside, maybe some lights. I can have Tom check in the garage and attic.
:)
There is a house near me, I’m sure there is one now in every neighborhood,
My sister and I dubbed it the “Griswold Christmas House”. I love driving by it every year, super tacky, yet super fun.
There’s one in the next subdivision with a musical light display. They get a lot of viewers and collect food for the food bank.
A lot of residents here decorate outside, but I don’t spend much time outside, and I want to enjoy the decorations I’ve put up. I’m funny that way!
Is Tom back from his excellent adventure?
There was an entire street that decorated, but Metro decided it needed to be shut down because of congestion. I never heard if they were successful, but I guess I will find out when the local news begins showing decorated homes again.
In the meantime, we have Opportunity Village’s (school for mentally and physically disabled) Christmas Village which takes up most of their property and Desert Springs Preserve, which is like a small arboretum for desert flora and fauna. Both charge a small “donation” but for good causes.
I have to move my book crates before I can plug in my toy soldier and nutcracker. I think I will hose them off and when they are dry, I will use black and red sharpies and some white shoe polish to make them look “new” again. I’ve had them for 15 years.
DP has just left to pick up Tom at church. His friends dropped him there.
I guess I’d better go make sure the washer is available for his laundry!
YIKES! Laundry for a giant! *shudder* I hope he does it himself! LOL! Welcome home, Tom!
One set of his clothes makes a load.
I don’t doubt that for a nanosecond!
I got this in the email from my mom and thought you kind folks here could use a laugh. I didn’t know if I should post it as a separate post.
It’s time once again to review the winners of the Annual “Stella
Awards.” The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck
who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s
(in NM). That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous,
ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.
Here are this year’s winners:
5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded
$80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over
a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the
store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the
misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson’s son.
5th Place (tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000
and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the
wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps.
5th Place (tie):
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had
just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get
the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was
malfunctioning. He couldn’t re-enter the house because the door
connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The
family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the
garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and
a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner’s insurance claiming
the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the
tune of $500,000.
4th Place :
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and
medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door
neighbor’s beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced
yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog
might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams
who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it
repeatedly with a pellet gun.
3rd Place :
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke
her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson
had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd Place :
Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware< /st1:place>, successfully sued the
owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the
bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth.
This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the window in
the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded
$12,000 and dental expenses.
1st Place :
This year’s run away winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago
motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having
driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and
calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a
sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and
overturned.
Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner’s
manual that she couldn’t actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000
plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on
the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete
morons around.
Some people just need to be hit by a meteorite.
Tom brought Kathleen a Pygmy Puff. It’s a small, tribble-like critter from “Harry Potter.” She loves it.
I googled it. Yes, it does look like a tribble,
Kathleen’s is bright pink. It has a tiny face with blue eyes and two little feet. Tribbles didn’t have eyes or feet.
And tribbles resemble fuzzy bath sponges.
Obviously a conspiracy!
Fortunately, Kathleen doesn’t know that, or she’d try to take it into the bath.
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