Wow! Looky here, guys! The species we all thought evolution had left behind: a real live specimen, here on NT! Quick, put that First Poster in a glass jar for inquisitive schoolchildren of the future to gawp at.
neebuz on Mar 22 08 : 6:10am wrote: camera man got bad lungs ? did you know after having a lung transplant for the first few days after the phlem coughed up wouldnt be your own
HAHAHA! is that true? i thought all pre-transplant lungs were usually de-phlemed by ciggaretteless hobo's that sucked out all the nicotene?
Yea the dude in the cammo is definitely slowly but surely coming to the realization that his big dumb ogre self just dislodged the brain of someone half his size. Don't know what country this is but i would imagine sledgehammering someone in the face with your knee and subsequently cracking their dome on a cement stair would be frowned upon.
From the sound of it, it's Eastern Europe. Russia, I think. - Over there, a knee to the face and a cracked skull gets written up as "resisting arrest". - Jumping up and down on the suspect's chest with both feet until his ribs punch out the sides of his chest is "frowned upon". - Frowned upon doesn't mean "fired," either. They still use torture over there. - http://www.rferl.org/feat uresarticle/2007/...8de6a fd851.html
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
Mr_Mortimer on Mar 22 08 : 7:54am wrote: When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
This ticked all the boxes for me reganrding an NT KO. 1, At least one of the combatants should be dressed foolishly. 2, The cameraman is a giggling fool. 3, Said cameraman sticks around for a close-up on the assaulted party. 4, The whole assault is repeated at half speed for anyone who's mind works at 50% speed. 5, The cameraman is suffering from advanced pneumoconiosis 6, It features at least one Russian asleep under a maroon van.
explanation to higher ups: "yes, captain, the individual was trying to commit suicide. i had no more pepper-balls, so i had no choice but to fracture his skull"
Mr_Mortimer on Mar 22 08 : 7:54am wrote: When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.The Russians used a pencil.
Not true at all, pencils aren't allowed on space shuttles, something to do with the graphite in them. And $12billion?!? Come now, that's a bit of a ridiculously high figure!
actually it does have SOME validity. NASA needed a writing utencil, so they hired a private company to engineer a zero gravity ink pen. It took about 3 million TAX PAYER DOLLARS to create. They only made a few thousand to boot. Yoy can actually buy one for like 40 dollars.
You can't use a pen underwater or on ANY surface. I've always hated this little stupid story. It makes Russians to wizzards. No one who's a genius would take more than one dictator in his history. BTW: the biggest coup of USA, getting every needed invention for space traveling from german engineers and saying it was an american technique. THAT's what I call a genius.