Exactly what I was thinking! I was expecting a rather brown coral, but it's got a lot of green throughout. I think I'll rather enjoy watching it grow.



Exactly! I'm going to have to hunt down a name for it, once I can get a better picture to post. If all else fails, the Barrel 'O Monkeys crowd can start throwing out names.

No, you are at 40 pages... 41 now. I meant you had until I read up to page 35 to post pics lol. But I only made it to the end of page 27, barely. Now to try to read the rest before they put me to work. And truthfully I just dont feel like doing anything today .

Oh and BTW, NICE PICS!

Ah ok, that make sense now. Hopefully it's been a fun read! After all, reading NR is much more fun than working.



Thanks! Once my camera is re-charged or has new batteries (I have rechargeable, but they are crap these days), I'll take some new and better photos. I really want to get an ID on the monti.

Awesome frags MJ ... I particularly love that monti you have there! Orange with Blue Polyps/Purple polyps?

Awesome! I hope that they grow and prviode you with numerous economical boost

YAY for Diplomacy! thanks Lt Bud for helping west and east germany come to a truece.

I'm hoping to be able to tell for sure what color the polyps are once I get home tonight and the lights are fully up. Hopefully I'll have a good picture of it tonight, for an ID.



Me too! I'd like for my tanks to become little frag factories.




I think Lt. Bud was paying attention during President Reagan's speech.

According to me, you're only on page 9.

Also, I have officially become lost in the talk of battle.

Those must be some reeaaaalllllly long pages.



Well, it's quite all right. I think that things have moved into peace talks now, so everything should be A-OK.

We want to move from the conflict in the tank to the Coral Boom era. Those corals need to start makin babies!

Going back 2 pages. Bring back Tesila. Lets not open that bag o fun back up. You dont want to loose half the readers again

Now on to NASA. One of the main reasons that they are entertaining the single flight system again is this. Okay I know someone is gonna have this in their sig after this. But here I go. It cost $125,000+ per pound to get anything into orbit. This is the reason that they make all the astronauts go poop before they launch. Talk about a pricy poo.
This said. It is much more economical for NASA to go back to the cheeper fueled, insured, payload, and more accurate system again. Remember my prepost about them revisiting the Apolo era missions. NASA went to the shuttle system for many reasons. One to help prove that they were not wasting tax dollars by having folks be able to say they did it. Take the unreliable computerized gizmos out of the equations, and be able to do on-demand experiments when the need came up. Thus being they are more focused one defense and surveillance.

I can see Nate adding that to his sig.



Very good points. The shuttle is a great system for repetitive processes, such as ISS work, repairing Hubble, etc. However, the shuttle kept us locked within the magnetosphere of Earth, because it wasn't sufficiently shielded and didn't have the energy to break into free-space.

OHHHH i get it now... but... why?
also have you guys heard of the two college students that were able to use a weather balloon to get a payload of about 5Lbs to low earth orbit?
Video link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBBRRp9DOQ
and it only cost them $150 to do it! imagine what we could do with thermally protected weather balloon of much bigger size!
stupid NASA... but still I <3 space filight (and NASA)


added your quote to my sig

I think it's the cumulative effect that increases the cost. I think it goes back to physics, in that to get an object at rest to go into motion, you need to apply force. The force will vary with the size of the object, so while a 5lbs object can be put near orbit for $150, to put 500lbs in orbit, it will cost much more.

Think of it this way. To stop a bicycle, you need just a small brake pad and a little bit of force. However, to stop an automobile, you need a much larger brake pad and hydraulic force.



Called it!

i say bring back the cold war! they say that war is good for the economy....i see those damn commies coming. those freaking commie cubans... oh wait!....im a cuban. damn me. (i've been waorking too much today)

Why? Think of the time that we are in. As a nation what do WE have to gain at the moment from space or deep space exploration? Beside mining asteroids. One can easily believe that were at the dawn of a very monumential change in our lives "IE Freedome of everything" Thus our recon and defense ability are valued even more so. SOOOO if we are tossing up unmanned rockets all the time then in time the alarm of that will be dulled and the media attention will be pulled away by something else. One question have you noticed all the media hype and historical shows on the tv about the Apolo era stuff. Now lets think about this a bit. The anniversary of the Apollo mission was just this year. What time could/would be better for them NASA and any of the govt defense branches to be tucking in ALOT of defense mumbo jumbo into this novelty time. Never because the entire world is focused on the old lunar stuff. Then at the very same time NASA has been all and has the entire globe grid mapped and lazer satellites in place. Now we have the area of space and sub-space defended by those old un-manned rockets. Oh snap. Those who dont know history are condemned to repeat it themself. Now who will have the upper hand.

Does that ans your question of why?

I guess.... but wouldnt launching even from an aircraft (like a B-52) be more efficient and have less risk of losing the payload in the event of a catastrophic malfunction?

It was too worthy not to

anyways anyone know anything about the alien on lvl 27 on Area 51? i do believe his name is J-Rod... or something like that...

LOL Dennis your willing to shoot yourself. Dude you need a nap man. Those flat worms are drilling into your brain.

Hey just keep remembering your a cubahationmacian

thats very conspiratorial of you...

yeah i guess.... but then what happened to Regans "Star Wars" proposal? has that been put into effect?

Nope b/c NASA is not bound by the governing laws of the FAA. they do not have to release what they are doing or tossin up into the air. If you put that into any plave govt owned or not you have to have a paper trail. Paper trails can be sniffed out.




Close but no cigar. His name if A-rod. He plays baseball.




I just know 2 much.

Um all that Regan star wars stuff. Remember the lazer sats. Nuff said. just a simple switch of some lens and driver you got a really spensive highly painful zappo you away ray disintegration gun.

Thats even more conspiratorial of you!
i guess... they probably have a bunch of nuke filled geo-stationary satellites that could rain down death to anyone that dared oppose the US in force.....

I've been running into that kind of stuff a lot lately. Of course, generally it's criminal defendants trying to convict themselves on the stand.

I think the commies are already being watched well enough. The group I'm the most concerned about? Canadians. I mean, them and their Mounties are given pretty much cart blanche, and our border is very open to them. Everyone seems to think the Canadians and their little "eh?" is so cool and harmless; but I'm telling you that one of these days, we're going to wake up, and the little maple leaf will be flying on the flag pole because they'll have invaded.







It's because that's what the government does. Show me a politician who isn't lying or making misrepresentations and I'll show you one that isn't breathing.

The Star Wars plan is officially shelved, but unofficially, the Chinese are very concerned about it. That's why they recently started shooting down their own satellites, just to test their technology.

I just know 2 much.

Um all that Regan star wars stuff. Remember the lazer sats. Nuff said. just a simple switch of some lens and driver you got a really spensive highly painful zappo you away ray disintegration gun.

Thats even more conspiratorial of you!
i guess... they probably have a bunch of nuke filled geo-stationary satellites that could rain down death to anyone that dared oppose the US in force.....

Plus, on top of the paper trail, flying something to then launch into orbit gets expensive too. I know it's a pretty penny just to fly a darn shuttle back from CA to FL on top of a modified Boeing.

Knowledge is good.

THATS TOTALLY AWESOME!
mes thinks we should zappy Odummy Bin Fudgeface off the face of the earth... same with that Nidal Hassan guy that killed all those poor soldiers and that one MA...

oh yeah and dont forget Al Queda...


true... very true..

paper trail.....why do you think us tax payers pay over $1500 for toilet seats........just a hunch.


canadians..........bomb them too like on southpark.

With bin Laden, I actually think we should just allow any Marine Scout Sniper who wants a crack at it to take 6 months to go on search and destroy. I think Intel has said they are confident that bin Laden is in a particular region of Afghanistan/Pakistan, so insert the volunteer snipers into various points, and let them have at it! I know two guys who held that position, and I'm pretty sure that with their skill plus determination, bin Laden would be dead by the end of 6 months.

Trouble is that now, even if Intel knows exactly where bin Laden is located, the shift has been made to a more law enforcement styled effort. So, this means that concerns for a proper detention and evidence gathering procedure will be the dominant consideration for "apprehending" bin Laden.

To borrow from a good country song, we should just put a boot up his ass, because it's the American way.

Or, something like this:

but then...where would we get all of our maple syrup...and the other half of Niagara Falls?!??!?!?!

Exactly. You've gotta love Black Ops. I wonder why they use so many expensive hammers?

Then again, it's also just part of the super efficient government. It's why the government pays almost twice as much for a procedure compared to what a private insurance company would be charged. And these clowns think they can reduce health care costs by just taking over the insurance industry?




+1

When shall we begin operation 'Bay of Maple Syrup'?

he should rot in jail... not die fast.

We'd make 'Merican maple syrup!

Niagra Falls would be even more cool, because there would be a deep canyon for it to fall into. Plus, Niagra Falls is slowly moving further and further into the United States as the years will pass.

Well, I'm out for the night. I've got a very early morning tomorrow, and then I need to be rested up to party into the late evening.

Carry on without me, and I'll have some responses up in the AM!

As you were!

LULZ @ the syrup and Niagara Falls idea

BAII! good night

just another hunch/thought....how can a over six foot muslim dragging a dialysis machine that's connected to his kidney's get away? anyhow can't we just find the gas truck filling up the side of a mountain for the hidden generator for his machine?

i think i'm feeling a little woozie. lol

Ah ha MJ your slipping or sleepy. How have you let it go by that it is rumored within all branches of the defense that Osama has been captured by the Canadian Rangers. They are far worse than any of our rangers. Hell they come and skool our rangers. tisk tisk

REALLY??!?!?!
the Canadians got him?!?!?!?
WHAT IN THE FRIKKIN HELL!
our guys sukkk then....

apparently, that's the power of mple syrup . its a bio engineered formulas only for canadians. the secret password is "eh" that's why it doesn't work for americans. it gives us diabetes.

your a funny man.

Thats whats being said bro.

Yep our guyz do suk if you look at what the C-rangers go through. They have to survive in the artic circle for 72 hrs. with only a handful of essentials. Crazy.

like i said...MAPLE SYRUP!

bomb them now before its too late!

WOW. just... wow...

so what forum do you go to too get all this info?

O.o thats complete crazyness. how many die before admittance?




but Canadians are friends, not food

Um I live less than 20 miles from Fort Knox. Have ALOT of friends in all the branches. Oh and having clearance helps. All I can say bout that.



They have epirbs if the need to bail out.

Dennis bombing the C's would be a really sticky situation. Imagine all the Sizurp all over the place.

... i want more knowledge!

Clearance always helps. always.

EPIRBS!

lastly.

You gain knowledge by removing the tin foil from your chrome dome.

Man I feel fro Opy. This will be him tomorrow when he sees this thread. I cannot handle this input overload.

What do you mean this thread has a I skerd now.

NINJAS!?!?!?!? WHARE?!?!?!?!?
ALERT Lt. Bud!!!


RED ALERT!
EVERYONE RUN!

i was just going to mention a line for opy, but your fast joshua......i think we found our ninja.


nate dont remove th tin foil! it wont give you knowlege....it will just make you want to get like 28 jobs.

opy take a vction day and catch up bud ! lol

Tin foil protects me from alienz.
i would never take it off

I cannot handle this input overload.

Well I feel lucky. I am in Texas and we at least try to keep our borders guarded and our other "neighbors" down here under control.

and whos to say I am not lurking in the background just soaking in all this valuable intel...

Ninjas are on the front lawn!

Lt. Bud is current rounding up the War Corals and the brain is preparing a strategy.

We currently stand at DEFCON 1.




Poor opy.... +1 on a vacation day. Just grab a 12 pack and enjoy the mayhem.

Personaly I suspect that the foil protects you from alien detectors. Come on, tell us the trueth now. Are you on this planet legally?

Nanoo, nanoo

You mean something like this?