Lasers are red, Let's hope they hit the mark, but please do tell, where's the mothertrucking shark?
Mars is red, Earth is blue. Here's a space laser story for you
NASA has decided to use fragments of Martian meteorites for target practice ahead of the Mars 2020 mission, then send one back to Mars. The instrument doing the shooting is called SHERLOC - short for "Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals" - an instrument scheduled for the Mars …
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Wednesday 14th February 2018 09:30 GMT Spudley
Lasers are red, Let's hope they hit the mark, but please do tell, where's the mothertrucking shark?
Unfortunately, the shark failed to reach orbit and crashed into a house in Oxford.
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Wednesday 14th February 2018 07:25 GMT Anonymous Custard
Amateurs
Everyone knows for this kind of work you need an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
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Wednesday 14th February 2018 13:05 GMT onefang
"Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals"
Am I the only one that read that as "Ramen"? Ramen, Organics, and Chemicals, sounds like a meal. Pop them in the microwave for the Luminescence, nuke it 'til it glows. Don't leave it in the 'fridge for too long, or it will become a Habitable Environment. Think I need my word Scanning fixed.
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Wednesday 14th February 2018 13:58 GMT Chris G
After millenia of hibernation, the last Martian awakes. He heads for the surface wondering if anything survived the disaster that stripped most of the atmosphere.
Nearing the surface he senses an object in near space so he hurries to the surface, he sees an alien machine and thiinks ' there must be intelligent life out here'.....ZZZAPP!!!
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Wednesday 14th February 2018 16:44 GMT Anonymous Custard
...cos there's bugger all down here on Earth..
Sorry, had to be linked after a comment like that.
OK any excuse to play it again really...
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