Comments on: Another Dismal Day

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:13:42 +0000

Now they are guessing late tonight or early tomorrow morning in the South Pacific [cue the sound track].

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:42:50 +0000

Don't let your junk come down, NASA, don't let your junk come down!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:09:25 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

Ah, yes, Badtux, but I’m afraid you are dealing with ‘facts not in evidence, as in ‘your local Blockbuster’. Blu-Ray [whatever that may be] might be cheaper, but it’s hard to beat the turn-around of Netflix. I mailed my Mother’s latest return yesterday afternoon, and they received this morning, so she will get the next disk on Saturday. She likes old British TV shows and movies, which are not readily available anywhere else.

Ellroon, if they could maneuver the satellite it wouldn’t be coming out of orbit, and the US is responsible for any damage it causes, which would make the Repubs very unhappy.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:45:27 +0000

If you do Blu-Ray, Blockbuster’s mail server is actually cheaper than Netflix was. Yeah, I switched. It’s also slower than Netflix, but there’s always the option of taking the disc to your local Blockbuster outlet and trading it in for one of the new releases (all that’s ever there in Blockbuster outlets). So you can do that, then receive a new obscure flick in the mail a few days later, and wash rinse repeat.

– Badtux the No-Netflix Penguin

By: ellroon

ellroon — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:42:30 +0000

I was just wondering whether NASA decided not to tell the public where the satellite was coming down because they’ve charted it and it’s going to fall on a major city… and they don’t want to scare the population? Or maybe they’ve planned it to fall on Tehran (oops!) Or on a Taliban stronghold (my my). Or on Moscow (for old times’ sake).

Maybe Los Angeles ? (those damned liberals!) There’s a lot they could do with setting the declining orbit so old satellites could be used ‘efficiently’….