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Reminds me of playing Kerbal when I finally figured out how to go EVA...

Poor guy couldn't make it back to the ship, but he gave it a damn good effort before running out of fuel. Bounced off of the ship twice. :lol:
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I've gotten to the point where an EVA Kerbal is written off as soon as they let go of the handle, I'm that bad at flying them.
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Tsukiyumi wrote:Reminds me of playing Kerbal when I finally figured out how to go EVA...

Poor guy couldn't make it back to the ship, but he gave it a damn good effort before running out of fuel. Bounced off of the ship twice. :lol:
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Nutso wrote:Image of the first untethered space walk.
Original Size (3000x3000pixels)

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He can see ALL our houses from there.
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Nutso wrote:Image of the first untethered space walk.
Original Size (3000x3000pixels)

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He can see ALL our houses from there.
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Whales sleeping.
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Or maybe they're saving us from an alien?

I would really be dumb enough to jump in and swim with this whale.
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For a second I was, "It's not that big," then I scrolled down and saw the rest of the picture. :shock:
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Full Moon Rising Over Mount Hood, Oregon.
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Mount Shasta in Northern California.
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Nutso wrote:Full Moon Rising Over Mount Hood, Oregon.
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Did anyone else think of Stargate when they saw this?
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A German dispatch dog carries messages to the front line during a German offensive in January 1918.
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Nutso wrote:A German dispatch dog carries messages to the front line during a German offensive in January 1918.
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Did they use dispatch dogs to deliver messages by firing them at the front lines out of big catapults or something? :lol:
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Looks like it. Either that or dogs can fly and today's dogs are too lazy to fly.

At least mine are.
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