Those furry little blood-sucking critters use the tips of their wings to sort of vault forward, not unlike what their dinosaur ancestors did.

Aww, jeez- I mis-read and thought you wrote "Fisting!" -and then noticed how oddly misplaced your apparent enthusiasm seemed.

Dude, are you serious?
Are you really bitching about "us" setting rules and standards for warfare conduct?
Man, you really haven't thought this trough. If "the enemy" rapes and pillages and burns down entire settlements- you're saying that's OK for "us" to do as well. You're saying "our" soldiers should not be…

Internet discourse being what it is, I'm surprised and delighted to see such a good reply:)

Actually, the black metal dudes (I think there was, like 2 of them) burnt the churches as a form of media whoring.
I'm in the black metal milieu in Norway, and most black metal dudes just want to go hiking in the forest and groom their beards a lot. The most well-known churches in Norway are ancient remnants from the…

Jump! It's more of a small gap, really;)

It's a well known fact that marijuana cigarettes lead to Satan-worship and spontaneous tentacle outbursts!

That's no ordinary cigarette....

Those are some nice pencils you made there. The pink one is not exactly my style, but hey- as we say here in Norway: "Taste is like a butt. It's divided." Only, in Norwegian it rhymes. And makes sense.
Would you ever consider doing a custom design?

Hey, Paco.
You say you make mechanical pencils, eh? Well, colour me interested! Is it possible to see some of the stuff you made?

I use the Rotring Tikky, and a 15-year old 0,3 I got from my dad. HB for sketching, 2B for anything else. On top of that, linework is done with Staedler pigment liners in different weights.

Mechanical pencils don't have to be super expensive, as long as they work:)

I use mechanical pencils for sketching all the time. They're great, as sharpening a regular pencil sucks, especially when drawing fine detail in copious amounts.

This mission, as all current space missions, are a very delicate balancing act between cost and function. Do remember that ALL electronics have to be shielded against radiation, hardened, and be super-reliable.
Including a colour camera might very likely prove to bee to costly, or too heavy. Besides- sometimes, space…

Space vampires are not a concern; UV light is plentiful in the inner system. Now, space harpies- them's the ones you gotta watch out for.

Yeah, I kept expecting a eunuch to show up and burn him.

Is it just me, or does the original voice sound very much like Bernard Black, from Black Books?

"Time itself is flowing more quickly on the wall than on the floor."
Yes, I've often struggled with this exact problem. Only, I've seen it through...chemistry, not physics.

My mistake: Siding Spring is not a place in Austrailia.
My defence: It's 02:37, and I'm working on a mathematic report.

Last image in article: Image of comet, trailing coma. Taken, fittingly, by a telescope situated in Siding Springs, Austrailia.
Mistake, or subtle pun?

It would be kind of bad to sit on an ejector seat, underneath a non-opening not-hatch.