Indeed. I will send this on to all my friends so that they don't buy this 30-year-old, obviously out-of-print coloring book. It just might be at a garage sale this weekend! No time to lose.

There is no other possible conclusion.

Thank your lucky stars?

Hell, why not just use the ball-point pen?

I know the reason, but I don't care enough to answer your question.

Most of them would be taking pictures of it with their phones. On silent, of course.

Not to beat a dead horse here, but yeah, we learned the lesson. The checking actually takes place long before in painstaking rehearsals with simulated data for every subsystem, files being passed from team to team, checked, double-checked, reviewed internally, reviewed externally by technical gurus, reviewed by…

Totally hearted! A great way to get the outside to match the inside.

If by "space" we mean "the whole rest of the universe," then, yes, I'd hazard a guess that Earth has less than 50% of the gold in existence.

For me, yes, pretty accurate. Some of them were predictably stupid (flashlight on head) but not most.

The people in the US space program don't share your amusement. We got MSL off yesterday, Phobos-Grunt is coming back to Earth in a couple of months. For scientists and the human race, that's 50/50.

Minor Correction 1: EVERYBODY, everywhere, believed they were using metric. Course corrections were certainly not using English (ask me how I know). Thruster performance data was passed along in a file which didn't follow the stated s/w requirements, and nobody could tell because the process was so sloppy that a…

Besides, no dumb-ass English units for this one. Everything built @ JPL.

Perhaps I should try that with the WWII Dalek poster, since I just bought myself an Xmas present.

Right, because in 150,000 years, nobody has ever accidentally fallen out of a tree, tripped and hit their head on a rock, experienced an earthquake, etc. This is probably due to the fact they all looked like Ron Perlman or Daryl Hannah and spent their time indoors (sorry, incaves) perfecting sign language.

"Check out our exclusive trailer for the comic adaptation of Guillermo del Toro’s excessively long vampire movie script The Strain!"

Ditto for the movies.

For some reason, I thought we were discussing a scenario that could happen in the real world, i.e., the one with these containers in them. As opposed to, say, simply regurgitating what people see in movies or read about in books. My mistake.

You beat me to it! Now I'm wondering though ... what about Jar Jar?

Ah, you just burned my brain with that info. I had successfully forgotten about 'The New Munsters' (as I now regretfully remember it). Well, in another 20 years perhaps I will have forgotten again. I only pray ...