dmjalund Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 20 minutes ago, Starlord said: NASA should make cars. and send them to Mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 That's what they do already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 Remington is declaring bankruptcy. Drop off of sales and stock price is a driving factor. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 That's a heck of a note, ain't it? I figured the recent protests in favor of gun control legislation would drive up gun sales like it did when Obama was in office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 They're owned by a holding company of the shadier variety and have been in trouble off and on for years, mainly for producing shoddy product and overspending on a new plant (for Marlin, I think, which they acquired a few years back). They've been shooting themselves in the foot for years, and the market bubble finally bursting is doing them in. Nothing too surprising with them. wcw43921 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 26, 2018 Report Share Posted March 26, 2018 46 minutes ago, Pattern Ghost said: They've been shooting themselves in the foot for years, I see what you did there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 Gina Rodriguez Will Continue to Reboot Your Childhood in a Live-Action Carmen Sandiego Movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 3 hours ago, wcw43921 said: That's a heck of a note, ain't it? I figured the recent protests in favor of gun control legislation would drive up gun sales like it did when Obama was in office. Gun sales are up post-Parkland but not enough and not in time to undo the effects of the "Trump Slump". Though really the "slump" is the bursting of the Obama's-Coming-For-Your-Guns Bubble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 10 hours ago, Cancer said: The Curiosity rover has reached 2000 martian days ("sols"). Still going. Original mission duration: 90 days. Opportunity rover has been on Mars 10 Earth years longer than that. Still going. If an eventual manned mission to Mars doesn't recover those robots and enshrine them in the Smithsonian, it'll be a grave injustice. None of our automated servants has gone farther above and beyond duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 Wait'll the Voyagers, Pioneers 10 and 11, and New Horizons come back. But you are correct ... those rovers have been ... superheroic. We've sent our superheroes to other planets. Maybe we're the Krypton.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 It does feel as though the planet is on the verge of blowing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 "Kneel before Trump!" ... Yeah, I think I stumbled onto something. Sociotard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 3 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: If an eventual manned mission to Mars doesn't recover those robots and enshrine them in the Smithsonian, it'll be a grave injustice. None of our automated servants has gone farther above and beyond duty. Objectively speaking, the rovers are inanimate objects with no opinions or feelings, and no moral agency. And yet, I completely agree with you. If not for the sake of the rovers, then to show to ourselves and our descendants our regard for the qualities the rovers have so gloriously demonstrated. Those rovers are heroes, and deserve heroes' honors--if not for themselves, then for what they mean to us. Lord Liaden 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 Nah, in the downtime, they'll probably develop individual sentience (ala Skynet) and if we take it home it'll rule the world (or at least half of Asia) Note: though maybe we should give it the UN Secretary-General job, isn't like any recent holders of that job were any better to the world than a human-hating robot, anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 One-armed comic book artist worked on Wonder Woman, now homeless in Michigan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 27 minutes ago, Cygnia said: One-armed comic book artist worked on Wonder Woman, now homeless in Michigan Bill Messner-Loebs. I haven't heard that name in a long time. I remember the Flash story where Wally was talking to his therapist and he was down because his speed wasn't working right. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 On 3/26/2018 at 8:31 PM, Old Man said: Gun sales are up post-Parkland but not enough and not in time to undo the effects of the "Trump Slump". Though really the "slump" is the bursting of the Obama's-Coming-For-Your-Guns Bubble. Yeah, I think if some serious gun legislation starts popping up in Congress, the gun sales will likely pick up then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 (auto-play warning) Satellite Images Aided the Discovery of an Ancient Civilization Buried in the Amazon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 A few months ago a young boy at a demonstration in Portland made headlines and created a meme by sharing a hug with a cop guarding protesters. Now that boy's family has died in a car crash in California, and he is missing and probably dead. The car drove off a cliff. And investigators are wondering about the family, which had been under investigation for possible abuse. (I really don't want the race trolls involved in this story.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 Relatives await bodies after fire kills 68 at Venezuela jail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 A nasty story from Hollywood: the creator of Ren & Stimpy is being accused of sexually exploiting underage girls, one as young as 13, while working on the show. John Kricfalusi, who founded the Spumco animation studio that produced the controversial series, has been accused of luring girls into intimate relations on a phony promise of a career and mentorship in animation. Apparently several people in Hollywood knew about it -- he joked about the relationships with Howard Stern on his show -- but nobody took any sort of action. Nickelodeon, who he produced for at the time, as no comment. Time-Warner affiliate Cartoon Network, whose Adult Swim sub-channel carried his Yogi Bear parody episode "Boo-Boo Runs Wild", has said they have no interest in working with him again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Wait, he actually admitted to them to Howard Stern on his show, essentially? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Only in America http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43594645 gewing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 2 hours ago, death tribble said: Only in America http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43594645 Makes it sound fortunate I eschew coffee, although the diet sodas I live off (essentially) are probably even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 9 hours ago, Badger said: Wait, he actually admitted to them to Howard Stern on his show, essentially? And Stern didn't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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