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2007-01-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by DarthVader 2007-01-08 09:22|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1745 views since 2007-05-07] Top

1 any green chicks? I love green chicks

Posted by Captain Kirk">Captain Kirk 2007-01-08 10:01|| 2007-01-08 10:01|| Front Page Top

2 Hydrogen peroxide... isn't that what fuels Russian torps and sank the Kursk when it blew? And that British sub a long time ago?

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2007-01-08 10:13|| 2007-01-08 10:13|| Front Page Top

3 Feh! This guy needs to do more research. There's a lot more to a Bombardier's defensive secretions than hydrogen peroxide. The hydrogen peroxide is a catalyst for a benzoquinone fluid. It heats in a reaction chamber and discharges in a jet-like spray. Temps can reach 180-degrees F (I know from Thomas Eisner's book "For Love Of Insects" and after doing a lot of research for a book I'm currently writing).

There's also a lotof difference between an animal which can produce hydrogen peroxide via specialized cells and having those cells be based on hydrogen peroxide. The Bombardier is still a typical terrestrial beetle.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-08 11:44|| 2007-01-08 11:44|| Front Page Top

4 One good thing about Mars, if it's empty, is that we won't have to interspecies fight for land while we Terrform it in Earth 2.0.

Posted by Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-08 13:17|| 2007-01-08 13:17|| Front Page Top

5 Keep in mind the story was filtered through a press officer.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-08 13:22|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-08 13:22|| Front Page Top

6 Mars. Needs. Women.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-01-08 14:01|| 2007-01-08 14:01|| Front Page Top

7 Deja Thoris, John Carter, and green-skinned, 4-armed Martian warriors had better watch out! Earth's space probes are only the first step in our own long-planned invasion of the red planet.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-08 15:28|| 2007-01-08 15:28|| Front Page Top

8 Kirk:

Not Orion, Mars. Besides, it was Christopher Pike who met the Orion Slave Girl™.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-01-08 17:03|| 2007-01-08 17:03|| Front Page Top

9 The black obelisk is gonna be pissed.

Posted by ed 2007-01-08 19:56|| 2007-01-08 19:56|| Front Page Top

10 OWG + ANTI-US GLOBAL SOCIALISM NOW, D *** ng it, as AIR GUARD PILOT DUBYA [ergo America] illegally = mistakenly wiped out Mars back in the '70's.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-08 20:38|| 2007-01-08 20:38|| Front Page Top

11 Joseph, does indeed at times, rule! :)

Posted by borgboy 2007-01-08 21:29|| 2007-01-08 21:29|| Front Page Top

12 JM would be EXCELLENT as a Code-talker, question is, would there be anyone capable to decode?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 21:40|| 2007-01-08 21:40|| Front Page Top

13 If there is nobody capable of decoding, then it would be the ultimate in security, Commodore Frank. Crank out the Code, JM, with gusto!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-01-08 21:56|| 2007-01-08 21:56|| Front Page Top

14 :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 22:11|| 2007-01-08 22:11|| Front Page Top

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