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2007-01-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by DarthVader 2007-01-08 09:22|| || Front Page|| [2 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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