This.

"Chewing on" instead of "eating" sounds really weird imo.

I thought it was a cool verb to use

Where's the "Threads from 2068" thread?

Kind of curious when an attempt on a manned mission to Mars will take place.

I assume there would be no shortage of volunteers to be on the first mission to Mars, even if they knew there was a zero, or extremely low, probability of returning to Earth.

Is it incumbent on whatever space agency pulls the trigger to attempt to ensure that there is a high probability of survival? How much time would that add to whenever the attempt would be made?

I'd be very tempted to volunteer

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Given we successfully went to the moon and back, I think just getting to Mars with no plan to come back would be fairly trivial as far as that kinda stuff can be.

Getting back at a decent probability is probably many orders of magnitude harder and thus more expensive.

It would be pretty awesome if a reality show about people going to Mars and living for X years was a thing.

I thought launching off for Mars was the plot of the final "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercial.

There was a scammy press release where some guy was going to send 5 people to Mars and give them wifi for a while before they died there.

So my wife purchased a flower that doesn't need to be in a pot (or watered, I think?). Anyway, she thought this flower was very cool.

She asked me what I thought about it, and I told her, and now she is super-pissed at me because I've changed the way she sees it and now can't see it any other way.

sup with your balls spider?

Talk about latency. Average time for packets to get to or from Mars would be about 14 minutes.

There's no point in going to Mars. There's basically nothing there except a couple worn out rovers.

I would go just to piss my name in the Martian sands for all of humanity.

Just fyi I would use a squeeze bottle of piss not whip my dick out. Make sure to pack a bottle if you get there before me.

spidercrab - eat some damn fruit already

help me remember this show or movie

Some guys went to a different bar than their usual place and it was a little more "serious" I guess. Some random comes up and asks them some weirdly specific question about the XFL, like who you thought was the best 2nd string running back or something, and the protagonist didn't know and the rando was like
"uhhh maybe you should go to a different bar."

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I'm pretty sure I just saw this. Feel like to was animated, I don't watch the Simpsons ever but I watched a good amount during the marathon. I think Homer went to a sports bar rather than Mo's. Or perhaps Peter Griffin and the fellas.

Just remember the XFL bit.

HULKDICK SMASH!

Am I a dick?

Saturday at noon Friend 1 texts me and asks me if I have any plans on Sunday morning. His car is in the shop and he needs a ride at 8 or 9 am because his wife took the other car. The car shop is roughly 30-40 mins east of where we live (the two of us live 2 miles apart). I say I can definitely do that and don't have any plans on Sunday morning.
Later Saturday night, I get a text fromFriend 2 asking if I want to go see Star Wars at 11. I say yes I can do that. Even if we don't leave until 9 to get his car, I would still have plenty of time to make the 11 AM show. I text Friend 1 and say, can we leave closer to 8:30-8:45, I just got asked to go see a movie. He says "yeah no problem."

So Sunday morning, I get up early, get ready, go outside and shovel, etc. I come back inside and get a text from Friend 1 saying that the car won't be ready now until 10:30-11. I still offer to take him to his car early, but say, I need to drop you off by 9:45 so to make sure I have time to get back. He says, no that's OK, but I can tell he is annoyed.

I feel bad because I originally told him I had no plans and committed to taking him to his car and obviously committed to Star Wars well after the fact. So am I a dick or is it not my fault that car guy is taking 1-2 hours longer than promised?

Not a dick at all.

Friend sounds self-centered.

I didn't think these existed.

Absolutely not.

But why is your friend getting his car serviced so far away?
The garage opens on a Sunday? Almost never happens in the UK - is this common?

I'm confused as well. I think he is having another friend doing the work for him and that friend has to plow snow this morning. He thought he'd be done earlier, but we got a lot of snow here last night. The guy was supposed to have the car done earlier this week, but the guy ordered the wrong part.

The reason you feel bad is because you are a good friend.

The reason he feels annoyed is because he is a bad friend.

Solution: get better friends.



Alternative scenario: Are you sure he wasn't just annoyed at the situation that he found himself in, rather than at you?