Voyager becomes first probe to leave our solor system

@CWO:

@ABWorsham:

I was sixteen years old; it was the Christmas of 1996. I had been playing Risk and heard stories of a WWII game called Axis and Allies. I found the game at Toys-R-Us. My dad thought I was crazy paying over fifty dollars for a board game, but he did like the picture of Rommel on the front cover.

I was Germany my first game. Five of us played. I remember attacking capturing all of Africa. My friend’s father gave up saying the game was too long for his taste.

I wonder what your dad would have thought if he’d known that, a few years in the future, a two-part Global 1940 game costing about three times as much would come on the market, and I wonder what your friend’s dad would have thought if he’d known that this Global 1940 game would take about three times as long to play.

He would just shake his head in disbelief. Dad is very cheap.

No room left after all the Champagne and caviar

I request that scientists creating/studying anti-matter do their experiments in some other universe.

I don’t like that “BOOM!” thing.

Not closely related, but…

Keplar was a cool genius…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A615782

Did you know that the Earth’s average distance from the Sun(maybe not to the km, but) is equal to 500 light-seconds.

Speed of light 186,000 miles per second.
Earth’s average distance is 93,000,000 million miles from the sun.

93m miles divided by 186t seconds = 500 light-seconds

Is this just an opportunity to blast Jimmy Carter?  Because it seems in bad taste to do it here.

I was blasting Ted Kennedy actually, but i can roost a few peanuts just the same. Carter has not business saying stupid political things at a funeral either.

@El:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-assault31oct31,0,2535221.story?coll=la-home-headlines

No wonder the Minutemen are taking over protecting the US Mexican border.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051030-114254-2919r.htm

I see it more as if the minutemen won. The border is becoming more secure because of the political pressure the minutemen were able to apply by making people aware of the problem. Bush was ready and set for an amnesty program before the minutemen came about. Now the illegals have become desperate.

I agree with CC on the UN.

Computers, we could easily do without them. Humans did for 99.9% of our race’s life. Computers have helped saved lives, but only after applying a seperate innovation which was previously related to the computer.

Terrorists, ect are not caught by computers. They are caught by people. Computers are simply a little tool they can use to help relay information. Many con men will tell you, sure all this new technology is great, but it doesn’t beat a good head on your soldiers and a smile.

A friend tried to introduce me to it in high school, but I wasn’t interested at the time due to booze, girls, etc. About 2 years ago, another friend got me to play a game and now I’m hooked!