NASA to send R2 to ISS as permanent resident

Post by **vynsane** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:28 am

i love NASA because they're a bunch of geeks. they've created a humanoid robot with general motors, named robonaut 2, and they've shortened the name to R2. it will be on STS-133, the second to last shuttle mission, which will deliver R2 to the international space station as a permanent resident! i wonder if he'll find himself floating home if he doesn't watch his mouth...

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:42 am

Awesome.
I remember the original Robonaut, shown in that link, which had the Boba Fett helmet.

NASA's always doing cool shit like this. A year or two ago they sent one of Luke's movie used lightsabers up into space.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:54 pm

They also came up with some insanely convoluted acronym for a treadmill so it could be called the "COLBERT."

Rollo Tomassi · Post by **Rollo Tomassi** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:11 pm

George Lucas is gonna sue. His exact quote was "I copyrighted Space. Any mutherfuckers going into, looking at or even thinking about space or stars or anything like that owes me. Big time. And fuck you kids. You're not buying enough Star Wars toys. Little ankle biting assholes." Then he poured maple syrup on his man boobs and had a bevy of Penthouse Pets slurp it off.

Well, more of a paraphrase than an exact quote, but close enough.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:14 pm

He did trademark the word "droid," despite it being a shortened form of "android." Not quite Othniel Marsh levels of douchery, but pretty bad.

Post by **vynsane** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:08 pm

anarky wrote:He did trademark the word "droid," despite it being a shortened form of "android."

yeah, but the end result is that verizon has to mention it every time they promote their droid line of phones, and we got a R2-D2 version of the droid 2 to boot. anyone who sticks it to a cellphone company (and also made three awesome sci-fi movies) is okay in my book.

Not quite Othniel Marsh levels of douchery, but pretty bad.

fuck othniel marsh. i heard he once punched an old lady for calling an apatosaurus a brontosaurus.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:36 pm

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. He punched an old lady because her 3-year-old great-granddaughter called an Apatosaurus a Brontosaurus.

(On a serious note, his real-life douchery is the reason for the whole Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus bullshit.)

Post by **vynsane** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:48 pm

anarky wrote:No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. He punched an old lady because her 3-year-old great-granddaughter called an Apatosaurus a Brontosaurus.

(On a serious note, his real-life douchery is the reason for the whole Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus bullshit.)

obviously he did it to hide his own shame and lauckycal retardedness.

Doctor Douche · Post by **Doctor Douche** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:10 pm

I AM PROUD OF MY LAUKYCAL RETARDEDNESS!!! HOW ELSE WOULD I HAVE TURNED A NICE QUAKER BOY LIKE COPE INTO A MASSIVE DOUCHE LIKE MYSELF!!

STILL, YOU HAVE NOW DISCOVERED MY OTHER ALTER EGO!!! HOW THIS PLAYS INTO MY NEFARIOUS, YET INDISTINCT, PLANS REMAINS TO BE SEEN!!!!

SO QUEEFS DOUCHE!!!!!!!!

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:21 pm

Doctor Douche only has 47 posts?

Somehow, he seemed more of a, I dunno, a presence.

Rollo Tomassi · Post by **Rollo Tomassi** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:08 pm

anarky wrote:Doctor Douche only has 47 posts?

Somehow, he seemed more of a, I dunno, a presence.

I think thats because he's had almost as many usernames as you.

Post by **vynsane** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:31 pm

Rollo Tomassi wrote:I think thats because he's had almost as many usernames as you.

silly rollo, there are no multiple forum personality disorder sufferers in THIS forum.

Jedi Knightrider 3000 · Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:32 pm

vynsane wrote:silly rollo, there are no multiple forum personality disorder sufferers in THIS forum.

you got THAT right, sweetcheeks!

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:36 pm

JKR! Long time, no see! How you been? You still working for Blackwater? You still dating that guy from West Virginia, you know, the one with the scary acne scars all over his body? How's your sister; she still have crabs?

Hey, don't be a stranger!

The Phantom ManAss · Post by **The Phantom ManAss** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:02 am

anarky wrote:You still dating that guy from West Virginia, you know, the one with the scary acne scars all over his body?

No, he dumped me. JUST LIKE THE DUMP I TOOK ON YOUR LAWN!!!

How's your sister; she still have crabs?

She has lobsters now.

the vynsane asylum

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