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In reply to the discussion: I'd like to say that I very much prefer to talk about Alligators [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)52. Here's the backstory: NASA crashed a probe into the moon in 2009 to get data, including
Chemical composition of what was kicked up from the impact- primarily, they were looking for water ice, which they found.
But some of the more hardcore woo-woo contingent went nuts, NASA is "assaulting our lunar sister with space phalluses", it would destroy the moon's ecosystem ("you keep using that word. I dont think you know what it means"
...it was going to fuck up menstrual cycles, that sort of thing.
Then there was the conspiracy theory that it was secretly an attack on the "star friends lunar colony" - you know, our benevolent space brothers - but it was apparently deflected at the last minute by a "targeted telekinetic group psychic action"
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Doesn't gator have to be marinated in acid and have the tar pounded out of it?
AngryAmish
Jun 2016
#39
I like them too. They are smart. Years ago, the family was clearing out trash and came across...
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#62
PETA, olive garden, cornflake chicken, porn, children in restuarants, moon bombing
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2016
#45
Here's the backstory: NASA crashed a probe into the moon in 2009 to get data, including
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2016
#52