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10. "Rise, my friend."

9. "Open the back door!"

8. "Hey, point that thing somewhere else!"

7. "It's just a dead animal..."

6. "Not bad for a little furball."

5. "How can they be jamming us if they don't know we're coming?"

4. "Come here, I won't hurt you. You want something to eat?"

3. "Keep on that one, I'll take these two"

2. "I want you to take her. I mean it, take her!"

1. "I don't think the Empire had wookies in mind when they designed her, Chewie."

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. The same thing will happen if you feed it dynamite.

It's not every day you read about a significant breakthrough in rocket propulsion -- in this case a fourfold improvement in the exit velocity of ions for an ion (electric) space drive. That's cool 'cause it's directly proportional -- a 4x increase in overall efficiency. This one's called the DS4G -- they have four "grids" that are used to accelerate the ions. I hereby patent the DS8G and the DS16G. You losers can have the other ones -- they're impossible (like 5 minute abs).

Check out the Aero-News Net story that I found on it; I suppose it'll show up elsewhere soon. But the fun doesn't end there!

Sometimes scientists take embarrassing pictures of themselves and put them on the web, and sometimes the universities pull those pages down before the public can see them. And then sometimes google caches them for us, and sometimes smirky tech dudes grab the page and save them to preserve the moments. Read the last week's test report from the DS4G team, and amuse yourself with images of science victories!

And seriously...congratulations to the technical team and the theory guys who make it all possible. Space is cool.

• 10. "And I thought they smelled bad...on the outside!"
• 9. "Possible he came in through the south entrance."
• 8. "I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?"
• 7. "Hurry up, golden-rod..."
• 6. "That's okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while."
• 5. "But now we must eat. Cum, good food, cummm..."
• 4. "Control, control! You must learn control!"
• 3. "There's an awful lot of moisture in here."
• 2. "Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?"
• 1. "I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me!"

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music, but stop entirely when they hear R. Kelly.

10. "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid."

9. "Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"

8. "Look at the size of that thing!"

7. "Sorry about the mess..."

6. "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."

5. "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"

4. "You've got something jammed in here real good."

3. "Put that thing away before you get us all killed!"

2. "Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?"

1. "Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell!"

Snakes enjoy treadmills, despite their total lack of feet.

Send a message to your future self. Go to FutureMe and send warnings, exhortations, admonitions, or flattery to the you of the future.

Because, "memories are less accurate than emails."

What they really need to develop is PastMe.org, so I can send email to the me of the past. Some timely stock tips, career advice, and warnings of the dangers of psycho hosebeasts from Hell would have come in very handy indeed over the years.

For those who are not like Ross, steeped in the ancient lore of electronic music, the byzantine relationships and convoluted structure of the movement are baffling. Here, then, is a map of electronic music:

To play with the interactive map, go here.