That's true. Mine involves the Mrs., a trampoline, a car battery, and some soy sauce.

Either way, one can certainlly find something in the world that will make one happy instead of just believing that doomsday is never more than ten years away.

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I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

They aren't trying to find something to make them happy. They're trying to find something to make them feel special.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

They should try to break a world record for orange rolling or some such.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

They tried, but the Illuminati secretly thwarted them.

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See? Because of me, now there's a warning. -Homer Simpson

So now you're telling me GWR is Illuminati?

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

No, the orange growers' association.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Wow, I'm not the only one who knows what GWR stands for!
Guiness World Records

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

You're both right, since everyone in the world is a member of the Illuminati except for a few conspiracy theorists.

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See? Because of me, now there's a warning. -Homer Simpson

Then where's my damn parking space?

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

And why don't I have a better grade in Math than 75?

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

I'm not an historian, nor a very competent astronomer, but one thing that continues to stick in my craw is that I doubt seriously that ancient Mayans knew what a Galaxy was. They may have had their orbital movements down, and seasonal changes down, but to even speculate that they knew about galaxies is pretty far fetched. Senor Carlos seems to be embelishing the myths for effect.

They could see the stream of denser stars across the sky that gave its name to the Milky Way.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Yes. They also could see the constellation Gemini and it appears on much of their pottery as a pig-like figure.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

I'm sorry, but all this talk of the Mayan Elder reminds me of a story. (Those interested in the thread topic only should move along now.)

A researcher in geriatrics decided to interview old people around the world to find out what their secrets to long life were and see if there was a commonality he could use. He visited old people in Lapland, Siberia, SE Asia, Africa, South America... Finally, he found himself in the Yucatan, in a small village, when he noticed a wizened man sitting with his back against the wall of his hut.

"My God," thought the researcher, "This must be the oldest man alive. He's all skin and bones, sunken cheeks, thinned hair, no teeth, frail and shaking. I must find out his sceret."

So, he approached the man and asked him about his life style, his daily routine.

"Well," said the man, frail voice crackking, "each morning I wake up at dawn, smoke a cigar, make love to a beautiful woman, then eat a big breakfast of bacon and eggs washed down by a bottle of tequila. I smoke two more cigars while I watch the satellite tv until lunch... lots of meat and cheese, another bottle of tequila. After lunch, I make love to two beautiful women until dinner, when I have meat and potatoes, washed down by a bottle of tequila. For dessert, I have two helpings of flan and several sweet cakes. I smoke a couple more cigars and drink more tequila, then I go to bed with a beautiful woman and make love until almost dawn."

"Wow!" said the researcher. "That's some life style. And, just how old are you?"

"Well," squeaked the man, "next month I will be... 28."

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