chook can i be your friend and help you look for monsters with nigel? i would like to go to mars. is there any room for me? i am a small person so i can fit anywhere.

So....who'se hungry and wants a backyard BBQ tonight?

Remember: I cook the meats on this trip.

Ummm. This wouldn't be the maker of the recently whining coolant pump would it?

Concerning the Estes rocket thing, I did see a fifth stage with parachute of a "Mighty Goddess" stuck on the ouside of the gondola of the space elevator. No Estes parts have been seen on Mars, except for the Gyroc that the two girls brough along, and launched here. Starlab was joking about launching a Big Bertha from Phobos, but I didn't take him seriously.

Concerning Josie_1's hopes to join the mission, sadly she'll have to wait till another one. We are, after all, already here, and planning to return starting in six days. She can try to hook up with GalaxyGirl, and the others stuck at home to try and plan the next trip someplace special. Personally, I'm staying in mission control for the next one.

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How could I be joking? :angry: <_< My driver's still up there in a synchronous orbit over Mars! h34r:

I have no room for "Tobacco looking plants" in my mini greenhouse, you must have found the "mutated" tomato plant - I wondered where it had got to! The cosmic rays must have affected its DNA & caused it to mutate. (If you hadn´t "decided to cut it up and smoke it" it could have been used on Earth to help people that suffer from nutritional problems. :P )

Jimmy:
Chook:
I shall have to plant a "Man-eating" plant to keep you guys out!!! :P (But how will I get in? :unsure: )

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Oh boy Starlab, I have a bottle of Shiraz =Cabernet that will go reat with the Bar B Que.\

Sorry for smoking your tomato plant Spacemad, it was Chook's idea. B)

Chook, Rigel will be there shortly, he's sleeping off the effects of the concoction I made for the cold weather!

If anyone needs me, I'll be practicing the new songs antoniseb requested we learn.

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Yes, that's it, hide your bloodshot eyes behind a pair of sunglasses but we all know about your "concoctions"! :P

(Now you put the blame (your part) on Chook! :P )

Spacemad:
Thanks to the gardens we have been able to keep our air & water supplies in very good condition - future space missions should take this into account! They also provide fresh vitamins (especially vit C, which are in very high concentration in tomatoes, one of the best natural resources of this vitamin), Soya beans produce more than enough of the rest of the vitamins & minerals we need for our everyday activities as well as "tons" of protein.

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fine work you have in the last many articles, amazing !. well i have decided to write a mars language book for the expeditions the "true experiance of mars expedition 2004" i don't know what will be the concluding paragraph period for this book, just i have decide to write this book, you know there is a language with the typists that is called as "shorthand", the same i am using in this propose book, for every sign you have to refer a special dictionary to read this book the demo paragraph of this book is as follows:

`^--/#.,,,x,|__ =()()()*^<..> [this is a heading of the book]

0000%{*}^,,^/^^@_...>...><<../0)..#.~....-....>... [ it means we are greatly enjoying the expedition and the tour so far, our scientific ideas are going very smoothly and converting into a encyclopedia, since we are in this expedition uptill we don't have any complaint of 1. food, 2. health, 3.laughing [laughing facility was available on board] and so many things i have wrote in this preface of this book "True experiences of Mars Expedition-2004". from the destination of mars, contact my mars address. no complimentry copy available, send subscription one time+docking and discharging charges free.

At:
marstracker,[the propose editor]
psudoextraterristrialsuperbredish-crater,
00.000/@_^ zip code
at/po: Marslizardy,
Dist: Marsida,
state: Marschhanhanfandan
country:Mars.

Let Them Eat Cake

After a difficult night, knowing there was something unusual coming up, and a lot of tossing and turning, I went into the galley and started making a Cake. It is a rich round three-layer lemon-flavored cake [the middle layer is double-chocolate, not lemon] with tangy orange frosting. On the top we have a big letter "C", a plus sign, and a picture of a fishing hook. I stuck every flickering LED stick we had on board [we only had three boxes, so there are 48 'candles'].

So as soon as Chook wakes up, let's get the band together to play some up-tempo party music.

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Ok here's your cake Chook!
It was impossible to find a B-day cake as the one anton described :P



P.S. the middle layer is chocolate not vanilla!

Happy Birthday to you

Found this in orbit. look like the ship? :huh:



Umm, a BBQ or Braai as known in SA sounds good got Boere wors
(Fenetic: Boor-a-vors)StarLab? :huh:

Oh and chook here's your real cake i made fresh at 2 AM mars time, forgive me but i think the waking up at the early hours of the morning got to me - Is Chris OK? :unsure:

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Delicious cakes everybody,...but now it's time for Chook to open his presents:mine first!

That's right, Chook...it's a pair of Mars walking shoes. I know how you have to have your morning walks, so.....I hope they fit, they're adjustable. Enjoy!
OK, what did everybody else get Chook?

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Well theres that space ship i found in orbit, want it? :huh:

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Here you are, chook! I'm sorry I've kept this from the rest of you for a while but, I got lost - jimmy's delicious (I won't ask what's in it!) energy, cold thwarting drink kept me going. However, I made an interesting discovery in a crater - it appears to be our first beastie, chook! I'm giving it to you to show how much we appreciate you on this journey!

I'm not sure whether to believe if my discovery is positive (it's very stereotypical) - I'll take it into the lab and run some tests to make certain it isn't one of our crew who's completely starving - there's no need to be, Jimmy's food supply'll keep us going!

Happy Birthday, Chook!

Kind regards
Rigel

As for the other beastie....I agree with chook - It doesn't seem to be a hoax. It doesn't have a pulse - no heart indicated so it cannot possibly be an earthling as well as it not having an earthling-like respiratory system It has a green tint as chook has stressed - I've taken some samples and put them under the microscope - I notied that there are traces of corophyl which indeed would give reasons why the creature has a green tinge and also indicate signs of photosynthesis!

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Here's a snap of the beast that I managed to take for the rest of the crew to have a look at!

Martian discovery!

(I wasn't sure how to upload the pic into the thread without using the hyperlnk tool!)

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Doesn't look much like five legged reptile that Chook discribed a while back!!!! :P

BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHOOK!!!

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The only sheila on-board that's awake is Ola. Spacefreak2 and Janice have been sleeping so far. Hopefully they'll wake up in time to at least see Mars a little bit before we head back to Earth. Perhaps there are some native sheilas out there somewhere.

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You heard him band! OK, let's kick this party off with "Birthday", from the Beatles' white album. In the key of E.
Ready? One..Two..Three...Four!!!!!!

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I've got my krumhorn all set, with the reed dampened:

You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too--yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.

Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party.

I would like you to dance--Birthday
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-Birthday
I would like you to dance--Birthday
Dance

You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too--yeah
You say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.

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He's a bit young to remember The Beatles, Jimmy. he's only been around since 1989!! :P

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1989 or 1889?

Great job on those vocals, antoniseb; I could have sworn McCartney was singing!!! Nice krumbhorn solo too.

Chook, how do you like your party so far? OK OK, we'll try to round up a few more sheilas.

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This is Houston again,

The kid thinks its his...There should be some chewing gum stuck on the bottom
of the antenna...

By the way, some old lady stopped in a few moments ago...

She left a message that I've misplaced....something about taking pineapple (if you brought any along) and marinating it in worcestershire sauce and then putting it on rice bread toast.. The martian atmosphere is supposed to do wonders for it...

That wouldn't have been a relative of yours, was it?

blueshift

Looks like I missed the boat or rather rocket this time.

That's okay, I'm thinking about a trip simular to the Would you Go thread to some of the local stars for sometime in the new year.
Any thoughts?

Chook! You're crazy!!!
Glad you enjoyed your own party

P.S. I don't drink BTW, so enjoy it on your own.

i was just doing the scrutiny of the research papers in university of mars, that's why i could not give you happy birthday on yesterday, chook, the same giving here
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, Anton wrote a nice poem in which he also telling now that the same day is also a birthday of him.

sunil

This has been a nice social thread, and I wouldn't mind seeing the idea repeated sometime. Please wait until January 18th at the earliest before starting a new one... That's when this trip gets back to Earth.

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We launch from Mars at 2200UT On Tuesday January 4th. We set sail for Earth in the "Adventure" two hours later.

BTW, Sunil, the poem was the one Jimmy mentioned by Lennon & McCartney. My birthday is about 150 days from now.

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Sunil, the poem Anton wrote is a real song by a band called the Beatles. The song was written about 35 years ago.

Ola, here is some special oil to rub on your feet...

Chook, wake up! wake up! Rigel is waiting for you outside to go and catch some martian butterflies or something!

Anton, the solar panels are getting a bit dusty, I think I'll go and clean them.
Spacemad, where's the windex? I bet you left it in your plant room.

You know, last night I was looking back home to Earth through my telescope and I saw a big blurb like thing. I thought it might have been an explosion or something, but on closer inspection I discovered it was Notre Dame's beard. I wonder how that rascal is doing?

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You can hang out with Blushift, who's in constant contact with us at NASA headquarters.

Yeah, wakey wakey Chook! We onnly have a few days left 'till our departure to collect some more samples!

Anton, how much space do we have to store all the samples we find (and beasties!)?

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