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Old 13-August-2003, 01:05 PM
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Default Good Astronomy in User Friendly

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030811

PS: the cartoon before that is also quite nice... something for our PX dudes?

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is that Illiad's version of Chthulu?
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Default Yup, thats the old ones.

Yea, for some reason, the old gods (specifically Cthulu and Hastor) hang around Columbia Internet.
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At least I now know that Hastur is a 'dude'.

(Uh oh, did I just say the name of He-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Named) #-o
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At least I now know that Hastur is a 'dude'.

(Uh oh, did I just say the name of He-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Named) #-o
who? (yes, I know, old trick...)

Yeah, and there's apparently some (good) astronomy jokes among all those geek jokes...

Though THIS could probably count as bad astronomy...

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Though THIS could probably count as bad astronomy...

Yeah! Imagine, the author thinking that some guys on the MIR(win) space station could access the Hubble Space Telescope that easily.
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