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Swimming To Jupiter 5: Jupiter
Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 5, 2000
}An underwater adventure in space. Hmm...{
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Bluebottle Posted Sep 5, 2000
Well, Earth is essentially a bubble, and submarines in Earth's oceans are having an underwater adventure in space, so why not?
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Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 5, 2000
Mew!
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Munchkin Posted Sep 6, 2000
So is that why Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea met so many aliens then?
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Bluebottle Posted Sep 6, 2000
Probably.
As they say in Sting Ray - "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour". 
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Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 6, 2000
}Except the bad guys winning.{
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Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 7, 2000
Mew! 
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Bluebottle Posted Sep 10, 2000
But apart from that, anything can happen in the next half hour. Especially as we are in Jupiter's gravity well, and about to crash...
Unless something is done soon...
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Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 10, 2000
Mew!
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Munchkin Posted Sep 11, 2000
We could always call Thuderbirds. It would give the guy in Thunderbird 5 (The space station) something to do. Or we could all just burn up in Jupiter's atmosphere. Any preferences?
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Bluebottle Posted Sep 11, 2000
Personally I'm in favour of burning up in Jupiter's atmosphere.
Hopefully the swimming pool we're in will save us.
Or our pilot may come out of retirement... whichever works best.
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Stealth Munchkin Posted Sep 11, 2000
Whazzzis? I fall asleep on one of those orange rubber whatsits you float on, and now I'm near *JUPITER*? How long have I been asleep anyway?
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Munchkin Posted Sep 11, 2000
Well, you are just in time for us to begin our fiery descent through the atmosphere of Jupiter. Of course, what with it being a Gas Giant, we may be some time at this, provided we don't hit any of those gas bag creatures reputed to live here.
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Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 11, 2000
}I'll save all of us!{
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Tashalls, Muse of Flights of Fancy (Losing Weight at A858170) Posted Sep 11, 2000
*huddles next to Mew, while keeping a nervous lookout for gas bag creatures*
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Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) Posted Sep 11, 2000
[Mew detects incredulity in the minds of others]
}Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?{
[Mew uses his powers to move the entire ship out of Jupiter's atmosphere.]
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Tashalls, Muse of Flights of Fancy (Losing Weight at A858170) Posted Sep 12, 2000
*impressed by Mew's mental telepathy powers*
I'm not being sarcastic, I was hoping you might provide a distraction to the gas bag creatures, although I have reloaded my water gun.
Do you think water might melt gas bags? Unless they are methane-based, in which case we wouldn't want to unleash that kind of gas...
...never a good thing early in the morn.
*Peers out the window where Juptier can be seen again from a further distance than before*
What did you do that for, Mew? Now we have aaaaages to wait before getting to Jupiter.
*soaks everybody before thrashing away from shallow end of pool*
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Munchkin Posted Sep 12, 2000
Now that was a neat trick. Don't want to do it too often or we will start to look like a ping pong ball. If you could cause the ship to sink slowly and gracefully down through the atmosphere though, that might be very useful. Give us plenty of opportunity to study the gas bag creatures as we swim.
Thinking of which *Swim, stroke, splash*
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- 104: Bluebottle (Sep 6, 2000)
- 105: Munchkin (Sep 6, 2000)
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- 107: Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) (Sep 6, 2000)
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- 111: Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) (Sep 10, 2000)
- 112: Munchkin (Sep 11, 2000)
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- 114: Stealth Munchkin (Sep 11, 2000)
- 115: Munchkin (Sep 11, 2000)
- 116: Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) (Sep 11, 2000)
- 117: Tashalls, Muse of Flights of Fancy (Losing Weight at A858170) (Sep 11, 2000)
- 118: Mew (who is hovering in midair unless otherwise stated) (Sep 11, 2000)
- 119: Tashalls, Muse of Flights of Fancy (Losing Weight at A858170) (Sep 12, 2000)
- 120: Munchkin (Sep 12, 2000)
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