h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's a lesson they could do with learning!
I hope it's just engineering...

Something good about America... I dare you to say otherwise.

http://public.fotki.com/rpalac/calvin__hobbes/

very good, I'm more of a Garfield or Dilbert fan. Depending on my mood

Me too, but mainly Garfield, I think - though Calvin and Hobbes *is* good. What about the Malcolm Evans thing, hey? He was fired from the NZ Herald for (alleged) anti-semitism, and I found a boast on a site http://honestreporting.com about how they brought about his ouster..

No doubt, there are millions of things good about the good old USA (I don't like the term American as it refers to the western hemisphere, North and South). Just as there are millions of citizens of the US who are wonderful people. Aren't we talking about current regimes, cultural norms, and *The Ugly American* here?

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall98/uglyamerican.htm

http://www.theuglyamerican.com/

http://www.ballsout.com/ua_t1.htm

To show some beautiful contradictions in American Kultur.

Perhaps the very divergent silliness and arrogance is why we can't dismiss them entirely. I once worked with a French Canadian for a French language branch of the CBC who said *The only thing the US is good for is great rock and roll lyrics.*

I suppose we can take comfort in the knowledge that even the Roman Empire faded away, but it produced the basis for a whole civilisation.

Hmmm........Wesley Clark running for President.....what do we think of this?

Here's something good (I was thinking about it yesterday, listening to the news on the BBC WS).
The Galileo space craft! I heard a woman, Heather Couper say she was 'desperately sad' at its demise. I don't quiter go that far, but Galileo was a wonderful thing!!!

Galileo is gone??? The wonderful craft that was the first to leave the solar system? Are we talking about the same thing here? How did it meet it's end?

(goes to google)

Oooops!



That was Voyager.

Had me there for a second. I should have known better. But then again, Voyager is the first interstellar vehicle and it came from the US. Chalk up a good one for them.

is that the ion drive powered one?

Noooooo

Very old technology, used the *slingshot effect* around planets. It's the one with the famous gold disk with pictures of a man, a woman, and some *universal* language along with a great collection of pics and music. Hang on. (goes to another page to google again):

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

The reason I should have remembered is *V'ger* from one of the original Star Trek films.

Cl zoomer, you know now, I see... (I can't get on regularly for a while...) Galileo was boved into Jupiter, because it was nearing the end of its life, and there was a risk that if it crashed into Europa or one of the ice moons, that it might contaminate any life-bearing oceans with Terran micro-organisms.
In my day (elderly cackle) Jupiter was known to have have 12 moons. Thanks to Galileo we now know there are *61*!

oh the one slingshotted around saturn

Thank you all for not resorting to one of the North-American-pronounciation-of-Uranus jokes.





btw, I think Carl Sagan alone may make up for anything anyone has to say bad about US citizens.

Why is the Starship Enterprise just like toilet paper?

Dare we ask?

OK, here we go. The scholar will drag us down into the ditch.

btw, remind me to tell you the *ditch* joke...

ahem. . . .





They both circle Uranus in search of Klingons.

Oooooooooh!


A stab to the heart!


I had such greater hope for you......but then, you do live in Alberta....



Let's get back to slagging/praising our southern neighbours...

Actually, I'm just going to go off to finish reading Berton's history of the first half of the War of 1812 (The Invasion of Canada).

Lets see: a warlike nation with a population of 8 million invades a tiny country of 300,000 poor peasants and loses the war! I wonder if any disguised Iraqi men have read the story.