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#1329749
Percy Q. Shunn
9/7/2011 3:49:46 AM
#1329750
aaa
Translation to english: "I just use words without understanding a damn thing."
9/7/2011 3:51:53 AM
#1329755
jsonitsac
9/7/2011 4:09:02 AM
#1329756
Extraintrovert
I hope I'm not the only one that finds their screen name hilariously inappropriate. I think this person was absent the day evolution was handing out enlarged cerebral cortexes.
9/7/2011 4:09:24 AM
#1329760
Bollox
Backwards? In relation to what?
9/7/2011 4:13:23 AM
#1329765
WhiteNoise
But this "reverse landing" thing works the same way as the Apollo LEM!
Never mind, you people don't believe we went to the moon anyway.
9/7/2011 4:28:13 AM
#1329768
LV426
Goats? Wha...?
9/7/2011 4:38:03 AM
#1329786
Brendan Rizzo
For a moment there, I thought he was talking about the mythical creature. That just shows how long I've been on this site, if I could even contemplate anybody actually believing that phoenixes are real.
9/7/2011 5:51:00 AM
#1329789
Curiously enough, the references to "landing backwards" and "goats" brought the Tintin books 'Destination Moon' and 'Explorers on the Moon' to mind (well, at least for me...)
9/7/2011 6:03:15 AM
#1329790
Table Rock
Actually it used parachutes AND retro rockets to land in 2008, similar to the way the Viking missions to Mars landed... in 1976.
9/7/2011 6:06:07 AM
#1329818
Papabear
No. Please trade in your "Big Brain" for a better brain.
9/7/2011 7:16:59 AM
#1329821
J. James
Oy Vey. What an idiot. ATS, you show your cremé de la cremé once more.
"Because USA have not technology to land a probe that has to land going backwards. Pure and simple."
Lemme get this straight. The United States Government has the technology to control people's minds with microchips, laser beams from space and flouridated water, they are capable and competent enough to hide the Illuminati shadow government from the public, BUT THEY LACK THE ABILITY TO LAND A PROBE BACKWARDS!?
And Goats? What the fuck!?
9/7/2011 7:26:02 AM
#1329824
Javascap
"Only goats refute this simple concept"
Poe. A RationalWiki Poe.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Goat
9/7/2011 7:32:53 AM
#1329825
Doubting Thomas
Didn't NASA land the Mars rover by parachuting it down, and then inflating some huge air bags to cushion its landing? Admittedly, I don't know anything about this Phoenix thing he's talking about, but just because NASA hasn't released photos or videos of its testing doesn't mean that it hasn't happened. The internet has a wealth of information, but every single possible piece of information that exists isn't on the internet.
And I'll second what J. James said. The government has all this incredibly complex technology to control people's minds, fly silent black helicopters all over, develop engery-based space weapons, and cover up incredibly complex conspiracies for years, but they can't develop a set of rockets to slow a space probe's fall. Only in the mind of a conspiracy theorist.
9/7/2011 7:34:03 AM
#1329864
Goats? This must be satire.
9/7/2011 9:16:33 AM
#1329902
If America has no technology, I wonder who does.
9/7/2011 10:46:12 AM
#1329963
Here's how the lander worked. It entered Mars' atmosphere; a parachute was deployed to slow it down; at a certain altitude, rockets were fired to slow it down even further. I don't know what this "landing backwards" bullshit is, but I'm no goat and I'll refute your nonsense (and your claim to a large brain) every day and twice on Sundays.
9/7/2011 2:43:02 PM
#1329984
Mel
I think this guy needs to PUT DOWN THE BONG!
9/7/2011 5:22:37 PM
#1329995
vtcommie
Damn Chi-Coms infiltrating a perfectly good bastion of good ol'fashioned paranoia.
9/7/2011 6:08:30 PM
#1330347
Karana
Nuclear bomb? Check. Cloning? Check. Landing something backwards? Fucking impossible.
Your brain really works this way?
9/8/2011 4:50:54 PM
#1330532
Silver Eyed Rigaldo
@Brendan: You mean he wasn't?
9/9/2011 10:26:04 AM
#1330636
Harrier Jets can land backwards.
9/9/2011 4:57:12 PM
#1331544
Dr. Steve Brule
Come on people, how on earth can you not see this painfully obvious POE!? Even if you're not up speed on Rational Wiki's internal jokes, the goat should be a dead giveaway!
9/11/2011 8:43:40 PM
#1332183
DinosaurRidinJeebus
And you have not grammar to form sentences.
9/13/2011 6:58:29 PM
#1332245
Dan Onymous
By 'big brain' do you perchance mean some sort of tumour or sanity-threatening swelling?
9/14/2011 4:10:17 AM
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