What did the space program do ?
... innovation to solve a big, new problem
... turn the routine over to private enterprise
... squabble with bean-counters over costs

What does the space program do now ?
... look for a big new problem (Mars), rinse, repeat

Because it strikes me as, in order to film a commercial, toyota interrupting the funeral procession of Abraham Lincoln.
It is a funeral procession, a funeral for the manned space program, which was one of the crowning achievements of the United States/science & technology/mankind, in the twentieth century.

Well put.

My mom just sent me this link in an e-mail. As she put it, "and you thought moving furniture was a hassle?"

http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10...ek-across-l-a/

that was super cool, please pass on my thanks to your mom.

Have not had a chance to visit iotd for ages, and saw this header. Oh how disappointing! I thought it was going to be about my favourite TV detective, old grumpy-bums Inspector Morse...

Hiya!

How've ya been, SandyPoss?

Could have been better, the last month. But hey, it could be worse. I could be living in Adelaide :D

BTW, Gardening Australia has a comp on at the moment (in their mag) for the weirdest thing you've ever dug up, and I've entered the Stones With Faces, including photos and a link to that rather vigorous iotd thread. Surely surely surely if there is any justice it HAS to be mine!

So what's new over in SA?

sandy...let us know how that goes! Is there any way to view the contest/entrants?

Enough of your sarcastic trick questions! :p:

No as that would require electricity. That's e-l-e-c-t-r-i-c-i-t-y.


:p:

Don't think there's a way to view the contestants. Tried to find them too but I can't even see mention of the comp on the website. I get their hard copy monthly magazine as well and it was advertised in there. I shall most certainly let you know if I have any luck. I always record the show, so if it ends up on the telly I will, um, ask someone who can do that sort of thing to turn my HDD recording into something that can be posted.

As for YOU Spuck, who needs that foreign elctrosity stuff? Here in Australia's dairy belt we have cows on treadmills running our interwebs.

After a truly crap month, I thought I'd come back to the Cellar and even post a few responses on different and I have to say that it's been a bit like stepping back into a pub where I know a lot of the locals. It would be a hoot to actually meet some of the other Aussie Cellarites one day, or even visiting-from-yonder Cellarites. Do we have a thread for anything like that?

Guess we need a giant video chat room.

That's wouldn't do. Here in the sticks we still only have a reeeeeally slow internet connection. At least we're not on dial up any more, and a few months ago we finally got access to mobile internet so we don't need to use a satellite dish any more.

Bloody third world power and information systems, would have been something to address if we ever needed an economic stimulus.