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I normally don't drink energy drinks. I like the Java Monster variety that's like a latte with energy chemicals in it (I like Mocha, or Irish I can find it), but I couldn't find those in a four-pack. I also couldn't find the orange kind I first had Monster in, so I got blue raspberry as the least objectionable available.

My piano teacher is also on the NASA hype drive because Hans Zimmer is her favourite composer.

I keeping think your a Knight Of The NSA

That would be dangerous.

In any case

LOOK AT ME

I'M A TERRORIST

COME GET ME HOME OFFICE

Where did the "the" came from

The NSA doesn't need knights, they don't need any defending.

Nasa Dude, you and I should team up and claim space as our territory.

Oi, cut me in on that.

It'll have all the benefits of moving to Antarctica, and faster internet.

edited 28th Aug '14 5:03:51 PM by Catfish42

What's your credential? Why do I have to share my territory?

Because when the whole world resents you from having all of space, it would be nice to have someone on your side. It'd get lonely up there, so I think you and I should team up.

@ Plaz. Fiiiine, you can join too.

edited 28th Aug '14 5:05:41 PM by inhopelessguy

Hopey plans to rule the world. You'd be his viceroy of space or something.

That too. You can be Minister of State for Extraorbital, Solar, & Celestial Territory. Or Esoct.

Space has a lot of stuff in it; I don't know if it's inhabitants would be cool with you guys claiming it without consulting them. Or at least having a proper space war.

Yay!

Now let's see which departments did I have in the New World Order... Defsec, Weapons Advancement, Intelligence and Surveillance. I'm sure I can cut space into a black budget or two there somewhere.

@ Zarek. C'mon man. We're the Human Race. We couldn't fly, so we invented planes. We couldn't run fast, so we made the car. We don't have claws, so we invented the knife, the gun, the nuclear warhead.

I think we can completely and utterly crush any interstellar forces that come our way. Humanity will prevail against our enemies.

@ Plaz. Wonderful! And you can always backwards-engineer claimed alien weaponry.

edited 28th Aug '14 5:11:37 PM by inhopelessguy

Wait.

What's NASA's job then?

I think you misunderstand. YOU ARE NASA. Well, our version of Nasa.

Have you guys seen the new episode of TOME?

@Hopey: Oh, absolutely. And I guess with the leader of Scidev and Weapon Systems Advancement being AWOL, I'll have to see which of their assets we can make a move on. All quite clandestinely, of course.

And a fine speech, sir. That is the sentiment one likes to see in government.

@ Plaz. Excellent work, excellent. Just remember that we must not make the mistake that others make in creating attack vehicles. That is, we must make our Warbirds, Ground Drivers, and Hydroships withstand even our own weaponry.

Oh, all the necessary precautions will be taken, we shan't be foolish with matters so important as these.

Y'know Plaz, during testing, I think we will lose so. Many. Interns.

Thank god they're so easy to acquire. Cheap too, they'll readily offer themselves up for two nice lines on a CV.

And in any case they will die knowing they served the glorious purpose of... ahhh... what is it we're telling them again?

Expansion of the Greater Human Cause.

I think we should keep a running tally of how many we lose. Of course, we make an insignificant token payment to their families.

Ah yes, that was it. Good old GHC.

I set percentage from each budget aside for compensation payments. It's a pretty small percentage, I keep magnifying glass around in case I lose track of it.

And a tally sounds like a most excellent idea. Strictly no betting on it and no competition for the highest numbers of course, but it would be nice to have the data.

Right.

So I'd just working on some top secret stuff such as 3D printing metals with different properties on each side to make some cool weapons so just in case one of us become too power hungry. After all, NASA represents civilian.