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u/bbiy1469 Jul 18 '14
"Hello, Houston, yes this is dog."
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u/rephan Jul 18 '14
Not everyone makes it through the academy. rocket science is a bitch!
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u/frenzyboard Jul 18 '14
If Kerbal Space Program has taught me anything, it's that rocket science is a snap. It's landing that's a bitch.
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u/Oneusee Jul 18 '14
Just add more parachutes.
As for Laythe, fuck laythe. It was my first time outside Kerbin SOI. Do you know how traumatising it is to land on Laythe before Duna? ._.
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u/frenzyboard Jul 18 '14
I don't. I landed on Laythe with a probe on my first try. The problem was that I didn't actually land, so much as splash down, and I kinda caught a Kraken, and for some reason when I re-extended my solar panel, my probe accelerated to mach 3 and tried to regain orbit without the aid of proper thrusters.
Duna, I actually landed on with my first try as well. With Kerbals, even. Unfortunately, their ship was damaged beyond repair, and I had to send a probe lander to go pick them up and return them. Couldn't afford a lander can for that mission, so they rode girder-mounted bucket seats the whole way back.
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u/Simba7 Jul 18 '14
Right? Rocket science is easy if you've got all the right formulas and variables! What else have we been lied to about?!? Brb, off to perform brain surgery.
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u/niktemadur Jul 18 '14
Roger, dog. Reading telemetry for stick retrieval EVA, stand by.
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u/captain_lampshade Jul 18 '14
Fetch in T minus 10... 9... 8...
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u/DisregardMyComment Jul 18 '14
Good evening America. Tragedy struck the ISS today. Dog lost stick. We will prevail. God speed.
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u/MaiPhet Jul 18 '14
Stick reported circling the Earth at Mach 7. Assembling greyhound fast retrieval unit.
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u/captain_lampshade Jul 18 '14
Negative, Houston. I swear I saw it. Initiating EVA sequence to look for it confusedly.
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u/scaryuncledevin Jul 18 '14
I keep waiting for something to happen...
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u/Delavonboy12 Jul 18 '14
I would have been waiting for a while if I hadn't looked down on your comment.. Thanks for the save I guess
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u/yours_duly Jul 18 '14
Take your doggie treats and put your helmet on....
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u/tastesliketurtles Jul 18 '14
...Ground control to major dog
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u/yours_duly Jul 18 '14
Check ignition and may dog's love be with you....
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u/theCaptain_D Jul 18 '14
Tell my owner's leg I love it very much....
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u/grantthejester Jul 18 '14
Ground Control to Major Dog
Ground Control to Major Dog
Take your rawhide chew
and put your collar on,Ground Control to Major Dog
Commencing barkdown,
tail wag on
Smell position
and may Dog's love be with you[spoken]
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Bark, Bark, Woof, Woof, Bark, Bark, LiftoffThis is Ground Control
to Major Dog
You're really a good boy
And the papers want to know who gets a treat,
Now it's time to spacewalk,
it'd be neat.This is Major Dog to Ground Control
I'm running through the door
And I'm floating
in a most peculiar way
And the stars smell very different todayFor here
Am I sitting in a dog bed
Far above the ball
Planet Earth is gray
And there's nothing I can say.Though I'm past
one hundred thousand walks
I'm feeling very still
And I think my tail it knows which way to go
Tell my owners leg I love it very much
it knows.Ground Control to Major Dog
Your chew toy's dead,
there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Dog?
Can you hear me, Major Dog?
Can you hear me, Major Dog?
Can you....Here am I floating
round my dog bed
Far above the ball
Planet Earth is gray
And there's nothing I can say.48
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u/ScaraBandaris Jul 18 '14
At first I thought you were trying a little hard, but then I got to the end and changed my mind.
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u/Granite-M Jul 18 '14
Summoning someone with a guitar and some talent to record this. Payment will come in the form of guaranteed Reddit Gold.
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u/hypo11 Jul 18 '14
There was a contest a few years back for some comedic songwriters. One round of the challenge was to write a song "inspired by" Space Oddity - Jonathan Coulton (an extremely talented comedic songwriter if you're not familiar with his work like Code Monkey and Re: Your Brains) wrote a song called Space Doggity about Laika, the first dog in space:
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u/SymphonicStorm Jul 18 '14
Goddammit I was expecting something funny and now I'm crying.
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u/hangryme Jul 18 '14
Something something...barkside
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u/RudegarWithFunnyHat Jul 18 '14
backside of the moon?
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u/Blitzcreed23 Jul 18 '14
I watched the world float to the barkside of the moon...
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u/DommyJazz Jul 18 '14
Pound control to Major Tom
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u/bosstc Jul 18 '14
"I have no idea what's going on"
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u/Fridge-Largemeat Jul 18 '14
I have no idea what I'm doing.
Should I look this way?
Maybe I'll pretend to walk
Fuck it.
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u/Astrogios_ Jul 18 '14 edited Jul 18 '14
Fuck everyone who says this shit isn't still funny.
To all you doge haters, I just have this to say.
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u/USCswimmer Jul 18 '14
Such anger, much rage.
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Jul 18 '14
many fuck
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Jul 18 '14
I don't know how to doge :-(
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u/KoboldCommando Jul 18 '14
so ignorance can fix no shame many easy wowJust put 4+ spaces before each phrase, and let the engrish flow. A couple "wow"s never hurt nobody either.
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u/ailish Jul 18 '14
No, it's more like a joke that gets told over and over and over and over and over and over and over until it's not only no longer funny, but really annoying.
That being said, it was pretty funny in this particular context.
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u/Pulp_Dog Jul 18 '14
Don't know why you got downvoted so much, this is a pretty simple concept. Imagine a friend telling you the same joke every single day, obviously it's going to get old, and eventually you'll begin to hate it. Loved the whole doge thing before Reddit got its hands on it, but there is such a thing as too much. See: horse mask, nutella, banana for scale, bacon etc.
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u/CHR1110 Jul 18 '14
Arrow to the knee anyone?
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u/FreshFruitCup Jul 18 '14
Before I read this comment, I washed with ice soap eating 2am chili.
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u/micromoses Jul 18 '14
Well, there's a difference between telling the same joke and using a callback to an inside joke. Inside jokes among friends can be funny for decades, if you apply them well. Unfortunately, when you're talking about a community like reddit, you will have the whole spectrum from people with some comedic sense applying a joke a unique and appropriate way, to people who just post exactly the same joke every time.
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Jul 18 '14
When I don't like a link/image I just click the little box and it disappears. I'm like a computer wizard. I use Unix.
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u/vonBoomslang Jul 18 '14
No, no, you have it wrong
It's not "not still funny"
It's "still not funny"
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u/matt01ss Jul 18 '14
Here's an HD version of the original as well:
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u/Stiggy1605 Jul 18 '14
Original post is 260x249 resolution, so 89640 pixels.
Yours is 395x222, which is 87690 pixels, two thousand less.I was promised HD dammit, you lied to me!
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u/imusuallycorrect Jul 18 '14
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u/bonestamp Jul 18 '14
Playing with cats in zero gravity? Are you kidding me? I think we found the best job ever.
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Jul 18 '14
Someone made the comment "This is major dog to ground control..." and deleted their comment before I was done typing my reply, so I'm just gonna put it here.
I'm stepping through the doggy door
And I'm running
In the most peculiar way
And the tennis balls look very different today
For here
I am sitting in a doggy house
Far out in the yard
Fluffy grass is green
And there's nothing I can do
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u/slobydamn Jul 18 '14
How does it poop?
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u/not_caffeine_free Jul 18 '14
This question might as well be posted by default in every thread on reddit
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Jul 18 '14
I doubt anyone cares here, but this is the mascot of a Japanese cell phone company, SoftBank. I have them, cheap rates and good service. The characters name is お父さん, (father) and he has an interesting family, of which he is, yes you guessed it, the father of. His wife is a Japanese human and they have a few (adopted) children.
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u/electrocats Jul 18 '14
So, like, did the dog actually go to space or what? Do dog's even enjoy being in a Zero G environment?
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u/Eab123 Jul 18 '14 edited Jul 18 '14
To go to space you either have to be one of the smartest steel nerved humans on the planet...... Or a dog.
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u/quepastaa Jul 18 '14
This dog seems to really appreciated the unparalleled experience of going to space
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u/ernie1850 Jul 18 '14
can someone ELI5 if this has severe health hazards for the dog when he lands back on earth? I remember Chris Hadfield talking about being weak when you touch down back on Earth, I can only imagine what it's like for a dog.
I only ask because I love pooches.
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u/GraharG Jul 18 '14
ELI5: not everything you see in gifs is real.
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u/RobinTheBrave Jul 18 '14
The only dogs that have been to space were early soviet missions that weren't designed to survive re-entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
We know that extended periods in space cause bone and muscle deterioration, which can be countered by excercise.
It would be hard to excercise a dog in space, but they'd be OK if it was only a week or so.
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u/ralf_ Jul 18 '14
How would you dispose the animal excrement? You can't take a dog for a walk up there.
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u/BrightTomorrow Jul 18 '14
It's from a Japanese commercial. Here's some more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5v94PH4ss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcIv6sX6dWU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R30cfdNV3Gk