My god… being hit in the head by screwing raccoons falling from a great height… that would be a hell of a way to go.
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You think they might start giving potential POTUSes physicals, like they do for military service, lol?
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I don’t know, but that gives me something else to test! I’ve tried to figure it out in the past, but no luck yet. I hadn’t thought of the oil.
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I’d want to ensure that was memorialized in my obituary.
Area Man dead after Ravishing Racoons Wrecklessly Rappel.
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We saw two chipmunks going at it the other day. On a chair outside. Right in front of the dining room.
Little exhibitionists. Shoulda called the police! (Get off my lawn, etc.)
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I was out for a pre-dawn walk and heard quite a commotion in a tree
There were two Owls - Fighting or Fornicating - but I wasn’t sure which.
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What with all the game shenanigans going, I first thought of the Owl over at TOS. 
Maybe because you capitalized it. I wondered at first if there were two. Eeesh.
Heard an owl hooting a couple times in the last few months in the middle of the night. Just happened to wake up at the right time.
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Code name “Andromeda.”
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On the side: “What’s wrong with buying a dinosaur?”
Well, for one thing, the skeleton in the photo is not of a dinosaur. Or even an archosauromorph. No antorbital fenestra, although crocs secondarily lose them. Double set of postorbital fenestrae. Not much of a neck. Not much of a shoulder girdle. Perhaps a marine lizard such as a mosasaur? yeah they do look like that…
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We have to save them!
THIS is the reason to return to the moon.
Fortunately, this is like having the game on EASY as we take our own sweet time and make sure we properly fund it and work out the kinks and have a valid safety plan and contigencies worked out before we set off to get them.
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So basically we’ve had space colonies for 50 years but are only just realizing it now.
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Obviously they had an uncrewed lunar program since at least April 1969, but kept it quiet for diplomatic reasons.
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Honestly, I can’t get all purist about the occasional terrible-mission-design fuckup. We’ve been tonguing the Solar System for a few bilyun years. We haven’t exactly been sowing seeds in the desert with intention…
…but if there’s money to be made we will coat these worlds with particles of plastic and MRSA.
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Well, I just discovered something about myself. We had a nachos and salsa combo with lunch today, and everyone was raving about the salsa, which I found very soapy-tasting and unpleasant. The salsa had, you guessed it, cilantro in it.
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Neither did I. I suspect that I have had some unpleasant meals with cilantro, but I didn’t know it was cilantro until today.
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Now you know what to ask to have left off! I think it’s also interesting that something like taste has a genetic component. We’re really marvelous machines, us humans.
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