An MMA friend of mine misread “martial artist” and applied for a scheme which saw him take up a three month residency on Mars. He’s charming and athletic and probably NASA had the final say on who went.
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Ground III __________________________________________________________________________________ The embarrassment is clear when, through rough sand, the plant exerts itself and ends up leafless, is what the other plants think, diminished in their own way by sparse limb count.
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Source: Private email correspondence. A Smokey Bear T-shirt meme upset a friend of mine: "Only you can prevent forest fires! Seriously. We've been defunded. It's just you now." She'd recently been in the Shoshone National Forest, working through personal issues, and the memories of that special place, still fresh in…
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Copyright Urban Mole 2017 When the Martians arrived above New Jersey in 1938, panic spread among the credulous . People couldn't flee far enough, partly because they were left breathless from all the screaming, but mostly because there was no way to outpace a threat so fast moving as to…
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Copyright Urban Mole 2016 A beautiful aspect of winter is the chance to rise in the dark at the start of the day. If you're fortunate, your coffee may be brewing as the sky pales and you catch a flock of crows flying hundred-fold under the last stars, calling out…
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