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"America the Beautiful" isn't even our national anthem, though I wish it were.
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1) "Beast Mode! 12th Man! I Still Don't Know What These Mean!" So learn. I find it interesting/funny how often Slog writers want to act dumb on sports. Whether you like sports or not, they are part of our culture and well, when you have a hometown team win a major sporting event, it makes you sound just sad.

2) I KNEW that Coke commercial was going to piss off conservatives. Nothing like a little xenophobia to go with your sporting event.
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As soon as I saw that coke commercial I said "rednecks across america are freaking out because that song wasn't sung in 'merican!"
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Can someone, preferably someone with skydiving experience, explain to me exactly how Felix Baumgartner's space jump was, "Really tough"? I mean, as far as I can tell, he stepped off the platform, fell for a few minutes, then pulled his parachute cord? You could probably train a monkey to do that?

Also, even if NASA had the funding, why would they fund a ego piece for a thrill seeker? Did his stunt advance science in same way? Did it have any effect on our space flight endeavors?
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"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it is good enough for Texas children."
-Rick Perry
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What did we learn from Baumgartner's jump? Isn't that the criterion we should use for NASA funding?
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I'm surprised that Coca-Cola and/or their ad agency thought that commercial would play well with football fans.

All of the commercials last night sucked. You would think the best and brightest of Madison Ave could do better.
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I know you'll all want to sign up, so here's the waiting list to lease a 2015 Hyundai hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicle:

https://www.hyundaiusa.com/tucsonfuelcel…

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so i walked under the pergola this morning on my way into work. no visible damage that i could see

@4 it was tough because at that altitude if he had started spinning it was possible that he could do it at such a high velocity that he could have started to bleed out of all his orifices and die. nasa was extremely interested in this because if they had had the knowledge they gained from this when the challenger shit all went down they could have been prepped to abandon ship and skydive back to earth instead of dying in their ship.
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The Pioneer Square Pergola has taken damage before, and for far less memorable reasons. Is there really 109 year old glass still in that thing?
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Warning: I just got a fake "Microsoft Security Essentials" when I clicked the link the new space jump. It would have downloaded malware had I clicked 'Clean Computer'.

When ever you see these, end that browser session and run your own security software. I suggest MalwareBytes.
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#6 and #9

The Challenger orbiter did not explode (in fact, most of it did not explode in the sense of combustion, plumes of smoke were due to depressurization of liquid fuels hitting the atmosphere and gassifying) but was torn apart from stress (possibly from the booster and tank tearing off but also because aerodynamically it was designed to do one thing -- surf down on air for a landing.

Also the craft hit the water a relatively slow 200 mph (due to drag as the remaining structure spiraled down. Recently a girl whose parachute failed hit the ground and survived (with broken bones, but still living).

Challenger broke up at 9 miles up, well below Baumgartner's jump of 24 mi!

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I can't even remember what life was like before that guy jumped out of a balloon. The History Channel should so some kind of dramatic recreation of how man lived in those days. If you can even call it living, what they did before the balloon jump changed the course of human history.
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Did Slog have nothing about the anti-TPP rally in Westlake on Friday, or did I miss it among all the 'Merican Handball beer-and-pick'em-up-trucks marketing activity over the weekend? Not news if no windows get broken?

Kshama Sawant sent a spokesman. Too bad, I'd have liked to see her live for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZwk4Fm5…
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@7 Sounds like you're making generalized and unsupported assumptions about "football fans." Are you really saying all 100 million-plus of them are Fox News-watching, anti-immigrant, mouth-breathing Neanderthals?
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I apologize for thinking we'd only win by 15 points.

My bad.

SEAHAWKS FTW!!!!!!
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@12--Probably not. It was completely rebuilt in 2001 when an errant truck hit it and it smashed all over the ground in a million pieces. The original structure was cast iron, which is very brittle. The renovation salvaged as much of the historic structure as possible, but reinforced it with steel. It's doubtful any of the original glass survived the crash and rebuilding.

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