[dinopello]

3-D Printers - for Food - to fuel missions to Mars*

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')exas-based Systems and Materials Research Corp. has been selected for a $125,000 grant from NASA to develop a 3-D printer that will create “nutritious and flavorful” food suitable for astronauts.

[dinopello]

Speaking of food, Man Eating McChicken Sandwich Really Knows His Chicken

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')i]Hingle stated after two bites of the crispy dollar-menu item. “It’s good and all, but I really wish they’d bring back the old macrolide blend with the dirithromycin and troleandomycin. That’s the taste I grew up with.

[dinopello]

The thread about stories that seemed like the onion was merged here so

This is appropriate for the Holiday Season - Satanic Holiday Display

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')n angel will drop from the sky into a pit of flames on the rotunda in front of Florida’s state capitol building this month.
Its message? “Happy Holidays from the Satanic Temple.”

The group is not affiliated with the Church of Satan, which is a completely different organization.

[Tanada]

They have to say that, the Church of Satan is an officially recognized religious organization. They even have their own symbology for use on military tombstones for their members. http://churchofsatan.com/index.php

[dinopello]

8th Grader Proposes a motto for Vermont in Latin and citizens react

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ere’s a sweet little story of Democracy in Action. A bright eighth grader writes to her state legislator with an idea for a law: Vermont doesn’t have an official Latin motto, so why not adopt one? And for that matter, make it a reference to history? Neato!

So state Sen. Joe Benning — a Republican who was actually trying to do a good thing, which he has probably learned to never try again — introduced a bill to adopt the motto “Stella quarta decima fulgeat.” — May the fourteenth star shine bright.” Because Vermont was the 14th state, see? Benning noted that when Vermont briefly minted its own currency, it was engraved with “Stella Quarta Deccima,” so the phrase had real historical cachet.

And then Burlington TV station WCAX put the story on its Facebook page with the headline, “Should Vermont have an official Latin motto?” and all Stupid broke loose when morons thought that Vermont was knuckling under to a bunch of goddamned illegal immigrants.

[Subjectivist]

I recognize Sic Semper Tyrannis because I thought it was interesting that Virginia would have the same motto John Wilkes Booth shouted after shooting President Lincoln.

Ohio has an English language motto, adopted in 1959, With God All Things Are Possible.