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Josh Cryer

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Re: 7-11 - Guess what today is?

Guess what today is? FREE SLURPIE DAY!

Every year for a while now 7-11 has given out 7.11 oz slurpies at stores nationwide (well "participating locations" but yeah). I think I'll hit up a few while I'm out and about today.

HAPPY FREE SLURPIE DAY!

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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: 7-11 - Guess what today is?

*Not many 7-11's around "these here parts."  Slurpies, bah -- I'd rather have a cherry Icee!   

But thanks for the heads up on the freebie.

--Cindy

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DERF

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From: Kingston, Ontario

Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: 7-11 - Guess what today is?

We can only hope that the infrastructure on Mars will ever be established enough to have "planet-wide" free-slurpie days.

I wonder what CO2 ice would be like as a slurpy? Dangerous.

Palomar

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From: USA

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Re: 7-11 - Guess what today is?

I wonder what CO2 ice would be like as a slurpy? Dangerous.

*I wonder if it could be made cherry flavored??  ???

--Cindy  :laugh:

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

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Re: 7-11 - Guess what today is?

Mmm. Planet-wide slurpie days. That would be awesome. And you wouldn't need refridgerators to keep them cold, just have the slurpie dispenser outside.

Of course, this will require the invention of a space suit straw type thingy, but it could work!

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

DERF

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From: Kingston, Ontario

Registered: 2004-05-25

Posts: 39

Re: 7-11 - Guess what today is?

We could engineer bacteria that not only cover the poles in black "dust" to make them partially melt, but to also secrete a cherry flavour. As new pieces begin to break off, we will have ready-to-serve genuine martian slurpies. Flawless.