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Cost Savings
Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.
Title text: Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.

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    Cueball is standing in front of a framed graph on a wall, pointing at it with a short stick. Hairy and Megan, seated, are looking on from behind a desk. The graph is a bar graph with steadily decreasing bar heights. Cueball:
    "By lowering the planned satellite orbit we can reduce the size of the launch vehicle required."
    "We can reduce costs further by eliminating the satellite entirely in favor of an aerial platform."
    "Some equipment could be moved to a ground-based facility, reducing required aircraft time."
    "Additional savings could be..."

    The caption at the bottom says, "I'm trying to get NASA to build a shed in my backyard."


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    Make changes, try things out, or just have fun with the wiki here! Just leave everything above the line alone, please.

    This is a test. PoolloverNathan[stalk the blue seas] 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

    This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 23:20) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
    A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

    here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

    furhhfghure guyrburgryhuyvfr "rvhru"

    interesting way of writing quotations xd

    hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

    Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

    edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

    hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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