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What is It? for December 16

Posted December 16, 2015 12:00 AM
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 12:16 AM

A model of Moon Base 1 ?

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 10:48 AM

Why Moon Base 1?

What about the 9 other Moon Bases that are currently on the moon.

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 12:32 AM

Arizona desert space camp!

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 6:17 AM

I'm guessing from the color of the soil that it has to do with a proposed mars habitat.
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 4:45 PM

Or Martian outhouse.
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 7:57 AM

NASA's third-place pick for a 3D printed Martian habitat by LavaHive.
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 8:11 AM

Howard Johnson's Hotel Chain Business plan expansion

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 8:14 AM

Luke Skywalker's favorite toy when he was 8 years old?

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 4:31 PM

Joe the newest transformer having a lie down.

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/16/2015 10:34 PM

Next LEGO toy, comes out Boxing Day
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 2:05 AM

Still from the new Star Wars film? Looks like two troopers sitting 'on the bench' waiting to go for a walk. S

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 5:30 AM

Now that is my kind of lawn....no mowing and more time for a cold one!

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 6:03 AM

Mars bus stop

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 8:38 AM

Looks like "Lost in Space - Reboot".
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 10:42 AM

My thought is a practice site for Mars base. For equipment and structural testing

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 8:24 PM

Newest hep-pa filter system for vacuums.
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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/17/2015 8:45 PM

A Prepper's new blow-up Bug Out house.....on Mars.

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Re: What is It? for December 16

12/21/2015 5:06 AM

The last days of Mars.......dialysis at the field triage center.
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