20:58 <@xeno> Io++
20:59 <@solios> fagbot: jupiter?
20:59 <+fagbot> solios: do i look like the Encyclo-fucking-paedia Britannica to you?
20:59 <@solios> fagbot: jupiter is big. Clarke has a hardon for it.
20:59 <+fagbot> OK, solios.
21:01 <@xeno> wasn't rama set around it?
21:03 <@solios> no, 2010 was.
21:03 <@solios> 2001 was originally off to saturn but got retconned. o_o
21:03 <@solios> fagbot: rama?
21:03 <+fagbot> solios: no clue
21:04 <@xeno> ah
21:04 <@xeno> i just wikied it
21:04 <@xeno> i've never read it apparently
21:04 <@xeno> sounds good too
21:04 * xeno puts it on his To Read list
21:04 <@solios> fagbot: rama is god checking up on his creation. (now you don't have to waste your life getting to that HORRIBLE ENDING)
21:04 <+fagbot> OK, solios.
21:04 <@xeno> you're a goddamn assbag.
21:04 <@solios> that's the explanation in the last book.
21:05 <@solios> I didn't spoil the good one at all. :)
21:05 <@solios> the first one is ++
21:05 <@xeno> you need a fucking tattoo, right on your head, that says CAUTION: SPOILERS and then in wee text below it, "also, I'm an assbag"

Assbag.

<3

As xeno said, the image shown is the 5th moon of the 5th planet.....Io (Eye-oh).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter

And anyone that can....... get the movie "Outland"....and give it a serious watch....this movie is way ahead of its time!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_%28film%29

I wanted to rebuff with a Cowboy Bebop reference, but I forgot Jet is from Ganymede, which is also featured in the article.

....or this one......

(I apologize that any links I post has to be done in a "cut & paste" :P)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_In_The_Sky

Heheh. First published in "Boy's Life."

I used to get that... but I don't recall there being much if any actual sci-fi in it at the time (late 80s?).