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Apollo 13

see also successful failure

Less then one year after man first walked on the moon Apollo 13 was simply a "routine" flight until a faulty thermostat caused an oxygen canister to explode, blowing an entire side of the spacecraft away, the ship eventally starts leaking oxygen and the crew (Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise) have to survive in the Lunar Module until they can safely make it back to earth. But they didn't get to play with moom rocks.
"Houston, we have a problem."
by IrishRepublicanArmy November 16, 2003
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N451

OMG WTF T34|\/| N451 H4X 2 D4 M4X111!!!111!!



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by IrishRepublicanArmy June 5, 2004
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Saint Patrick's Day

one of the better holidays, where people who aren't even irish pretend to be, and everyone gets drunk.
On Saint Patrick's Day, we all wore green hats and drank whiskey
by IrishRepublicanArmy March 8, 2004
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desensitization

The reduction of receiver sensitivity due to overload from a nearby transmitter
We desensitized by HF reciever by transmitting music on 6955 kHz all new year's eve
by IrishRepublicanArmy January 1, 2004
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WTOP

A news radio station that calls themself's a network. The fact that they have only three transmitters.
WTOP-AM: 1500.0 kHz
WXTR-AM: 820.0 kHz
WTOP-FM: 107.7 MHz
by IrishRepublicanArmy November 28, 2003
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shortfall

the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage
This school is a shortfall
by irishrepublicanarmy January 2, 2004
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base loading

A loading coil at the bottom of an antenna to achieve a lower resonant frequency.
The CB antenna i use for freeband 27 MHz operations uses a base loading coil to lower the frequency to the 27 MHz band.
by IrishRepublicanArmy January 1, 2004
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