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It's Thursday, April 30th, 2015 from Slate. It's the gist. I'm Mike Pasca.

Hi, it's Mike. Still Mike. But there's Mike in the bag of a car heading to MSNBC. I had

to leave a little early to go do a TV show. But I just saw something that needed to go

into the gist. So I'm interrupting my normal intro to tell you this news. So the Mercury

Messenger is set to crash into the surface of Mercury and I found this out. You know

that probe, that space probe tapes takes a lot of pictures. The Mercury Messenger. Messenger

is actually an acronym. Are you ready? Here's what it stands for. Mercury, the ME, the

first two letters of Mercury, surface, space, environment, the first two letters of environment

EN, Geochemistry, GE, and that's Messenger. All right. That is not an acronym. That is

the worst acronym ever. Did you know that gist is an acronym? It says go, Mike, and it

takes the I and Mike state things ST or it could be the S and the T from state and the T

from things either way. Even America is an acronym. It stands for a majestic A environment

that you take the E from environment and the R from environment. If taking the I, you

can. Don't take either of those letters. Afford A and it. America stands for a majestic

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