"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."  Genesis 2:17.

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I think it's all about spacecraft and the animals that fly them.  It stands for something like, "Hope The Monkey Launches."  Sometimes they use gerbils for the smaller rockets, but they don't seem to know how to turn around to come home.  We've lost a lot of gerbils that way.

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