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An assorted three-pack
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The really important one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/29/24_themis/]Water found in the asteroid belt, specifically on 24 Themis. There's one less part of the System that needs to have water trucked in...
The historical one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/27 ... d_1_found/]Lunokhod 1 found in Mare Imbrium. One for the VVS to claim as a historical site, to go along with all those "imperialist yankee" historical sites.
The fun one: http://www.tombakersays.com/]Tom Baker Says... A little bit of love for Fenspace's Whovians.
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I still think someone's gonna wave the items from here, Cos I know I'd be tempted to wave my Tachikoma or Big-O, let alone the stuff listed here
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/spac ... ng-twinkie]More on the military minishuttle -- which apparently has a very fennish nickname -- "The Flying Twinkie".
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"That's one big twinkie."
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What Time Dialation?
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New puzzle for astronomers: Quasars Don't Show
Time Dilation.
Yes, that more distant quasars don't pulse less frequently than closer ones might be seen as mysterious, but that article is giving Einstein's theories of relativity too much credit. While time dilation might marginally contribute to redshift, it is almost entirely caused by the Doppler Effect, which is perfectly valid under Newtonian physics, thank you.
Anyways, armed with the knowledge that quasars pulse because they rotate like interstellar lighthouse beacons, the solution to the mystery becomes clear: earlier quasars rotate faster. Why earlier quasars rotate faster, I can't answer, but there you have it.
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Proginoskes Wrote:Why earlier quasars rotate faster, I can't answer, but there you have it. That's actually a lot simpler than you think. Entropy. It affects everything in the known universe. Under it's rule, entropy causes everything to slow down, cool down, and eventually 'die' in one sense of the word or another. A quasar will maintain it's rotational momentum pretty good, just as any celestial body. However, over time, like anything else, they too will slow down.
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This xkcd comic (especially its title/mouseover text) is something to inspire the Submariners.
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The idea of handwaving http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-elect ... -star-wars]this just makes me nervous.
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For those who're interested, I just dumped a bunch of flag sketches onto my LJ. Some of these might end up RFC'd here, too. Dunno at this point.
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Has anyone suggested handwaving the 1:1 giant mech statues that are linked to in that thread over in General Chatter?
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M Fnord Wrote:For those who're interested, I just dumped a bunch of flag sketches onto my LJ. Some of these might end up RFC'd here, too. Dunno at this point. That "Free Mars" flag is much better than the RGB flag, which doesn't conform to heraldry and thus is difficult to make out at a distance. ("St. Marvin's Cross," eh? Does that include any Illudium Pu-36 in the design?)
"Cislunar Federation Association"? Anybody involved with this group ask whether the Grover's Corners folks want to be part of something that big, or whether the Warsies are willing to give up control of New Yavin, or whether Noah's willing to let someone else set rules for Stellvia? Because if you don't have the three biggest stations on-side, you're fighting an uphill battle...
Jorlem Wrote:Has anyone suggested handwaving the 1:1 giant mech statues that are linked to in that thread over in General Chatter? I thought that was a given...
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Flag discussion's been moved to it's own thread.
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One for the Gearheads:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... ideo-phone]Buy a model kit, get a free cellphone!
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Someplace to visit for the scientific knowledge -- and just to look at it:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... net-aieee/]Star: om nom nom! Planet: Aieee!
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:Someplace to visit for the scientific knowledge -- and just to look at it:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... net-aieee/]Star: om nom nom! Planet: Aieee! "But if the star were Sarlacc, the planet would have to be named Boba Fett, and that’s just silly."
Well, it's obvious what we're calling the star, right?
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We are Fen! Silly is no object! (And I do happen to like one commenter's suggestion for the planet name: Marshmallow.)
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We've got Matsumotoites, we've got gondoliers... now we can have both at once:
Captain Nerd, on Usenet Wrote:And speaking of Matsumoto-san, here is one of his creations, one of the tour boats on the Tokyo Cruise down the Sumidagawa:
http://nerdwatch.com/images/suijobus1.jpg]%[link=http://nerdwatch.com/images/suijobus1.jpg]http://nerdwatch.com/images/suijobus1.jpg]
I highly recommend the tour if you get to Tokyo.
Cap.
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Ahhhh, sooooo... Google-fu! Sanjo!
Hrm... Not much to go on here. Perhaps the most relevant pages are in Nihongo. One of the links was to the usenet thread you snagged that from, Rob. Either way, here's a blog post with slightly-more-than-just-a-mention of the pictured boat.
http://gillespoitras.blog...ko-sumidagawa-odaba.html
I'm gonna go a-huntin' for this thing when we pull in during August.
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As soon as I saw you found Gilles' Slog, I knew you were in good hands. Gilles Poitrais wrote the two Anime Companion books; he knows about real-world Japan.
(And http://www.koyagi.com/jt.html]here's his itinerary for his follow-up visit. Enjoy... and us Fenspace folks can use that list as a starting point for "Fen visit Tokyo" stories.)
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http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/si ... lar_System]Simple, fun solar system simulator. You'll waste all morning on this, I guarantee.
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What Gina may look like in "real life", courtesy of Midori Kanda.
(Sankaku Complex gallery, so the sidebars are NSFW - the article's photos are safe, though.)
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/06/0 ... da-midori/
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