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Inspirational Podcast
02-02-2008, 05:33 PM
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/quirks_20080202_4610.mp3]Hardtech deflector shields(?) (runs 10:32, should be available for about a month)
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Re: More Inspirational, Meta &c. Sites
02-09-2008, 05:34 PM
I propose that http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080209.html]this NASA photo become the "official" Fenspace image of Atlantis. Or maybe of Project Artemis. Mal...?
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Y'know, you *do* have image rights to the wiki, too.
Anyway, added. Also added pictures for Discovery and Endeavour while I was at it.
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Quote: Y'know, you *do* have image rights to the wiki, too.
True, but Atlantis is your bird, not mine...
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I may have done the writeup, but Artemis is more a joint project than a solo.
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Space Spies
02-12-2008, 08:37 PM
NASA has a http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ospp/mission.htm]counterintelligence unit. Go figure...
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Re: More Inspirational, Meta &c. Sites
02-13-2008, 06:26 PM
Another gadget for the Professor to improve: the http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/13 ... n_dscribe/]e-mail pen.
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Staying in touch...
02-16-2008, 01:45 AM
A BNSC/NASA joint program to launch an unmanned Lunar cellphone-tower-installation probe has been greenlighted.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... -mast-moon]MoonLITE
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Visit the Moon's South Pole
03-03-2008, 12:32 AM
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/214261main_Luna ... _4_Web.mov]Approach and landing beside Shackleton Crater (NASA CGI movie, Quicktime format)
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Who let the Professor play with *that*?
03-08-2008, 06:45 PM
It's a podcast, so right-click and save the file: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/quirks_20080308_4954.mp3]DIY Event Horizon, without the black hole
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Assorted stuff
03-16-2008, 04:26 PM
Apparently, the Warsies have a moon colony. Specifically, http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... ace-colony]Welsh Jedi have a base in the Oceanus Procellarum.
The Cassini probe recently http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14 ... enceladus/]made a close flyby of Enceladus. Apparently, the moon http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080316]tastes like chiken. (Okay, not really... but in Fenspace, who knows?)
Overly-cute acronym of the week: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14 ... army_ploy/]COM-BAT, for a vaugely-bat-shaped flying robot being built by the US Army. I'm sure the Professor can do better...
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Disney actually did a live-action sequel to this movie in 2014, with the generous assistance of the Cybers & filmed entirely on location. You can guess how *that* turned out.
(On a more meta note, Pixar probably shows us *exactly* what handwavium robots present & future are like in Wall-E.)
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Quote:Rocket Girls. The entire series.
I just took the link out of that posting (#78 in the thread) - Bandai http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convent ... ertainment]announced today that they have the licence for the anime.
(Yay! Now to hope they cast people who can act, at least in the primary roles...)
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Construction materials
03-27-2008, 01:29 AM
When building a city on Mars or the Moon, there's a general lack of ready building material. Thankfully, http://www.containercity.com/index.php?id=1]somebody left all these shipping containers just lying around in docks all over the world. It's like playing SimCity with giant Legos!
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Handy Writer's Tool
03-27-2008, 04:06 AM
I've been cleaning up a lot of cut-and-pasted spelling mistakes in the wiki... Here's one of my tools for making sure a word's spelled correctly: http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php]Wordsmyth. Use the "spelled-like" option in the search box to find out how your word is really spelled. (Never mind the message about the function soon being restricted to registered users - that message has been there for years.)
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The MTP advertises
04-02-2008, 02:31 PM
Okay, it's the 2008 Google April Fools' page, but the attached questionnaire is sonething that only one of the Fen could have dreamed up...
http://www.google.com/virgle/]Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes
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Walking a mile in someone else's paws?
04-06-2008, 07:00 PM
Perhaps somebody told the commander of Operation Great Justice that she should try living the way the boskonians' victims do, and she jumped to the wrong conclusion?
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/goods/goods_de ... 0000019762]Catgirl Haruhi
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Fnord, sorry I couldn't find the full story, but http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/p ... html/1.stm]THIS is something you might find interesting.
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Oh, sweet, they finally got the OK-GLI out of Bahrain! And they cleaned her up, too!
(Der Spiegel article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 35,00.html )
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No Cute Title
04-16-2008, 02:39 AM
Accompanying an http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... ace115.xml]article on space junk, a very nice CGI pic of trackable objects in orbit around the Earth. No, that's not the Earth in the middle.
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Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:
Accompanying an article on space junk, a very
nice CGI pic of trackable objects in orbit around the Earth. No, that's not the Earth in the middle.
Scary, ain't it? I've given some thought to a Planetes-esque team, subcontracting to various space agencies. Nothing more than a brief idea, plus a
few scenes where a "space garbage collector" finds an abandoned 'waved car on his regular haul to the photosphere. (The Sun: the Solar
System's best garbage disposal!)
By the way, if you've not watched "Planetes," I highly recommend it. The first disc, anyway, which is all I've managed to get ahold of. Good
hard sci-fi.
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Actually, after looking at the image zoomed in, I think that _is_ Earth, heavily obscurred by junk markers. There're bits of blue, green, and browns
showing through the grey/white object markers
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One for the folks in Kandor
04-17-2008, 02:30 PM
According to the ESA, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7351437.stm]marigolds 'thrive' on Moon rock.
I guess now we know where Fenspace's ornamental flower industry is based...
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Quote:According to the ESA, marigolds 'thrive' on Moon rock.
Presumably the http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068528/]local gamma ray levels also have something to do with it.
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Have we seen this one yet?
04-20-2008, 04:45 PM
http://www.slightlymadscience.com/]Slightly-Mad Science
I could see something similar to this site being connected to Leonard of Quirm's TV show...
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