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Ah, the mainstream media has finally notices Apophis. I've been toying for about a year now with the idea that this particular space rock would feature in
The Last Noah Scott Story (title subject to change)...
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Lightest known exoplanet
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Been listening to "To Touch the Stars" again. And here's one for the Artemis Project:
They smiled and waved as they passed the camera,
About to ride a dream as a jaded world looked on.
We'd seen it all before - space had lost its glamour, then,
In a blast of smoke, their lives were gone.
They tried to meet the challenge of reaching for the stars,
To touch their light so clear but yet so far.
They tried to leave the cradle - to view the great unknown,
To proudly stride the cosmos on their own.
It struck a blow to our complacent nature.
Some said this vain attempt would surely be our last.
We'd finally come to comprehend the danger
Of striving for new worlds beyond our grasp.
But we won't let fear diminish the sacrifice they made.
We'll carry on their dreams in memory of their names.
Because we can meet the challenge of reaching for the stars
To touch their light, so clear but yet so far.
It's time to leave the cradle, to view the great unknown,
To proudly stride the cosmos on our own.
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German robotics
05-02-2009, 03:44 AM
Not entirely space related but still rather cool
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I hate Yuku and apparently the feeling is mutual.� More flying penguins and a jelly fish
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Something for the L2 spot
05-13-2009, 04:04 PM
The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/13 ... el_planck/]Herschel and Planck off to meet Lagrange
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Interesting... Though I think that by 2010, Fenspace is gonna have loads of extras-planetary observatories, some of them maybe even extra-solar. The real hell
of it is that about half of them won't even be owned by any 'Dane-side outfits - they'll be Fen projects for fun and/or profit.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3531410425/
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html]%[link=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html]
Taken a short while after the photo JFerio mentions above.
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Europe and Russia discuss orbital shipyard plans
05-20-2009, 06:50 PM
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They wonder how this improves the process? That's easy. The ship that brings up the modules can just cut and run once they drop the goods off, thus vastly
improving turnaround-times and making flights overall cheaper. Or, better yet, you can make the lifters for the modules unmanned, saving a butt-load of time
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Attention all Blue Blazers: Blueprints of Banzai Institute Complex 88 (architect D. Drexler) are now available.
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Quote: M Fnord wrote:
Attention all Blue Blazers: Blueprints of Banzai Institute
Complex 88 (architect D. Drexler) are now available.
Much obliged. That's about what I had in mind for the Roadhouse on Deimos. As an aside, the idea mentioned in the blog for the pilot for the Buckaroo
Banzai TV series got turned into a limited series comic called "The Turning of the Shrew" by Moonstone Books, who have been working with Earl Mac
Rauch to create new Buckaroo Banzai stories.
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The Register: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/21 ... _dvd_disc/]Scientists build basis for 9TB DVDs
When I saw the title of the paper the article's reporting on - Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods - I thought, "okay, this has to be something The Professor's working on... and improving."
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![[Image: motivatorSpaceTravel.jpg]](http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm50/Norgarth/motivatorSpaceTravel.jpg)
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Now THAT... is a Motivational Poster!
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Unfortunately, I can't take credit for making it. I found it on RPG.net.
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Here's another one I found
![[Image: Awesomeness.jpg]](http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm50/Norgarth/Awesomeness.jpg)
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I mentioned http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/goods/goods_de ... EOGDS-8405]this figure over in General Chat, then realized that it's even odds somebody in Fenspace is building them for real. Itty-bitty insect-dispatching katana and all. It's also even odds, considering how they're depicted in the source materials, whether they're self-aware...
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Oh dear gods. Biomodded rats and roaches vs. chibi-Terminators.
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Quote:Oh dear gods. Biomodded rats and roaches vs. chibi-Terminators.
You say that as if it's a bad thing...
Anyway... If anybody writes that story, I know what to use for http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758730/]inspiration - assuming one can make a comedy out of that plotline.
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Hrm... I think something like Mercedes Lackey's ships cats would be an equally marketable thing. And just as much fun, too, for all the trouble they wind
up in.
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The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/04 ... e_tourist/]Cirque du Soleil founder turns space tourist
He wouldn't be the only tourist in Fenspace... but he might decide to bring his acrobatics troupe Up. Or start a new acrobatics troupe in space.
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Indeed - I can only imagine what their act would be like in micro- or null-G. They'd definitely be a huge hit with the Fen.
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