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http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.ph ... 9&view=all]The closest you can get to stardancing when 'Daneside
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100803.html]The Jason's been busy again...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/20 ... print.html]Folks might want to re-think those Lunar caves...
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http://xkcd.com/786/]Today's xkcd shows the difference between Fen and 'Danes in a nutshell.
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*Sighs* Such is the sorry state of affairs that American culture is in. And probably even much of the rest of the world as well.
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NASA has uploaded some really cool pictures to Flickr.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/orcus_patera/]Alternate ending (and "Bad End") for A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
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Discovery of asteroids in the main belt, from the 1980's to today. Positions are to scale, AFAIK.
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Another one courtesy of El Reg... for the inhabitants of Mars, or the moon....
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M Fnord Wrote:Somebody needs to steal and wave this fucker. Seriously. It's Russian - that makes it the VVS' responsibility...
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M Fnord Wrote:Somebody needs to steal and wave this fucker. Seriously. Send the pirate fen after it! Just make sure they have lots of jam for their cannons. Honestly I wouldn't be shocked to learn that it already has been waved given how rich that guy is.
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100907.html]Shuttle posters
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Technobabble to justify The Limit: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 004112.htm]The fine structure constant isn't constant. (Assuming, of course, that this isn't observer error.)
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Do they have a concert hall on Starbase 1? If they don't, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/10 ... _on_earth/]they might want to add one...
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Septemeber is Cyborg month
It's the 50th anniversarly of the coining of the word 'cyborg'. At least according to Slashdot
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50 light years to the Diamond Star . I'm sure that somebody's on the way already.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/20/spacecolonies.html]1970s-vintage space station concept art from NASA, courtesy of BoingBoing. (With link to higher-resolution versions.)
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/20/spacecolonies.html]1970s-vintage space station concept art from NASA, courtesy of BoingBoing. (With link to higher-resolution versions.) Looks to me like Bernal and O'Neill habitats... We've put a few Bernals at L5.
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/20/spacecolonies.html]1970s-vintage space station concept art from NASA, courtesy of BoingBoing. (With link to higher-resolution versions.) A few of the higher-resolution versions are now on the FenWiki...
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APOD: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100929.html]Fly Me to the Moon...
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Spotted on the SJGames forums: http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroi ... legos.html]Let's make a space probe out of LEGO!
And you can buy the kit, too - or, at least, you'll be able to buy it soon. Something for the Fenkinder or the Fenkinder-at-heart to play with!
Edit: Yuku's playing silly buggers with links again. URL: %[link=http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroid-mission-modeled-with-legos.html]http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroi ... legos.html]
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