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Mat T wrote:They probably found oil.

Ho ho.
They found ethane on Titan.
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Ethane Hawke?

Actually ethane is my favourite thane...
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foxyloxy wrote:SpaceX webcast is now up here. The launch is set for some where close to 2am UK time.
I didn't hang around to watch it live, but read the "FAIL!" notice the next day. SpaceX now have a summary of events on their website and a good clear video. http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
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Well, the old lady isn't out of it yet......

Keeping the shuttles flying on a romantic level is wonderful - from a "Oh my God, please not another Challenger/Columbia" perspective is not so wonderful...........
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Zoot wrote:Keeping the shuttles flying on a romantic level is wonderful - from a "Oh my God, please not another Challenger/Columbia" perspective is not so wonderful...........
Yeah. They need something in between. Soyuz may be enough, but there has to be some way to prevent a recurrence of the Skylab situation. How bad would a modernised Gemini on a Minuteman be?
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Exoplanet discovered circling a star:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7617031.stm
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The excitement is that its a star similar to our Sun. The disclaimer is that it might not be an exoplanet, but another star caught in the image. If it is a planet, I believe that would make it only the second one to be imaged directly, as opposed to detected by gravitational wobbling (to use the technical term).

Presumably it has a North. :)
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Its an amazing 330 AU out from the parent star. Uranus is 20 AU, Neptune is 30 AU. (ok, its only 0.5% of a lightyear, but).
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Eight times the mass of Jupiter, about the same size, and 1,500 degrees C. That's aproaching being a star itself, not quite, but not that far away from being one.
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oooh wassat then..

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/communit ... pageSize=0
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7618724.stm
China has announced the names of three astronauts who will carry out its third manned space mission.

A 42-year-old fighter pilot, Zhai Zhigang, has been chosen to perform the country's first spacewalk.

He will be joined by Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng on the Shenzhou VII mission - set to launch on 25 September at 1310 GMT (2110 local time).
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Ooooh, shiny brightness!

Looked "big".
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Oh, Buster Machine 3 worked then? :)

I love the estimate for how far away it might be - "Oh, between 130 to 11 billion light years".
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Oh, Buster Machine 3 worked then?
I'll get out the christmas lights for the WELCOME HOME party then shall I?
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Oh, I think you can wait 2,999 years yet... :)
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