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RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:06 am 0

They're full of piss and vinegar, didn't the Chinese say similar things years ago?

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:10 am 0

But I want to see laser gun fights between CIA astronauts and SMERSH Cosmonauts whilst Roger Moore fiddles with the wires of the neutronium bomb!

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:44 am 0

The only wires Roger Moore fiddles with now are the ones on his hearing aid.

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:12 pm 0

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian scientists have discovered three new species of bacteria in Earth's upper stratosphere that are resistant to ultraviolet radiation, researchers said.

The bacteria do not match any species found on Earth. They were found in samples that scientists collected when they sent a balloon into the stratosphere, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said in a statement Monday.

That layer of the Earth receives heavy doses of ultraviolet radiation, enough to kill most organisms.

In their analyses of the retrieved samples, microbiologists detected 12 bacterial and six fungal colonies.

Of them, three bacterial colonies were new species, the ISRO said.

Indian scientists named one of them Janibacter hoylei, after astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.

"While the present study does not conclusively establish the extraterrestrial origin of microorganisms, it does provide positive encouragement to continue the work in our quest to explore the origin of life,"

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03 ... index.html

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:26 pm 0

Ooh, crumbly blood time!

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:03 pm 0

Panspermia-hypothesis supports will be celebrating tonight then.

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:15 pm 0

Shuttle arriving at ISS, live video stream :

http://www.space.com/php/popup/mediapla ... &mode=play

Wumpus4x4 · Post by **Wumpus4x4** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:15 pm 0

Shuttle launch casualty

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shutt ... chbat.html

I for one welcome our vengeance-seeking space-bat overlords.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:45 am 0

Some kids attached a camera to a weather balloon and took pictures of the upper atmosphere.

http://translate.google.com/translate?c ... pair=ca|en

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:16 am 0

Anyone (in the UK) who's got a clear sky at 8pm tonight should see the ISS/Shuttle zoom across the sky.

It'll appear above the horizon almost due west at 19:59, travelling eastwards as fast as a low altitude aircraft (visible for about 10-15 seconds) and looking like a very bright star.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:40 pm 0

I'll keep an eye out for that, thanks.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:52 pm 0

benedictw wrote:I'll keep an eye out for that, thanks.

Thank Zoot (IIRC) for telling me about this excellent site:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:39 pm 0

Currently watching Discovery do her fly around ISS before re-entry on SpaceVidcast, very bloody impressive!

http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:28 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:Currently watching Discovery do her fly around ISS before re-entry on SpaceVidcast, very bloody impressive!

http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/

And she is down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7970234.stm

Looks a bit more grubby than usual. Maybe she flew through a patch of dirty space?

Purple Grapefruit · Post by **Purple Grapefruit** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:08 pm 0

Silliness on the international space station.

"A Russian cosmonaut has complained he is no longer allowed to use a US toilet as well as a US exercise bike."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7973747.stm

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