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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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/20 ... print.html]Folks might want to re-think those Lunar caves...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Why do I think http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991]This System is on a few travel itineraries?

http://xkcd.com/786/]Today's xkcd shows the difference between Fen and 'Danes in a nutshell.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

*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.

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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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Somebody needs to steal and wave this fucker. Seriously.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Septemeber is Cyborg month

It's the 50th anniversarly of the coining of the word 'cyborg'. At least according to Slashdot

Also

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.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... s-ago.html]A gorgeous "new" image of Jupiter's red spot, assembled from photos taken 30 years ago

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... poles.html]Saturn has freakin' huge auroras.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

APOD: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100929.html]Fly Me to the Moon...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/sci ... 21519.html]Potentially habitable exoplanet found!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.