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- HRogge - 04-05-2014

http://www.cnet.com/news/5-year-old-fin ... esearcher/


- HRogge - 04-17-2014

http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-k ... 1AaGvldWSp


- Dartz - 04-30-2014

[Image: tumblr_mzeuanFcVA1r88lcmo1_1280.png]

For those male members of the SAM?
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- Terrace - 04-30-2014

Give them motorcycle helmets and they'd have a super sentai feel to them...


- robkelk - 05-02-2014

Explaining the Senshi/Stellvian alliance, Charles Stross explains why spending money on floating cities around Venus is good for capitalism.
--
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



- Bob Schroeck - 05-02-2014

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/spa ... 1454.story]Space buffs hope to reawaken old NASA probe.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.


- robkelk - 05-05-2014

Trying to make sense of the background presented on Star Trek, "patio11" asks Is Starfleet just a big LARP?
--
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



- robkelk - 05-10-2014

Kandor City commuter car!

Officially the GM EN-V, but doesn't it just look like a sentai mask? See also the Cadillac WTF and the Mercedes Formula Zero, in the same slideshow. (I'm not sure whether I like the Phoenix - planned obsolescence might be a fact of life, but that short?)
--
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



Catholic Aliens? - Bob Schroeck - 05-13-2014

http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/05/p ... it/362106/]Pope Francis Says He Would Definitely Baptize Aliens If They Asked Him To
This is too good not to include somewhere in Fenspace.  Come to think of it, is Francis the Pope in Fenspace?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.


- Berk - 05-13-2014

They tried to elect him back when John Paul II died.

He refused.

His time has been coming for a while.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead


- Dartz - 05-16-2014

To raise livestock in confined spaces like spacecraft or stations, while still ensuring adequeate quality of life, I give you

Chicken Matrix
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- Bob Schroeck - 05-16-2014

Quote:Dartz wrote:
To raise livestock in confined spaces like spacecraft or stations, while still ensuring adequeate quality of life, I give you
Chicken Matrix
"You hear that, Mr. Leghorn? That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Leghorn..."
IGN needs better editors.  "Foul" for "fowl"?  Feh.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.


- robkelk - 05-16-2014

IBM accidentally invents new class of polymers

If this type of material is vacuum-proof, I can see it being used for spacecraft hulls. Never worry about micrometeorites again!
--
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



- DeputyJones - 05-18-2014

I found out where most Fen get the stuff they shouldn't be able to afford - salvage!!
http://news.yahoo.com/happens-shipping- ... 00812.html


- robkelk - 06-04-2014

Vehicles of the Early Space Age, drawn to scale:
http://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/statu ... 36/photo/1
--
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



- robkelk - 06-05-2014

Remember the days of the Boskone War, when refugees from the Belt were sleeping anywhere they could find a place to put a bed on Mars? One wonders how many of them ended up going to this extreme.

http://www.daz3d.com/tubo-hotel

(It's this month's Platinum Club freebie, so I've downloaded a copy already. Let me know if you want it in a render somewhere.)
--
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



- Dartz - 06-05-2014

A marker for Alien life on exoplanets also? Plastic enters the geological record.
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- robkelk - 06-09-2014

Today's (and every day's) weather report for Venus: Cloudy with a chance of magnetic storms that "could swallow the planet whole."
--
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



- Dartz - 06-11-2014

NASA's Warp Ship...
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- Dartz - 06-15-2014

[img]http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqMWDJQCQAAd4o3.jpg:large">

Dashboard and steering wheel of a car that goes 1000mph.
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- robkelk - 06-21-2014

Digital Earthrise

(~7 minutes)

--
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



- robkelk - 06-23-2014

Titan sprouts 'Magic Island'
--
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



- Dartz - 06-24-2014

A Powerplant for the Griffon II ?
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- Rajvik - 06-24-2014

Oh my gods I need to change my pants. Rotary 12cylinders are not unheard of IN AIRCRAFT but the fact that it fits in the same amount of space aas a V8! I want does not even begin to cover that.
 


- HRogge - 06-25-2014

Test of ATV shielding against space debris.
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images ... mpact_test