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Inspirational Podcast - robkelk - 02-02-2008
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/quirks_20080202_4610.mp3]Hardtech deflector shields(?) (runs 10:32, should be available for about a month)
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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
Re: More Inspirational, Meta &c. Sites - robkelk - 02-09-2008
I propose that http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080209.html]this NASA photo become the "official" Fenspace image of Atlantis. Or maybe of Project Artemis. Mal...?
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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 - 02-09-2008
Y'know, you *do* have image rights to the wiki, too.
Anyway, added. Also added pictures for Discovery and Endeavour while I was at it.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
- robkelk - 02-09-2008
Quote: Y'know, you *do* have image rights to the wiki, too.True, but Atlantis is your bird, not mine...
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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 - 02-09-2008
I may have done the writeup, but Artemis is more a joint project than a solo.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Space Spies - robkelk - 02-12-2008
NASA has a http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ospp/mission.htm]counterintelligence unit. Go figure...
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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
Re: More Inspirational, Meta &c. Sites - robkelk - 02-13-2008
Another gadget for the Professor to improve: the http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/13 ... n_dscribe/]e-mail pen.
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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
Staying in touch... - robkelk - 02-16-2008
A BNSC/NASA joint program to launch an unmanned Lunar cellphone-tower-installation probe has been greenlighted.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... -mast-moon]MoonLITE
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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
Visit the Moon's South Pole - robkelk - 03-03-2008
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/214261main_Luna ... _4_Web.mov]Approach and landing beside Shackleton Crater (NASA CGI movie, Quicktime format)
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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
Who let the Professor play with *that*? - robkelk - 03-08-2008
It's a podcast, so right-click and save the file: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/quirks_20080308_4954.mp3]DIY Event Horizon, without the black hole
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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
Assorted stuff - robkelk - 03-16-2008
Apparently, the Warsies have a moon colony. Specifically, http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... ace-colony]Welsh Jedi have a base in the Oceanus Procellarum.
The Cassini probe recently http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14 ... enceladus/]made a close flyby of Enceladus. Apparently, the moon http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080316]tastes like chiken. (Okay, not really... but in Fenspace, who knows?)
Overly-cute acronym of the week: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14 ... army_ploy/]COM-BAT, for a vaugely-bat-shaped flying robot being built by the US Army. I'm sure the Professor can do better...
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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 - 03-18-2008
Disney actually did a live-action sequel to this movie in 2014, with the generous assistance of the Cybers & filmed entirely on location. You can guess how *that* turned out.
(On a more meta note, Pixar probably shows us *exactly* what handwavium robots present & future are like in Wall-E.)
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
- robkelk - 03-23-2008
Quote:Rocket Girls. The entire series.I just took the link out of that posting (#78 in the thread) - Bandai http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convent ... ertainment]announced today that they have the licence for the anime.
(Yay! Now to hope they cast people who can act, at least in the primary roles...)
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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
Construction materials - M Fnord - 03-27-2008
When building a city on Mars or the Moon, there's a general lack of ready building material. Thankfully, http://www.containercity.com/index.php?id=1]somebody left all these shipping containers just lying around in docks all over the world. It's like playing SimCity with giant Legos!
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Handy Writer's Tool - robkelk - 03-27-2008
I've been cleaning up a lot of cut-and-pasted spelling mistakes in the wiki... Here's one of my tools for making sure a word's spelled correctly: http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php]Wordsmyth. Use the "spelled-like" option in the search box to find out how your word is really spelled. (Never mind the message about the function soon being restricted to registered users - that message has been there for years.)
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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
The MTP advertises - robkelk - 04-02-2008
Okay, it's the 2008 Google April Fools' page, but the attached questionnaire is sonething that only one of the Fen could have dreamed up...
http://www.google.com/virgle/]Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes
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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
Walking a mile in someone else's paws? - robkelk - 04-06-2008
Perhaps somebody told the commander of Operation Great Justice that she should try living the way the boskonians' victims do, and she jumped to the wrong conclusion?
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/goods/goods_de ... 0000019762]Catgirl Haruhi
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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
- Cobalt Greywalker - 04-15-2008
Fnord, sorry I couldn't find the full story, but http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/p ... html/1.stm]THIS is something you might find interesting.
- M Fnord - 04-15-2008
Oh, sweet, they finally got the OK-GLI out of Bahrain! And they cleaned her up, too!
(Der Spiegel article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... 35,00.html )
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
No Cute Title - Bob Schroeck - 04-16-2008
Accompanying an http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... ace115.xml]article on space junk, a very nice CGI pic of trackable objects in orbit around the Earth. No, that's not the Earth in the middle.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Ebony - 04-16-2008
Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:
Accompanying an article on space junk, a very
nice CGI pic of trackable objects in orbit around the Earth. No, that's not the Earth in the middle.
Scary, ain't it? I've given some thought to a Planetes-esque team, subcontracting to various space agencies. Nothing more than a brief idea, plus a
few scenes where a "space garbage collector" finds an abandoned 'waved car on his regular haul to the photosphere. (The Sun: the Solar
System's best garbage disposal!)
By the way, if you've not watched "Planetes," I highly recommend it. The first disc, anyway, which is all I've managed to get ahold of. Good
hard sci-fi.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
- Norgarth - 04-17-2008
Actually, after looking at the image zoomed in, I think that _is_ Earth, heavily obscurred by junk markers. There're bits of blue, green, and browns
showing through the grey/white object markers
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One for the folks in Kandor - robkelk - 04-17-2008
According to the ESA, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7351437.stm]marigolds 'thrive' on Moon rock.
I guess now we know where Fenspace's ornamental flower industry is based...
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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
- Bob Schroeck - 04-17-2008
Quote:According to the ESA, marigolds 'thrive' on Moon rock.Presumably the http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068528/]local gamma ray levels also have something to do with it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Have we seen this one yet? - robkelk - 04-20-2008
http://www.slightlymadscience.com/]Slightly-Mad Science
I could see something similar to this site being connected to Leonard of Quirm's TV show...
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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