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Samsung R720 - £755.43 P7350 (51) - 2Ghz; 1066FSB; L2=3MB/2Ghz 1600x900x17.3in (106dpi) 4GB (max) of DDR2/3 (?) at 800mhz Radeon HD 4330 - 512MB Asus N81VG - £829.13 P8600 (31) - 2.4Ghz; 1066FSB; L2=3MB 1366x768x14in (111dpi) 4GB (max) of DDR2 at 800mhz NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Samsung R710 -...

OK - let me see if I can get this right. Essentially, I'm 3/4 English and 1/4 Irish. That's the short version. The LONG version has to cater for me also being: 1/16 Australian Aborigine, 1/16 Native American and 1/32 Greek. Not quite sure how I'd work that all in.

Russian cosmonaut set to command the ISS, Gennady Padalka, told not to use NASA's space toilet or exercise bike. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/31/space-mission-russia-us

The Core's an awesome film, guys! It's only 20 minutes long. You get to see the kind-of-cool-though-unrealistic Shuttle landing, then after you've been told the premise and turned off your TV in disgust, you can go off and do other things.

Or perhaps a Haz-Mat suit.

The narrator often explains the surge of information being overwhelming for a few seconds, then the brain sorts through it and makes sense of it all. It is implied that you know when the Ghost Machines are telling you what you didn't already know.

Kind of reminds me of the Ghost Implants concept from a book called Stealing Light. "Machine-Heads" are people whom have chips installed into their brains: able to detect what you're looking at, what you're hearing, what you're thinking; they then pull relevant information off of the internet...

1.2mb/s NASA TV feed here courtesy of Yahoo!

Yes, a piece of foam off of the ET, but had the TPS been on top of the stack - like with Apollo, Soyuz etc. - the strike wouldn't have happened. No one's saying the actual, physical orbiter caused the disasters; but the unique stack design of the STS played a major role.

Apart from the 3D terrain, atmospheric particle effects and reflections, it looks no better than Orbiter. If Orbiter wasn't still on DX7, everything in that video would be possible.

I used to play piano, but like skiiing for snowboarding, switched to guitar to be more cool. It didn't work, though, ha. I also sing, write a few songs and accompany myself on mouth harp.

Yeah, and by that logic, all golf balls are planets too!

We didn't land on the Moon. I mean, the Moon is made of cheese, so the exhaust from the LEM's decent engine would have melted the ground below the lander, making a safe landing impossible - it's called the "Fondue Principle".

"The node that has, like, all those windows."