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Krys - You've been through a lot, I hope your knee issues get sorted. My things have almost all been self-inflicted by stupidity and playing with dangerous things, your problems are mostly bad luck in health. Hope you get better luck in the next 25 years.

From Astronautix http://www.astronautix.com/craft/kliper.htm Seems the ESA involvement came to nothing after all, no wonder we haven't heard anything on it for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliper#ESA.27s_part_in_Kliper_.E2.80.94_uncertainty_over_European_cooperation

What are the prospects for the Roscosmos/EADS project of a Klipper-type shuttlecraft launched on the Angara? Haven't heard anything about that for a few years, but it looked like a good solid project.

Yeah, that's true, I was really referring to the historical moment in 1966 when it happened.

Re: the above on Real Madrid vs Barça part 2 of 4. The bad news: Real Madrid won the cup. The good news:

OK, your big toe. Big toe broken in a savage midnight attack by pet :censored:cat - pardon me if I giggle a bit on that one. EDIT: Didn't know the common word for a cat was offensive, but so be it. Sometimes life's a female dog.

The real-life equivalent would be Twitter becoming self-aware and killing us with an infinite succession of pointless twits that dissolve our frontal cortex... BTW, it's also Groundation day, the holiest day in the Rastafarian calendar which celebrates Ethiopian Emperor Hailie Selassie I...

For programming the Mindstorms CPU I suggest this one http://books.google.com/books?id=-xbfc4ghj4YC&lpg=PP1&dq=lego%20mindstorms%20nxt%202.0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=lego%20mindstorms%20nxt%202.0&f=false It covers how to programme in loops and stuff. Great little programmes in there.

Those are the ones that hurt most of all. Physical pain usually passes quickly and can be controlled, or at least reduced, by discipline and mind-tricks. But being slammed in love lingers for a looooong time... @SiberianTiger - Don't know what a hallux is, but being attacked by your own pet...

I was pushed through a reinforced glass window by some friends aged 14 - nice scar across my forehead from that one. Was stabbed through the right hand by a robber wielding a screwdriver aged 16. Shot in the right foot by a .22 bullet by a friend in an accidental shooting. Aged 19 then...

My son made something like that, not quite as big though. For summertime I'd like to have about a million pieces, all black. Donations to the usual account...

It's valued at $500,000 - so it doesn't come cheap. We have a few thousand pieces but the best thing of all is the Mindstorms robotic set - my kid loves it!

A British man used a quarter million Lego pieces to build a replica of the American aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, which is on display inside the real thing in New York: Here's another big one, looks like an Enterprise class: Has anyone here ever built a Lego design as large and complex...

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Love it! Blair Witch meets Alien on the Moon during an Apollo mission? What's not to like? I liked Duncan Jones's Moon too, even though the lunar gravity was never simulated either. For that matter it's done really badly in 2001 too. The Hollywood rule on lunar gravity seems to be: Inside...

Some good news - Barça will meet Real Madrid tomorrow in the King's Cup final and give them a beating, then go on to do the same in the Champions' semi-final in the two weeks after that. One of four matches already played, a draw at Bernabeu. The BBC are sure excited, and they choose the...

Here in Spain it's €21.38 for an 8-hour day. €2.67 per hour! And even with labour that cheap there's still 20% unemployment. Still, at least we're not in the same boat as Portugal (yet), so there's some hope. A Wikipedia page of global comparisons List of minimum wages by country -...

Yeah, the Majestic 12 are supposedly the real "Men in Black". The fact that the FBI report has BOGUS scrawled over every single page of the source document seems to indicate they don't think it's factually accurate... But then they would say that, wouldn't they?

from New York Times, "On This Day" Maybe we were all celebrating "Mission Accomplished". From Wikipedia, November 27: Plenty of reasons to celebrate there, whether you are a Christianized Buddha, a holder of a Miraculous Medal, or the proud owner of a Ron Hubbard publication.

Whaddya mean "smile"? (Or) That's enough pictures, Buzz. I think we need to take a break so the stagehands can paint some stars on the backdrop.