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My video tribute, with dedication to Suzy for introducing me to so much information on the Russian Space program and to SiberianTiger for passing me the original music track, Trava U Doma, the anthem of Russian spaceflight since the 1980s Just watched an ISS pass this morning, the dawn of...

Nice vids Stevo - nothing like your own solar system to play with. (off topic) BTW, any chance of Ireland following in the footsteps of Iceland and telling the international financial community to take a hike? I was very pleased to see how upset the UK and Dutch governments were when they...

Report in New York Times about the lack of hard data on radiation at Fukushima http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/asia/09nuclear.html Pertinent quotes Who to believe? By now the Japanese authorities have zero credibility in my opinion, leaving the US NRC by default to be the...

It's not very intact - the images show the fuselage badly broken, the engines gone and the forward dome eroded. If they drag it up it'll probably break up completely.

Barça will always get more money, it appears like magic in the clouds of Catalonia and rains on them. As for Real, you're right historically, but the present day teams are clearly different - Barça is a real team built up over the years from their own youth players and strategic buys of...

That's because you only know the present-day stuff. Try "Microphone Fiend", link above. Rage Against the Machine and other rock groups cover it, because it's the best hip-hop track ever ever. Typical comments on the YouTube page of this track say things like "I am a metalhead but i dig this...

Old-skool only - with very few exceptions, the scene in the 1990s and beyond became lazy and uncreative. Gangsta violence and negativism destroyed the essentially fun nature of the music, and commercialism killed the creativity. In this way, though PE and NWA are great artists in themselves...

If it's going to be an ESA ship, you could name it after some of Europe's greatest heroes. Galileo is taken, but you could repeat. Voltaire, ditto. Curie. Turing. Einstein. Hawking. DaVinci. Of course you could name it after the most heroic Europeans of all - FC Barcelona.

What does capacity factor mean?

So you're saying in response to my question 2) about renewable energy, that offshore wind power plants could become a realistic alternative in the near future, given a massive investment in same? How about the other questions, especially 5) on other carbon fuel sources?

Great interview on the Stephen Colbert show with Andrew Chaikin, the writer of "A Man on the Moon", a highly recommendable book for general readers. Haven't read his new book on Mars exploration, but I will...

I'd like to ask a few key questions which I believe ordinary laypeople want to have answers to so that there can be an informed debate on energy. Leaving out countries like Canada, Norway, etc, which are in a privileged position to use massive amounts of hydropower, and thinking more of...

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Which Terry Jones do you prefer? This one: Or this one: I tend to prefer the one who is disrespectful to a holy book

Actually there is some data on people living in these areas and it has unexpected results: Wikipedia: Background Radiation The reference given in the Wiki article is the following paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/309/5736/883.1.full

Right on time - my HD is packed now. Apart from Textures, can it work also for Meshes, as asked by Bonanza, and Sounds?

Which Scott Walker do you prefer? This one: Or this one: I tend to go for the one with the nice hair

Something that happens regularly once a year is by its very nature predictable, give them some credit for trying...

OK, so if you raise your knee you open an e-mail, and so on... A breakthrough in human-IT interaction technology. You will be able to connect your Google Animal Translator to this new service too.

Funny you should say that... http://www.buildwith.net/blog/2010/03/23/EarthHourCausesGlobalWarming.aspx