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• 'Britain's Got Talent' ... in space?

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • They're welcome to do their own, you know. (And if they can make it work, SKYLON looks like a better way to LEO than anything we're working on at the moment....)

• 'Pillars of Creation' reloaded

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • absolutelyright, what makes you think that's not happening? Plenty of space-based Earth-observing satellites (I just looked at orbital images on another site, of the area of the cruise ship wreck), notthe least of which are for weather monitoring.

• SpaceX's millionaire founder tweets about marital split

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • Do you know Henry Ford for his family, or his products...?

• SpaceX's millionaire founder tweets about marital split

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • This potentially could affect cheaper, regular access to space, LEO and deeper. Yeah, that trumps North Korea, Pakistan, and all the other current events that will be only footnotes in a few centuries. Oh, and MSNBC does have more than one page...

• SpaceX's millionaire founder tweets about marital split

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • Yes she's hot...but I'll take what he's trying to do over her, any day. (And success will only make him even more attractive to women...including the 'female geeks' who would likely appreciate him more.)

• Plans set for 'Tricorder' contest

  Tue Jan 10, 2012
  • Why don't you ask the people you have allegedly seen do this, before asking someone else to spend their money on it?

• Plans set for 'Tricorder' contest

  Tue Jan 10, 2012
  • David, neither one was trying to be predictive...I'm still waiting for that late 1990's human genetic engineering and enhancement ("Space Seed,' 'Star Trek II'), and manned missions to Saturn ('Tomorrow is Yesterday'), for example.

• Zoom in on the black hole next door

  Thu Jan 12, 2012
  • "Any reason that we have not sent a probe out to this galaxy?" Oh, maybe because the Sun will become a red giant before it could get anywhere close? (On the other hand, Andromeda is coming this way. Be very very patient...) "I mean how else are we going to see our OWN GALAXY?"

• 160 billion planets in the Milky Way?!

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • The existence of life elsewhere won't prove the existence of a deity(ies) one way or another...though it would be interesting to know if they observe such things themselves.

• 160 billion planets in the Milky Way?!

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • Perhaps civilizations tend to go from radio to something 'else' not very long after the discovery of radio, that we haven't discovered yet. (no, I don't pretend to know what it may be, though I have a few suspicions)