Science is Drokking Fantastic Because...

[JOE SOAP]

WIND-BOTS

[Zarjazzer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153

safe trip Voyager.

[Spikes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153

safe trip Voyager.

Aye, and not bad for a piece of 1970's technology.

[Ancient Otter]

Nasa are eying up three asteroids to capture.

[Jim_Campbell]

Nasa are eying up three asteroids to capture.

"Let's drag asteroids into Earth orbit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Cheers

Jim

[von Boom]

Nasa are eying up three asteroids to capture.

"Let's drag asteroids into Earth orbit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Cheers

Jim

Nothing as long as NASA is also developing a flying triangle to deal with the buggers.

[TordelBack]

This is the best thing I have read in many, many moons:  Genesis (2013 edition).

http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/4/275.full

[Tiplodocus]

Voyager has left the solar system (and is about to fall into a black hole, end up at the Borg homeworld and then be sent back to Earth all to coax Captain Kirk out of semi-retirement).

http://xkcd.com/1189/

[Ancient Otter]

Thanks to Voyager, the "sound" of interstellar space.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

I think this is about the third time V'ger has left the solar system

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Thanks to Voyager, the "sound" of interstellar space.

& Stevie has a new ringtone.

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It's deeply pathetic but Sri Lanka is my dream holiday destination purely because of Fountains of Paradise.   

Stay your Tordelhand with the self-flagellation*. For oddly enough, Stevie's felt similar with Jupiter down to encounteng 2001 in grade 6.


*Unless, off course, that's really your thing. Thing as in peccadillo, that is. Not, you know,  your thing.

Speaking of things, looks like Nikolai's bee clanking again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKKQQUMBqts"My name is RU12. You have dishonoured my transistor. Prepare to die."

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Move along citizen, nothing to see here, wrong bloody thread

[Ancient Otter]

The University of Sheffield have found organisms in the stratosphere which they believe to might not have originated from the Earth: Link.

[TordelBack]

The University of Sheffield have found organisms in the stratosphere which they believe to might not have originated from the Earth: Link.

[volume=11]HMMMMMM....[/volume]

I will need a great deal of convincing to accept the logical absurdity that life did not originate in the one place in the universe where we have identified it in spades, but rather in some putative as-yet unidentified environment millions, even trillions, of kilometres across the radiation-riddled vacuum of space.  It is so much more likely that Wainwright's organisms are yet another of Earth's ever-increasing bestiary of extremophiles that any other conclusion is actively silly at  this point. 

Also: Journal of Cosmology.

I think Benner's argument re: boron, molybendum and the formation of RNA at crystalline mineral surfaces on Mars (for example) is very interesting, but it's still a long way from 'proving' panspermia.  You may commence your Jeff Waynisms.

[Dandontdare]

you said panspermia <snigger>