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I'm pissed that the designated captain wasn't revealed. I wonder who would end up the real captain next season, though? I'm hoping for Saru.

...ever really there? On the island, was he physically there? MAJOR SPOILERS Now, Luke obviously pulled the most powerful Force stunt of all – he wasn't really on not-Hoth, when everyone else thought he was. Hilarious, as his corporeality was then made essential to plot and the group's escape...

Watch your step! I sense there may be major spoilers may below! Spoilery thread alt-title: TFA is a rehash of ANH. Does J.J. Abrams have any originality left? Discuss. ---- I finally watched “A New Hope” again last night. I still can't believe how good that movie was. However, I was...

Four years ago I moved my now 15-year old stereo (naturally, home decorator ignored me when I told him stereo's location was paramount, why listen to what people tell you), and since then I've been struggling to solve a seemingly simple problem: How do I connect my stereo to my PC when it's 3...

A mysterious crater appeared out of nowhere in Siberia about an year ago. The Internet back then was quick to pinpoint the obvious culprit – aliens. We always know it's the aliens. :alienblush: Since then at least seven of these creepy craters have been counted, each one creepier than the...

So, today: 1. Orbital Sciences became the second private company to dock their spacecraft with the ISS. 2. SpaceX: - Successfully launched their first Falcon 9 for a private customer - Inaugurated the new Falcon 9 with the sexy engine arrangement (you can't tell I am a fan) - Tested refiring the...

The only cities seen in the new films are San Francisco, London and Riverside (does that count?). One would like to believe that Starfleet would have major facilities and what not in Moscow, New Delhi, Beijing, Tehran, Nairobi, Mexico City, Cairo and Buenos Aires, not counting the launch sites...

Breaking news: Today The Bad Astronomer posted his first article ever with a sensationalist title. Neutrinos are on their way to board and plunder the Earth. Ultra-high-energy neutrinos detected, almost certainly coming from another galaxy The neutrinos had about 1 PeV of energy, which is...

NASA put an artist impression of Makemake on APOD today. I have a special fascinations with lonely distant rocks like this. The planets in our solar system fall into three categories: Rocky planets that are easy for us to visit and explore, gas giants that are stacked with moons making it a...

There's a thread about this here, but I though it was too old to be of relevance. I didn't know about this ESA-funded project's existence until just now. With the results from the preliminary tests today ESA approved the completion of its first full prototype...

I love Amanda Palmer, and I've always been a fan of her earlier work with The Dresden Dolls. But I wasn't big on her solo stuff... until today. I just stumbled upon her new project, and all I can say is that I'm impressed. This thing is amazing. The single is already my favourite song of hers...

The two companies in the world I'm a fanboi of just teamed up. I can describe the excitement I'm getting from this, but it will be terribly inappropriate. :rommie: http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20120510...

John Nash letter to the NSA from 1955 Highlights from John Nash letter to the NSA In the letter, John Nash offers a design for an encryption machine that is quite ingenious and is based on the principles of modern cryptography. In it he anticipates several aspects of it way before the rest...

SpaceX updates Hopefully they have put the NASA funding to good use and the engine does what it promises to do. This means that it would have to make Dragon flights extremely safe and allow precision landing on the Moon, Mars and other solar system bodies. SpaceX Testing - SuperDraco Engine...

OK, so apparently someone decides it's a good idea to give tablets to apes so they can video chat with each other between cells. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/111143-orangutans-to-skype-between-zoos-with-ipads I really don't want too see how ape Chatroulette would look like... :lol...

Here's an interesting opinion about recent trends in the market for mobile devices and what they might mean for computing devices in general, and the existence of free and open general computing devices such as the PC...

Except for a single episode in ToS and the traveller, I don't remember of any occurrences of intergalactic travel or communication in even in Star Trek, and in Star Trek you've got magic like subspace and warp drive. If we were to use means that fall within the physical limits as we currently...

Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites While I have a feeling that it will soon be discovered that the “fossils” have non-biological origin, if a respected scientist is excited about it, I'm excited too. If he turns out to be correct, it would be our first evidence showing...

Why nowhere in Star Trek we saw people devoted to being fans of the Vulcan culture, the Klingon culture or the Ferengi culture? Humans studying Surak's teachings? Humans dressing like Vulcans for fun, or wearing this? People parodying Vulcans, Klingons in holonovels? We saw Vulcans and Klingons...

At first, I hated the temporal cold war, but at some point I started liking it. However, it doesn't seem to make sense to me. As I understand it, when you travel through time, either backwards or forward, you're changing the timeline only between the earliest and the latest time you were in...