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The scientist at the centre of the climate change data scandal compared himself with David Kelly yesterday, saying that he had contemplated suicide. Phil Jones expressed regret for attempting to block public access to scientific research, blaming his decision on a campaign by foreign global...

How embarrassing for the US. Thanks, Nobama! Link (of Shame!)

"...[W]e are proposing a cancellation of the Constellation program at NASA even while making other investments in long range [research and development] there, which again is a significant step," Orszag said in response to a reporter's question about the tough choices Obama faced in drafting his...

Yet another IPCC cockup. Link and snippet follow: Leaders of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "regret the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance," they said in a statement on the flaw in a paragraph of a 938-page scientific report.

So, if you could have any 5 people from any time, living or dead, over for dinner and conversation, who would they be? I'd have to go with: Alan Shepard Richard Feynman John Wayne Werner Von Braun Tachyon Shield

In 6 days, NASA will begin listening for signals from the Mars Phoenix Lander in the off chance that it survived winter season at the LZ. More here

Just read this: Plenty of Solar Systems Like Ours Expected With between 100 and 400 billion stars in the milky way, that 15% comes up to somewhere between 15 and 60 billion star systems that are similar to ours.

Rutan and Branson unveiled the second component of the suborbital passenger system today! http://www.virgingalactic.com/news/item/virgin-galactic-unveils-spaceshiptwo-the-worlds-first-commercial-manned-spaceship/ Given the usual Rutan pattern, taxi tests, captive flight test, glide tests...

We drink now to the Wife of Brian, a helluva lady, and I'm not lyin'. Choose not sadness at this time, remember her words here, not this crappy rhyme. She touched us all, with posts and wit. Plecostomus, to have married her, you're one lucky git. To Wife of Brian *crash*

The LHC has now broken the worlds record for a proton beam. We're still here! http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Large-Hadron-Collider-Shatters-Energy-Record-68767.html?wlc=1259615693

Looks like Mr Rutans first competitor is getting squared away for some flying! Here are the payloads slated for flight: Three-Dimensional Critical Wetting Experiment in Microgravity by principal investigator, Stephen Collicott, of Purdue University. Microgravity Experiment on Dust...

...NOT! LHC made a successful run today with no casualties and no temporal incursions. Story here.

I propose we grow giant jumping llamas. These llamas could leap from planet to planet, carrying supplies and people. Maybe it should be alpacas instead. The fur would help protect them from the cold of space.

Graphic under the Ares-I images "WORLD'S LARGEST ROCKET DELAYED AGAIN" Umm... it's some 40-ish feet short of a Saturn V, and has nowhere near the payload capacity.

We humans are getting good at finding new planets! http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091019-exoplanet-harps.html

This is why you don't screw with stuff you don't understand: Warning, disturbing content involving human electrocution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVqze35fx0

Not to be outdone by todays stellar... well.. lunar announcement, the Mars folks have announced direct observation of water ice near fresh impact craters. Story here.

The last shuttle crew has been named. The end of this era in manned spaceflight draws nigh. :( http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090918-sts133-final-shuttle-crew.html I hope I can manage to see a launch. :(

Technically free to play, but free play won't get you very far. Nevertheless, if you like Robot 'n Raygun type MMORPGs, then take a look, it's just plain pretty! The first planet in the Entropia Universe, Calypso, is currently up and running their version 10.0 software. It's available at...