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Space sharks!
2007-08-15, 7:03 PM #1
The world’s first privately financed space station could be launched before 2010:

http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12485&feedId=online-news_rss20

Dust ‘comes alive’ in space - Times Online:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2241753.ece

The two articles are not particularly related, but it beats making two separate threads.
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2007-08-16, 7:44 PM #2
1.) I bet that space hotel will be a hit to a lot of rich people. They can finally see all the countries that are poorer than their personal bank accounts all at once! That's convenient!

2.) That's a pretty awesome article, I do get a kick how there's an article about every two months over the topic of "astrobiologist just realized alien life might not be like earth life!" though.
omnia mea mecum porto
2007-08-18, 12:10 AM #3
In response to Roach's #2:

And everytime I see one of those articles, I am thoroughly amused at how I realized this in second grade when I asked something along the lines of "Why are we searching for planets with oxygen and water when aliens might not use oxygen and water?" and the teacher was like "stfu kid."
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2007-08-18, 12:22 AM #4
How dare you, dud, at the ripe age of eight think that life might use anything other than water for a medium!
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2007-08-18, 3:38 AM #5
The second one brought out some crazies in the comments section.

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2007-08-18, 7:22 AM #6
lol one of the responses in the 2nd article, not even random clumps of dust are free from theological debate.

Quote:
If people think this dust naturally formed itself, what created the rules to why it forms itself into this pattern? Gravity and electromacnetics are quoted at being a particullary important in things of this sort. Why do we even have gravity? I understand how gravity works but why do we have it? There's absolutely no logically reason for gravity to be since it can't evolve by itself, something had to enact gravity in our universe.

The dust is the same thing. People go out of their way to prove God doesn't exist but they just end up proving that He's still here. Why would inert dust ever come to life, it took God's word in the beginning? Why assume intelligence or life at all?

Let's be smart about this, not crazy.
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2007-08-18, 7:22 AM #7
Space Ghost.
2007-08-18, 7:23 AM #8
Hahahahahaha.
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