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I have always loved watching films of Soviet rocket launches. For some reason, the Soyuz launch sequence is more beautiful to me than the Atlas or Ariane launches.

There's a certain Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon quality to the Soyuz: the shape of the rocket itself, with its many strap-on boosters, seems to conform more with science fiction's ( Read more... )

Everybody's been talking about the DPRK night-sky photo lately. Well, here's NASA's full-globe night sky photograph: [it was Astronomy Picture of the Day for 27 Nov. 2000]



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Auntie Beeb reports that scientists in the PRC will be using satellites to spy on panda sex.

The masses have boundless creative power. They can organize themselves and concentrate on places and branches of work where they can give full play to their energy; they can concentrate on production in breadth and depth and create more and more ( Read more... )

It would appear that the Bush administration has finally found a solution to the present post-Katrina refugee crisis.