Sometimes the rock pictures do a pretty good job of looking like other things.

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I was teeth-grittingly determined to make it to tonight's ACS meeting, so while I achieved nothing else today, I did get there to hear about the Square Kilometre Array and sundry side organisations and projects.

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In lieu of knocking off the last two Star Trek movies (for which the completist in me is itching) tonight we watched Marooned (1969), a classic lifeboat thriller, set in space. There are three men, but probably only enough oxygen for two... That wasn't a spoiler, merely a very very accurate guess in the opening credits.

( But it was actually quite good )