Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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An alternative ending to Return Of The Jedi with the actual environmental consequences of a nuclear explosion in orbit factored in.

Farewell, forest moon of Endor, home of the Ewok.

We wondered why he wasn’t posting lately.

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‘I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band— or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.’

Kurt Cobain

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British space scientists have put forward a detailed proposal to the European Space Agency to to send a probe to Uranus.

It would give scientists their first close-up views of Uranus since NASA’s Voyager 2 flew past and captured fleeting pictures 25 years ago.

The £400million mission is designed to go in orbit to study the rings around Uranus and answer questions such as why it gives off so little heat.

What?

Scientists plan Uranus probe (Christian Science Monitor)