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Not the bananas.

This morning.

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Marie Cullen and Titan an 8ft robot, in Dublin city to launch this years Laya Healthcare’s City spectaculars in Merrion Square, Dublin 2 on July 8-10 and in Cork’s Fitzgerald Park on July 16 and 17.

Any excuse

Meanwhile

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Titan

He’s a moonwalking tin fool.

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Of this extraordinary image, CIT Jet Propulsion Laboratory sez:

As it soared past Saturn’s large moon Titan recently, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off hydrocarbon seas.Also in the image: an arrow-shaped complex of bright methane clouds hovers near Titan’s north pole. The clouds could be actively refilling the lakes with rainfall. A “bathtub ring,” or bright margin, around Kraken Mare — the sea containing the reflected sunglint — indicates that the sea was larger at some point, but evaporation has decreased its size.

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space

On November 14, 1963, the Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile shot into space from the South Atlantic at 17,000 miles per hour. This unmanned booster would eventually carry the Gemini space capsules, NASA’s second manned mission to space, succeeding Mercury and preceding Apollo. But what made that fateful November morning particularly noteworthy was something else: Mounted on the second stage of the missile was a camera that offered a preview of what the astronauts would see from space and provided the first-ever footage from the cosmos.

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