I think he’s Palpatine’s former master. Come back from the dead (hence the massive scar on his skull... potentially from a light saber strike), to fulfill the mission that his apprentice couldn’t live up to.

I think its rather telling that an article that simply asks who’s seen a movie about people in space gets about 300 replies while an article that talks about actual spaceflight gets, including this one, precisely two responses.

Yo, I’ma let you finish your list, but the Harlequin Golf was the greatest Golf of all time.

According to John Mather, JWST Project Scientist, “WST can see the heat signature of a bumblebee at the distance of the Moon.” That’s pretty neat! Reference: http://jwst.nasa.gov/faq_tweetchat2…

In case anyone is curious what a third-stage booster look like, here is one without wheels.

Heil Howser!

Less “advocation” than “investigation” or “exploration.”

“The Shuttle still relied on expensive, single-use boosters.”

Not unless the OSS was recruiting Nazis in St. Louis.

No! That is not how I’m almost ending the work day!

No one can. Period.

I think the idea is that if there were a constant stream of photons entangled with photons staying with the sender, the sender could collapse the quantum state of the photons just before they reach the sensor. This doesn’t really work to send information because the sender can’t control what state the photon collapses…

It’s simple! In no way is it teleportation. NIST’s using the term “teleportation” in connection with it is wrong and bad, and NIST should feel bad.

Meh.com has a lot of the original Woot folks, but the product selection isn't really any better. I still order much more from Woot than I do from Meh. The fun thing about Meh is that because it often has a pretty thin inventory of whatever it's selling, you do kind of need to check on it at the reveal to see if it's…

I thought it looked like Discworld

To be fair, there were Arabic numberals on the clock....

Choosing not to is dead on correct. Somewhere in the mid-early nineties, the public stopped caring about space, and politicians stopped pushing it. It likely involves the collapse of the Soviet Union, but there’s been general lack of interest, save for a few mars missions and new horizons.

To tell you the truth I am a bit tired of this kind of argument always going on all the time when people talk about Orion and SLS. I think Orion is just a very small step in space exploration, and if right now, in the first decades of the 21th century, we (humans) are not able to make better, more advanced spacecraft,…

I am told it has a first name. It’s . . . . no. It is forbidden.