What's Cool in Science This Week?

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Staggerwing

Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?  -Voluspa

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost...

"Don't you look at me that way..." -the Abyss
 
'When searching for a meaningful embrace, sometimes my self respect took second place' -Iggy Pop, Cry for Love

... this will go down on your permanent record... -the Violent Femmes, 'Kiss Off'-

"I'm not just anyone, I'm not just anyone-
I got my time machine, got my 'electronic dream!"
-Sonic Reducer, -Dead Boys

bob48

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!




Sir Slash

Very neat! I hadn't heard anything about it. Thanks for the post.  O0
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

MikeGER

#562
for the first time a German will take over command of the ISS.
and its the second time in history for an European
Dr. Alexander Gerst, a geologist and vulcanologist, is following up Frank De Winne from Belgium, who was commander in 2014.

Alexander Gerst is better know to wider public here as "Astro Alex" when he used social media in his off duty hours while on his first stint at the ISS to spark enthusiasm for spaceflight, earth studies, and how is the live on a space station in a good understandable and winning way into the young and old.

its a nice gesture that the change in command happens on German national holiday :)

https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight/status/1046715099896053760

besilarius

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.



Sir Slash

Must be the original link to the Kardashians of today.  :o  Kardashia-dons.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Pete Dero

Quote from: Sir Slash on October 22, 2018, 02:22:38 PM
Must be the original link to the Kardashians of today.  :o  Kardashia-dons.

Could be : "Since K. wellesi had a tiny brain"   ;D

Sir Slash

"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.