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British Scientists are looking to design and build a deflector to protect astronauts from cosmic radiation. Who said all those hours watching Star Trek was a waste of time?! :D

That's pretty neat, and looks to be fairly easy with our current technology base. I'd forgotten about the radiation issues with travel outside the earth's atmosphere. Now we just need those inertial dampers and faster-than-light travel from Star Trek as well.

I love the way the article quietly states it was sheer luck that the Apollo astronauts weren't fatally irradiated.

If they want a few test pilots then I'll boldly go where no-one's been before. I'm bored.

i don't car how bored you are, how dare you split infinatives on this forum - you can go boldly in future or not at all :D

Boredom relief is required for Andy! I would suggest conversation and a good Merlot. . . .

Another Star Trek like post. Scientists claim that the sun is behaving like a musical instrument. Interesting. . . .

I was all like "sound waves...in space? What!?" I think they were talking about them in the sun's corona, which is probably dense enough to get some sound conduction. I'd like to know how they got the sound clip, though...can they do it with laser inferometry or whatever it's called?

Scottie's ashes have been rocketed into space to conclude his lift long wish. I wonder if a future space craft will smash him out of existence by accident or a future / more knowledgeable race will find his dna interesting and clone him!

Don't worry, in an infinite universe there will be an infinite number of Scottie's at an infinite number of stages of their development, plus an infinite number of variations that will be hard to tell apart.

Who said existence was all fun?

It would be odd if another me turned up in this reality. I bet they would be total horrid git. Unlike this reality's perfect me that is. . . :?

have you ever seen an episode of red dwarf called 'me2'? it would be hellish!

There are several alternate selves realities from Red Dwarf I remember. The best being the one where they meet their female equivalents and Lister becomes pregnant!

Mike wrote:Scottie's ashes have been rocketed into space to conclude his lift long wish. I wonder if a future space craft will smash him out of existence by accident or a future / more knowledgeable race will find his dna interesting and clone him!

Scottie's ashes have returned home from their four minute stint in space. I don't think the company got it right some how. They have been recovered and may even go to space again for another brief trip. I wonder how they screwed it up so badly?!