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Rosetta Spacecraft has landed on a comet

Rosetta: A Sky at Night Special
The Sky at Night

It is one of the most extraordinary space adventures in a generation - to land a spacecraft on a comet.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has been hurtling through space for over 10 years, tracking down a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Now it is about to do something that has never been attempted before and land a spacecraft on the comet's surface.

This special episode of The Sky at Night puts the viewer right at the heart of the action, witnessing events as they happened from inside mission control. It reveals the latest images, explores the first groundbreaking science coming back from the comet and asks the astonishing questions that make this mission so captivating. Could Earth's water have come from comets? How do comets survive for so long? Could they have triggered the start of life on Earth?

The journey has been fraught with risk and at every stage the comet seems to surprise, but if the mission succeeds it will be a momentous day in the history of space exploration.

Twenty-five years wall-free!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11219265/How-Berlin-has-changed-since-the-wall-fell.html

It's now the third day in a row that Kim Kardashian has been the top trending term on Google News. But that's sure to change soon because it's Friday and what everyone's been waiting for is finally here: The G20!

Where did you get the info on the problem?

All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s publisher Macmillan announced on 2 December.
The content-sharing policy, which also applies to 48 other journals in Macmillan’s Nature Publishing Group (NPG) division, including Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine and Nature Physics, marks an attempt to let scientists freely read and share articles while preserving NPG’s primary source of income — the subscription fees libraries and individuals pay to gain access to articles.

ReadCube, a software platform similar to Apple’s iTunes, will be used to host and display read-only versions of the articles' PDFs. If the initiative becomes popular, it may also boost the prospects of the ReadCube platform, in which Macmillan has a majority investment.
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For those that might be in need of a pick-me-up, the good news is that the world has seen it's first penis transplant.

The recipient is said to be very excited.

Quote from: string on 2015-03-14, 16:52:56

For those that might be in need of a pick-me-up, the good news is that the world has seen it's first penis transplant.

The recipient is said to be very excited.

Who was the donor?

  Cadaver? I don't think I'd be too thrilled about that.

Quote from: Mandi on 2015-03-14, 21:46:09

  Cadaver? I don't think I'd be too thrilled about that.

It pays to read the details, which I didn't do.

However, rejection can be a problem. I know a guy whose penis has been rejected by any number of women. And then there's this problem: Pick the wrong surgeon, and things can go very, very wrong.