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Brilliant; he made the right call. Will be interesting to follow his learning curve, especially how fast he can adjust to the new car and Pirelli tyres.

First image from the lander probe:

Max!

Horner is a tit, but I can't help but like him Have you read that story on reddit where someone took up on a challenge to get Horner sign a naked photo of himself?

I did, thanks for sharing. It's refreshing to find some modern country/folk that sounds nice and feels like an old classic; I usually don't like most of what I find on youtube or hear on the radio...

Never! Once a grinch, always a grinch!

Those are all brilliant... I'm a hobby photographer and have a huge interest in astronomy, but I only managed to take a half decent photo of the Milky Way once and a few of the star trails; nothing special at any case. Would absolutely love to try proper astrophotography with proper equipment... big respect to those who took all of these... My favourites at this moment (not in order): That NGC 3521 Galaxy image is something out of this world

Yes, the concept is definitely cool and silent flight with no gas emissions would be a huge benefit, but ionocraft has many limitations as it takes a loooooot of energy to ionize gas and then the thrust to weight ratio and power efficiency is very low... You're right in that it's just an early prototype and a demonstration of a concept though; who knows what future brings. Maybe they'll use it in biological warfare for silently delivering bubonic plague to enemy areas

Looks like a neat concept, little efficiency or power though. Well at least at the moment; if they can improve and develop it further, this could work well for drones in the future.

For what exactly? Commercial Space Stations are being developed and financed by private companies and corporations, potentially in cooperation with various governmental agencies. Deep Space Gateway is being developed by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group which consists of numerous governmental and intergovernmental space agencies (led by NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, CSA, JAXA) in cooperation with some commercial partners. Various missions to Moon and Mars are being planned by numerous countries, state-owned enterprises and private companies alike. Asteroid mining is currently at a very early staged and is mostly being tested (as a concept) by private startups. So basically space exploration is a joint (inter)governmental and commercial venture, financed both by taxpayers of the countries involved and investments of various private entities.

Just read something pretty interesting. Apparently, Lexus shot an ad using a script written by AI which learned from 15 years' worth of TV ads that won Cannes Lions International awards for creativity and was fed with emotional response information to car ads from a MindX experiment. The script it came up with is surprisingly coherent and a bit eerie.

Welcome back! Not sure he'l have much fun with Williams though, haha.

The more private companies cooperate with governmental agencies to contribute to space exploration, the better. SpaceX have a crazy idea with a crazy schedule for its realisation, not sure it will work without accidents but I sure appreciate the effort and any attempt to promote spaceflight. But damn I can't stand Musk... Also BIG FUCKING ROCKET (BFR) was a way better name; there was no need to change it to the generic "Starship"...

Found a nice infographic on the Orion spacecraft which might be used for a manned Mars mission in the future (click on the image to enlarge to full size!):

Well there is only one (called MV Mataliki and run by the government), apparently Runs from Apia every two weeks, the trip takes about 24-36 hours each way and the tourists are only taken if there's enough space as priority is given to locals. Apparently one needs a travel permit too!

Thanks to the meds I posted you surely!

Very simple dish that I like a lot - heat up some oil, stir fry garlic, add thinly cut beef slices (for example ribeye) and stir fry it, add ginger, then finally add some fish sauce (makes a big difference!) and a little sugar to balance the taste, and let it cook until tender. Easy, affordable, very tasty.

Nice, should help with your (man)flu too Have you used fresh ginger for cooking? I like it a lot, especially with fish or beef stir fry.

Surely with lemon and honey too?

Nothing much really I've heard the name, but other than that, it's just another Polynesian island group to me...

I tried but I just can't get into Star Trek... The original series and The New Generation at least, as I've never even watched the others. I appreciate the idea behind it, but its realisation just doesn't work with me. I hear that first two seasons of TNG are bad and then the show actually becomes good from season three onward, but I seriously can't get through the first two anyway

Mick teams up with Seb for the Race of Champions!