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    Saturday Night: British Sitcoms, My Addiction!

    "Fawlty Towers" is excellent even though only 12 episodes were ever made (the writers believed they had extracted the best from the series and any more episodes wouldn't be as good) Has "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Mothers_Do_%27Ave_%27Em" " ever been shown on US TV?
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    Shape of the Universe: Calibi-Yau 4D Geometry?

    According to this article it may be a funnel: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040415/12/er3ps.html Will we ever know for sure? :confused:
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    First victim of moon base/Mars mission?

    Perhaps the ending of Hubble had already been made but nontheless it would be disappointing to see it go. Would that mean that any possible mission to Pluto (the Pluto-Kuiper Express) would be shelved as well?
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    How Did Beagle 2 Navigate Its Final Approach to Mars?

    Doesn't look good, does it? 3 days after Beagle 2 has landed and still nothing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/spacedocumentary/story/0,2763,1113264,00.html
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    For Those of You Who Enjoy Puzzles

    Great link. :smile: Here's another maths puzzles link to add (can't remember where I came across this but it was a few years ago). Includes puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty depending on the level of your mathematical knowledge: http://www.princeton.edu/~mathclub/puzzles.html
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    How Did Beagle 2 Navigate Its Final Approach to Mars?

    Fustrating. :frown: Did they ever confirm for certain what happened to the Mars Climate Orbiter? Has it (or its wreckage) ever been found or detected?
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    Can We Create a Neutron Star in an Earth Lab?

    Could scientists even get remotely close? What is the highest density matter that has ever been formed on Earth?
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    What is the radius of a circle with an area of 154 square centimeters?

    You know that A (the area) is 154 (square centimetres) so its merely a case of substituting A=154 into the formula and solving for r (given that {\pi} is a known value).
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    Antarctic Prehistory: Evidence of Human Occupation?

    Almost certainly not. There has been life on Antarctica but you have to go back many, many millions of years (long before anything resembling man appeared) to find it.
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    News Resources on Politics and World Affairs

    Some UK news sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news http://www.guardian.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk
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    News Will Tony Blair's support of the US in the Iraq war damage his political career?

    It's difficult to know where all this will lead to for sure. Tony Blair arguably faces stronger opposition with Michael Howard now leading the Conservative party and there's been this spat with Gordon Brown coming into the open. But he seems determined to stay put. And then there's the Hutton...
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    Buy Land on the Moon: Lunar Realty Opens in Melbourne

    Plots for sale Theres a high street retail chain in the UK that is offering acre plots of the moon for sale for £20 each (just over $30 US). No mention is made which company it is that they are dealing with in selling these plots...
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    Titan may have oily oceans: BBC

    We should find out soon. :smile: If the Huygens probe lands on one of these 'oceans' will it affect the ability of the probe to send back useful data? Or could the probe sink without trace?
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    POLL - geographic location of our members

    Male, England/UK
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    Venus possibly habitable for billions of years: Newscientist.com

    Not unless there's any life that can survive 700F++ temperatures... More to the point, is there anything at all that could reverse Venus's runaway greenhouse effect?
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