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An Evening with George Dyson
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2 comments on An Evening with George DysonA review of a lecture given by George Dyson about Project Orion, America’s planned nuclear bomb-propelled spacecraft.
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Funny Trek?
Continuing the Trek theme (don’t worry, it won’t last forever), here’s a list of funniest Voyager quotes. Believe me, they’re funny! Well, I think so, anyway.
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Spiriting Stephenson Away
Whee! Next Thursday (24th October) Neal Stephenson, one of my favourite SF authors, will be coming to speak at Trinity College about Newton vs. Leibniz. This would be good enough news on its own, but on the same night Queens College film society will be screening Spirited Away (known in Japan as Sen to Chihiro…
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The trials and tribulations of a DDR player
Why, why, why didn’t I bring my Dance Dance Revolution game to Cambridge? I foolishly thought to myself, “Adrian, surely you can survive two months without DDR, given that you’ve had your fix this summer?” and so my PSone, DDR games, dance pads and TV card remain at home while I’m DDRless in Cambridge (doesn’t…
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High notes
First Words ended today on a high note with a feature article in a major Australian newspaper. We could’ve kept the competition going on for a few more days and tried for some more publicity, but I felt that it was best to finish the competition and get the results published while we still had…
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Trekkie
Some interesting rumours about the future of the Star Trek franchise. Could Jonathon ‘Riker’ Frakes head a new Star Trek series? Will they cover the Fall of the Federation? Does anyone apart from me care? Find out next week in the astonishing conclusion to…
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Few words
When I was at secondary school, my headmaster – a very intelligent man and nice guy, to boot – made a interesting observation which has remained with me until today. He said that if you want to find the most intelligent person in a meeting, the person who says the most useful things, you shouldn’t…
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VOR
Are you short or long-sighted? Go and lower your glasses so that your visual field is split in half horizontally (in other words, perch your glasses further down on your nose). Now move your head from left to right, and look through your glasses. Then do the opposite, and look above your glasses. You should…
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On Top Of The World
Forget about the Nobel Prizes and throw that article about the Space Shuttle into the bin, because at the time of writing, First Words is the top story on Discovery.com’s news homepage! The competition just broke through the 1000 entry barrier an hour ago, as well. I should probably say something about starting my new…
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Interviews
The interview with the Discovery Channel correspondent went very well; we had a good chat about the competition and related things, and it was nice talking to a journalist who had a clue about space. Hopefully an article should be up on their website sometime tomorrow, and the journalist promised to drop a note to…
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