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    Indeed, I had temporarily forgotten that, but you are absolutely correct.
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    You might like http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ more of a flight sim, and one is encouraged not to blow stuff up, but well worth the time IMHO.
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    forum.nasaspaceflight.com is worth a look. Not that you're not welcome here, of course.
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    1 isn't prime.
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    Perhaps more importantly for a teen-age boy; he brought us Gabrielle Drake in a tin foil mini skirt.
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    Quite a few, including Curiosity and Dragon, use VxWorks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks> Damn, I would claim Ninjaed but it was 40 minutes ago. I just didn't read the thread thoroughly. doh!
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    Sorry to pick nits, but that's "rogue"; "rouge" is French for "red". Sorry.
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    Finally read through this today, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for your efforts sir. I look forward to the continuance of the tale with some eagerness.
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    I was not being entirely serious.
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    Why should I care what the IAU decide, who put them in charge? They're the ones that, pointlessly as far as I can tell, decided that Pluto had to be demoted. Thus I propose;- the reinstatement of Pluto. planet X to be named Mickey planet XI to be named Goofey I hope you can find it in you to support my plea.
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    They might, but it's not going to make the ethnologist's job any easier, and I don't think I'd be volunteering.
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    Well, apart from the getting killed to death bit.
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    A hypothesis, he already did, and strictly speaking, he's right.
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    Fundamentals of Astrodynamics. Bate, Mueller and White. Sorry about the possible copyright complications. SInce it's very easy to find the PDF, it didn't occur to me that it wasn't in the public domain.
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    This used to be the bible. [removed] Any use?
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    This looks a bit like a restatement of the Fermi paradox, and that little git remains a paradox even in the absence of FTL, given the vast periods of time available.
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    Helen Sharman? I think TP is the first Brit to venture forth as an employed person, rather than a guest.
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