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Following on
Analysts are now saying that the discovery of signs of water in the history of Mars suggests that at some time Mars was more earth-like. Then again, this may be just another journalistic fluff piece.

Meanwhile, having fun with scramjets
Undeterred by the crash of the last time they attempted this, NASA are going again with their Hypersonic scramjet aircraft. It's being launched across the Pacific later this week at Mach 7, so if you should be sailing and hear a sonic boom, you'll know what it is... if you are out there somewhere in the middle.

Just to remind some folks, we have a scramjet programme here in Australia, with the University of Queensland, known as the Hyshot. They successfully launched a test on 30 July, 2002.

Life Forms on Mars
The case has been made that Mars could already be contaminated by Terran microbes. It kind of surprises me that nobody thought of this at the time they sent probes there. That would be sort of sad and funny. "We've discovered an organism remarkably like streptococcus..."

More Shuttle F.Ups
The much loved (ha!) Space Shuttle has been carrying a rudder problem for over two decades. The Space Shuttle is the world's most complicated machine. Now how does that make you feel about complicated machinery?

- Art Neuro