Well why not kick off the new boards first new topic with one of my favorite aircraft of all time, the long serving and exteremely pretty Hawker Hunter:



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The F-BOMB won an award from DARPA's Cyber Fast Track program.
New spy gadget for James Bond types created by this so enthusiastic guy, and his device does not even go BOOM

So, the US has decided to back out of the joint missions with ESA to concentrate on Manned flight and space technology:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17020830

So this leave EXOmars very much in the lurch............or does it? Is this an opportunity for ESA to really take the lead in the Martian field leaving NASA to pick up the reins on manned missions to the Moon and asteriods.

This could lead the 2 agencies to pick up on joint missions at a later date with each combining its expertise in their relevant fields to push onto manned missions to Mars (Very much in the future mind you!!!)

Here is one for DD, though I get the feeling you probably know about it already.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/russian-K7-heavy-bomber.shtml

Come to my party

Found this on BadAstonomy Blog and thought I'd share.



I like seeing things from a different point of view.

I got this Idea today after getting so frustrated with mods messing up my forum, But that's a different story. Anyway I have this program on my laptop called Freemind it is a mind mapping program, and I thought I would be helpful to build a mind map of my site to help visualize, prioritize, and organize my site. So I downloaded and installed there latest version on my desktop. It took me about 10 minutes to create a map of my site, now I can easy add nodes or re arrange them to a better place. I can even insert text into each node to either further define the node, remind me of content I want to add in the future, or create the actual content that I will be uploading to my site. I figure it will be better to arrange things in here instead of placing content on the server only to rearrange it later.
If my home server was finished being built I would not need this. But seeing I don't have it completely built yet this seems so far to work rather well.