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Submission + - New Doctor Who actor is Matt Smith (bbc.co.uk)

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on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:36PM

Jerry Smith writes: "FTFA: "Matt Smith had that 'Doctor-ness', says BBC Wales' head of drama. Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who — making him the youngest actor to take on the role. " The BBC-page http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm shows us a photograph of him posing next to the T.A.R.D.I.S.: a wise choice choosing him as the next Doctor?"

Submission + - Simon Pegg to play Scotty (theregister.co.uk)

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on Friday October 12, 2007 @03:10PM

Jerry Smith writes: "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/12/scotty_role/ Simon Pegg will be the young Scotty in the latest Star Trek movie. From TFA: "Pegg joins Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, John Cho as Sulu and Zachary Quinto as Spock in the film which reportedly, and logically, "chronicles the early days of the Enterprise crew". Leonard Nimoy will also put in an appearance, while Eric Bana signed up this week as the movie's villain, Nero.""

Submission + - Hubble takes pictures of colliding galaxies

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on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @02:02PM

Jerry Smith writes: "http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/17/galactic_col lision/The Register reports that the Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong, and took snapshots of two colliding galaxies. That is GALAXIES, sizes average between thousands and hundres of thousand lightyears, containing ten million to one trillion (107 to 1012) stars (as in 'suns', each posibbly with planets and planetoids). Direct link: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/ releases/2006/46/image/a, link to big picture: http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2006/46/images/ a/formats/xlarge_web.jpg . The proces took hundreds of millions of years, and will take more hundreds of millions of years."

Submission + - Combining pain and pleasure

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on Monday September 25, 2006 @11:43AM

Jerry Smith writes: "http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060922-7807 .html Ars Technica reports about the (possible) future of fitness centers: "In addition to the standard array of cardio equipment and weights, Overtime Fitness has several gaming-oriented machines." Equipment has already been used to generate electricity for the grid, now you might be able to go to the gym and have some fitness fun!"

Submission + - NASA still wants stairway to heaven

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on Sunday September 03, 2006 @06:49AM

Jerry Smith writes: "The Guardian http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1863 755,00.html reports "Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a Nasa prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator." It still might take a wile though, progress is slow, so slow."

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