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Video showing the tech they use to create planets; the details start about 12 minutes in.

First science results come in from New Horizons | Ars Technica UK

On the Star Citizen thread in the ED forums there are occasional posts from one of the developers who jumped ship from Frontier to (I think) the company making Squadron 42. He made a couple of posts about working with the engines used for each game, the gist of it was that Elite was using a...

There's a bit on this in Wikipedia. The actress ended up doing quite well in B-list (or maybe C-list) circles from the publicity. Galaxy of Terror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ED is a blend of virtually infinite space with local instancing. The game will connect you to players who are nearby so that they show up on your display, up to the limitations of the network; if no-one's in the vicinity (and you're well outside colonised space or off the beaten track so there's...

That worked for the Magratheans.

"The test for any Bond theme is: Can you imagine Alan Partridge singing it along the motorway on the way to an Esso garage?" Everyone Thinks Sam Smith's New Bond Tune is Rubbish | Gizmodo UK

If they went to court it's almost certain they'd have to release financial details as evidence; whether those details then become public knowledge or not I'm not sure, I've a feeling they would. It would be pretty stupid of CIG to go down this path unless their finances are sound enough to...

After Alien came Galaxy of Terror, with one James Cameron in charge of production design

As I understand it the sensitivity of the detector limits the range; for events outside that range that (theoretically) produce gravitational waves, those waves would not be detected. For the original sensitivity, the number of events they expected to see within range was about 1 every 10...

I never understood why Frontier didn't change the default mouse + KB controls given that everyone remaps them. IIRC the Mark IV Cobra is supposed to offer more internal upgrades than the Mark III, although what that means in practice aside from more room I'm not sure - probably it will allow...

Don't hold your breath waiting for the EU to get tough. Although the tests in the article are for CO2 rather than NO, it shows the attitudes that prevail at the top. UK, France and Germany lobbied for flawed car emissions tests UK, France and Germany lobbied for flawed car emissions tests...

A silver lining? VW is now in mortal danger, but its not the only one - Telegraph

Volkswagen admits emissions scandal affects 11 million cars - live updates | Business | The Guardian

There's a nice exhibition in London of early Soviet space exploration. I'm not sure I'd like to ride into orbit inside this thing: Science Museum's Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age reviewed | Ars Technica UK

It's best not to worry about time-related plot issues with Who and just go along with the story. The snake guy looking for the Doctor presumably had access to time travel, so if Davros really wanted to find the Doctor he would have had a pretty good idea when and where to look for him i.e. just...

It's been hinted that either Quantum was part of SPECTRE, or SPECTRE is a successor to them. Mr White from the first two films (yeah I didn't remember him either at first) will reappear in Spectre. In reality it could just have been the legal battle that stopped Quantum from being Spectre in...

Quantum 'spookiness' passes toughest test yet : Nature News Comment

Well, there's been a press conference from the Polish ministry of culture and a couple of details have emerged: - They have found a buried train using ground penetrating radar. It is 100m long and believed to be armored, but they don't know what (if anything) is inside. If there's anything...

If you've read the novel Cryptonomicon then this story might sound familiar. For the moment, it's still just a story. Live updates on the thread link Nazi gold train 'found' in Poland: live - Telegraph

China cut it's rates again today. According to the Peoples Bank of China, they have "recently perfected the exchange rate of the RMB against the US dollar." So China's back on the "growth at all costs" path and never mind the debt. This will end well.

I'd forgotten about Fear Ward...

For "things to do" keep an eye on Community goals to see if there's one that looks appealing (at the moment, there's just one active anyway...). They get mentioned in Galnet but the forum thread is the best place to follow what's going on in practice: Active Community Goals Thread #2

Those are some old school daleks, maybe even the infamous special weapons dalek lurking in the background @ 0:46

Yeah it's been talked about before e.g. http://puhep1.princeton.edu/mumu/tar...ber_052711.pdf As expected the effects are different for different types of superconductor; happily it doesn't seem that the effects are too significant. The bigger issues seem to be (as usual) with the...

Having done Naxx in both you really can't compare the two, since one was tuned to be the "ultimate" raid in Vanilla for 40 people in top gear, while the other was tuned to be the first 10 / 25 man raid instance you set foot in in WOTLK. And kind of a lot did change between the two versions...

Links to some interactive maps of US coastal cities where you can flood low-lying areas. Bad news for Miami and New Orleans if it happens. What Could Disappear - NYTimes.com

The predictions for the next season are in... as well as the 999 seasons that follow them. THE MILLENIAL SIM IS HERE. 1000 years of simming the English Football Pyramid : footballmanagergames So after 1000 years of Premier League football, the most successful club will apparently be...

This is annoying...

Link to a recording of Yanis Varoufakis briefing top financiers about the Greek crisis: http://t.co/USsF13Tl8Z Varoufakis Tapes: French government 'terrified' of Berlin's austerity drive - live updates | Business | The Guardian

I found Exploring was the best solution when you don't have much time to spare. You can just hop between systems as and when you get chance, and there's still plenty left to explore (although these days you may have to travel a long way before you go where no man has gone before) Elite...

Shares are tumbling again today. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0Q10KE20150727

The Greeks have a couple of pretty good reasons not to like the USA: - the 1946 - 1949 Greek civil war in which the USA sided with the Greek army, which was known to contain Nazi collaborators, against the partisans who had fought the Nazis. The partisans were largely Communist but they were...

Hollande has boosted his poor domestic rating by brokering a deal that keeps the Greeks in the Euro. France feels relevant, counterbalanced the Germans and kept the Euro on track. The French are, of course, ignoring the economics of the situation, but then they ignored them when the Euro was...

There's trouble brewing already over the Greek deal - the EU is proposing to use the European Financial Stability Mechanism to give a bridging loan to Greece, but not all the countries in the EFSM are in the Euro currency and the ones that aren't (notably the UK, Sweden and Denmark) are...

Yes, it was going to be called the B-72 although it would have had one (fission) reactor per jet engine. After spending a billion dollars on it in 1950's money, the US cancelled the project because ICBMs were cheaper.

A fusion-fission jet... but only on paper. If anything like this ever gets built, good luck finding two civilian airports (or even one airport) that will take a fusion-powered plane with uranium-lined engines. Boeing patents laser-powered fusion-fission jet engine for airplanes, spacecraft |...

The key points of the agreement at the link. Notably, the ?50bn of Greek assets will stay in an Athens-based fund and not the Luxembourg (German-controlled) fund the Germans had demanded. Greece bailout agreement: the key points | Business | The Guardian

From some live feeds... Greece news live: eurozone split over Grexit ultimatum plan as Greeks says they are being 'crushed' by Brussels - Telegraph Greece debt crisis: Athens faces 'temporary Grexit' if no deal - live updates | Business | The Guardian