• Today we turn to the cosmic awe conjured by science fiction, or the outer-space snapshots of the Hubble telescope as it calls forth our ever-deeper, ever-brighter possible selves.

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  • This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain.

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  • This will be an update of a first-person shooter game with a plot that revolves around battling mutant humans attacking from outer space - very similar to the aliens in the Halo series.

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  • However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.

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  • They put in something with tools on it for future missions, and they also set up a science experiment which is going to look--how materials--look at--study materials in outer space, and it'll radio back its results.

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  • The Center for Security Policy today released a major paper outlining a comprehensive approach to U.S. space policy and programs designed to assure long-term American access to and exploitation of outer space.

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  • And when the solar wind is stronger, it is better at shielding the earth from high-energy charged particles from outer space known as cosmic rays.

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  • He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.

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  • Clarke's "ideas" began taking shape when - as a civil servant before the war - he started writing tales about outer space.

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  • Available for iOS and Android, the objective of the space-themed strategy game is to build a colony on a mysterious planet in outer space.

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  • In a section on water in outer space we learn that there is a lake-size layer of ice on the moon's south pole, that Mars once had rivers, that there is steam in the sun's atmosphere.

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  • To celebrate their outer space scientific adventure, Ardbeg also released a limited-edition scotch, called the Ardbeg Galileo.

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  • Dempsey pointed out that at the time the U.N. drafted the Outer Space Treaty, there were only two spacefaring nations -- the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

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  • Mr Heatherwick's future projects include the world's first all-glass bridge, and a public square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will take the dramatic and humorous appearance of a gigantic, electric-blue carpet landing, as it were, from outer space.

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  • And that was kind of a combination of an old-fashioned domestic sitcom with this kind of futuristic vision of outer space.

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  • The U.S. federal government is about to take a not-so-small step forward in its giant leap to help tourists get to outer space.

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  • Japanese designers have transformed the previously grimy space into a light-filled community centre by partially removing the outer walls, replacing them with glass and lining it with books.

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  • "A lot of outer space hoaxes are really just exercises in wish fulfillment, " says self-proclaimed "hoaxpert" Alex Boese, author of the wide-ranging Museum of Hoaxes: A History of Outrageous Pranks and Deceptions.

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  • It marks his first space venture since the partnership with Rutan and his colleagues to build the prize-winning SpaceShipOne rocket plane, which became the first privately developed craft to reach outer space in 2004.

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  • It is long-overdue recognition that intelligent life is not something for us to seek in the outer reaches of space but is abundant right here on earth, under our noses.

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