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Wednesday January 19, 2005

An awesome piece of work

Congratulations ESA for the amazing achievement of landing a space probe on Titan and returning pictures from the most interesting moon in the solar system. (And thanks for the lift Nasa!)

What brought it back to me was the signal strength of the lander was about the same as the average mobile phone, but was detected and received at such a huge distance. My mobile cuts out on the way into the City on the train and is generally about as reliable as the train service already mentioned... ;-)

Shame that the news reports over here were mostly blotted out by one of our younger royal family members making questionable choices in clothing. It never ceases to amaze me how fundamentally important news is always sidelined by utterly irrelevant trivia. The findings on Titan will be bringing us a step closer to figuring out how life actually started on this little planet of ours, a quest which has been running for millenia and gathering significant pace in this technology savvy age of ours. I can't help thinking that there is atleast some significant in that!

It would be nice if we could get rid of all the trivia, reality tv, celebrities and the people famous only for being famous and put them somewhere obscure and out of the way.

Titan would be ideal!

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