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(thing) by Queequeg (4.2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue May 23 2000 at 2:51:24

The X-files

Space
Episode: 1X08
First aired: 11/12/93
Written by: Chris Carter
Directed by: William Graham

Lt. Col. Belt is a supervisor of a shuttle program at NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas. He has flashbacks to 1977 seeing a ghostly face looking at him when he was in space.

Mulder and Scully are approached by Michelle Generoo, the communications commander, who says that a piece of equipment had been sabotaged resulting in the cancelation of a recent liftoff. She fears the next attempt at a lift off because her fiance is on the next mission.
They speak to Belt, who was a childhood hero to Mulder, who tells them there isn't anything wrong and the mission lifts off. Soon, however, the communication with the spacecraft is lost. Generoo's car crashes when she sees the same ghostly image.

Even though the ship is crippled, Belt tells the crew to deliver their payload so that the millions of dollars would not be lost. Mulder is hurt by this lack of concern for the lives of the crewmen, especially from his old hero.

At his apartment, Belt experiences another flashback and screams as the ghostly appearance lifts from his body and heads out towards space. Soon after, the crew feels a thump and the astronauts yell that there was some kind of ghost outside the ship.

Mulder and Scully meanwhile examine records and find that Belt knew about the equipment flaw from before.
Belt collapses at his office and at his urging they alter the shuttle's trajectory, preventing the spacecraft from burning up on reentry. Belt, wrestling with the ghostly presence, leaps to his death.

Important quotes:
Mulder -- "You never wanted to be an astronaut when you were a kid, Scully?"
Scully -- "Guess I missed that phase."

Mulder -- "I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies."
Scully -- "Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair."

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(thing) by CapnTrippy (1.5 wk) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Nov 26 2000 at 1:04:29

Space is a book by Stephen Baxter, the second in his 'Manifold' series. It deals with the Fermi Paradox, and the logical consequences that stem from this. Once this 'paradox' confirmed Reid Malefants opinion that humanity was alone in the universe. The discovery of evidence of extraterrestrial in the Solar System leads to the question;

'What is the equilibrium position for life in the galaxy? If a galaxy wide civilisation is possible, it would have happened, if so what has killed it?'

When contact is made with the Gaijin, and they arrive in their silver flower ships not to save mankind, but to trawl through our historical archives; more questions are raised than answered.

It is the story of mankinds awakening to fact that the universe is in fact a very harsh place indeed. All life in the galaxy will ultimately suffer the same fate, and will go own doing so unless it can raise itself to a level where space can no longer harm it, before being knocked back down the evolutionalary ladder; as has happened in-numerable times before....

(idea) by Berek (9.3 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Sun Feb 24 2002 at 16:44:42

"Space, the final frontier" - Star Trek

This is my attempt at collecting articles about space which are fairly scattered around E2 at the moment. It's not intended to be comprehensive and I'll add more as I find them. I've tried to categorise them as well as possible - please let me know if there should be additions to this list.

Space nodes:

The Solar System
* Sun * Mercury
* Venus
* Earth * Mars
* Asteroid belt
* Jupiter
* Saturn
* Uranus
* Neptune
* Pluto
* asteroid
* comet
* planet
* satellite
* Satellites of the Planets
* solar system

Astronomy and Cosmology
* Astronomer list of astronomers throughout history
* Astronomy e2science metanode
* Astrophysics
* Binary Star
* Black Hole Era
* Copernicus One of the early astronomers, a believer in heliocentrism
* constellation
* Dark Era
* Degenerate Era
* double star
* Doppler effect
* Albert Einstein The great physicist who speculated on relativity, and the curvature of space-time
* evolution of the Universe
* Extraterrestrial alien life-forms
* The Fermi paradox Where are the aliens?
* galactic zero The place where the big bang began
* galaxy
* Galileo
* Galileo Galilei Early astronomer, observations of the planets
* Geocentrism The theory that the universe revolves around the Earth
* InfraRed Astronomy
* interstellar medium
* Halley's Comet Periodic comet which returns every 75 years
* Edmond Halley Discoverer of the comet
* heliocentrism The theory that the universe revolves around the sun
* Hoag's Object
* How to locate Polaris, the North Star
* Lunar standstill
* Mean solar time
* Measuring Distances in Astronomy
* Patrick Moore
* Oort Cloud
* Orion
* Primitive Era
* pulsar A star which emits regular radio signals
* quark star
* quasars A star which emits regular gamma waves
* Ring galaxy
* Southern Cross
* spacetime
* Stellar Era
* Stephen Hawking Physicist and cosmologist who wrote A Brief History of Time
* telescope
* Hubble Space Telescope
* star
* variable star

Manned space missions
* Laika The dog who was the first animal to go into space
* Mercury project
* Yuri Gagarin The first man to go into space
* Alan Shepard The first American in space
* Virgil "Gus" Grissom
* Gherman Titov
* Vostok
* John Glenn
* Valentina Tereshkova The first woman in space
* Saturn V
* Wernher von Braun German rocket scientist who helped develop the Saturn V
* Gemini project
* Apollo project The mission to put a man on the moon Project OrionNuclear-powered spacecraft
* Soyuz Soviet project originally intended to reach the moon
* space shuttle * Skylab US space station
* Salyut
* Buran The Russian space shuttle
* astronaut
* Cosmonaut
* European Astronaut Corps
* Kennedy Space Center
* Spacecraft Information Database Project
* Mir Soviet space station
* International Space Station
* space station]
* Shenzhou 5 China's first manned space flight

Unmanned spaceflights
* Chinese Space Program
* Galileo Jupiter probe, also a future ESA GPS satellite
* Giotto
* Magellan Venus probe
* Pioneer Space Program series of probes, some of which have left the solar system
* satellite
* Sputnik
* Venera Program
* Viking Project
* Voyager

Miscellaneous
* Aeronautics to Astronautics: NACA Research (1952 - 1957)
* Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space Game inspired by the race to the Moon
* Canadian Space Agency
* commercial space flight
* ESA
* Effects of an Unprotected Human Body in the Vacuum of Space
* The Life on Mars Problem
* Mars Society Society promoting Mars exploration
* NASA
* space colonization
* space elevator
* space race
* The One-Way Manned Space Mission
* Dennis Tito, NASA, and the viability of space tourism as a business
* Where were you when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded?

(thing) by samarin (1.3 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Jul 16 2002 at 23:36:30

Released in 1996 on the ForeFront label, Space is the debut album of the Christian Rock/Grunge band Bleach. It consists of eleven tracks.

  1. Eleven (3:02)
  2. Perfect Family (2:57)
  3. Epidermis Girl (3:57)
  4. Tea for Two (4:33)
  5. Cold & Turning Blue (4:18)
  6. Child of Sod (3:23)
  7. Crystals and Cash (3:43)
  8. Wonderful (3:54)
  9. Cannonball (3:56)
  10. Sugarcoated Ways (4:14)
  11. Space (3:43)

Many of the tracks on this album stand as critiques of the ideals of modern society. The first, Eleven, scathingly describes the shallowness of personal appearance, as Davy Baysinger intones sharply

The outside's there, it's a thoroughfare
But on the inside there is not much there
You love your pretties and your things
Are you nothing more than just a fashion scene
Other tracks investigate the nature of sexual desire (Epidermis Girl), greed (Crystal and Cash), and apathy (Cold and Turning Blue).

Interspersed among the more depressing tracks on the album are a few that delve into redemption and strong relationships. Directly before Epidermis Girl, Perfect Family tells the tale of a boy and girl who fall in love, marry, and remain together even with their faults. In Child of Sod and the anthemic Cannonball a man recounts his path to salvation. The title track, which closes out the album, is an invitation that tries to avoid some of the usual nastiness of prosetylization. The lyrics

I don't want to be your priest
I just want to be your friend.
sum up the song nicely.

As a first album, Space is surprisingly philosophic. Musically though, it finds Bleach before they had truly settled into their style. Subsequent works have been markedly warmer and smoother.

(idea) by avjewe (6.3 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Sep 12 2002 at 12:43:29

The Unicode standard encodes eighteen different space characters, differing in width and layout behavior.

The most commonly used space character is U+0020 space. Another big favorite is its non-breaking counterpart U+00A0 no break space. These two characters have the same width, but behave differently for line breaking. no break space behaves like a numeric separator for the purposes of bidirectional layout (see Bidirectional Behavior). In ideographic text, U+3000 ideographic space is commonly used because its width matches that of the ideographs (i.e. it is a fullwidth character).

The main difference among other space characters is their width.
U+2000 to U+2006 are standard quad widths used in typography.
U+2007 figure space has the same width as a digit.
U+2008 punctuation space has the same width as a period.
The fixed-width space characters U+2000 to U+200A are derived from conventional (hot lead) typography. Algorithmic kerning and justification in computerized typography do not use these characters. When they are used, they typically do not expand during justification, except for U+2009 thin space which sometimes does.

Space character with special behavior in word or line breaking are described in Line and Word Breaking and Layout Controls.

The use of U+FEFF zero width no break space as a spacing character has been deprecated in Unicode 3.2. The character U+2060 word joiner should be used instead, allowing U+FEFF to be used exclusively for its most common role as a Byte Order Marker (BOM).

Note that the list below contains every Unicode character with the General Category Zs or Spacing Separator.

As of version 4.0, the Unicode standard has 26 semantically distinct varients of the space character. They are enumerated below, separated by code block

Number of characters added in each version of the Unicode standard :