Death Star found orbiting Saturn

That's no moon, it's a space station

The first line is amusing: "Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet..."

Sorry, don't mind me. It does look like the Death Star, doesn't it?

I used to get a giggle out of various NASA acronyms like PMA (Pressurized Mating Adapter) and CBM (Common Berthing Mechanism). There's plenty that showem would find something dirty in.

Then there was the time a certain astronaut was calling down from the International Space Station talking to a guy on the ground named "Dick." She kept replying to his questions with the phrase, "that's affirm Dick." She did it again, and again, and again.

"Affirm" is of course just short for "affirmative."

Wow, an online astrobiology magazine.

I always thought that to be a very interresting but kind of useless field of research. How can you study extraterrestrial life if there hasn't been found anything up till now.

DW, where in the hell do you get this stuff? i know you're a space fiend, but do you get paid for this? i'm glad there are geeks like you out there. it makes life more interesting. and i would of just gone through my day not knowing that george lucas was a visionary! aweseome

Elf, open an account on Bloglines.

Do some research to find the newsfeeds that interest you the most. Perhaps start by browsing bloglines' top feeds.

Subscribe to the feeds you like.

And voila. Everyday fresh articles, personalised to your interests, all lined up ready for your perusal.

If you're interested in astrobiology, subscribe to the astrobio.net feed:

http://www.astrobio.net/news/backend.php

Bloglines is the new google is the new hotmail is the new killer web app.

I am from the planet wwwwwweeeeeeeeee. you will not be able to pronounce this with your puny human vocal chords.