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We've all wondered at some point or another what mysteries our Solar System holds. After all, the eight planets (plus Pluto and all those other dwarf planets) orbit within a very small volume of the heliosphere (the volume of space dominated by the influence of the Sun), what's going on in the rest of the volume we call our home?

Still unfinished, engineers around the world ponder what to do with the space station—park it somewhere else, turn it into a lab or just let it burn. With calls to upconvert the ISS into a spaceship already hitting fever pitch, a leading aerospace expert checks in with some players from the space industry.

This is Britain - but not as we know it. These extraordinary satellite images reveal what our nation looks like from the skies.From flight paths and road networks to telephone exchanges across London, the stunning aerial shots paint a striking new perspective on the British Isles.Everything from London taxi journeys to internet activity across the nation are replicated in the breathtaking images.Using the latest satellite technology and innovations in aerial photography, the pictures will be shown for the first time on 'Britain from Above', a new BBC series that starts this Sunday.

The space agency wanted to make sure its long-awaited and astronomically expensive telescope — soon to be launched into orbit above the turbulent fog of the atmosphere — made an appropriately cosmic splash. The advice from those of us in the press peanut gallery was always the same and simple: pictures — cosmic postcards like the live pictures of other planets being transmitted from the Viking and Voyager spacecraft — early and often. Little did I know how mortified the astronomers were by these suggestions.

Now that the land store is due to reopen, and we seem to be heading into a decent fall/winter season for SL, I'm honestly thinking of buying more land a bit faster and actually advertising my sims.

This seems to be a fairly high-level forum discussion in here - the 'vibe' I get is that direct ads might not be appropriate, in spite of the forum sticky. The ads I've cooked up are in the form of fairly irreverent cartoons (.jpg files) and will be running once a week in the Metaverse Messenger through the holiday season.

The forum sticky says this:

Advertising of inworld businesses, products and services, as well as any businesses related to Second Life is permitted in this forum only.