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Big risks, small risks

As I type this, the sky is falling.

Well not the sky as such but something way up there in the sky.

The NASA Swift observatory satellite is about to come plunging through the earth's atmosphere towards the ground below and nobody's quite sure where it will impact.

To be fair, most of it will burn up on re-entry but the experts claim that some of the heavier bits, such as the intertia wheels used to stabilize the craft while it was in orbit, may not be fully consumed during its descent.

Despite the fact that this one and a half tonnes of space junk could hit a populated area and cause significant damage and even death, no warnings or cautions have been published.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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