Robot Helps NASA Refocus On Hubble

The ailing Hubble telescope keeps refusing to die; jdoire points out this story at the Washington Post which reads in part "Largely because of the Canadian robot named 'Dextre,' NASA has gone in less than a year from virtually writing off the Hubble to embracing a mission that will cost between $1 billion and $1.6 billion and approach in complexity the hardest jobs the agency has ever undertaken." (We last mentioned Dextre back in August.)

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Dextre's Laboratory

[Hatta]

So today is a good day for science!

Re:Engrish

[a.different.perspect]

On the topic of Engrish, my colleague tells me that in Japanese "beigo" is the word for American English and "eigo" the word for English English. They're often regarded as distinct, it seems, even if they are generally mutually intelligible.