September 2012

Michael O'Hare in Babylon 5 Season 1

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Yesterday, actor Michael O’Hare passed away. On Sunday he had a heart attack and was in a coma. He was particularly famous in TV for playing Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in “Babylon 5”. He also had a successful career in theater.

Sir Patrick Stewart is Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

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On September 28, 1987 the TV show “Star Trek: The Next Generation” made its debut, set about a century after the original Star Trek series. The show went of for seven seasons. After the end of the series, the crew of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” starred in four movies: “Star Trek: Generations” in 1994, “Star Trek: First Contact” in 1996,” Star Trek: Insurrection” in 1998 and “Star Trek: Nemesis” in 2002.

Artistic illustration of the enormous hot gas ahlo around the Milky Way and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (Image NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; NASA/CXC/Ohio State/A.Gupta et al.)

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A team of astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence that the Milky Way is wrapped in an enormous halo of gas that has a radius of at least 300,000 light years but it could be much bigger. The size of this halo is therefore so big that it includes the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two small galaxies near – of course in astronomical terms – the Milky Way.

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time

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“The Invasion of Time” is the last adventure of the fifteenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1978 featuring the Fourth Doctor and Leela. It follows “Underworld” and it’s a six parts adventure written by David Agnew and directed by Gerald Blake.

M.D. Jennings, the Green Bay Packers safety protagonist of the Monday Night Football vs. the Seattle Seahawks

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There was a dramatic epilogue in the Monday Night Football on September 24, 2012 between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks. In fact, the Packers were leading 12-7 but the Seahawks won with a so-called Hail Mary pass that led to score a touchdown when the clock just expired. These things happen but the circumstances in which this touchdown was awarded are causing a lot of controversy on the value of the replacement officials who are officiating the NFL games in this start of the season.