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The UK government signed a space science research agreement with Russia in Moscow today. Various experiments will be undertaken in what the two countries have tagged 'UK-Russia Year of Space 2011'. Catchy. “The UK plays an important role in space science and research throughout the world," said Minister for Universities and …

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  1. The Real Tony Smith

    Kids?

    'Excitingly for some British and Russian kids, Kingston University and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will look at how fluids behave in microgravity......'

    It floats, now go outside in the fresh air and play

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  2. bcollie

    Institute of Media and Biological Problems

    Is this just a bad translation, or a far sighted view that media is a biological problem?

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  3. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    Why cite "Alien" in the header?

    >>discuss future priority areas of research

    Like, how to get up there in the first place, like?

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  4. LuMan
    Joke

    Deal?

    Does this involve the manufacture of PARIS-2 from Russian paper mills??

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    'UK Russia Year of Space 2011'

    You're right, that sucks.

    Why not Spacesmash or Stargasm?

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  6. M7S

    You'd have thought that given we pay for their space program*

    The Indians would have given us some involvement in theirs in return.

    *or at least they can afford one whilst we pay for their poorer regions to have stuff their government should be dealing with as a priority.

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  7. Ouldbob
    Pirate

    Ouldbob

    I don't know about the UK government, but here at Cardiff University, a team from the Cardiff Center for Astro-Biology (CCAB) has been invited to collaborate on two new space missions, the Bion and the Foton, to run astrobiological experiments. Part of the purpose of these experiments is the investigation of exo-planetary bacteria and the ability of simple life-forms, such as tardigrades, to survive the large temperature variations, the radiation and the large acceleration-deceleration shocks. Our Russian counterparts have already visited Cardiff to set up the collaboration.

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