Month: November 2011

Doctor Who Expert Richard Molesworth on the Search for Lost Episodes | Underwire | Wired.com

CategoriesUncategorizedPosted on

Some calamities are so great that even a Time Lord can’t resolve them. Like the way the BBC thoughtlessly erased more than 200 episodes of Doctor Who to make room in the British broadcaster’s archives.

Tragedies like this prompted Wired to launch Relic Wranglers, a community to help study and maybe even recover lost works. If any potential Relic Wranglers want inspiration, look no further than efforts to recover the missing Doctor Who episodes, spearheaded by people like Richard Molesworth

via Doctor Who Expert Richard Molesworth on the Search for Lost Episodes | Underwire | Wired.com.

NASA Planetary Science Program Faces Uncertain Future | Wired Science | Wired.com

CategoriesUncategorizedPosted on

Planetary science is in a golden age. At the moment, NASA has robotic probes flying around Mercury and Saturn, spacecraft headed to Jupiter, Pluto and the moon, recently had close encounters with both an asteroid and a comet, and is set to launch the largest and most complex rover to Mars in less than two weeks.

But  all this activity could soon come to a grinding halt.

via NASA Planetary Science Program Faces Uncertain Future | Wired Science | Wired.com.