Yoda it was...

Cool, thanks SternisheFan, good ol' wiki :) I wonder if it would be possible to record the spectra of light being emitted and then match other meteors with the same spectral pattern. If the fragments that have been hitting lately all have the same colour pattern it may imply that they came from a single source. It's probably already being done, I'm a virologist not an astronomer so I don't know about these things. Surely we have enough high quality "scopes" recording what is going on in the upper atmosphere to compare data. Cheers.

I noticed a lot of the comments saying that the tail was blue/green with a white/ yellow explosion. Is there anyone in the know who can comment if this gives an indication of the meteorites' composition. Green maybe indicating copper content, yellow maybe Sulfur? If so can you use the colour of tail upon entry to identify meteorites that have the same colour as being of the same origin? Just thinkin'

...These little guys can get up to some crazy stuff, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP60WCrQl4U No wonder they are poor models for drug use. Think of the children. Wait, what? Awesome dude.

Initially I thought the headline said the supercomputer was to direct "sheep space traffic". I would get to sleep much quicker knowing that we have a supercomputer doing the sheep counting for me at night.

No Lego!

Is this the same rocket that went for a swim in the Yellow sea today?

I bought a Thrive (or AT100 as it is referred to here in Australia). I moved away from ASUS for the first time in a decade to go with the Toshiba product (lured by the HDMI and SD slot). Initially the decision was an epic fail due to the "sleep of death" and random reboot issues. Toshiba's poorly coordinated customer service relating to this problem was probably the worst part of all. I got everything from complete denial of the problem to acknowledgment of the issue and a fix is in progress depending on which customer support person you spoke to at the time. I had the unit replaced but the replacement had the same problems. Eventually they released a patch and upgrade to android 3.1 and then very quickly to 3.2. Since then I haven't had any issues. The unit is bulkier and feels cheap and plasticky but it is quite durable. It has been dropped many times, flung across the room and thrown down the hallway by my two year old and barely has a mark on it. If the rear casing cracks I can buy cheap replacements in different colours and the replacment battery is really handy for long trips. Having said all that, I wish I had bought the ASUS transformer. The keyboard/extended battery is worth sacrificing the full size ports IMHO. On a side note: I just wish I could get the equivalent of an ASUS Transformer that runs Linux, or can be made to run linux. The only option that I can see at the moment is to buy an ultrabook and load Linux on it, but then I wouldn't be able to detach the screen. Plus it would be at least twice the price.

Apparently you remove all the 111111111111111111111's and you are left with lots of Oh's

For some reason I read this as "Gearbox and 2K Games officially announced Borderlands 2, the squirrel..." and thought wow! how random. But no, there is no squirrel. There never was a squirrel... ...Bugger.