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Happy Diwali

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 Happy Diwali to all those celebrating the Festival of Light today

Quote of the week 28th October 2024: Thrawn explains that no one is immune to failure

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Clocks go back tonight for those of you in the UK, or most of the EU, on Earth

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Here on the Star Destroyer ISS Chimaera, in orbit above Dathomir, we don't have to fiddle with the clocks to reflect changes in the seasons. However, for those of you on the planet Earth in a galaxy far, far away from Dathomir, this doesn't apply. Tonight in the UK and most of Europe, the clocks go back an hour. So in the UK at 3am, it jumps back to a second 2am. Here is a handy guide to putting your clocks back tonight:

Star Wars: Grand Admiral Thrawn's theme music (Piano)

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In memory of a famous Admiral who fell at his greatest victory 119 years ago today: Heart of Oak

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Scientists find that the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs "Didn't act alone"

It is the current consensus that all the dinosaurs, and more than half of all life on earth at the time, were wiped out by  A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, leaving a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It now appears that this may not have been a single isolated impact. As an article in The Independent puts it, "Until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University have published new three-dimensional images of a crater made by a second asteroid that hit Earth at around the same time off the coast of West Africa. The 5-mile-wide Nadir Crater was found nearly a thousand feet under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Siesmic imagery was needed to establish what had made the crater, but it does appear to be the result of an asteroid strike, which may also have occurred at the same time as the "CT Boundary" between the age of the dinosaurs an...