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2003
Stargate SG-1: Smoke & Mirrors

Stargate SG-1The 123rd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Stargate SG-1: Paradise Lost

Stargate SG-1The 124th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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STS-107: Columbia down

Space ShuttleAfter nearly 17 days in orbit performing experiments in the SPACEHAB module its cargo bay, Space Shuttle Columbia deorbits to return to Earth for a planned landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During reentry, a gaping hole in the leading edge of Columbia’s left wing – damage caused by a piece of foam shaken loose from the external fuel tank during liftoff – allows superheated plasma to leak into the shuttle’s superstructure, tearing the vehicle apart. The entire crew (Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark, and payload specialist Ilan Ramon) is lost. At first, ground controllers are only aware of a series of sensor failures in the wing, followed by a loss of contact; ground-based cameras finally spot an expanding cloud of debris falling at supersonic speeds. As with the loss of Challenger in 1986, an extensive investigation and review of NASA procedures follows the loss of Columbia and her crew, resulting in a two-year grounding of the remaining shuttle fleet and a pause in construction of the International Space Station.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Killer In Me

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 135th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star.

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Stargate SG-1: Metamorphosis

Stargate SG-1The 125th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: First Date

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 136th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star. Ashanti guest stars.

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Stargate SG-1: Disclosure

Stargate SG-1The 126th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec. Ronny Cox guest stars. Read more (more…)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Get It Done

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 137th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star.

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Birds Of Prey: Fate Of Clay / Devil’s Eyes

Birds Of PreyThe 12th and 13th episodes of the superhero series Birds Of Prey, based on characters from the DC Comics universe, air on the WB. Though the show has a vocal cult following, ratings for the series have not been particularly high, and these are the final episodes of the series. A movie with a completely different cast will revisit the Birds of Prey characters in 2020.

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Enterprise: Future Tense

EnterpriseThe 41st episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. This is the first episode of any Star Trek series since the original 1960s series to featuree the Tholians. Read more (more…)

Stargate SG-1: Forsaken

Stargate SG-1The 127th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Lucky Wander Boy

Lucky Wander BoyPenguin Books publishes the novel Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss (later one of the showrunners of HBO’s Game Of Thrones TV adaptation). Read more (more…)

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Storyteller

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 138th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star.

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Stargate SG-1: The Changeling

Stargate SG-1The 128th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Stargate SG-1: Memento

Stargate SG-1The 129th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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The Firesign Theatre: All Things Firesign

Firesign Theatre: All Things FiresignArtemis Records releases the Firesign Theatre album All Things Firesign, gathering highlights of the radio comedy troupe’s recent revival as part of National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, with much of the content themed around the 2002 U.S. midterm elections. Read more (more…)

The giant who melted

HD 209458bNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope makes an astonishing discovery while observing one of the first planets discovered beyond Earth’s solar system. The gas giant planet designated HD 209458b, orbiting the star HD 209458 in the constellation of Pegasus, 150 light years from Earth, is losing its atmosphere. Slightly larger than Jupiter, but locked into a dizzyingly tight orbit around its star (only 4,000,000 miles, with its “year” lasting less than half of an Earth week), HD 209458b’s atmosphere is boiling away into space thanks to the heat of the nearby star. This leads to a new exoplanet classification, “Hot Jupiters,” used to describe gas giants in similarly suicidal orbits. The core of HD 209458b will probably not last long once the last remnants of its atmosphere dissipate.

Stargate SG-1: Prophecy

Stargate SG-1The 130th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Stargate SG-1: Full Circle

Stargate SG-1The 131st episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec. Michael Shanks guest stars in the season six finale, which was originally envisioned as the end of the series and a jumping-off point into feature films, though the series would ultimately be renewed by Sci-Fi Channel.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Lies My Parents Told Me

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 139th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star. Juliet Landau guest stars.

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Afro-Celt Sound System: Seed

album coverThe fourth Afro-Celt Sound System album, Seed, is released, featuring the single “Rise Above It”. Read more (more…)

The sun that coughed

V838 MonocerosFollowing up on observations from Earth-based telescopes, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is pointed toward the star V838 Monocerotis – an object of very little previous interest – to discover why it’s suddenly the brightest thing in the entire Milky Way Galaxy. What Hubble sees surprises scientists on the ground: a “shell” of matter surrounding the star, illuminated from within and expanding outward into space (actual photo sequence seen here). What astronomers had seen previously was the illumination of the dust cloud, which is much larger than the star itself. Scientists theorize that the expanding dust cloud is not an indication of a supernova, but a sign that V838 Monocerotis is expanding, expelling gas and then shrinking again. The star is over 20,000 light years from Earth.

Doctor Who: The Dark Flame

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the 42nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, and Lisa Bowerman. Michael Praed (Robin Of Sherwood) guest stars. Read more (more…)

Electric Light Orchestra II / The Lost Planet

The Lost PlanetEMI Records releases a UK-only remastered, expanded edition of the second Electric Light Orchestra album, Electric Light Orchestra II, featuring a bonus CD bearing the 1972 album’s unused work-in-progress title, The Lost Planet. The bonus disc includes numerous previously unissued songs, including demos from a session to test out prospective new lead singers before Jeff Lynne took that mantle as well, following the departure of co-founder Roy Wood. Though a remastered Electric Light Orchestra II is later issued in North America, it does not include the second disc or its contents. Read more (more…)

Enterprise: Judgment

EnterpriseThe 44th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and John Vickery (Babylon 5) guest star. Read more (more…)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Dirty Girls

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 140th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star. Nathan Fillion (Firefly) guest stars.

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Fleetwood Mac: Say You Will

album coverThe first new material from the band in years, the Fleetwood Mac album, Say You Will, is released, featuring the single “Peacekeeper”. Read more (more…)