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Summary: Chris has been reading poems. Rob is concerned about dark skies.What does is take to be a Space-Faring Nation, and does it help if you put whisky in space? We talk about gravitational waves, open access journals and Chandra poetry. [MP3 Link] Episode #29. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott. Links: Afghanistan looking to launch a satellite: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/09/afghanistan-satellite Whisky in space! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17657804 Spoems: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/04/10/spoetry/ Open Access gains new ally in Wellcome Trust: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17668722 Dark skies aren’t dark enough: http://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/countryside/dark-skies/item/2805-star-count-map-2012 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17665397 Gravitational Waves: A Needle in a Haystack: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2000 and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146641011000147 Chandra poetry : http://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/365 Spoems : http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/04/10/spoetry/#more-3737 Mars rover blog: http://www.marsroverblog.com/ GLOBE at night: http://www.globeatnight.org/ http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1891 - WISEASS - Wizeman Institute of Science Experimental Astrophysics Spectroscopy System Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).