Look! Up in the sky! Its SuperEarths!

Astronomers have found 3 terrestrial planets orbiting a sun about 40 lights years away. One is 4.2 times the mass of Earth, one is 6.7 times and the third is 9.4 times. They also orbit their star faster one does it in 4 days, the next 10 days and the last in 20 days.

These discoveries and others using radio telescopes and spectrography are finding many super Earths, more than were previously thought to exist, at least by Traveller players.

More information here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/sc_nm/space_planets_dc_1

Carbine in a pocket and horrible death in a knife:

Charles Stross pointed me at this video of an adaptation of a Glock handgun that turns it into a small carbine that folds up and that I could then put in my hip pocket.

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99NHb6B03s

Charles also pointed out this nasty little number:

http://www.waspknife.com/about.php