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Past society events

This is a list of past events held or celebrated by our society between 2010/03/25 and 2010/05/27.

Towel Day - Douglas Adams Members' Choice

As The Institute For Impure Science (IFIS) coincides with Towel Day this year, we will be paying tribute to the late, great genius that was Douglas Adams. Adams is fondly remembered for creating the most mind-bogglingly hilarious science-fiction comedy ever - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. But he didn't just write Hitchhiker's, and spread his talents wider than the endless seas of Santraginous V.

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When:

Stardate: 20100525.1900
Until:

Stardate: 20100525.2300
Where:
Who:
Members Only
Stardust

Stardust is a NASA comet sample return mission. Their website (http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html) says this:"The primary goal of the Stardust mission was to collect samples of a comet and return them to Earth for laboratory analysis. Comets are ancient bodies of frozen ice and dust that formed beyond the orbit of the most distant planet. They were expected to contain materials that the solar system formed from, preserved in ice for billions of years. When the international team of 200 scientists began examination of the returned particles, we found that the particles were indeed ancient building blocks of the solar system but the nature and origin of the particles was quite unexpected."

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When:

Stardate: 20100427.1900
Until:

Stardate: 20100427.2300
Where:
Who:
Members Only
Easter Con

Another convention for us to possibly go to since it's so local to us.

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When:

Stardate: 20100402.0900
Until:

Stardate: 20100405.2000
Where:
Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London, UK
Who:
Members Only