CBC-Radio Canada Archives: Further Cause for Worry

Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed - filed by Marc Montgomery for Radio Canada International English Service

I don't want this archive-scrapping to happen. At all.

So...how to stop it?

Star Charts: On Cardassia's Proposed Homestar

Jed Whitten's Starmap site put's Cardassian's home star here:

http://whitten.org/index.php?trek_names=1&select_center=1&select_star=46520

The SIMBAD databases remind us that HD 113337 (which has at least 35 other catalogue numbers as well) has at least one confirmed planetary companion. It was found in 2013, it's a super-Jovian discovered by radial velocity, semi-major axis is 0.92 AU, and exoplanet.eu doesn't have much info on it past July 2014.

http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/hd_113337_b/

One more divergence from real-universe history right there. Just like the Eugenics Wars, Nomad and so on.

Microsoft vs. Environmentalism?

This article in the Los Angeles Times has some horrific implications, if I'm reading between the lines correctly:

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-microsoft-restore-disc-20180215-story.html

Mapping the Federation: Chara/Beta CVn Sector

Derived from Jed Whitten's StarMap web service. Chara AKA Beta Canum Venaticorum.

CBC Radio: Indigenous-Inspired Maps of Canada?

Making a note of this to listen to later...

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/justin-trudeau-s-chaotic-india-trip-and-next-week-s-federal-budget-1.4546501/indigenous-rights-framework-could-lead-to-rethink-of-canadian-geography-expert-says-1.4550547

Star Charts: Arcturus Sector

Continuing my fiddling with sector-level maps of nearby space, using Jed Whitten's Starmap web service...Arcturus Sector.