Alt-week 12.08.12: The oldest known dinosaur, lighting up a space station and the black marble

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

Altweek 120812 The oldest known dinosaur, lighting up a space station and the black marble

While some refer to it as a lonely planet, we prefer to think of it as unique. Where else can you find such diverse biology that dates back millions of years, that also has a space station hovering delicately above it. A planet where several millennia of human evolution gave birth to the comedy animated gif? Precisely. One of a kind. This is alt-week.

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