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Rank mixed Queens chasing elephants initially. (8)
A little early - I have to take Dij the Cat to the vet.
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Nope!
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Yeah, I am pretty crap at cryptic clues.
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Sequence
Chasing elephants initially = CE
Mixed Queens = Sequen
Rank (as in an ordering) gives sequence.
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Is the correct answer: you are up tomorrow.
Want to explain for the others? Oh, you have! 
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Newly Discovered Earth-Like Planet Is Speeding Toward Us[^] - ignore the "speeding towards us" bit ...
-60 to 20C isn't bad (Earths absolute min./max are -81 to 58C, with an average of 16C) so if you can live in Canada, you can live there somewhere (though Australians might wanna turn the heat up).
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Only 11 light years away! Where are the heavier years to save us?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I'm Canadian. Given the state of 'merican politics, it can't get here fast enough! 
Cheers,
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"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Given the amount of planets that we know of that contain life, I'd say it is not as abundant as expected. Does the planet have a metal core, and hence, a magnetic field? A moon to protect it?
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's a difficult one: though I agree we know of many planets existence, and only of one with life, we haven't actually looked at any others in sufficient detail to reject the existence of life there. Even Mars, Europa, or (less likely) Venus could have life we just haven't found yet - we've not even begun to scratch the surface of any of them. As for ones outside the solar system? No information yet; you can't infer an absence of life - even intelligent, star faring life - from an absence of data! For all we know star spanning civilizations are in every solar system, but they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
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OriginalGriff wrote: they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
They've been listening to radio and TV signals from the last century or so, and have concluded that there's no intelligent life here.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's a difficult one: though I agree we know of many planets existence, and only of one with life, we haven't actually looked at any others in sufficient detail to reject the existence of life there.
Not rejecting the idea that there would be life, just noting that Drake is an optimist and that life might not be so abundant after all.
OriginalGriff wrote: Even Mars, Europa, or (less likely) Venus could have life we just haven't found yet
We haven't seen much of Venus yet, and we might have accidentally even introduced life on Mars. I wouldn't be surprised if some bacteria hiked on the lander and starts colonizing.
OriginalGriff wrote: No information yet; you can't infer an absence of life - even intelligent, star faring life - from an absence of data! For all we know star spanning civilizations are in every solar system, but they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
We can safely assume that no intelligent race comes up with a prime directive 
We can also say that there is no proof of actual intelligent life near us, since every trace of their existence is absent. Any "star ship drive" would leave some traces, any communication would do so too.
Even if a civ tried to build a Dyson-sphere, we would know - as a bright star would start dimming and dissapear.
So either they all "finished" building it and they have a prime directive and have a reason to hide from us (?) or there is not as much life as hoped. Apply Occam's razor. Here's a scary idea; what if this (polluted, radiated and poisoned) planet is the first one with life?
Imagine a million years from now, thousands of races (mayhaps even from one origin), talking about the first intelligent life - how we had politicians, taxes, and JavaScript even before the first bacteria landed on Mars
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OriginalGriff wrote: and only of one with life
That what the magical pixie at the bottom of my garden told me. And we humans are the only special ones!
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Article specifically states "Earth-sized", yet headline reads "Earth-Like". Then again, Popular Mechanics assured me we'd have flying cars by now.
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Share Mouse and Keyboard with multiple Computers[^]
Anybody using similar software? Looking for a trustable one that doesn't steal our keystrokes. 
Just trying use a single set of Keyboard/Mouse to control more computers, connected to the same network.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 16-Nov-17 1:33am.
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Wow!! Thanks for the link mate. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
It's JUST what I wanted. Couldn't wait to thank you. So Thank you!
Let me try that now.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I hope it ends working for you... it helped me a lot time ago...
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Mouse is working awesome. Now is there something called Keyboards-without-borders ? 
It just works for both!!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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The keyboard should work on the display you have the cursor on...
I don't remember if there is any special setting for that, but it worked out of the box for me as far as I remember...
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Yep, it did. I was a bit quirky and jumping to see if the keyboard works. The machine took a second to transfer the Keyboard-control to the other machine, for the first time. I didn't have the patience to wait and give it another second to make it work.  Just got them working. thanks!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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You are welcome!
Those small things can help a lot!
And you should be able to transfer files too (Ctrl+C in one computer and Ctrl+V in the other one)...
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Yeah very much. It's extremely helpful.
Copying across machine would be the icing on the cake
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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