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This week we offered remembrance to all the victims of COVID-19. Rather than the 500 000 we quoted, there are more than 1.8 million COVID deaths.It's early days for 2021, and things seem to be going well. So far. I'll try not to jinx us.So we're taking a chill week to talk about some of the most significant things that happened last year.This week DJ watched a retro anime and Professor was pleasantly surprised by the Doctor Who special.2020 in Science - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_science2020 in Movies/Anime & Comics- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_film- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_anime- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_comics2020 in Games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_video_gamesNerdful thingsDJ– Fist of the North Star - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_StarRating: 5/5 Professor- Revolution of the Daleks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_the_DaleksRating: 3.5/5Other topics discussedCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It has since spread worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.htmlHow mRNA vaccines work, and how they might protect us from the flu and other diseases- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-11-22/mrna-vaccines-covid-19-pfizer-moderna-influenza-emerging-disease/12891308SpaceX Crew-1 (the first operational crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-1International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (a United States regulatory regime to restrict and control the export of defense and military related technologies to safeguard U.S. national security and further U.S. foreign policy objectives.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_RegulationsArecibo Observatory (Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), is an observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_ObservatoryGut-wrenching footage documents Arecibo telescope’s collapse- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03421-yFive-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope ((FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky/Heaven Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwest China.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_TelescopeSETI@home (an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform created by the Berkeley SETI Research Center and is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@homeBerkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) (an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing and grid computing.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_ComputingPotential signs of life on Venus are fading as astronomers downgrade their original claims- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/potential-signs-life-venus-are-fading-astronomers-downgrade-their-original-claimsHayabusa (a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HayabusaHayabusa2 (an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ry...

