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Thursday, August 14
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This week NASA released an image to commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope's 100,000 orbit by aiming it at a portion of the Tarantula nebula where stars are created, about 170,000 light years away: According to NASA: "The image reveals...
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Monday, August 04
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Good morning. Since you probably didn't have a chance to see it in person. here's a clip of Friday's total solar eclipse as seen from a plane at 27,000 feet over the Canadian arctic. Complete with plenty of squealing...AFTER THE... Read...
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Monday, July 28
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Richard Branson today unveiled Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, the craft that will essentially act as the launch pad for his SpaceShipTwo suborbital craft intended to be among the first civilian space tourism vehicles: "Looking like a...
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Monday, July 28
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California marriage ballot measure language changed: "Proposition 8 on the November ballot had been described as a measure to limit marriage between a man and a woman. But the Secretary of State's office says that description was changed...
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Friday, July 25
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Ever wonder what a Space Shuttle launch might look like from a plane? You don't have to wonder anymore. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP... Read more...
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Friday, July 25
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Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon and the record-holder (with Alan Shepard) for the longest moon walk, claimed on the Kerrang! radio show that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials and that the government has... Read more...
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Friday, July 18
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This clip is pretty mind-blowing. Earth has been photographed by the Deep Impact spacecraft and the images have been woven together by NASA to create a clip that shows the Earth as seen from deep space as the moon orbits... Read more...
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Wednesday, July 16
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The NYT on the potential repeal of the 1913 Massachusetts marriage law. The Martian landscape revealed... Cristiano Ronaldo hits L.A. on crutches and doesn't waste any time snubbing Paris Hilton. Ron Paul's openly gay campaign chair dies...
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Tuesday, July 15
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Scientists just realized that an asteroid currently speeding past our planet at six times the distance of the moon is not a single object, but two objects orbiting one another: "It will not strike the planet. But scientists want to... Read...
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Tuesday, June 24
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Trevor Paglen specializes in photographing subjects that are supposedly nonexistent — military sites, "torture taxis," and uniform patches from covert military operations. The University of Berkeley is currently showing an exhibition of...
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Monday, June 02
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Scientists acknowledged over the weekend that a slick, shiny surface discovered just beneath the Martian lander is likely the ice they have been searching for. The lander's retrorockets likely blew away a few inches of topsoil allowing the gleaming...
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Monday, June 02
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Remember that video of the blinking alien seen outside a window that was being shown in Denver over the weekend as absolute proof that extraterrestrials exist? Well, here's the official still photo they released to the media. The "expert"...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Here's a pretty amazing photo. It's a shot snapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began circling the red planet back in March 2006, of the Phoenix Mars Lander (illustration, right), which made a successful landing over the weekend...
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Friday, May 23
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A third red spot has been observed on Jupiter, joining two others: "Jupiter's Great Red Spot is an ancient, hurricane-like storm that may have been raging for 340 years or more, based on early observations with telescopes. At three times...
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