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Category: Cosmos
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Category: Cosmos
"We'll start by steering the wheels straight and driving, though we may have to steer the wheels to the right to counter any downhill slip to the left" ... OMG have I ever been there before . But not on Mars. The Martian rover Spirit...
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Category: Skepticism
Some of the Iraqis are kinda pissed off because some of the magic wands have been purchaced for $60,000 while equally effective magic wands were available for cloer to $18,000.
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Category: Cosmos
Starring Felicia Day (This is really funny)... Hat tip: Geeks are sexy....
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Category: Cosmos
... it is possible to estimate the age of the universe more accurately than you can estimate the age of a horse or a person using only physical evidence. But it is still an estimate, not as well confirmed as if you had a birth certificate ...
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Category: Cosmos
32 previously unknown exoplanets have been discovered with a high-precision instrument hooked up to a Chilean telescope......
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Category: Cosmos
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Category: Cosmos
Early Friday Morning, plus/minus one half a day depending on where in the world you are, two alien space craft are going to crash into the moon. It will be visible from earth with a small telescope. Read about it here!...
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Category: Cosmos
The balloon and camera were launched at 7:44 AM, the balloon burst at 10:51 AM at 107,145 ft. and the camera landed via parachute at 11:40 AM, 89 miles from the launch site after a 3 hr. & 56 min. flight. The camera recorded a...
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Category: Cosmos
Juno is an asteroid that will be coming into view shortly. To find it, go out into the night in a relatively unpolluted sky and look near Uranus. You can often see Juno with a descent telescope, but if conditions are good, you should be...
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