Seriously.
The Times and many more have the scoop.
From the Times:
For decades, space experts have warned of orbits around the planet growing so crowded that two satellites might one day slam into one another, producing swarms of treacherous debris.
It happened Tuesday.
My favorite hed is Knight Science Tracker's: Smithereens spreading fast.
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That's the hed for the Washington Post story on the study that found that doctors ignored or dismissed patients concerns about side effects and didn't report them to MedWatch (the FDA system for col
Sounds like the hed from The Onion, right? Sadly, it's not. Go watch the NYTimes video (A consumer alerts the world). He started the whole toothpaste concerns a while back. What inside track did that guy use? He read the ingredients.
That hed refers both to the fact that I promised to post on this last week and didn't as well as the fact that there have been way too few studies of Thimerosal given it's controversial status. you have probably all heard about the study.
The TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a bit of a guilty pleasure for our family. I've never been quite sure why we like it: the plot of the show is always the same.
The debris came very close to hitting Calgary, Canada, a city of one million people. Emergency officials were about to activate a warning, when they learned it had already crashed into the ocean.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Calgary+dodges+space+junk/1290211/story.ht…