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  You have to wonder if the private space industry is getting too ambitious too soon. Dennis Tito, one of the first "space tourists", plans to hold a February 27 press conference in which it's expected he will discuss a private mission to Mars in 2018.
  


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  The recent Russian meteor strike was the largest since the 1908 Tunguska explosion in Siberia and ( Read more... )

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  History has many tales of mysterious places and lost islands, the most famous of these being the lost city of Atlantis. The era of Google Earth has given us a new twist on the theme. An island shown on Google Earth and in world coastline databases as being in the middle of the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia was never really there after all. ( Read more... )

I seriously doubt that anyone reading this buys into the Mayan "world ends in 2012 prophecy" nonsense, but just in case...

Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012 "Doomsday" MythUnder the Guatemalan jungle, 1,200-year-old paintings like no others ( Read more... )