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Galatic Empire News: Alderaan Has WMDs!!
Birthers Demand to See Darth Vader's Birth Certificate!
What a Piece of Junk!
Imperial investigators report weaknesses in Death Star management, performance.
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Celebrating Darwin: Religion And Science Are Closer Than You Think
He looked really uneasy. I'd just finished giving my first lecture of 8.282, MIT's freshman astronomy course, but this one student stayed behind in my classroom. He nervously explained that although he liked the subject, he worried that my teaching conflicted with his religion. I asked him what his religion was, and when I told him that it had ( Read more... ) -
JFK's 'Moon Speech' Still Resonates 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago today (Sept. 12), President John F. Kennedy whipped up support for NASA's fledgling Apollo program in a speech that contains perhaps the most famous words he ever uttered about space exploration ( Read more... ) -
NASA's rover Curiosity lands on Mars
(CNN) -- NASA's $2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, carried out a challenging landing on Mars early Monday after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet ( Read more... ) -
First Female U.S. Astronaut, Sally Ride, Comes Out In Obituary
Sally Ride, who died today after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, was the first female U.S. astronaut in space and became friends with Tam O'Shaugnessy at the age of 12. It was not until today, however - nearly 50 years after meeting - that their 27-year romantic relationship was made public ( Read more... ) -
First Female Astronaut From China Blasts Into Space
SHANGHAI - China sent a crew of three, including the country’s first female astronaut, into space on Saturday to carry out its first manned docking mission, an important step in an ambitious plan to build a Chinese space station by 2020.The successful launching of the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, powered by a Long March 2F rocket, was shown live on state ( Read more... ) -
Mars Viking Robots "Found Life" 36 Years Ago
Mathematical analysis adds to growing body of work questioning the negative results of a life-detection experiment 36 years ago.- New results question the finding that the Mars Viking experiments did not find life.
- The analysis was based on studying the mathematically complexity of the experiment results.
- The idea is that living systems are more ( Read more... )
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Challenger, never forget
1/28/1986. I was in 5th grade. My teacher rolled in a TV to watch and to remember. RIP ( Read more... )
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