Referral from another article.

The Big Bang inflationary model of the universe posits that other bubble universes may have popped up and left an anisotropic ring in their wake if they gently bumped against our own universe bubble.

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Quoted: black-hole-powered solar systems, or dark-matter stars,” Aguirre says. “This open-minded approach can serve, in some cases, as a counter-argument to claims that our universe is fine-tuned for life."

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* Rocky cores form first
* Colliding moonlets
* Gassy Geysers: Cassini surveys Saturn's moon
* Dusty Clues: Study suggests no dearth of Earths
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"Chalk up another Olympian feat to a mechanical gadget {Antikythera} discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck.
"perform complex astronomical calculations, including the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses and the movement of the planets.
"The newly revealed inscriptions also identify 12 calendar month names on the back of the mechanism, showing a sophisticated 19-year calendar.

Quoted: Suggested {even more} Reading:
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* Finding the Golden Genes
* Science & the Public : Olympic Clean Up
* Gene Doping
* Nerve cells ring in the Winter Olympics
* Too much information in the Odyssey
* Math Trek : A Prayer for Archimedes

Lisa's latest: http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?partner=forecastfox&blog=astronomy&pgurl=/mtweb/content/astronomy/archives/2008/08/mars_dirty_work_stars_near_black_holes.asp

Sunset on Mars
From here http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a.html
Thanks mario33 (Steven/Ryan)

See also, Lisa's Lunar X
http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?blog=astronomy&partner=forecastfox&pgUrl=/mtweb/content/astronomy/archives/2008/08/an_x_on_the_moon_a_new_observatory_1.asp

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Found an old haunt. But why isn't blue dot here? I've never used the below - they're too overwhelmingly large.
* slashdot
* digg
* facebook
* yahoo
* del.icio.us
* reddit
* google
* technorati

Reuters posted: 10 HOURS 53 MINUTES AGO comments: Green Ghost of a Galaxy with a blank hole in the center.

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http://englishrussia.com/?p=1809

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=%22sun+dogs%22+%22english+russia%22

I think the Russians are handling the recession better than us.