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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 21 2008 | science, space, photos, thepugetnews
    the nonist > Long Duration Love Affair

    A photo exploration of the Long Duration Exposure Facility, a 30' X 14' cyclinder we put into space to see what the exposure would do. Attached to the outside were panels of various experiments. Very neat!

    Quoted: the nonist, now searching recorded history for some semblance of truth.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2007 | news, health, space
    'Meteorite' Crash Breeds Mass Hysteria - Yahoo! News

    Well maybe if one of these meteorites hit a nuclear waste storage facility (or any other superfund cleanup site, or a good deal of the area in China) we'll see people ACTUALLY getting sick. Then this author will feel silly.

    Quoted: On what started as a normal Saturday night one week ago, residents of a small, remote Peruvian town saw a bright light streak across the sky, heard a resounding bang and suddenly found themselves at the center of a media frenzy.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 04 2007 | video, space, Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin
    Boing Boing: Bezos's space ship revealed

    Quoted: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has finally unveiled what's behind Blue Origin, his secretive effort to bring space flight to the masses. The Web site has photos and video of Goddard, the company's first vertical take-off and landing vehicle during a test flight in November.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2006 | planet, Pluto, science, space
    For Now, Pluto Holds Its Place in Solar System - New York Times

    redotted from maumau30:

    I like the new definition as it will put a little more clarity around something that was fairly arbitrary:

    Quoted: "[...]the new definition of planethood, which is that an object be massive enough that gravity has formed it into a sphere and that it circles a star and not some other planet."

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