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Today I got a silver `06 Subaru Outback. I'll get my own insurance and plates on Monday. :D The Honda Civic I was using belonged to my parents and my sister will get it with a blown tire in the trunk and a dented corner. :shock: I got stuck in the snow last winter with the Honda so I got...

I was wondering what they did with the AGB plaque after they melted it. Recycled? Sold as scrap? Returned as a lump to put somewhere as a reminder of our victory? Was it melted down at the metal shop at RIT or sent somewhere else?

The cover is off the telescope and now Kepler can start watching those stars for planet transits. NASA - NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory NASA - Kepler Images

Mom aims to save endangered Clearview program - NJ.com Someone I know from New Jersey sent me this link, saying that it was about her friend's mom and her younger sister. Looks like they are trying to keep it open because it encourages socialization with hearing students who learn sign...

Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Phil Phat the Bad Astronomer made a list of top 10 pictures of last year that he thought was interesting for some reason. They're pretty and cool. Enjoy. :cool:

Black Death 'kills al-Qaeda operatives in Algeria' - Telegraph That's what they get for not having proper medical supplies. Makes me think of the War of the Worlds. Too bad they can't flee to Venus.

DailyTech - NASA to Sell, Donate Old Space Shuttles Plans are to donate one to the Smithsonian and the have the other two sent to schools, museums or other organization who have the millions of dollars to pay for cleaning them up and shipping. They're also required to be kept inside in...

Someone has developed a method to detect the presence of moons orbiting extrasolar planets by using the timing of planetary transits across the star. The timing would vary due to the planet orbiting the barycenter between the planet and the moon. Astronomers Now Looking For Exomoons Around...

washingtonpost.com For this kind of dinosaur, they found male dinosaur bones around the nests and also compared the mass ratios of adult bodies to egg clutch mass for the dinosaurs and modern animals. The ratio best matches the birds of today that have fathers taking care of the nest. This...

General News - Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot Looks like a fetus in fetu. :eek3:

PC Pro: News: Teacher threatens to call the cops over Linux Blog of helios: Linux - Stop holding our kids back This teacher took away a student's cds of Linux stuff because she thought that the software that thousands of people write and make gratis and open source for anyone to be able to...

A study was done over the past 16 years to watch stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy orbit the massive object there. The stars were observed in the infrared because all of the dust between us and the galactic center blocks visible light. From the 28 orbits well determined orbits they got...

I'd like a printer for a project that should involve printing a lot of black lines. The stuff I'd print out would look like the patterns to fold into the shapes shown here. I already have programs to make such shapes, including complex ones like this, which is made of the two mirror images of...

I read an article in the news today about corrupt local government officials in China putting people into mental hospitals to prevent them from going to the national government to report on the corruption. :eek2: Traditionally, people would go to the capital to petition for the redressing of...

MRO Finds Huge Underground Glaciers on Mars | Universe Today The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's radar found glaciers buried on Mars at 35-60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres. The rocks covering them keep them from disappearing into the atmosphere. We could try using them to get water for...

Winter is setting in in the northern hemisphere of Mars, so there is little sunlight for Phoenix to continue operations. It haven't been heard from since Nov. 2nd, so it may be dead in the dark winter. Now they can focus on the analysis of the amazing data, including that from the first...

Last night, I was contacted by someone who said they just joined Alldeaf. Profile is here That user is already banned so I guess they tried to scam other people. The red flags were: first saying they were male and then changing to female once they saw that I was male giving me an age and a...

I got another scam on aim. They asked me if my name was lastname, firstname and knew my town and state. So I think they got those from deafvp.com He claimed to be Denis Lawson and to be a manager of a deaf lotto. I never saw such a thing before. He said he would have $30,000 at my home if I...

3D map of exoplanets This page has a Java applet that shows a 3d map of stars around us that have planets. :cool2: There's also a button for getting a 2d map.

There's mention of this scammer lower down on this page The scammer claimed to be someone selected by the FBI to help deaf people and their friends with scammers. I told them I haven't been scammed before, so they changed to telling me that they had $250,000 for me to deliver via DHL and needed...