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• Crab Nebula superflare has scientists mystified

  Wed May 11, 2011
  • I was gonna say somthing about firing the Halo, but your Stargate comment is an unrivaled win.

• Crab Nebula superflare has scientists mystified

  Wed May 11, 2011
  • I was gonna say somthing about firing the Halo, but your Stargate comment is an unrivaled win.

• Vote: Weigh in on Palin's reaction

  Wed Jan 12, 2011
  • A political motive is clear in this case, and with the Tea Party's local popularity, threats of "revolution," and 2nd amendment flaunts...

• Rare find: Failed star circling sun-like star

  Fri Jul 30, 2010
  • well, guess that's one system we can scratch off the "potentially life-harboring" list.

• Mars rover finally sees Martian dust devil

  Fri Jul 30, 2010
  • virtual homer, while i agree that the highest number come from military, the great ones that we use in daily life come from the space race.

• Monkeys go bananas over flying squirrels

  Fri Jul 30, 2010
  • because it's an interesting discovery about animal behavior and the world we live in, the consideration of which can be taken into account concerning our own species and behavior. it's in the science category.

• Monkeys go bananas over flying squirrels

  Fri Jul 30, 2010
  • neat-o! also, on the comment about them acting kind of scared, i think you may be overestimating the size of these monkeys. a squirrel would be considerably formidable as an opponent to these guys.

• Chicago Honest Tea: FAIL

  Sat Jul 17, 2010
  • wow, crazy much? experiments like this are important, they aren't just for trivial matters.  the data from these types of experiments are applied, like to programs for, say, feeding starving kids. 

• Japanese solar sail successfully rides sunlight

  Tue Jul 13, 2010
  • fair enough on the math, but the practical definition of an escape velocity is lost. i could eventually leave the solar system at 55mph, if i had a constant source of thrust.

• Are dark energy and dark matter not real?

  Mon Jun 14, 2010
  • maybe not so much a black hole, a black hole is a very specific entity with certain dimensional properties that exist within the universe.