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  • Mega-Explosion in Space - David Narkevik, an undergraduate at West Virginia University, was re-analysing data from the Parkes telescope in Australia when he came across a five-millisecond burst of energy so powerful that it "saturated" the equipment
  • New Radiohead Album Oct 10th - If you order the download only, you can pay HOWEVER MUCH MONEY YOU WANT for it. Like, there's no set price. 
  • GTA: San Andreas Anime Mod - I was just surfing the net and I found this video on youtube of an anime mod for the PC version of GTA: San Andreas.  
  • Computer Display Calibration 101 - If you've invested in a quality monitor for your computer, you owe it to yourself-- and your eyes-- to spend 15 minutes setting it up properly for your viewing environment

Apophis - in 2036 to Slam into Earth

Apophis the Asteroid(99942) Apophis

NIALL FIRTH writes: British engineers have joined a competition to try and save the Earth from a catastrophic collision with an asteroid which could be heading our way.

Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.

(This is a) 300-metre-wide asteroid and is still millions of kilometres away. But, in 2029, its orbit will take it worryingly close to Earth – closer than many satellites. When it does, its orbit around the Sun will be affected and just a tiny shift of just a few hundred kilometres could mean Apophis returns in 2036 to slam into Earth, creating unimaginable death and destruction.

UK-based space firm EADS Astrium has bid to develop a spacecraft, known as Apex, which would reach the asteroid in 2014.

cp life ~/the_moon

Scientists hope to put a library of human civilization on the moon in case of a cataclysmic, civilization-annihilating event. It would protect against the wholesale loss of human achievement. [...] France, warned that a doomsday asteroid or comet could annihilate global civilization and that something should be done to insure against the wholesale loss of human achievement. [...]

"In the event of a global catastrophe, the ARC facilities will be prepared to reintroduce lost technology, art, history, crops, livestock, and, if necessary, even human beings to the Earth," Ropert Shapiro, an ARC co-founder and biochemist at New York University, told the National Geographic News earlier this month. [...]Read more

Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe

"Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all. [...] WMAP Cold Spot: Illustration of the effect of intervening matter in the cosmos on the cosmic microwave background (CMB).WMAP Cold Spot: Illustration of the effect of intervening matter in the cosmos on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). "What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the Universe" Williams said. Read more

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