Barry Smittins
Planets circle the stars that dot the heavens.
Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 300 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for them. The ultimate goal is to find another Earth orbiting a star like the Sun, but the quest on the way to that Holy Grail has yielded some strange benchmarks.
Full Article:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/06/astronomers-fi...
Stargate Atlantis needs our help! Sign the petition!
We've seen Lenovo beefing up its consumer offerings of late, but this is really taking it up a notch. The company just announced its very first netbook, the recently spotted 10.2-inch, Atom-powered little wonder. Sadly, there's little of note in the design -- it seems to have more in common with the MSI Wind and the Eee PC than its Lenovo siblings -- but the $399 starting price is certainly pleasing. That model brings 512MB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive, while a $450 version will be available with 1GB of RAM and 160GB of storage, with both being powered by 1.6GHz Atom chipsets.
Looks like Florida may be in for the first storm of the season. It may or may not become a hurricane, but certainly we will get some strong weather no matter what. If you have family around S. Florida, you may want to start making plans, especially if they are elderly. My grandmother is very old and lives alone in S.W. Florida so we will probably go down there this weekend to make sure everything is OK. Plus it gives everyone an excuse to get out of the house.
You may or may not seen the news about Harry Potter and the release date being pushed back, but the Harry Potter fans have definitely seen it and they are not happy, to say the least.
What is this about? I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried! Why in the WORLD should they apologize? If anything, CHINA should be apologizing to the athletes for forcing them to breathe such crap air!
Four US Olympic cyclists who caused an outcry when they arrived at Beijing airport wearing smog masks have today apologised to Games organisers.
The four - Mike Friedman, Bobby Lee, Sarah Hammer and Jennie Reed - said that they were wearing the masks because of pollution fears, a touchy subject for the Chinese authorities.
I was looking at Britain's government website today that they setup for their citizens to create petitions. I wonder do they take the petitions seriously or do they do it to keep the public at bay? Then I started wondering about other petition sites, the general everyday types. Does ANYONE take those petitions seriously? At least with paper and pen petitions you knew you were getting individual people. With epetitions, you don't know what you're getting.
