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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
For the first time since 1984, I'm kinda digging the Olympics. Besides gymnastics judges that are idiots, tie-breaker rules that make no sense, and 12-year-old Chinese gymnasts, it's been mostly enjoyable. But there something I've seen that makes me a bit uncomfortable.
What's with all the kissing at the gymnastics events?
I ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Last night, in preparation for tonight's astrophotography presentation, I set up the telescope for the first time in... well, way too long. The Perseid meteor show is peaking and I saw around 30 bright meteors. When I turned the telescope to Jupiter, I noticed the Great Red Spot moving across ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The internets has it's collective panties in a bunch this morning after an article titled "First Radio Signal Detected From Beyond Our Solar System" was published by some geeks in South Africa. Many are heralding this as proof of alien life. The article (they are technically capable of receiving signals ...
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