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Water on the Moon!

A good article about the value of the water on the Moon.

Cosmic Triple-Play: Asteroid Flyby, Fireball over Utah, Meteor Shower

Apparently there was quite a show for some folks at the meteor shower last night in Utah!! They are a lot of fun to see.

60-Year-Old Solar Mystery Finally Explained

This article, related to how much Lithium the Sun and other stars have, suggests a way to look for extrasolar planets. Darned interesting!

Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By The Earth

The folks at the Minor Planet Center are getting better and better at finding and determining the orbits of these smaller bodies.

The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York - Frank Rich New York Times Op-Ed Columnist

BARACK OBAMA'S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week's election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P.

As airlines cut corners, will pilot fatigue run the industry into the ground?

the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are once again discussing a radical change in rules about pilot flight limits. Current regulations, which have been in effect since the 1960s, only allow pilots to fly for 100 hours per month or 8 hours in any 24-hour period.

George F. Will on GOP lightning rod Michele Bachmann

When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000, he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. "Michele," he said, "do you have something to tell me?" She did.

New Rocket Fuel Mixes Ice and Metal

An interesting article that points the way to possible Aluminum/ice rocket engines using totally local lunar resources.

White House Feud With Fox Has Nothing To Do With "News"

When people say that the White House has "declared war" on Fox News, what do they really mean? Is the White House objecting to the criticisms put forth by Fox's opinion-mongers, like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity? Or are they locked in battle with the actual reporting arm of the me …

Safety Nets for the Rich - Bob Herbert New York Times Op-Ed Columnist

The headlines that ran side by side on the front page of Saturday's New York Times summed up, inadvertently, the terrible fix that we've allowed our country to fall into.

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