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Past the breakers
It all started with a promise to buy the evening’s beer. We didn’t have any intention for it to become what it did. It was simply two friends, two young men, who wanted to test their limits to learn a little bit about who they were. How quickly it became something altogether different.
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Astronomers Find Coldest Star in the Universe
Astronomers have detected a new candidate for the coldest known star — one whose temperature is roughly equivalent to a fresh cup of tea.
Would you like your star with milk and sugar?
Astronomers Find Coldest Star in the Universe
Shhh… radio silence
The 10-mile radius of the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone gives researchers the authority to crack down on wireless modems and speakers and cordless phones. The scientists try to be good neighbors, and residents have generally accepted the precautions taken to reduce electromagnetic noise, but some are starting to chafe against the limitations placed on their tools of the digital age.
“We feel were a bit discriminated against because they created the zone around us,” said County Commission President James Carpenter, who lives within Green Banks extra-restricted 10-mile radius. “Our children cant have a wireless computer when everybody else in the state can have one.”
Sizemore said the observatorys staff want to accommodate residents, but there may come a day when the researchers start “knocking on doors and asking people to get off their wireless devices.”
via Shhh Gadget racket threatens pulsar research AP by AP: Yahoo Tech .
I wonder how true it would be to joke about these guys getting to wear guns…
