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Closest Earth-like planet
´stroll across park´
Associated Press, by Marcia Dunn
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Posted By:Hermoine, 2/6/2013 8:35:01 PM
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| Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away — or some 77 trillion miles. That planet hasn´t been found yet, but should be there based on the team´s study of red dwarf stars. Galactically speaking, that´s right next door. If our Milky Way galaxy were shrunk to the size of the United States, the distance between Earth and its closest Earth-like neighbor would be the span of New York's Central Park, said Harvard University graduate student
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Poor Marcia Dunn...I think she´s been had by these comedians, I mean, "scientists."
PLEASE post to word limit as shown. LCom Staff.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
STLstudent, 2/6/2013 9:02:26 PM (No. 9162670)
These worlds "may" be close, but such a planet "hasn´t been found yet." It "may" be just 13 light-years away.
Ah, yes. So-called science funded by the federal government.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
IowaDad, 2/6/2013 9:20:35 PM (No. 9162683)
An amazing piece of journalistic junk science. The correct conclusion is that the species H sapiens is stuck on Earth for ever, unless we mount a few hundred thousand missions each capable of surviving high-speed deep-space travel for a century or two in the hope that at least one mission will find another planet we can live on.
Given the fact that we can´t even produce competent journalists, that ain´t likely.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/6/2013 9:35:54 PM (No. 9162696)
N = R* . f [sub]p . n [sub]e . f [sub]l . f [sub]i . f [sub]c . L
Got that?
[Sorry -- posts aren´t graphics-friendly!]
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 2/6/2013 9:36:22 PM (No. 9162697)
Some people love to bash science from their laptop computers.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 2/6/2013 9:57:54 PM (No. 9162722)
I´m not sure you can have a really Earth-like planet without a yellow sun. Oh, they sort of say that. Well OK.
We won´t be zipping up there for lunch anytime soon, but we might be able to send a probe there on a hundred-year mission, if we really wanted to.
It is interesting news, but of course will be much better once we actually find a couple. Between the current satellite scopes and the humonguous new ground-based scopes planned, that should be within ten years.
Low-cost loans for beachfront property there will follow soon thereafter.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
realrep, 2/6/2013 10:33:16 PM (No. 9162768)
Must be Farrakhan´s Mother Planet
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/7/2013 4:53:55 PM (No. 9164382)
Sorry idiots (AP), we can´t go there, Obama cancelled the space programs and turned it into a Muslim Outreach.
We´ve been reaching out but they keep cutting off our hands, now what Obie?
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Express (U.K), by Charlotte Meredith
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Posted By: Hermoine- 4/5/2013 9:55:39 AM
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ARGENTINA has made a formal complaint to Uruguay today after the country´s leader seemingly made some rather disparaging remarks aimed at president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her late husband. - snip - He was heard telling, Carlos Enciso, the governor of Uruguay´s Florida province: "That old hag´s worse than the cross-eyed one," referring to Ms Kirchner´s late husband and former Argentinian president Nestor Kirchner. "Cross-eyes was more of a politician, she´s just stubborn," he added.
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Suspect in Colo. prison chief
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Posted By: Hermoine- 4/2/2013 8:00:01 AM
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DENVER — Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month´s killing of Colorado´s corrections chief was freed from prison in January — four years earlier than authorities intended. Judicial officials acknowledged Monday that Evan Spencer Ebel´s previous felony conviction had been inaccurately recorded and his release was a mistake. In 2008, Ebel pleaded guilty in rural Fremont County to assaulting a prison officer. In the plea deal, Ebel was to be sentenced to up to four additional years in prison, to be served after he completed the eight-year sentence that put him behind bars in 2005, according to a statement from Colorado's 11th Judicial District.
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Biden´s $459,388.65 Hotel Bill
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The Weekly Standard, by Jeryl Bier
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Vice President Biden and his entourage spent a little time in London in early February during his first foreign trip of the second term of the Obama administration. -snip-The accompanying document justifying the "sole source" contract notes that the vice president´s group required "approximately 136 hotel rooms for 893 room nights."
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Associated Press, by Michelle Faul
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JOHANNESBURG — Reeva Steenkamp, the model and law graduate shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius, was statistically just one of three women killed on Valentine´s Day by an intimate partner, according to a study on violence against women that damns South Africa as having "the highest rate ever reported in research anywhere in the world." Steenkamp´s killing came the day before she planned to wear black in a "Black Friday" protest against the country´s excruciatingly high number of rapes, spurred by the particularly brutal gang-rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old that made front-page news in February.
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Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez´s
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The Hollywood Reporter, by Rebecca Ford
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Posted By: Hermoine- 3/5/2013 9:36:57 PM
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"I mourn a great hero," said Oliver Stone of the Venezuelan president who died on Tuesday after a long bout with cancer. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday after a long bout with cancer. He was 58. The controversial leader had a slew of Hollywood heavyweights supporting him throughout his reign, with the most vocal two being actor Sean Penn and filmmaker Oliver Stone.
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Florida judge approves birth
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Reuters, by Kevin Gray
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Posted By: Hermoine- 2/8/2013 11:54:52 AM
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MIAMI - A Florida judge has approved the adoption of a 22-month-old baby girl that will list three people as parents on her birth certificate -- a married lesbian couple and a gay man. The decision ends a two-year paternity fight between the couple and a friend of the women who donated his sperm to father the child but later sought a larger role in the girl´s life. The ruling means the child´s birth certificate will include a biological father and both women as parents in an unusual arrangement approved recently by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge.
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Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control,
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Real Clear Politics, by Staff
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Posted By: Hermoine- 2/7/2013 9:44:52 AM
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Singer Tony Bennett brought up Nazi Germany at a press conference in Washington where he demanded gun control. TONY BENNETT: It´s the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world´s going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.
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Closest Earth-like planet
´stroll across park´
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Associated Press, by Marcia Dunn
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Posted By: Hermoine- 2/6/2013 8:35:01 PM
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away — or some 77 trillion miles. That planet hasn´t been found yet, but should be there based on the team´s study of red dwarf stars. Galactically speaking, that´s right next door. If our Milky Way galaxy were shrunk to the size of the United States, the distance between Earth and its closest Earth-like neighbor would be the span of New York's Central Park, said Harvard University graduate student
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State Capitol troopers
begin carrying assault rifles
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Jim Galloway
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Posted By: Hermoine- 2/6/2013 5:10:52 PM
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Regulars around the state Capitol will soon be seeing something different: Troopers carrying military-style assault rifles. The upgrade in firepower isn’t precisely incident specific – but you can hear echoes of Sandy Hook Elementary School in the explanation from Col. Mark McDonough, commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety. We were outside the Senate chamber, and McDonough pointed to the rotunda below us: “See all those children down there?” he asked. The Capitol is routinely filled with students on field trips this time of year. Officers once armed only with handguns
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Armed veteran in wheelchair
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Associated Press, by Staff Writer
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ATHENS, Ga. — Authorities say a U.S. Army veteran who uses a wheelchair wielded a pistol to run off a man who broke into his home near Athens. The Athens Banner-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/11Wcnjg) that 53-year-old Mark Sikes was in bed at his home in western Clarke County around 1 p.m. Wednesday, when someone kicked in his front door.
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Stem cell foe named
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Aaron Gould Sheinin
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The new head of the state House Committee on Science and Technology is a social conservative who has used a moral compass to question scientific research, but who says he knows the importance biotechnology has on the state’s economy. Rep. Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, has previously led efforts to ban research on embryonic stem cells and sponsored a bill making it illegal to implant people with microchips against their will. Setzler, beginning his fifth term in the House, is also a frequent sponsor of bills to restrict abortions. The 42-year-old is an engineer and retired Army Ranger.
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Greenwich Village couple busted
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Posted By: Hermoine- 12/31/2012 8:35:29 AM
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The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Village apartment. Morgan Gliedman — who is nine-months pregnant — and her baby daddy, Aaron Greene, 31, also had instructions on making bombs, including a stack of papers with a cover sheet titled, “The Terrorist Encyclopedia,’’ sources told The Post yesterday.
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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Broadcasters worry
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Christians, here´s why we´re
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Hillary Clinton Would Not
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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