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Here are a few, shown in video form (if you can ignore the cheesy music).]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>98</score><crdate>3/11/2007 1:19:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-11T01:19:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>128538</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/128538/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Google Earth launches interactive 3D moon atlas to celebrate Apollo landings]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s exactly forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong took man&#8217;s first step on the moon.<br/><br/>And to mark the historic occasion Google Earth has taken the same leap in cyberspace.<br/><br/>The search engine leader today launched Moon in Google Earth, an interactive 3D atlas of the moon which allows space fans to take their very own virtual steps on the surface of our closest satellite.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>283</score><crdate>7/21/2009 6:22:47 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-21T06:22:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36345</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36345/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The flat earth society]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Flat Earth Society considers the notion of a round earth to be a conspiracy.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>79</score><crdate>9/21/2007 10:29:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-21T10:29:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>113310</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/113310/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Parking 2 satellites 1.5m km from Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Thursday a rocket will take two new European telescopes into space, and park them not in an orbit around earth, but in an orbit around the sun.<br/><br/><i>Pretty cool information about a 'prime' orbiting spot named L2, 1.5 million km from earth.</i>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>219</score><crdate>5/11/2009 3:51:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-11T03:51:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37261</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37261/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronomers See 'Second Earth' in the Making]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have spotted evidence of a second Earth being built around a distant star 424 light-years away. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a huge belt of warm dust swirling around a young star called HD 113766 that is just slightly larger than our sun.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>168</score><crdate>10/3/2007 9:27:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-03T21:27:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25892</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25892/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 Most amazing facts about the Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[1. Gravity is not the same over the surface of the Earth, 2. Atmosphere 'escapes', 3. 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That's because the Earth's magnetic field likely underwent a reversal 800,000 years ago.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>74</score><crdate>5/23/2007 6:10:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-23T06:10:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59372</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59372/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Japan Captures HDTV of Full Earth &quot;Rise&quot; from Lunar Orbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Japanese lunar orbiter &quot;Kaguya&quot; saw earth, moon and sun line up on April 6, 2008 and captured another &quot;Earth-rise&quot; and &quot;Earth-set&quot; HDTV <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/15/kaguya_earthrise_20080405.gif" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video</a> - this time when the Earth was full.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>354</score><crdate>4/23/2008 12:32:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-23T00:32:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78869</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/78869/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Rock Found on Collision Course With Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, astronomers have found an object on a certain collision course with Earth. 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The insects account for about a quarter of all life forms on the planet.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>182</score><crdate>12/21/2007 7:19:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-21T07:19:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42526</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/42526/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Earth's high octane colours captured by NASA's most advanced satellites]]></title><description><![CDATA[With their high octane colours and incredible detail they look more like canvassed art than landscapes of the earth. Captured by some of NASA's most advanced satellites hundreds of miles above the earth, these unusual and striking images show our planet like never before.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>221</score><crdate>11/26/2007 9:00:15 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-26T09:00:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80424</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/80424/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Evidence found of solar system around nearby star]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>470</score><crdate>10/28/2008 8:49:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-28T08:49:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20018</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/20018/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Is Earth's Magnetic Field getting ready to &quot;flip?&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a growing body of evidence that suggests the Earth's magnetic field is about to disappear (at least for a while). 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On Earth, the motion of magma in the mantle pushes continental plates around on the surface, but if the magma became too hot and runny it would lose the grip needed to do this.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>343</score><crdate>4/20/2008 10:19:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-20T22:19:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38354</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38354/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Space Based Solar Cells Could Power Entire Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seems an obvious solution.<br/><br/>Gigantic satellites orbiting the Earth, equipped with solar cells, could collect enough energy from the sun every year to power the world seven times over.<br/><br/>This is not science fiction. This is our future.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>100</score><crdate>10/15/2007 6:23:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-15T06:23:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59880</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59880/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cracks In The Foundation: Fundamental Geological Assumption Relating To Planet Earth Not Quite True]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chondritic meteorites have a similar chemical composition to the sun and are therefore reliable witnesses as to what the solar nebula, from which the planets formed, was composed of. This can be used to deduce what the Earth consists of chemically. 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