What will life be like in 2008 Posted: 5 months ago by doggylives
On November 18, 1968 a writer envisions super cars speeding around domed, climatized cities at 300 miles-per-hour and other fantastic future predictions of What Life Will Be Like in the Year 2008.
Some of it's pretty accurate actually.
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Why 2008 Will Be An Awesome Year For Movies Posted: 8 months ago by leopoldogolba
Quite a few movies are scheduled to be released in 2008. A number of them sound like they'll be great. There are even a few that are creative. Could 2008 be the year Hollywood regains its magic?
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Half Life 2: Episode Two increased game duration Posted: 1 year ago by whi73rav3n
Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one.
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Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible.
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The World's Best Places to Live 2008 Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28.
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Precursor of Life Molecules Found Around Star Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.
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Life on mars??? Posted: 7 months ago by ash0283
Life on mars, captured on film by the mars rover!!!
Video version of AutumnLotus' post here for those of you who don't feel like reading.
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Jailed for life: Binge-drinking teens who kicked gap year student to death because she was dressed as a Goth Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
A judge condemned the prevalence of drunken street violence yesterday as he gave life sentences to two feral youths for kicking a gap- year student to death because she was dressed as a Goth.
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Google Launches Elections 2008 Gadget Posted: 9 months ago by maxriter
Like it or not, the 2008 presidential election is approaching, and should you be in that first category, Google is ready to keep you informed with a new Elections 2008 gadget.
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Hot super-Earths could host life after all Posted: 1 month ago by AutumnLotus
Massive, rocky worlds called 'super-Earths' – even those orbiting searingly close to their stars – may provide the right conditions for life, recent research suggests.
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Life Magazine to stop publishing print edition, again. Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
Life's collection of 10 million images will be available online, with "the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century" available for free for personal use.
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Prize established for creating planet's first artificial life form Posted: 2 years ago by michelleroberts
The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a clearing house for information about the race to "Break the Carbon Barrier". With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a clearing house.
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Virtual Terror Strikes Second Life Posted: 2 years ago by MaskedWriter
EVERYBODY VIRTUALLY PANIC
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Seoul to bring in women-only subway cars in 2008 Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
The subway corporations serving South Korea's capital will introduce women-only cars next year to make rides more comfortable and free of groping male hands.
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An American life worth less today Posted: 2 months ago by KeroBeros32
It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
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Life on Titan? Posted: 5 days ago by BernardBlack
Titan joins the growing list of places in this solar system which could theoretically support life. Mars and Europa - even our moon are some of the other possibilities. When you look at some of the places on Earth, places that are more inhospitable than these places you have to wonder...
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7 Year Old Girl Takes Six Bullets to Save Mother's Life Posted: 5 months ago by karenben
Seliethia Parker always saw her role as protector for her 7-year-old daughter, Alexis Goggins. But it was Alexis who ended up saving her mother's life by using her little body to shield her mom from a fusillade of bullets.
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'08 Predictions from the Psychic Capital of the World Posted: 8 months ago by dollyllama
It's is a little town where about half the residents are psychics…of one kind or another.
*Where is this town you ask? Do I have to tell you it's Fl....
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Evidence of intelligence found in Second Life Posted: 3 months ago by pocksucket
Sadly it's all artificial.
Edd Hifeng is a Second Life player controlled not by a human, but by another computer.
At the moment it's quite limited, but its creators have high hopes.
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Warming Risks Antarctic Sea Life Posted: 7 months ago by mahler87
Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn.
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Dorm Life Posted: 7 months ago by chelcho
Living the dorm life myself at the moment, I found this Office-ish mockumentary to be pretty funny.
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