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Found those Weapons of Mass Destruction... Posted: 10 months ago by moNet
...to your heterosexuality.
...it was suggested that a strong aphrodisiac could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior"...
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Is Thin No Longer In? Posted: 3 months ago by veronla21
With America's Next Top Model being a plus-sized model and Spain banning all runway models that have a body mass index of less than 18 from the catwalk, is thin no longer the epitome of beauty?
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Venus May Be Earth's Hellish Twin Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Venus is more Earth-like than previously thought-including lightning where theory held that none could exist. Venus is the world closest to Earth in terms of size, mass, distance and chemical makeup, but while Earth is a haven for life, Venus is typically described as hellish, with a crushing atmosphere holding choking clouds of sulfuric acid over a rocky desert surface hot enough to melt lead.
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Sun's 'twin' an ideal hunting ground for alien life Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
The star, called HIP 56948, lies a little more than 200 light years from Earth. Its size, mass, temperature, and chemical makeup are all so similar to the Sun's that no measurable differences could be found in high-resolution observations made by the 2.7-metre telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas, US.
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Galaxies' spiral arms may betray black holes' weight Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
How does one weigh a supermassive black hole that is anywhere between a million and a billion times the mass of the Sun? The answer could be as easy as taking a snapshot of its surrounding galaxy.
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'Forza 2' Crashing Tons of Xbox 360's Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Mass Xbox 360 crashing, Forza 2 forum gets over 900 replies
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Control your computer with your mind. Posted: 9 months ago by extc68
OCZ Technology is putting their neural impulse actuator (NIA) into mass production for shipping next week. The device, aimed at gamers, works by reading biopotentials. 'These include activities of the brain, the autonomous nervous system and muscles — all of which are captured using embrace sensors located on the NIA's headband, amplified and sent to the PC via USB 2.0.' Users of the NIA will be able to control their in-game movements using only the power of mind. The device is priced at around $600USD.
Official press release here. Original /. article here.
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List of animals that don't exist, but should Posted: 11 months ago by muppet
The Small Dog With Hitler's Head (Canis hitlercephalus) has the body of a small dog, but the head of a mass murdering dictator, and a funny little moustache. Approach with caution. Might bite or gas. The Small Dog With Hitler's Head also has an uncontrollable aggression towards Jews, cats, and Jewish cats.
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Harry Potter: The Tales of Beedle the Bard goes mass market Posted: 4 months ago by hmtksteve
Remember that little book of tales J.K. Rawling wrote and only published a handful of copies? amazon has just announced that they are taking preorders and the book will be out in time for Christmas!
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Global Warming: Rush To Judgement? Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
a non existent article in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as bait. The article reported to scientifically proved that "concerns about manmade global warming are unfounded." Rush and several Blogs ate it up, despite obviously gibberish math and such reference works as "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine fossil records for eukaryotic mass on the West African continental shelf."
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Small 'Hobbit' Galaxies Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Small, ultrafaint "hobbit" galaxies recently found hovering around our Milky Way are comprised almost entirely of dark matter, a new study confirms. Dark matter is a mysterious substance scientists think accounts for most of the mass in the universe but that is invisible to current instruments.
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Continents loss to oceans boosts staying power Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
New research suggests that the geological staying power of continents comes partly from their losing battle with the Earth's oceans over magnesium. Because much of the lost mass is dominated by magnesium and calcium, continents ultimately gain because the lighter, silicon-rich rock that's left behind is buoyed up by denser rock beneath the Earth's crust.
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Scientists discover new planet orbiting dangerously close to giant star Posted: 2 weeks ago by AutumnLotus
A team of astronomers from Penn State and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland has discovered a new planet that is closely orbiting a red-giant star, HD 102272, which is much older than our own Sun. The planet has a mass that is nearly six times that of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
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Kids use video games to train in mass murders... Posted: 2 years ago by sholom22
...according to Jack thompson.Jack Thompson is interviewed by David Gregory on MSNBC regarding the Virginia Tech shootings. Apparently, someone in MSNBC's booking department mistook Thompson for a credible, rational source on school shootings.
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US astronomers spot massive, record-setting stellar-mass black hole Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
US astronomers have discovered the biggest black hole orbiting a star 1.8 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, with a record-setting mass of 24 to 33 times that of our Sun. The massive newcomer beats the previous stellar-mass black hole discovered October 17 in the M33 galaxy that has 16 times the mass of our Sun.
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Rugby strip show caught on video Posted: 7 months ago by jhordie
The Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 defeat by Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius late on Saturday, only to find they had been caught on video and put on the Internet.
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Denmark signs up for wind powered electric car switch Posted: 8 months ago by topofall
...will involve mass production of electric vehicles and the rollout of an extensive recharging and battery swap infrastructure.
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Computer simulations strong support for new theory of Earth's core Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
It has long been known that the inner core of the earth, a sphere consisting of a solid mass with a radius of about 1,200 km, is mainly made up of iron. However, seismic observations have shown that elastic waves pass more rapidly through this core in directions that are parallel to the earth's axis of rotation than in directions parallel to the equator - a phenomenon that has not been previously explained.
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Millions of Americans Fleeing the US Posted: 2 months ago by bernardblack
Such is the premise of a new HBO series. Bradford Winters,Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy will bring us a series set 25-40 years in the future where a major decline in the US results a mass exodus of its citizens.
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Gay Couple Married In Mass. Can't Divorce In R.I. Posted: 12 months ago by cb__
Lawyer says couples married in other states and other countries are routinely granted divorces in Rhode Island, and that the same freedom should apply in this case.
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