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Turns out the Chinese actually got rocketry help from the same guy, Von Braun, that got the US and USSR started. Was in the US Army too, before being sent back to China for being called a communist. See this article as posted here in the Toronto Star.

one point twenty-one jigawatts?
That's almost a bolt of lightning by degrading metric standards.

On a more serious note, does the declining metre have anything to do with the rising Canadian dollar? And they say that Canada doesn't matter. Humbug, I say. :)

There might be a legal obstacle (War on Drugs) to your patent in the US.
But if you settle down in Canada, you might be able to start collecting royalties soon :)

Two years ago she was doing country gospel and new country in small-town eastern Ontario. She won a contest and got to sing a duet onstage with Shania Twain. Then she was "discovered", got an agent, and suddenly she was one 'bad-ass chick'. See this article for details.

They appear to have contacted Pioneer! Here's a short article on it.

"The signal was loud and clear and I'd like to say this contact worked like a charm," said Larry Lasher, the mission's project manager.

A radio telescope in Spain received the response 22 hours and six minutes after the signal was sent from us on friday.

Cool!

Honestly, did you read the article, look at the evidence that has been presented - and the statements regarding its accuracy, or simply look at the claim and then say "It can't be true"?

Do you have any idea of the amount of extremely important news that is simply ignored, completely and uttterly by the mass media? You can try to excuse it all you want as "Bullshit", but the fact remains, the media fails to report an overwhelming majority of what happens out there. It simply doesn't bring in veiwiers. Which leads to the beleif that things aren't true, that they didn't happen, if the nightly entertainment known as "The News" didn't bother to report them. It is having a catastrophic effect on our nation, one that I fear, will cause us HUGE problems in the future. Why? Because without a proper idea of what is going on, or what has been done in the past, people believe only the bits and peices they are spoon-fed by those with the power to "make" the news. And they are left incapable of holding their leaders accountable, and as a result their nation. And their country becomes a rouge state that serves the interests of their leaders and those in power. While the context of any actions are presented through the filter of the condensed, 99.999% truth free reality that most of the country exists in. It's already happening now. And you can use the old "media bias/conspiracy" smear to discredit anything that isn't convient. But you will only be doing yourself a disservice. Stop ignoring what isn't nice, and start paying attention to it. Open your eyes, shut off CNN and actually LOOK at what is happening out there and don't require CNN, FoxNews or ABC to give the truth their stamp of approval. The notion that such a thing is needed, bodes ill for our world.

Here is a link to a story on the issue by The Tronto Star.

Perhaps it is now reported enough to be true, for you, but maybe for you it won't be true unless it becomes more popular? Popularity = Truth? A scary concept indeed.