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michael
on from the geodesic-electricity dept.
chinton writes: "Yahoo! has a story about using buckyballs to achieve superconductivity at warmer tempuratures. They did this by combining carbon-60 with chloroform and bromoform. The advance would have been made sooner, but the scientists kept passing out. ;-)"
Sure does. And this phenomenon is not just confined to Slashdot either. The links to the Yahoo! articles also show that two very similar articles were published on this very topic no more than sixteen minutes apart (2:03PM ET and 2:19PM ET). The only difference in the articles was the source - the earlier article's source was Associated Press whereas the later article's source was Reuters.
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When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer our friend.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like they can also be used to cause slashdot writers to post the same story twice in one week.
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Sure does. And this phenomenon is not just confined to Slashdot either. The links to the Yahoo! articles also show that two very similar articles were published on this very topic no more than sixteen minutes apart (2:03PM ET and 2:19PM ET). The only difference in the articles was the source - the earlier article's source was Associated Press whereas the later article's source was Reuters.
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When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer our friend.