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Antarctic Telescope Funded
An anonymous reader writes "SpaceflightNow reports that a multi-institutional team of scientists led by the University of Chicago will receive $16.6 million from the National Science Foundation over the next five years to build a telescope at the South Pole aimed at piercing one of the darkest secrets of the universe. The telescope will help scientists to reveal new details regarding a mysterious phenomenon called dark energy, which makes the expansion of the universe accelerate."
Yeah, I spell for shit, and this still popped out at me. Would someone code a slashcode spell-checker, already?
WTF is it with americans mispelling Antarctica??
Its been mentioned here a few times in the last several weeks (like that poll, etc), and it has ALWAYS been mispelt!
I even have some american sci-fi shows and stuff here on dvd (i'm australian) and even on THERE they mispronounce Antarctica, saying it as "Antartica" just as they spell it.
WTF IS WITH THIS?!
Are americans so brain dead they ALWAYS have to mispell it, and pronounce it the mispelt way too?
D.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Do you perchance mean tartaric acid?
This correction brought to you by a literate American who has always spelled and pronounced "arctic" and its derivative correctly, educated in a rural Indiana school.