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Close Mars Means Close-Up Pictures
Guttata writes " space.com has posted 1 of 2 images taken by Hubble last night, dubbed the best Mars globe photo ever taken. The second image will be posted at 4 p.m. ET. Cool!"
aderuwe points to a report on the Hubble site itself. Finally, dpp writes "Space.com is reporting how astronomers using the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) here at the Joint Astronomy Centre have made what are thought to be the sharpest ground-based images of Mars to date. They'll be studying the spectra of the infrared light to look for the signatures of minerals that would indicate the past presence of liquid water, which could have hosted life."
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How the hell is this offtopic? Read the article and you'll see there are a few lines about looking for water and life.
due to massive embarrassment in the astronomical community, Uranus' name was recently changed to Urectum.
Credit: Futurama
He can not be President. He was not born in the USA.
I enjoy stretching her labia over my head and down to my ears like some sort of pink and fishy skull cap.
How the hell is this offtopic? Read the article and you'll see there are a few lines about looking for water and life.
Well, this is definitely off-topic.
I was aiming for funny. But I am overshadowed by how funny that 'insightful' moderation is.
He's not even running for Senator. He's running for governor. You two are both idiots.
ENK!! ENK ENK ENK!!!!
Yes he was.
for a Uranus joke!
DJCC
How come he speaks English in ALL his movies? I NEVER heard him speak Austrian. GOD the idiots in slashdot are multiplying every day.
Here ya go.
Not a personal attack on you, azzy. you've been moderated funny, and I assume that is your intention. :)
I'm tired of hearing Europeans suggest that Europe is somehow more intelligent, sophisticated, and superior to America. Let's look at the last 250 years and keep score.
Number of times the continent has erupted in full scale war:
Europe: 7 Years War, Napoleanic Wars, Franco-Prussian War, WW I, WW II - 5 that I can count right off the bat.
America (excluding wars that started in Europe): American Civil War, Mexican War - hmm, only 2.
Winner - America
Number of Government Sponsered Mass Murders
Europe: The Terror (French Revolution), Great Potato Famine (English rulers continues to export grain from their land in Ireland as the Irish people starved to death), the Nazi Holocaust (which most of the French and much of the rest of the continent was more than willing to help with). I count at least 3.
America: The death of the American Indian population probably doesn't rank as high as the holocaust or the terror, but I have to include it since I included the Great Potato Famine. I count 1.
Winner - America
Meglomaniacal Dictators elected by democratic process, who then go on to become autocrats:
Europe: Two biggies - Napolean and Hitler.
America: None
Winner - America
Civil Rights:
Europe: currently pretty good, but generally guaranteed by tenuous laws. Democracy has progressed, but with lots of major setbacks when your neighbors were locking you in cattle trains and sending you off to camps where you would be worked to the bone, then gassed and incinerated.
America: African Americans in particular have had a rough time, but the general trend has been positive. At almost any time point civil rights were equal to or better than those in Europe for most everyone. Civil Rights have generally improved over time, with few major backward steps.
Winner - America
It seems that America is clearly more civilized than Europe.
PS - Potato Famine and American Indians - In both situations, the government chose to undertake an economic policy that would result in the massive displacement of people. Their intent was to gain the economic advantages regardless of the effect on the Irish or the Indians. The terror and the holocaust were both intended to murder large groups of "undesirable" people. The intent makes one a "manslaughter" charge and the other a "murder" charge. Not that it matters to those who died.
Let's put another "shrimp on the barbie!"