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  1. Animation Worth a Thousand Words on Short Gamma-ray Bursts Traced to Colliding Stars · · Score: 1

    The Chandra X-ray Observatory http://chandra.harvard.edu/ priovides a wealth of information and help visualizing these phenomena. While the following link depicts orbiting white dwarfs (not as massive as neutron stars) swirling closer together, traveling in excess of a million miles per hour producing gravity waves...
    Animation of White Dwarf Gravitational Wave Merger
    http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/j0806/animat ions.html

  2. Re:archive.org or TLDP.org on A Linux Presentation Repository? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not bad, but it's not very Linux specific. There are thousands of Linux sites that have articles, papers, and presentations some with forums and community news. Most Events, Conferences, Expos, and LUGs archive their own presentations . Some are GPL, but many are copywrited by the individuals or published in magazines in various formats. Try to find some older presentations from the Linux World Expos http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/. Point is there should be some quality controls, standard formats and GPL restrictions...

    Why not contribute & support The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) http://tldp.org/ ? ...they've been at this longer than most, and I'm sure they could use some help. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation (man pages, HTML, HOWTOs, Guides and so on) to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux.