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• NASA may extend Kepler telescope's mission

  Tue Nov 1, 2011
  • Also, yes, if they ask for $20 million, the truth is they really need $10 million. If they had asked for $10 million, they'll only get $5 million. This is kind of how budget estimation works:

• NASA may extend Kepler telescope's mission

  Tue Nov 1, 2011
  • "Fixed operating costs at the lab (DOE) are at $1 million a month."

• NASA prepares next Mars rover for launch

  Sat Aug 13, 2011
  • Excuse me but I thought Congress had banned the launching of this type of fuel source? In case of failure in the Earth's atmosphere is it failsafe? Or is it a case of what's a few more grams of plutonium-238 over what the Japanese are releasing?

• Coal-black alien planet is darkest ever seen

  Thu Aug 11, 2011
  • Maybe, it doesn't reflect light because light goes THROUGH it? What if it's a ring shaped object, or it is full of holes in its structure, like a giant planet sized space station? I would like to think of it as an alien ringed station, like the one in Halo.

• UK to look to US on how to fight street gangs

  Thu Aug 11, 2011
  • Bollocks! They don't need to declare martial law. Anyone with a cellphone SIM ID in the area going from shop to shop at that hour has enough evidence to be brought to court. If they're posting what they're doing on twitter and facebook at the same time, then it makes things even simpler.

• 5 apps to keep track of homework assignments

  Thu Aug 11, 2011
  • This list comes out one every 4 months it seems. My sister uses Notes Plus and Priority Matrix on my dad's iPad to do her homework.

• U.S. charges for-profit college with fraud

  Tue Aug 9, 2011
  • Did you think building the world's tallest building, the world's largest indoor ski range, personalize islands shaped like a palm tree was going to be cheap? Then again, don't blame others for spending money they found, blame yourselves for handing it over.

• Sources: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead

  Sun May 1, 2011
  • Guess he shouldn't have gotten that new iPhone. Probably started tracking him.

• Wake up! Sleeping tower operator spurs FAA policy shift

  Wed Mar 23, 2011
  • My interpretation from this reading: "...the single controller — a supervisor — was scheduled for duty in the tower at that time but had fallen asleep." Sounds like 1 responsible person for the whole tower.

• Wake up! Sleeping tower operator spurs FAA policy shift

  Wed Mar 23, 2011
  • What an a-maize-zing story.