Posted on December 31st, 2006 by BRiT
Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
Star Wars
2006 Darwin Award Winner, Confirmed True by Darwin
(2006, England) The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who, uh, remove themselves from it…
Like two people, [...]
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Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Jason
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake struck off southwestern Taiwan on Tuesday, triggering a potentially destructive tsunami that was headed toward the Philippines on the second anniversary of the waves that killed more than 200,000 in southern Asia, seismologists said.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered magnitude 7.1, while Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau measured it [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2006 by BrainwashedMonkey
The world’s largest lizard has astonished biologists by being able to produce offspring by an “immaculate” conception without the help of a male. Two captive female Komodo dragons have had virgin births by a process called parthenogenesis, when an unfertilized egg develops into a normal embryo without being fertilized by a sperm.
The eggs of one [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2006 by Jason
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess Wednesday after a major flare erupted on the Sun overnight, threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of the Northern Lights.
“We’re looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming” to begin probably around mid-day Thursday, Joe Kunches, lead forecaster at the NOAA [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2006 by Jason
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – For a few brief moments, night turned to day here at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as the shuttle Discovery climbed into space atop twin columns of fire and smoke in the agency’s first evening launch in four years.
Discovery lifted off at 8:47:35 p.m. EST (0147:35 Dec. 10 GMT) from KSC’s [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Jason
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Low clouds forced NASA to delay the launch of space shuttle Discovery late Thursday, and a forecast for strong winds prompted the space agency to postpone another attempt by at least two days.
NASA managers waited until the end of the countdown before deciding to call off the launch scheduled for 9:35 [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Jason
LOS ANGELES - After decades of scouring images of Mars for signs of water, scientists believe they have found stunning evidence that water may even now be flowing through the Red Planet’s frigid surface.
The news excited scientists who hunt for extraterrestrial life. If the finding is confirmed, they say, all the ingredients favorable for life [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Jason
Dec. 7, 2006 — Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S. moon exploration program with technology and know-how, a Russian space agency spokesman said Thursday.
Russia was conducting talks with NASA and voiced hope that a deal could be reached within months, said the spokesman, Igor Panarin.
“We want the agreement [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by BrainwashedMonkey
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA managers on Wednesday cleared space shuttle Discovery for a launch attempt on Thursday, though the weather outlook was not favorable.
Two technical issues, one with the shuttle’s electrical system and the other concerning an adhesive used in the ship’s solid rocket boosters, were resolved, NASA said, [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Jason
HOUSTON - NASA announced Monday its strategy and rationale for robotic and human exploration of the moon, determining that a lunar outpost is the best approach to achieve a sustained, human presence there.
The base would be built in incremental steps, starting with four-person crews making several seven-day visits. The first mission would begin by 2020, [...]
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