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The Apollo 14 Near Miss of Cone Crater
While all of the Apollo missions are fascinating, the Apollo 14 activities provided a particularly interesting story to see in the images from LRO. The mission called for Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell to go to Fra Maura where they would attempt to gather samples from the rim of Cone Crater. Without having the aid of the lunar rover and having to drag a cart full of scientific equipment along with them, the trek from the descent module to Cone Crater proved to be a physically intense one. After traversing nearly a mile (1400 meters), the steep incline of the crater rim, the high heart rates of the astronauts and the tight schedule of the activity resulted in mission control ordering them to gather whatever samples they could and return to the landing module. They never reached the edge of the crater. Though geologists say it did not greatly affect the success of the scientific goal, the astronauts were personally disappointed in failing to make it to the top. Images from LRO now show precisely just how far the astronauts traveled and how close they came to reaching the crater, their tracks ending only about 100 feet (30 meters) from the rim! Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

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ORly NZ Herald? Rly?

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Paul the Octopus on the David Bain Case

[Dr Woomanchu]

XKCD this week, brilliant!

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just saw this now lol

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http://www.funzug.com/index.php/nature/most-colorful-river-in-the-world.html

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Disk Around a Massive Baby Star (Artist's Concept)

Astronomers have obtained the first clear look at a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars do form in the same way as their smaller brethren -- and closing an enduring debate. This artist's concept shows what such a massive disk might look like.

The flared disk extends to about 130 times the Earth–sun distance, and has a mass similar to that of the star, roughly twenty times the sun. The inner parts of the disk are shown to be devoid of dust.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/slideshow/semiconductors/materials/the-art-of-failure-2010

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It's friday. need boobies

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[Retardobot]

Oh holy christ, I am looking at those when I get home.

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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/marijuana-stash.html

Ancient Cannabis: Uncovering a 2,700-Year-Old Stash

[Donkey]

In the workshop at work. I want it so bad. It makes me feel funny in the pants region.

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I had a Porsche in England, all be it a old bottom of the line one

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I am disturbed that no one else has taken to WooHoos request; BOOBS
ITS MOFO FRIDAY!

Sorry.. DR Woohoo

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Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet." The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.

Observations taken with Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the cast-off atmospheric material behind the scorched planet and shaping it into a comet-like tail.