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Ever wanted to track satellites in real time from your computer for free?

Well you're in luck!  NASA has a neat little tool called J-Track, which you can access at the link below.  Note that you'll need Java to run it (which you probably have installed) and that when you visit the link, it will launch the java app.

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Enjoy today as the world could end tomorrow – LHC goes online on the 10th!

I'm with those big fancy science types when they say they're generally fairly certian that no Earth and/or Universe destroying forces will be generated when the LHC goes online in less than 24 hours.  I mean, these folks are usually right, right?

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The planet Mars enters the ’90s with it’s new web cam

That's right, the ESA has gotten into the web cam business with a simple little camera pointed at none other than Mars!  While I feel the whole "look at my webcam" thing has blown over some time ago, this one is worth a gander.

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Nuclear Fusion… In Your Garage? (Image Gallery)

Yeah, it sounds crazy, but according to This article from the Wall Street Journal there are at least 42 functioning home-built fusion reactors worldwide. Mind you, they suck down quite a bit more energy than they produce; like expensive research reactors, they don't produce self-sustaining fusion.

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All of evolution up to humans, Carl Sagan and line drawings with breasts. In under 8 minutes.

I grew up with the warm fuzzy feeling that I could sit down in the evenings, turn on Chanel 2 and enjoy some time with Carl Sagan and the entire Universe as we knew it circa 1980 through the awe inspiring show Cosmos.  Then I would watch various wild creatures try and dismember Jim on [...]

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Alien Civilization found! And it’s not from a Russian paper, so it must be true!

We all know about Abell 1835 IR1916 (not pictured above). That galaxy that just happens to be the furthest and thus oldest galaxy ever seen by Hubble. It’s just about 13.25 million light years away – far even compared to driving through Texas, and this galaxy’s been around for about 97% of the time the [...]

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