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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
Giant Pool of Water Ice at Mars' South Pole
Mars is unlikely to sport beachfront property anytime soon, but the planet has enough water ice at its south pole to blanket the entire planet in more than 30 feet of water if everything thawed out.
SPACE.COM
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Friday, 02 February 2007 |
80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
70 percent of books published do not earn back their advance.
70 percent of the books published do not make a profit.
http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html
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Thursday, 12 October 2006 |
In
the basement of Phoebe Hearst Hall at Oglethorpe University in Georgia,
there is a stainless steel vault door which was welded shut over
sixty-five years ago. Behind this door lies a 20' x 10' waterproofed
room containing a menagerie of once-modern artifacts and microfilm
records, placed there by men and women in the years between 1937 and
1940. If their goal is realized, the contents of this vault will remain
unseen and undisturbed for the next 6,107 years.
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
Fish Explores Land with Robotic Device
First time on land? Terranaut, the robotic exploration vehicle art project by Seth Weiner, is definitely the way to go.
(Terranaut robotic vehicle helps fish explore land)
LIVESCIENCE.COM
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