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Catch The Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower This Weekend
2 weeks ago Get ready for a great spring meteor shower. The Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower promises 10 to 20 meteors an hour under ideal conditions.
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Catch The Lyrid Meteor Shower Tonight
4 weeks ago With partly cloudy skies and an overnight low of 40, we could have a great night for meteor watching. The Lyrid Meteor Shower promises 10 to 20 meteors an hour with incredible surges of up to 100.
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Stephen Hawking Says Mankind Can’t Survive on Earth More Than Another 1,000 Years
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says the human race is doomed, unless we figure out how to leave Earth behind in the next 1,000 years.
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Voyager 1 Is Poised to Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before
March 21, 2013 The probe Voyager 1 is about to go where no one has gone before: beyond our solar system. The probe is heading toward the edge of the Heliosphere--the edge of our Sun's influence--and head into interstellar space.
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NASA Says “Pray” If An Asteroid Heads Our Way.
March 21, 2013 The head of NASA spoke at a Congressional hearing this week about protecting the Earth from asteroids. And he had some sobering things to say.
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Cutting Edge Prosthetic Gives 53 Year Old Father Both of his Hands Back
March 11, 2013 This video features 53 year old father Nigel Ackland and totally blows my mind. Ackland is demonstrating the Bebionic's V3 prosthetic, which replaces the hand he lost in an accident six years earlier.
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Scientists Say Life Is Possible on Jupiter’s Europa Moon
Scientists believe that the key to discovering extraterrestrial life could lie deep in the festering, underground oceans of Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. New research suggests that if the salt water ocean beneath the surface of the frigid moon ever makes it's way to the surface, creating an intergalactic petri dish capable of producing a life-promoting environment.
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Football Field-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Weekend
A giant asteroid the size of a football field is scheduled to pass through Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend. Scientists say that the 330-foot-wide fiery rock will miss striking the Earth’s surface by nearly 600,000 miles - about three times the distance between our planet and the moon.
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Reminder: Catch A Glimpse of Comet Pan-STARRS Starting Tonight
March 7, 2013 Although it looks as though the weather isn't going to cooperate, Comet Pan-STARRS should become visible tonight shortly after sunset. Hopefully Magic Valley residents won't miss this amazing astronomical event.
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Watch This Giant Real-Life Robot Dog Fling Cinderblocks Across the Room
The mad scientists over at Boston Dynamics have created a four-legged dog-like robot they call BigDog robot.
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Crater From World’s Third Largest Asteroid Found In Australia
After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.
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Millionaire Plans First Manned Mission to Mars for 2018
An entrepreneur with more money than God has decided that he wants to be one of the first men to complete a mission to mars. And while this space crusader with deep pockets may have the cash flow to pull of such an ambitious undertaking, some believe that he may have spread himself too thin by announcing plans to get his journey underway by 2018.