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• 'Space Is My Mistress,' writes astronaut poet

  Thu Apr 5, 2012
  • He can keep her. His mistress is old, cold, unfriendly and if you give her a chance, she'll kill you. :-)

• World's largest conservation area to protect African wildlife

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • Where did I say Africa was a country? Are you sure you're reading my post? The purpose of providing a hyperlink is to provide a reference for one's claim. It helps keep the discussion transparent and is fair to the other person. Which is why I provided one. And I am still waiting for yours.

• World's largest conservation area to protect African wildlife

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • Wow, you're so touchy. You started with "rabid tree hugger", so I dished one in return. That's fair enough?

• World's largest conservation area to protect African wildlife

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • URL again - http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/pub/boxScore.jsp

• World's largest conservation area to protect African wildlife

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • >> Yeah, NO. While our early history as far as wildlife is shameful, we have developed techniques others should emulate. Bison are coming back. The bald eagle, peregrine falcon, American alligator, etc are all off the endangered species list. The list goes on and on.

• World's largest conservation area to protect African wildlife

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • >> Unfortunately, just because they agree to create this great conservation area, doesn't mean anything is really protected...Historically, they haven't been too successful with that part of it.

• World's largest conservation area to protect African wildlife

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • Fantastic! It's news like this which cheers me up vs the regular gloom and doom I hear of habitat loss and shrinking wild life/plants across our planet. I hope to visit Africa someday to witness the amazing flora and fauna in that region. After all, we all came from Africa.

• Rare element on Earth is found in ancient starlight

  Thu Feb 23, 2012
  • Wiki doesn't say it but it looks like tellurium has super conductivity properties at low temperatures. Google "tellurium superconductivity" or check out the link below. http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0617199

• Rare element on Earth is found in ancient starlight

  Thu Feb 23, 2012
  • An interesting thing I read about tellurium is the half life of it's radioactive isotope. It's half life is 160 trillion (1 with 12 zeros after it) times the age of our universe (13.7 billion years).

• Flaw found in faster-than-light setup

  Wed Feb 22, 2012
  • 186,000 miles/second is the maximum speed of light in vacuum. Light travelling in a media (water, glass etc) has a speed slower than 186,000 miles/second. For example, light can be slowed down to 38 mph in a Bose-Einstein condensate.