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mattnyc99 writes “Popular Mechanics is reporting that NASA — faced with the looming retirement of the space shuttle, and planning for longer missions like the one to Mars we’ve been discussing — is looking to free up its budget and depend a lot more on private space startups to carry key payloads into orbit in the next few years. For an agency so steeped in bureaucracy, it seems like everyone from NASA chief Mike Griffin to contracted officials to the key players in this in-depth podcast roundtable is finally acknowledging that commercial rocketeering (space tourists aside) is a more efficient a means of getting back into space for NASA. Quoting: ‘Because of a new focus for NASA’s strategic investments — …

SPACE.com - The sun bounces up and down as it roams the Milky Way, and suchwavering might have hurled showers of comets Earth’s way that caused massextinctions, including the one that killed the dinosaurs, a new study claims.

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Sofia City Court gave a five-year sentence to the defendant in a trial over the car crash that took the live of Bulgaria’s famous and controversial TV and radio anchor Emil Trifonov, aka Kembala. Boyan Georgiev, who drove the Mercedes, in which Trifonov was riding on the tragic March 17, 2007, was …

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AP - The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God.

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Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: EvilElmo”A Japanese man who had doused himself with kerosene in front of police died of burns after asking to smoke during interrogation.”Discuss…

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AP - Indiana Jones managed to retrieve the trinket he was after in the opening moments of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He pretty much wrecked everything else in the ancient South American temple where the little gold idol had rested for millennia.

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Reuters - ABC on Tuesday rolled out a fall television schedule featuring just two new programs, one a traveling game show and the other a detective drama based on a popular British series, underscoring the lasting impact of a 14-week strike by screenwriters.

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