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American Voices: NASA To Capture Asteroid, Drag It Back To Earth
Eyeing a launch date in 2019, NASA plans to send a robotic vehicle into space that will capture an asteroid using a “baggie with a drawstring” mechanism, then pull the space rock back near Earth, allowing for close study by a later manned miss… The Onion Tweet This Post
McConnell Plans Scorched Earth Campaign
Sen. Mitch McConnnell (R-KY) “is preparing to wage a ruthless campaign to hang on to his job,” Politico reports. Tweet This Post
The Mighty Jeb Bush Comes Down to Earth
What has gotten into Jeb Bush? Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
American Voices: Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth
A 150-foot asteroid known as 2012 DA14 will pass by Earth today, coming within 17,000 miles of hitting the planet—closer than many communications satellites—and narrowly avoiding an impact that would have destroyed a 750-square-mile area of th… Tweet This Post
American Voices: Radiation Blast May Have Hit Earth In Middle Ages
A new report posits that the collision of two black holes or neutron stars may have produced a gamma ray burst that hit Earth in the 8th century, generating a variety of chemical isotopes that can be found in ancient tree rings and ice cores. Tweet This Post
Google Earth helps put North Korea gulag system on map
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's visit to North Korea this week has been met with sharp criticism and low expectations, but the global Internet search giant indirectly is helping to make history by revealing one of the reclusive country's darkest secrets, say human rights activists. Google Earth, the company's popular satellite imagery [...]
Rubio Admits the Earth is 4.5 Billion Years Old
At a Politico event, Sen. Marco Rubio insisted he knew how old the Earth was even though he declined to answer the question in an interview last month. Tweet This Post
Rubio Declines to Say How Old The Earth Is
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declined to tell GQ magazine how old he thought the earth was, saying it’s “one of those great mysteries.” Tweet This Post
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