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Two teens from Toronto sent a Lego man into space with only $400.
Image from The Gazette (Montreal)
This is amazing. Watch and read.
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Two jets of sugar syrup collide and interact to form very different patterns. On the left, the two jets have a low flow rate and create a chain-like wake. The jets on the right have a higher flow rate and produce a liquid sheet that breaks down into filaments and droplets. The result is often likened to fish bones. (Photo credit: Rebecca Ing)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Poland Signs ACTA
Poland’s ambassador to Japan, Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, signed the controversial ACTA in Tokyo earlier today despite huge demonstrations in Warsaw Street and the hacking of governmental websites since the weekend.
Poland’s Prime Minister Tusk insisted that his government would not “succumb to blackmail”. But over 10,000 have taken the streets Wednesday across the nation to protest against censorship.
Later today, hundreds of people took to the streets of the eastern city of Lublin to express their anger over the treaty.
Young people held banners with slogans such as “no to censorship” and “a free internet”.
Demonstrators fear that Acta, which is to be ratified by the European Union, will be as pernicious as Sopa, the Stop Online Privacy Act which was withdrawn by the White House and the US Senate after a mass protest by hundreds of major user-generated content websites.
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I am not going to shut up about this. If we don't come together, ACTA will wipe out the internet as we know it BY TOMORROW.
please sign
It’s at just over 71,000, and we need 75,000.
Come on. I know we can do this!!
It’s at 74,461 & now they’re saying the goal is 100,000.
whatever, sign it.
please sign it
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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
– Virginia Woolf (b. 25 January, 1882 - 28 March, 1941)
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Crazy auroras
Brilliant auroras were triggered by a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that hit our planet. A CME is a cloud of superheated gas and charged particles hurled off the sun.
Space-weather scientists reported that an especially strong solar flare had erupted from an active region on the sun, followed by the huge CME that came barreling toward our planet. The burst of activity triggered the strongest solar storm experienced since October 2003, according to experts .
When a CME hits Earth, the charged solar particles can interact with gases in our atmosphere to produce the northern and southern lights. Sky-watchers were put on alert for intense auroras Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.
