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Russian Metal Band Shreds At 50 MPH!

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Re-Format has completed the conversion of former hop kilns into twelve contemporary, spacious modern apartments, in Sotherington Lane, Hampshire. The modern conversion enjoys the spectacular countryside setting near Selborne in Hampshire and benefits from innovative interior design and layout that respects the particular vernacular of the historic building to create distinct contemporary homes.

What If Other Planets Were The Same Distance From The Earth As The Moon?

Barack Obama on the $1000 Note on Terra Nova Premier

 

Posted by: The Stache

If you caught last nights premier of Terra Nova on Fox, you probably saw the quick flash of money in the bag but thought “oooh look at the fancy future money!”, but probably didnt notice the face on the grand bills.

Have another look. It seems “the oracle has spoke”, and she is saying Barack Obama will be sitting pretty on the $1000 bill!

Did Facebook Just Pull A MySpace?

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What Facebook did last week was brilliant. Instead of taking the time and effort to try to build their own ”best” music and media services, they opened up the back door and let almost everyone in.  And who “everyone” is can change as new services that grab fan attention come online.

But with so many choices and a plethora of new features, is Facebook in danger of getting too complex and its pages overcrowded?  Did Facebook just pull a MySpace?

One of Facebook’s draws has been it’s simplicity and ease of use and that’s particularly true for the masses that Facebook has attracted in the last year or so. They open up the possibility of massive music discovery.  But will a user get frustrated and just give up (for example) when they’re signed up to Spotify and their friends want to share music on Rdio or MOG? 

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I Love You.

Bryan has a glorious mustache.: Who wants a job? →

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Im sitting here on my lush villa in Maui overlooking the Pacific Ocean reading emails from subscribers and thinking of stories to write when I return home, when I think to myself—I dont want to do this alone anymore! IndieCon has grown in subscribers since our launch just…

If you have a pair of skinny jeans or an anchor tattoo, watch this. 

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Half of Americans Think Space Shuttle Retirement Bad for US, Poll Finds

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Half of all Americans think the retirement of NASA’s iconic space shuttle fleet is bad for the country, according to a new poll.

Fifty percent of Americans think mothballing the shuttles will end up being bad for the nation, while just 49 percent believe it will be good or have no effect, according to the poll, which was conducted by CNN.

With the shuttles grounded for good after the end of Atlantis’ STS-135 mission, NASA now has no way to get its astronauts to space. Atlantis landed in Florida today (July 21) to cap NASA’s 135th and last mission after three decades of shuttle flight.

NASA will book seats on Russian Soyuz spaceships in the short term, a prospect that many Americans aparently find unappealing. The poll found that 75 percent of Americans think the country should develop another spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts into orbit.

And this will indeed happen, most people believe. Eighty-seven percent of poll respondents have faith that the U.S. will develop another crew-carrying craft.

NASA does not plan to rely on Russia forever. The space agency wants private industry to develop vehicles that can ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and back, perhaps as early as 2015.

Most Americans seem to favor this commercial crew model, according to the poll. Fifty-four percent of respondents want private companies to run most American human spaceflight activities in the future, compared with 38 percent who prefer government to take the lead.

The firm ORC International conducted the poll for CNN from July 18 through July 20, interviewing 1,009 American adults by telephone. The poll’s sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.

This story was provided by SPACE.com, sister site to LiveScience. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.

 
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