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NASA Delays Discovery's Final Launch To February 62

Posted by Soulskill from the hope-you-brought-a-blanket,-keith dept.
Velcroman1 writes "NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery's final mission to no earlier than early February — the latest in a long string of delays that have kept the spacecraft grounded for more than a month. Discovery is now slated to launch no earlier than Feb. 3, with the delay allowing NASA engineers more time to analyze why small cracks developed in the shuttle's huge external fuel tank. The cracks have since been repaired, but NASA wants to make sure similar issues don't pose a future concern."
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Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park Screenshot-sm 648

Posted by samzenpus from the ride-the-dinosaur dept.
riverat1 writes "On December first, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that a creationism theme park is expected to open in 2014. Park developers are seeking state tourism development incentives and could receive up to $37.5 million over a 10-year period. Gov. Steve Beshear said he does not believe the incentives would violate the principle of church-state separation because the 14-year-old tax incentives law wasn’t approved for the purpose of benefiting the Ark Encounter. The park will have a 500 foot replica of the Ark with live animals on it and a Tower of Babel explaining how races and languages developed. The park will be turned over to Answers in Genesis after it is built. They are a non-profit organization which may allow them to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion."

Comment To Many Secrets (Score 1) 469

by thbigr (#34408690) Attached to: WikiLeaks Should...

More open and honest communications between countries would go a long way to solving problems.

If the Arabic countries would be honest and actually stand up to Iran publicly Iran might not be so quick to go Nuke and Crazy in the region.

World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip 320

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the until-they-make-a-better-cloner dept.
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a new RFID chip from Verayo claims to be unclonable through the use of the new Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), sort of an electronic DNA for silicon chips. "Basic passive RFID chips can be easily cloned by copying the data residing on one chip to another. Verayo's PUF-based RFID chips cannot be cloned, and provide a very strong and robust authentication mechanism. No other chip or device can be disguised as the original chip, even if the data is copied from one Verayo RFID chip to another."
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Journal Journal: Columbus, Ohio, welcome to the shooting gallery

Journal by thbigr

There is some one out there with a hand gun shooting cars, tucks, school buses, houses and schools. (They have killed one person) I think it is some "self organized youth", a gang.

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