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Submission + - Transit Method Reveals Many Extrasolar Planets (space.com)

eldavojohn writes: "You might recall not too long ago the first photo of an extra solar planet or, more recently, the mapping & speculation on these planets that lie outside our own solar system. Long since those first few spotted in the 90s, we're now starting to find them in droves due to the popularity of a method that relies on the planet passing directly between the viewer on earth and the star that it orbits. Be sure to check out Space.com's list of the most interesting extrasolar planets. Will we ever find Earth 2.0 candidates?"
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Submission + - Pentagon Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

nam37 writes: CBS 5 has an interesting article about a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviwing the documents.
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Submission + - The Gimp created Starscapes and Space Pictures (blogspot.com)

mikeeusa2 writes: "Wonder what you can do in the free software world's premier graphics program? Well here is a digital painting gallery featuring various opensource pictures made in The Gimp. This includes impressonist style art aswell as space pictures and abstractions. Comments welcome."

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