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Comment Essential Camping Equipment (Score 3, Funny) 73

by flatass on Thursday July 02, 2009 @11:19AM (#28558137) Attached to: SolarNetOne Wants Stable Internet Connections For Developing Nations

Now I just need a trailer to tow this baby along on our next family "camping" trip. God I love the great outdo.... wait! someone is wrong on the Internet! Kids your going to have to go hiking on your own.

Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved 77

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @01:44PM from the feather-in-their-cap dept.

Matt_dk writes "Scientists are now able to explain why Mars' residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft (the same probe running the 'Mars Webcam'). It turns out the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the largest impact crater on Mars — even though it is nowhere near the south pole. Like Earth, Mars has frozen polar caps, but unlike Earth, these caps are made of carbon dioxide ice as well as water ice. During the southern hemisphere's summer, much of the ice cap sublimates, a process in which the ice turns straight back into gas, leaving behind what is known as the residual polar cap. The mystery was that while the winter cap is symmetrical about the south pole, the residual cap was offset, and scientists couldn't figure out why."

Comment Re:I don't know about all that (Score 1) 1275

by flatass on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @10:51AM (#24673795) Attached to: Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

You can watch the ref's signals all you want, I'll keep my eye on the singals.

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