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Underground city uncovered with lasers->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a great use of laser scanning technology — the Nottingham Caves Survey have been using a Leica laser scanner to map and visualize hundreds of man-made caves hidden beneath the city of Nottingham in the UK. Results as seen on Gizmodo are pretty spectacular!"
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NASA

NASA Kepler spots rocky, “iron dumbbell&rdqu->

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes "NASA today said its star-gazing satellite Kepler has identified its first rocky planet orbiting a sun similar to our own — 560 light years from our solar system. While not in an area of space considered habitable, the rocky planet known as Kepler-10b and is never-the-less significant because it showcases the ability of Kepler to find and track such small exoplanetary movements."
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Is the Worst Over For BP?->

Submitted by iamrmani
iamrmani writes "BP Plc, which is tormented by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has witnessed a positive development last week when Presidential Commission did not find BP solely responsible for the oil spill, but that it shares the blame with service contractors and government regulators."
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Politics

Diagnosis of Tucson shooter-> 2

Submitted by bradley13
bradley13 writes "This article in the New York Times points out that Mr. Loughner, the person accused of shooting 19 people in Tucson, has shown increasing mental disturbances over the past few months, and offers this diagnosis: "the rambling, disconnected writings and videos he has left on the Web are consistent with the delusions produced by a psychotic illness like schizophrenia, which develops most often in the teens or 20s". If true, this means that all of the fans of political conspiracy theories will need to look elsewhere..."
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Karma strike against prankdial.com 3

Submitted by sjs132
sjs132 writes "Ever get a call by prankdial.com and want to get revenge on the folks that did it? Well This guy did too. But they wouldn't give up who initiated the prank, so some pubilc digging and basic internet sleuthing reveals the owner of prankdail and his phone number. Time for Karma to come a calling...."

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