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Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 14, 2009 @05:52PM from the i-for-one dept.

likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 14, 2009 @02:11PM from the up-to-the-minute dept.

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 339

by huit on Thursday February 12, 2009 @04:23AM (#26824511) Attached to: Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered

no bill of rights over here :(

Comment Re:What natural setting? (Score 1) 439

by huit on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @07:49AM (#26341267) Attached to: How the City Hurts Your Brain

The human brain and nervous system evolved in the presence of natural stimuli and is prepared for these. Often the kinds of shortcuts it made to handle this information worked well in our evolutionary history but fail us now.
Additionally cities are human constructs and as such attract a great deal of attention from human brains, a cockroach would likely not feel as significant a difference in the surroundings (forest-city)

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