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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:Haha (Score 1) 427

by liusu119 on Monday August 11, 2008 @09:16PM (#24562593) Attached to: Watching China Turn Off the Pollution

I might not know enough about Maoist style communists, but the stuff I do know about it makes me hate it.

For example:
1. Arm high school and college kids with knives, rifles, artillery, tanks and make them fight each other to death and destroy the city for fun.

2. Round up the survivors from (1) and send them to country side away from their school to work as manual labor for "Education".

3. Make people quote Mao in every conversation they make.

4. Make people do "Royalty Dance" that look like they are on crack.

5. Mandate a quota like 10% of all people are traitors and have them round up, humuliated, put in jail , regardless of what they really do.

6. Cut down all the trees and stop people from working on their job so they can use those trees as fuel to make "steel". Eventually result in famine that kills millions of people.

7. Made sure people who have knowledge of the world, and didn't suck up to CCP jailed or send to the bottom of the society.

And so on ...

Bottom line: "Maoist style communists" do lots of fun things that kill people in interesting ways. Their karma is not high enough for me to not hate them.

I take back the "Royalty Dance" part, that's actually fun to watch.

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