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Comment Interesting Policy (Score 1) 190

While extreme, I like some aspects of this policy. First, material on the internet is generally more informal than 'real-world' information, and by restricting candidates to brick-and-mortar campaigning has the potential to prevent the sort of ridiculously overblown campaigning we see in the US by keeping candidates more accountable for what they say. Secondly, this policy may actually help political expression. By keeping candidates off of the internet, citizens are allowed to shape the discussion, thus creating an inter-citizen dialogue instead of having one candidate preach at large groups of others. Just some thoughts.
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Scientists Find Water on Extra-solar Planet 220

amigoro writes "Scientists have, for the first time, conclusively discovered the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System, according to an article appearing in Nature. They made the discovery by analysing the transit of the gas giant HD 189733b across its star, in the Infrared using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. HD 189733b is a 'hot jupiter', a gas giant that is roughly the size and mass of Jupiter but orbits very close to the star, so no chance of life there."

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