Police dash footage of a meteor over Edmonton, Canada. Captured on the evening of November 20, 2008.

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awesome!

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I really really hope that will wash off, for his sake…

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TUCSON, Ariz. — Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.

“We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. “We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted.”

Awesome stuff this science thing is..

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Sexy and educational.. I love science!

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In May this year the EPOXI spacecraft (formerly known as Deep Impact) turned its cameras around from a distance of 50 million km and captured images for several hours.

These images, which included the moon passing in front of the Earth have been put together into an awesome animation. Enjoy!

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Cool little easter egg in Firefox 3. Type about:robots in the address bar to receive a message from our plastic pals :)

oh and don’t forget to press the button… wonder what the plan is?

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A recording of the call has been released as part of a police campaign asking people to use 999 appropriately.

The Control Room conversation, which took place in May, was recorded - and below is a transcript:

Control Room: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?”

Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there’s a bright stationary object.”

Control room: “Right.”

Caller: “If you’ve got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It’s been there at least half an hour and it’s still there.”

Control: “It’s been there for half an hour. Right. Is it actually on the mountain or in the sky?”

Caller: “It’s in the air.”

Control: “I will send someone up there now to check it out.”

Caller: “OK.”

The mystery was soon solved, as the exchange between control and an officer at the scene, makes clear.

Control: “Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?”

Officer: “Yes, it’s the moon. Over.”

Imagine their excitement upon seeing the sun a few hours later :)

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The Internet began as the ARPANET on October 29, 1969 at 10:30 pm in room 3420, Boelter Hall UCLA.

Brad Fidler tracks down the spot that changed the world in this cool vid.

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Feb 23, 2008. The B-2 bomber Spirit of Kansas crashes on take off at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. Both pilots ejected safely but the bomber was destroyed at an estimated loss of $1.4 billion.

….and in other news, apparently video cameras on the most secure US military bases, can’t track fast moving objects very well.

“It’s ok Osama, just drive faster. They can’t video us if we keep moving!” :)

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