1. In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte. And from
those he created the Word.
2. And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else existed.
And God separated the One from the Zero; and he saw it was
good.
3. And God said - Let the Data be; And so it happened.
And God said […]
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I don’t know what motivates people to do something this stupid…
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A new moon has been discovered orbiting Saturn, which brings the number of satellites known to be spinning around the ringed giant to an impressive 60. The discovery was made by the Cassini Imaging Team studying images taken by the Cassini spacecraft back in May this year.
The moon has not been officially named as yet […]
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Google has decided that it’s cookies will automatically delete themselves after two years of inactivity. The cookies, which are used to save preference data, such as language, layout and search queries are currently set to delete after 2038.
So if a user visits a Google website, a cookie will be stored on their computer and will […]
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“…we deeply regret that a backup of the internet does not exist at this time.”
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The world’s tallest man met up with the world’s shortest last week. The meeting between Bao Xishun, who is a massive 2.36 meters (7.9 feet) tall, and He Pingping, a tiny 73 centimeters (2.4 feet) short, took place in Baotou, China.
In 2006 Bao Xishun used his 1.06 meter long arms to remove shards of plastic […]
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Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer space telescope have detected water vapour in the atmosphere of extrasolar planet HD 189733b. The planet is far from being habitable though with an average temperature of about 1000 degrees Kelvin, however the discovery has led scientists to believe that water is more common out there in the Universe than was […]
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This giant pink bunny is another of the countless bizarre oddities visible using Google Earth/Maps, it is in Prata Nevoso, Italy and it’s a whopping 200 feet long.
Google Maps Link
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The Bradshaw Foundation have a fantastic animation which depicts the migration of humans over the past 160,000 years.
It is the result of work by scientist Stephen Oppenheimer and is based on mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome evidence, archaeology, climatology, and fossil study and tracks the routes and timing of our migration out of Africa and around […]
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It may or may not be the answer to life, the Universe and everything, but coincidentally 42 is the mass of our galaxy, 3 x 10 to the power of 42 kilograms to be more precise.
The mass of the Milky Way Galaxy was determined by an international team of scientists and presented this week at […]
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This image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on top of it’s 747 carrier was captured by NASA’s Carla Thomas at Edwards Air Force Base on July 1, 2007.
NASA has 2 modified 747 jumbo jets which are used as carriers to return shuttles from landing sites back to the launch complex at Kennedy Space Center.
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