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Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't want 'larger people' shopping in its stores

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The Public Internet Turns 20!

April 30, 2013:

The World Wide Web turns 20 today. In one more year it can have a drink. Until then, let’s raise a toast to Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1989 developed the technology that enabled collaboration between scientists around the world. One April 30, 1993, the European science agency CERN, where Berners-Lee worked, made the first web browser public domain. “I was lucky enough to invent the Web at the time when the Internet already existed,” said Berners-Lee. The first website is still online. The Internet, a network of interconnected computing devices, was first created with financing by the U.S. government.

A government panel is encouraging Facebook and Google to intercept online communications in real time, reports The Washington Post. A government task force proposes fining the Internet giants that fail to heed wiretap orders. Both companies have been “resistant” to providing the info, the article says, probably because it would add massive cost to their operations. The fines would start at “tens of thousands” of dollars and double daily after 90 days. Smaller companies, for some reason, are exempt from the fines.

You think the weather in Georgia can be bad? NASA recently released images of a “hurricane” on Saturn that has an eye (1,250 miles across) larger than the Earth’s biggest storms (Sandy was about 1,000 miles in diameter). Winds from the “Red Rose” of Saturn reach speeds of 330 miles per hour, four times faster than most Earthly hurricanes, says NASA. Unlike storms here, the one on Saturn does not move — it has been hovering over the planet’s north pole for years, scientists believe.

The first private, rocket-powered spaceship took flight Monday. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fired its engines during a test flight in California’s Mojave Air and Spaceport. The ship, carried aloft by an airplane, fired its engines for 16 seconds and reached an altitude of 56,000 feet and a speed of 761 mph (Mach 1.2) before safely landing. It was the vehicle’s first self-powered flight. Virgin Galactic’s goal is to carry space tourists to the edge of space for $200,000.

A key, but allegedly dead, witness in a 20-year-old Georgia murder case is alive and well say the cops who arrested him for child molestation. Dale Lee Higgenbottom, who was 15 years old when baby Christopher Breazeale was killed in 1992, was allegedly romantically involved with the child’s mom, reports the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Prosecutors said they dropped the murder case against accused baby killer Dale Lee Higgenbottom because the father of the baby, Hugh Lonnie Breazeale, was dead. The district attorney said he never asked for a death certificate confirming the death of Breazeale, arrested Thursday in Catoosa County after three underage girls said he had molested them.

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Owners use their dog to sell apartment (6 pics)

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SICK BREAKDANCER IN UTAH

Just trying to show that Utah has more than Mormons! :)

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Happy Perihelion Earthlings!!!

When the New Year brought in the year 2013, our planet Earth was very close to its... more

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Pacific Rim Official Trailer

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Curiosity Rover Makes Historic Discovery on Mars

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Fifth Moon Discovered Around Pluto

A fifth moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto has turned up in new Hubble Space Telescope images. Planetary scientists say the newfound moon serves as yet another reminder of how little we really know about this remote, chaotic world.

"Every time we look harder, we find new stuff," said Alan Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and a member of the moon's discovery team. In recent decades, he and his colleagues have identified signs of an atmosphere on the dwarf planet, as well as polar caps, a high albedo (highly reflective surface), and of course, a growing collection of moons.

But in-depth investigation of Pluto has proven tremendously difficult from 3 billion miles away. The best images we have of the icy world come from the Hubble Telescope, but to the untrained eye, they're not much to behold. At a slim 1,429 miles wide — roughly the distance from Maine to the tip of Florida — Pluto will likely remain a dim blur until NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrives there in July 2015.

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For one thing, the dwarf planet could possess a set of everyone's favorite cosmic accessories. "It's a very distinct possibility and the theoretical arguments are very strong that Pluto has rings that come and go with time," Stern told Life's Little Mysteries.

Space rocks and other debris litter the Kuiper belt, where Pluto resides, and they probably pepper the icy world and its moons. "The moons are being hit all the time, and the ejecta [collision debris] escapes, making a ring," Stern said. "And then radiation and gravity depletes the ring through erosion."

Computer models of this cycle suggest that all the dwarf planet's rings sometimes get eroded before a new one forms. "When you model that on a computer there is randomness to [the spacing of the collision events], and so the rings come and go according to these models," he said.

Beneath those fleeting rings, and beneath Pluto's thin, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, it's anyone's guess how the surface will appear when viewed up close. In Hubble images, the dwarf planet's mottled façade varies between extremes of charcoal black, dark orange and white. What materials compose these assorted regions? And do they give rise to cold-liquid-spewing cryovolcanoes or geysers? The surface's geochemistry might even hint at a giant underground ocean. [The True Stories of 5 Mystery Planets]

More data is also needed to clarify how Pluto wound up in its frigid Kuiper belt domain. Astronomers think it and its neighbors formed from the same disk of material around the sun that coalesced into the other major bodies in the solar system. But at some point early on, a planetary collision probably sent Pluto ricocheting far beyond the rest, forever to carry the mark of this fateful encounter in the form of its strange, oval path around the sun, which lies off the plane of the other planetary orbits.

Considering all the mysteries that remain, Pluto's newfound moon almost definitely won't be the last of its surprises. "When New Horizons gets there, I think it's going to knock our socks off," Stern said. "It's going to be a whole new world."

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0716/Fifth-moon-discovery-reminds-us-how-little-we-know-about-PlutoA fifth moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto has turned up in new Hubble Space... more