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Name the New Super Earth | Wired.com
"Astronomers have spotted the most Earth-like planet to date, a massive ocean world that probably has an atmosphere and — though it’s highly unlikely — may support life. And it needs a better name."
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The Top 10 Spaceships: A Tale of Thrusters and Heat Shields – Techland – TIME.com
"What are the very best spaceships that have ever been dreamt up and designed to star at the center a sci-fi spectacle?"
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6 Minutes Of Proof That Cloudy Is This Year’s Most Underrated Film – Cloudy With Meatballs – io9
"Now the movie's entire intro is online and we can finally show you all just how this exceedingly clever and heartfelt picture won us over."
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First Global Map of Mercury | Wired Science
"The first ever global map of Mercury was released here Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting."
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Connected – Short Film
"Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive."
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Stay in the Game: The Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin
"Celebrities tend to be endlessly, tediously positive: Every day is a Gift, every project a Personal Best, and every costar a Genius. Alec Baldwin is not afflicted with this syndrome. At 51, he’s a failure, self-described. He’s also at the peak of his career, a peak he reached by scaling a K2 of catastrophe, personal and professional."
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Finally: Video Of Motoman Playing With Legos | BotJunkie
"I’ve been hoping for a video of Motoman playing with LEGOs ever since"
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5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2009 | FlowingData
"With all the new projects this year, it was hard to filter down to the best, but here they are: two honorable mentions and the five best data visualization projects of 2009. Visualizations were chosen based on analysis, aesthetics, and most importantly, how well they told their story"
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The physics of space battles | Futurismic
"Well, Joseph Shoer’s the man to ask! He’s an aerospace engineer and physicist, and he recently wrote a post running through the main considerations of realistic space combat – everything from the difference between engagements in orbit and engagements in “deep space”, to why kinetic weapons are more efficient than explosive payloads, and plenty more in between."
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Solar System Scale Model
"This page shows a scale model of the solar system, shrunken down to the point where the Sun, normally more than eight hundred thousand miles across, is the size you see it here."
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The Eccentric Brilliance of Stan Mott
"Mind-bending images and ideas from a fabulous cartoonist and a superb illustrator"