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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, December 27, 2010

27 December - Miscellaney

Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson, STS-114 mission...Image via Wikipedia

NASA's Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay $500 million more for it

hanks to congressional inaction, NASA must continue to fund its defunct Ares I rocket program until March — a requirement that will cost the agency nearly $500 million at a time when NASA is struggling with the expensive task of replacing the space shuttle.

About one-third that money — $165 million — will go to Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, which has a $2 billion contract to build the solid-rocket first stage for the Ares I, the rocket that was supposed to fill the shuttle's role of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station.


98.6 Trades Metabolic Cost For Fungal Protection

A new study finds that we and many other mammals keep up such a torrid temp because it’s a Goldilocks
situation—98.6 is just right. Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers previously showed that every one degree Celsius rise in body temperature wards off about 6 percent more fungal species. So tens of thousands of fungi can infect reptiles and amphibians, but we can only be invaded by a few hundred fungi.



 Argentine Air Force announces committee to study UFO phenomenon



The plight of the high school homeless

Fairfax, one of only two counties in the nation with median household incomes above $100,000, counts nearly 2,000 homeless students in its school division - about 200 of whom are, like Brewer, "unaccompanied." The latter figure is twice what the comparable figure was two years ago, a surge reflected nationally as the faltering economy has undermined many families.
For the first time since the Education Department started counting earlier this decade, there are nearly a million homeless students in the United States, according to government statistics. Most drift with their families among motels, shelters and relatives' homes. But experts say a growing fraction are completely on their own.

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