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And WHY – In their unending search for extraterrestrial life, astronomers have discovered a new way to search for planets as small as the Earth that are in orbit around distant stars.

PhysOrg.com reports that this is something called Transit Timing Variation (TTV). Transits take place where a planet moves in front of the star it orbits, temporarily blocking some of the light from the star.

Meanwhile, scientists are trying to create THEIR OWN star. At a government lab are planning to use a laser the size of 3 football fields to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will create a star on the surface of the Earth. If it works, they’ll be able to solve the global energy crisis by using the energy generated by the mini-star.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “A while ago, I wrote a diary about how a marriage between a Lefty and a Righty works, on the theory that this is a metaphor for ALL marriages. Now I want to talk about temperature.”

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Are they out of luck? – One reason we’re all so concerned about the BP oil spill is that humans have been subsisting on fish for a very long time. Archeologists working in Kenya unearthed evidence that our human ancestors ate a wide variety of fish, which is aquatic “brain food” that may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain two million years ago. And shellfish saved early Americans as well: A study of discarded oyster shells reveals the way that the first British colonists survived an unusually severe drought.
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A group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is talking about solving the climate change problem by injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Is it safe to put such a big project into the hands of Big Business? We can’t forget what happened the last time we did this.

This kind of geoengineering is attractive because it’s much easier (and cheaper) than cutting CO2 emissions, as well as being more appealing to voters, who will no longer be urged to make lifestyle changes). Russia, with its history of defacto dictatorship, has already begun testing sulfur dioxide injections by spraying them from a helicopter.
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