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Taking a vacation in space is an idea that just won’t go away. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has branched out into selling a great many things other than books. Now he has plans to develop commercial spacecraft that will launch into orbit from a spaceport in the little town of Van Horn in West Texas.

Andrew Buncombe writes in the Independent that, unlike the shuttle-style vehicles being planned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, the amazon craft will launch and land vertically. Bezos hope to send his first group of tourists into space in 2010, two years after the projected start of the Virgin Galactic trips.

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To combat global warming, some Kyoto participants have agreed to plant more trees. But the KIND of trees you plant makes a big difference: Landowners in the South are turning stands of hardwood and natural pine trees into pine plantations because pine is a more lucrative source of lumber. But it turns out that pine trees give off more carbon dioxide than deciduous forests (trees that drop their leaves in the fall).
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If it takes generations to travel to other galaxies, this is something we’ll have to deal with in the future, since one generation will leave the earth and another generation will arrive at the destination. One problem is?weightlessness.

NASA space physician Dr. James Logan says, “Sex in micro-g might be a little underwhelming. That is, the fantasy might be vastly superior to the reality. It?s a pretty messy environment?for every action there?s an equal and opposite reaction.” (We thought sex was always that way). He says that sex in a zero gravity spacecraft will have to be “choreographed”?in other words, planned instead of spontaneous.
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A little over two years ago, we wrote a story about an extraordinary sunscreen that was available abroad but not yet approved by the FDA. It was so much more effective than we what we had that US sunbathers were importing it from Europe. Well, now it is available in the US.

The new sunscreen blocks the type of ultraviolet light that is linked to skin cancer, called UVA radiation. Current sunscreens only block UVB rays, the type of sunlight that causes sunburns.

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You didn’t read this in the your local newspaper, did you? You only read it HERE, where we report on things our own media likes to keep secret. It?s enough to make you believe in sinister forces!
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