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We recently wrote about bombs on a sunken ship near Londonthat could blowany time. Now an officer whose plane crashed in 1958 haslocated the lost hydrogen bomb that was aboard?it’s off thecoast of Savannah, Georgia.

Good Morning American reports that when Air Force lieutenantcolonel Derek Duke had to crash land his B-47 at Hunter AirForce Base in Georgia, he first jettisoned the nuclear bombit was carrying into the Atlantic Ocean. After searching fornine weeks, the Air Force declared the bomb “irretrievablylost,” but Duke never stopped looking for it?and now he’sfound it.
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Some relatively simple problems may stop us from evercolonizing Mars. One of them is jet lag. Another is litter.

Our bodies are used to a 24-hour cycle, and a day on Mars isan extra 39 minutes long, which could make it difficult forhumans to adapt. In bbcnews.com, Peter Wood quotesresearcher Russell Foster as saying, “The human body is usedto a 24-hour cycle, which may prove difficult to regulate inspace?[Our] circadian rhythm is crucial. It stops everythinghappening at once and co-ordinates the right things tohappen at the right time.”

The average human body clock has a period of 24 hours and 11minutes, which is corrected each day by the onset of dawnand dusk. The light levels in space are too low to reset thebody clock, leading to sleep disruptions.
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Ham radio operators across the western U.S. and Canada havebeen picking up amysterioussignal coming from an area near Sedona, Arizona. One of ourreaders has discovered amysteriousranch near Prescott, Arizona, where secret militarymaneuvers seem to be taking place, which HAS AN FCC LICENSETO BROADCAST in the 451 mhz. range. To hear the signalyourself, click “Dreamland” on our masthead and scroll downto “Mystery Signal.”

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Sleep researchers now think that dreams are produced in graymatter that’s deep in the back of the brain. Scientistsstudying a woman who lost her ability to dream after astroke in that area are trying to discover if dreams haveany meaning.
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