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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Hey, all you Sci-Fi buffs!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

If nothing can travel faster than light, why can heroes always dodge the laser beams? Wouldn’t they be be dead before they even saw them?

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Please enter your postal code to calculate your rights…

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

What part of “all men are created equal… with certain unalienable Rights” means “except if you’re not American, than my Laberdoodle has more unalienable rights than you”?

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What do we do as Hubble dies?

Monday, September 28, 2009

In 1998, during my teenage astronomy obsession, I wrote a paper on space telescopes. Interestingly enough, it seems at that point Hubble was scheduled to retire in 2005. The ol’ girl is still trucking over four years later, though she has seen her last maintenance mission and now just waits the inevitable death. So, I [...]

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Oscar predictions about unreleased movies amuse me

Sunday, September 27, 2009

I discovered something while working a temp job at a public relations firm in Beverly Hills. There’s a large group of bloggers who start making predictions about who’ll win the next year’s Oscars as early as the April before! I researched in August who they were predicting would win best supporting actor. The favorite? Seemed [...]

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