Tag: baffled
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BBC Reports Possible Story
The BBC reported a potentially riveting story, last week, of conceivably universal importance. Dr. Francois Fressin, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center, advised that astronomers have detected the first Earth-sized planets, which are orbiting a star similar to our own Sun. In the distant past they may have been able to support life and one of them may have had…
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Arsenic: The Building Block of Life
Remember when the Earth was only two billion years old and then a few years later it was four billion years old? Well, this is weirder still. Astrobiologists have found a microbe that utilizes arsenic in some functions that were thought to only run on phosphorus. I’m super cereal!! Phosphorus is essential to the manufacture…
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Those Darned Aliens
Just when you thought the nation was safe from alien aggression, Federal officials have uncovered a threat so heinous, it could only be termed a “concern”. Earlier this week, INS Agents discovered what appears to be a terrrestrially based interstellar gateway in a dried up river bed near the coastal city of San Diego, CA.…
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Scientists’ Strange Behavior Baffles Sun
Scientists became overly excited about sun flares earlier this week, prompting a nearby star to make a rare public appearance. “They’re certainly an excitable lot,” the Sun told Katie Kouric Wednesday on the CBS Evening News. “I can’t even emit a class-C flare without everybody pointing their telescopes at me.” Scientists assert that the recent…