In March, astronomers spotted the brightest gamma-ray burst they’d ever seen. It had detonated from halfway across the universe but was so bright it was visible to the naked eye. What made it so dazzling? It turns out it was a sort of cosmic death ray – when a massive star in the distant universe died, it shot out a high-speed jet of particles straight at Earth. It’s a good thing the star lay safely 7.5 billion light years away – GRBs within 6500 light years of Earth could produce enough radiation to strip away the ozone layer and cause a mass, or even total, extinction – a terrifying prospect indeed.
Saturn’s moon Mimas looks for all the world like the Death Star – the planet-destroying space station from the movie Star Wars – in this Cassini image taken in 2005. The giant crater at the centre of the image, called Herschel, was probably gouged out by an enormous asteroid impact. If the asteroid had been any bigger or had been moving much faster, it probably would have split the moon in two. (Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
Are We In For A Second Civil War?… I’ve Seen Hundreds Of Videos Like This… There’s Real Anger And Hatred Out There… Some Of These People Are Gonna Go Ballistic If Obama Wins… And I Suspect Some Of Them Will Want To Do Something About It.
It Only Takes One Lucky Nut To Start A Conflagration… At The very Least… How Difficult Will It Be For Any Kind Of Reconciliation After The Election?… This Is Why I’m So Disappointed When I Don’t Hear The Candidates Telling People To Cool It…
BUT THE REALLY SCARY THING IS THAT I’M SURE A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ARE MUCH BETTER ARMED THAN I AM.
• You stinking flea-bitten ass muncher.
• You toilet-bowl licking pus hole.
• You smell like a moldy gym sock.
• She’s illiterate with egg salad for brains.
• You’re a vindictive rancid worm who humps the dog.
So many people I speak and correspond with these days are filled with a sense of foreboding… I wonder whether or not the next few months will see something that we’ll look back at and wonder how we made it through…
While the world’s attention has been focused on rescuing investment banks and stock markets from collapse, the global food crisis has worsened, a casualty of the growing financial tumult.
As shock waves from the credit crisis began to spread around the world last month, China scrambled to protect itself. Among the most extreme measures it took was to impose new export taxes to keep critical supplies such as grains and fertilizer from leaving the country.
Oxfam, the Britain-based aid group, estimates that economic chaos this year has pulled the incomes of an additional 119 million people below the poverty line. Richer countries from the United States to the Persian Gulf are busy helping themselves and have been slow to lend a hand.
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