Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Monday, April 18, 2011

Friday, April 15, 2011

Can your Meat Monster fit in my mouth?

Burger King is releasing a new sandwich, aptly named the "MEAT MONSTER," only in Japan. While the company's press release stresses the "Have It Your Way" mentality, stressing that not all options are required (you can opt for one patty, no chicken, no bacon, etc.), the full sandwich itself looks impressive.

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One Dwarf, Two Dwarf, Red Dwarf, Brown Dwarf

W.I.S.E. telescope provides never-before-seen view of universe
LOGAN — An instrument designed and built in Utah is about to give astronomers, and the general public, an entirely new view of the universe.

NASA has just released more than a million images captured by the W.I.S.E. satellite telescope. W.I.S.E., the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, was born in the Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, part of the Utah State University Research Foundation.
WISE captured more than 2.7 million multi-color images.
"It's basically an atlas to the whole sky, since we've mapped the whole sky," said W.I.S.E. project manager John Elwell.

The satellite telescope was launched by NASA in December, 2009. It captures images using infrared light, a technique that requires the cameras to be kept extremely cold with frozen nitrogen. W.I.S.E. was always intended to have a very short useful life. It operated for only 13 months before the nitrogen warmed up and put the cameras out of commission.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Oh NO! There goes Tokyo!!

Japan Mulls to Move Capital over Disaster Worries

As powerful earthquakes continue to jolt Japan and radiation levels near Tokyo are rising, the Asian country's authorities are considering moving the capital to another city.
The most probable location for a new capital are Osaka and Nagoya, according to ITAR-TASS. Both cities are located near international airports.
The main conditions the new capital has to provide are a population over 50 000 and a sufficient capacity to accommodate the parliament, the government, the Emperor's residency and the foreign diplomatic missions.
According to experts, should a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shake Tokyo, the casualties will be around 11 000, some 210 000 will be injured and the material damage will be worth about USD 1 B

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