Backward drawings may have doomed Genesis
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The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of the sun may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said Friday.
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In landscape drawing, lines are usually representations of the contours of the observed world. But a line that the artist Eve S. Mosher began drawing last month is striving for a different kind of effect.
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The rectilinear glass box has become a relic of the predigital past.
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Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.
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A board investigating the crash of NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft found that the design for a key system was drawn backward, resulting in improper orientation of switches that were
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Tycho: Two new shirts today. One based on the Broodax Strips, which can be found here, and looks like this:   And another shirt based on the control scheme for Starfire Saga V: Laserion, which can be found here, and looks like this:   (CW)TB
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A board investigating the crash of NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft has found the design for a key system was drawn backward. The result: improper orientation of switches that were supposed to detect its entry into
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New masters of the universe--or creators of too much leverage?
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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Tycho:  Today's comic is based on a story we saw at Kotaku, but when I went over there to verify the link the story had been removed altogether.  For those of you playing along at home, what that means is that Kotaku
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Washington - The Genesis space probe, consigned to an ignominious end by a failed parachute, risks tarnishing Nasa&#39;s image as the agency seeks to restart its space shuttle programme after the Columbia shuttle disaster.
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A study challenges a theory that abrupt and catastrophic climate change extinguished the last Neanderthals.
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Tycho:   It has become the Saturday tradition to do the next strip upon the expo's stark and terrifying stage, but since Armadeaddon needed its proper epilogue it got moved out to Wednesday.  Gabe was highly indulgent of audience suggestions in the final version, far more than he is to me, adding many, many things based on them being called out from the microphone - he has a version with more additions still that he'll be putting up later today.  But there are things in there like the blue ball in the last panel - to say nothing of the official "Hot-Dog Fairy" merchandise! - that began as anecdotes and have now graduated to true PAX lore.
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Tad Walch reported that the "Six-Day War" altered history. It certainly did. If the Arabs had won, I think they would have not given any land back. And, probably, Israel would no longer exist.  J. B. Penrose  Bountiful  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter are suggesting that the evolution of the early Universe was much slower than previously thought.
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Tycho:  Gabe keeps coming into the Goddamn office with his Goddamn tales of high adventure, telling me about how there's tokens or some shit in Burning Crusade now, or maybe tiers, and other words I had scoured from my consciousness.  He also says there is hot new five-man content, which initially sounded like pornography.  The comic is correct - I purchased it in a moment of weakness.  As I must often approach you, the cherished reader, to apologize for this or that indiscretion, it may be more appropriate to say that I have moments of strength which are suspended in cowardice and moral decay.
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Two anthropologists are proposing a new explanation for the demise of the Neanderthals that hinges on the fact that they didnÂt divide the labor.