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2008 May 23

Queen Elizabeth Buys World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine

ABERDEEN, Scotland, May 22, 2008 (ENS) - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is investing in the world’s largest offshore wind turbine and also in the development of offshore windfarms in Scottish waters, her property company The Crown Estate announced on Wednesday.
On April 17, The Crown Estate signed an agreement to purchase a prototype of the world’s largest [...]

Earth may once have had three moons

Until now, the accepted view had been that our anomalously large Moon had always been a lone wolf. It is believed to have formed some 4.4 billion years ago in the aftermath of a chance encounter between a Mars-sized planetary embryo and our early Earth.
But the paper’s co-authors, planetary scientists Jack Lissauer, at NASA Ames [...]

Geek Goddess: NYU Student Invents Virtual Girlfriend

She’s perfectly quiet, but once you sit or lie down, she responds to
your every move. Lie on your back, she snuggles up right next to you in
a log position. Curl up in the fetal position, she spoons. The only
hitch: She’s 2-D. “Yeah, you can’t feel the girl. That’s the thing,”
Burrows explained.
When asked how long he’d [...]

Today’s Rant

What drives me up the latest tree is the incredibly egoistic idea that I might want to listen to your choice of badly-transmitted “music” while your bloody mobile phone rings. It’s bad enough I have to listen to the stupid robot if you don’t pick up. Why should I have to listen to some bullshit [...]

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