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Friday, March 15, 2024

Elon Musk's Tesla once represented the future of automaking. Now the company's own future is in question. read more


Gov. Kristi Noem is facing legal action after her latest endorsement caused an online furor that now risks taking a bite out of her standing in South Dakota at a time when she's rumored to be among the front-runners on Donald Trump's vice presidential shortlist. read more


Friday, February 16, 2024

Wary airline passengers already on guard for unruly passengers and even real-life snakes on planes might have one more thing " however improbable " to add their slate of possible in-flight disruptions. And it's an icky one: Maggots. Yep, those creepy creatures that thrive on fetid foods and waste have joined the pantheon of things that can cause a flight to change course and ruin travel plans. On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines Flight 133 departed Amsterdam, Netherlands, bound for Detroit, Michigan. But one hour into the flight, the Airbus A330-300 had to turn back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after maggots reportedly fell onto a passenger from an overhead bin


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"The universe didn't exist a hundred years ago."

#5 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

It's true. We thought there was only our galaxy until Edwin Hubble figured it out.

www.esa.int

"In October 1923, using the Hooker telescope, Hubble spotted what he first thought was a nova star flaring up dramatically in the Andromeda 'nebula'. After careful examination of photographic plates of the same area taken previously by other astronomers, he realised that it was a particular kind of variable star, known as a Cepheid, which could be used to measure distance.

It showed Hubble that Andromeda was far away " a million light-years at least " and so was outside the Milky Way. Thus it was a galaxy in its own right, containing billions of stars.

This discovery was a breakthrough, but Hubble's greatest moment was yet to come. He began to study and classify all the known nebulae. In 1929 he made a startling find: most galaxies seemed to be receding from us with velocities that increased in proportion to their distance from us. This relationship is now known as Hubble's Law."

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