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learnteach ([personal profile] learnteach) wrote2009-09-25 02:11 am

News from the world...

There's water on the moon. And soon, NASA will drop a rock (et) to look for more:



LCROSS is orbiting the moon, carrying the upper-stage Centaur rocket that sent it into space less than four months ago. On Oct. 9 at 4:30 a.m., the Ames team will send that 2-ton rocket crashing precisely into the target to send up a cloud of dust and debris more than 6 miles high.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/12/MN6519LRQP.DTL#ixzz0S6kOhTRe


Water on the Moon, water on Mars.

G20 summit has had some protests, but has agreed to slightly change the voting percentages for the IMF. This is what the Americans proposed, so it's a big success...??? Interesting.

Strikes in Palo Alto and Berkeley...well, not strikes, walkouts, voluntary furloughs, and marches with sit ins.

Weird.