Italian judge orders statue to be seized from Getty
An Italian judge ordered the seizure Thursday of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s iconic bronze statue of an athlete, citing “grave negligence” in the museum’s acquisition of the ancient statue in 1977
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NASA Solar Probe Blasts Toward Rendezvous With Sun
coondoggie writes “NASA this morning used a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket to blast its 6,800lb Solar Dynamics Observatory into an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. The $808 million spacecraft will ultimately study the Sun and send back what NASA called a prodigious rush of pictures about sunspots, solar flares and a variety of other never-before-seen solar events.
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Missing George Bush yet? | Richard Adams
George Bush and the mystery billboard of Minnesota. Photograph: Bob Collins/Minnesota Public Radio
Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home trial
People have wondered for years what Google might be up to with all that dark fiber it had bought up around the country. Now, we may have an answer: deliver open-access, fiber-to-the-home Internet service at speeds of 1Gbps.
Pluto’s demotion is a great opportunity for science
I come to both bury Pluto, and to praise it—it being the decision to demote Pluto from the pantheon of planets. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union was faced with a growing collection of small, icy bodies similar in size to Pluto orbiting at the fringes of the solar system. It settled on a new way of defining what constitutes a planet , one that left Pluto and its peers demoted to dwarf status.
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