WASP-12b has broken all previous records related to how hot, fast or close to a star a planet can be.As large as 1.8 times the size of Jupiter, the newly-discovered planet, WASP-12b, spins around its star from 1/40 the distance between the Earth and the Sun, completing a full cycle in little over one day, which makes... |
15 October 2008
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1. World's largest desert is Sahara, covering most of northern Africa, from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean coasts to the outskirts of the Atlantic ocean. Sahara has an intermittent history of 3 million years. Erratic dunes (called ergs) can vary in height with 180 m (160 ft). The ergs may be punctuated by rug... |
11 March 2008
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If the universe were to operate by abstract rules, one of these rules would be that everything changes. I know, there's enough irony in that to put us all off trying to figure out the meaning of life for, I don't know... about a hundred years? Well, yes, everything changes - some would call that the greates... |
16 January 2008
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The beginning of 2008 couldn't ever get better! Really, now, we can all go to sleep and wait. Because the God of Gaming, in this particular case - Blizzard, has listened to our prayers and decided to show some sympathy towards us, the mortal gamers (according to some digging made by hardgame2.com). And what pray... |
4 January 2008
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Don't worry, nobody has ever heard about this game, and that really doesn't mean anything since we will be able to compensate the "loss" with such a nice and hot figure. The girl you are looking at is Changpo, one of the characters from the Senko no Ronde game (an arcade Xbox 360 game) and, as you can see f... |
28 December 2007
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They can send you to hell and maybe back (we don't know for sure…), but it's hard to imagine modern Latin American cuisine without chili peppers. But also the Hungarian or other cuisines for that matter. Chili peppers (Capsicum species) originated in South America. They were cultivated and traded in the Ame... |
6 December 2007
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Undersea hydrothermal vents can be the most ancient ecosystems on Earth. They may have existed ever since the beginning of life on Earth and before the emergence of photosynthesis. The food chains of the hot vents are not based on solar light but on the chemical energy stored by sulphur metabolizing bacteria, which a... |
18 May 2007
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