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• Don't rule out life on those 'dead stars' just yet

  Fri Mar 25, 2011
  • Planets in white-dwarf habitable zones would be tidally locked to the star because the tidal forces are about ~1,000,000 times stronger than what Earth experiences from the Sun, thus tidal braking would happen rapidly. Too close to the star and the planet breaks up from the tidal forces.

• Stephanie Seymour smooches son: Oedipal or adorable?

  Wed Jan 12, 2011
  • The sick ones are the Paparazzi taking the photos!

• Would alien life change your life?

  Mon Jan 10, 2011
  • As SETI researcher Chris Boyce pointed out, just before he died in 1999, if ETIs exist, then they're probably millions of years ahead of us. If so, then they may well have technologies so unobtrusive that we wouldn't know we were being studied.

• Floods enter Brisbane, 20,000 in danger

  Mon Jan 10, 2011
  • I think they mean Brisbane... which will be flooded along the Brisbane River from the Wivenhoe Dam releases. There's several riverside suburbs endangered, but the Dam had no choice - they're filled to over 140% capacity as it is.

• Hits and misses in five-tech forecast

  Thu Dec 30, 2010
  • Big Changes in 5 years? Nah. But surprising no doubt. As for prognostications of doom... they've been made since time immemorial. Sometimes they're right, most times they're wrong or somewhere in between.

• Earth’s timeline

  Tue Nov 3, 2009
  • The Timeline is really out of date guys. As the first comment notes: where's the Ediacaran, for starters. Also the accepted dates have been revised for the Era boundaries: Palaeozoic began at 542 mya, not 570 mya, and ended at 251 mya, not 240.

• Dinosaur predecessor unearthed in Texas

  Sun Dec 12, 2010
  • Jock, either you're trying for parody or you're sincere. Either way you haven't read the news piece. No one says Dimetrodon was "transitional", just related.

• Dinosaur predecessor unearthed in Texas

  Sun Dec 12, 2010
  • Go dig on a fossil site and see how hard they really work!

• Dinosaur predecessor unearthed in Texas

  Sun Dec 12, 2010
  • Dimetrodon wasn't a transitional, just closely related to the main line. As the article says, it was a distant cousin of mammals.

• Dinosaur predecessor unearthed in Texas

  Sun Dec 12, 2010
  • You're trying too hard to sound like the real thing.