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Twin Falls Residents Can Now Apply For A One Way Trip To Mars
May 1, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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Catch The Lyrid Meteor Shower Tonight
April 21, 2013 With partly cloudy skies and an overnight low of 40, we could have a great night for meteor watching. The Lyrid Meteor Shower promises 10 to 20 meteors an hour with incredible surges of up to 100.
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Stephen Hawking Says Mankind Can’t Survive on Earth More Than Another 1,000 Years
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says the human race is doomed, unless we figure out how to leave Earth behind in the next 1,000 years.
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Scientists Say Life Is Possible on Jupiter’s Europa Moon
Scientists believe that the key to discovering extraterrestrial life could lie deep in the festering, underground oceans of Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. New research suggests that if the salt water ocean beneath the surface of the frigid moon ever makes it's way to the surface, creating an intergalactic petri dish capable of producing a life-promoting environment.
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Football Field-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Weekend
A giant asteroid the size of a football field is scheduled to pass through Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend. Scientists say that the 330-foot-wide fiery rock will miss striking the Earth’s surface by nearly 600,000 miles - about three times the distance between our planet and the moon.
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Reminder: Catch A Glimpse of Comet Pan-STARRS Starting Tonight
March 7, 2013 Although it looks as though the weather isn't going to cooperate, Comet Pan-STARRS should become visible tonight shortly after sunset. Hopefully Magic Valley residents won't miss this amazing astronomical event.
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Watch This Giant Real-Life Robot Dog Fling Cinderblocks Across the Room
The mad scientists over at Boston Dynamics have created a four-legged dog-like robot they call BigDog robot.
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Millionaire Plans First Manned Mission to Mars for 2018
An entrepreneur with more money than God has decided that he wants to be one of the first men to complete a mission to mars. And while this space crusader with deep pockets may have the cash flow to pull of such an ambitious undertaking, some believe that he may have spread himself too thin by announcing plans to get his journey underway by 2018.
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Crater From World’s Third Largest Asteroid Found In Australia
After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.
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Scientists Discover Green Jelly After Meteor Hits Russia
Just days after a fiery meteor came crashing down on central Russia, scientists say they have now discovered a mysterious green jelly that may be some sort of space residue or “astral jelly,” a substance commonly associated with meteor showers.
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The 10 Deadliest Animals on Earth
Man is widely considered to be the deadliest animal on the planet, mostly because it's hard to match the killing power of our guns and nuclear bombs. Even so, there are plenty of lethal predators out there that are more than willing to take us on and, if fortune favors these creates in battle, rip a chunk out of our flesh, or even end our lives.
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Here’s Proof That You Shouldn’t Go To Work Sick
February 5, 2013 It is the flu season and the virus is running rampant through the Magic Valley and beyond. Honestly - we are always looking for excuses not to go to work and then when we get sick, which is the ultimate excuse, what do we do? We go to work?!