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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34638603

 

Venus, Jupiter and Mars can all be seen together in the sky this week, in a rare grouping of the three planets.

 

The planetary conjunction - in which planets "line up" due to the timing of their orbits around the Sun - has been visible for days and will continue until at least the end of the week.

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In other science news, red meat gives you cancer and hot dogs contain small amounts of human DNA. Also 10% of veg hot dogs contain meat. Suckers.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/health/vegetarian-hot-dogs-contain-meat-clear-foods-feat/

 

Also 33% of vegetarians eat meat if they're drunk.

http://greatideas.people.com/2015/10/09/vegetarians-eat-meat-drunk-study/

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Doomsday Clock stays at three minutes to midnight

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/doomsday-clock-feat/index.html?sr=fbCNN012616doomsday-clock-feat1157PMVODtopLink&linkId=20697018

 

"The Doomsday Clock stands unchanged at three minutes to midnight.

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which oversees the clock -- a metaphor of how close humanity is to destroying the planet -- left the hands in place from last year, which is the closest it has been to midnight since the Cold War"

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Also 33% of vegetarians eat meat if they're drunk.

 

In hull 90%of females eat meat when drunk!!

 

 

Do the other 10% eat fish?

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Rapper B.o.B. Claims That Earth Is Flat

 

 

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/neil-degrasse-tyson-has-online-rap-battle-flat-earth-rapper-bob-0

 

B.o.B, a 27-year-old American rapper, has gained Internet notoriety with his recent tweets about the flat Earth theory. He tweeted numerous times about how the horizon never appears to be curved. He also frequently refers to the idea that if Earth was spherical, then the buildings on the horizon should be out of sight, as they’d curve around with the Earth.

 

He also attacked NASA as being "the edge of the world gatekeepers for over 50 years,” claiming all of their images of Earth are actually photoshopped. His Twitter account also features talk of human cloning factories, although that’s another issue.

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson has gotten into a Twitter feud with rapper B.o.B, which peaked yesterday with both releasing "diss tracks" aimed at each other. B.o.B.’s quick rebuttal came in the form of a diss track – a three-and-a-half minute rap aimed at Tyson called “Flatline.”

 

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NASA's Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered

 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered

 

NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date.

 

“This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth.”

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I'm reading this crazy article about Movile Cave which was discovered 30 years ago after being completely isolated for at least 2 million years. Fucking mental. 45 identified species, 33 of which are not found anywhere else in the world. Really good read.

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-living-in-romanias-poison-cave

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Nasa's Juno probe captures dramatic first close-up images of Jupiter

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/25/nasas-juno-probe-captures-dramatic-first-close-up-images-of-jupiter

 

The first close-up observations from Nasa’s Juno spacecraft have captured towering clouds, swirling cyclones and dramatic flows of ammonia that drive giant weather systems on the largest planet in the solar system.

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