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Dali, Senicitas, 1928

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Civil War #4

A death! A funeral! A betrayal! And a team reborn as the war takes a deadly turn!

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World's Smallest Monkey's!

From Reuters: "A rare newborn albino Pygmy Marmoset monkey perches on a zookeeper's thumb at Froso Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden August 22, 2006. The Pygmy Marmoset, which lives in the upper Amazon basin in South America, is the world's smallest monkey and reaches 35 cm ( 13.7 inches) in length and weighs up to 100 grams (3.5 ounces) at maturity."

Return to Cydonia

Last week, the Mars Express project released new images of the Cydonia region on Mars. Notice the mesa in the far lower right section. This mesa, when lit from just the right sun angle, can appear similar to a human face and became famous as the Face on Mars in 1976.







Here is a close up:














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Muse - "Blackholes & Revelations"...apocalyptic, powerful, anthemic, massive...

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UNCANNY X-MEN # 478

“The Rise and Fall of the Shi’Ar Empire” continues.
Prof. X and his new team find themselves between a hunk of space junk and a hard-place, as they search the wreckage of Vulcan’s path of destruction for the secret that will help them get to the Shi’Ar throneworld in time. But Marvel Girl’s presence on the outskirts of Shi’Ar controlled space has not gone unnoticed, and a new enemy with deep ties to her is unleashed! From hot new X-team Ed Brubaker and Billy Tan.

Earthlike planets may be common

Earthlike planets covered with deep oceans that could harbor life may be found in as many as a third of solar systems discovered outside of our own, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
These solar systems feature gas giants known as "Hot Jupiters," which orbit extremely close to their parent stars -- even closer than Mercury to our sun. The close-orbiting gassy planets may help encourage the formations of smaller, rocky, Earthlike planets.
"We now think there is a new class of ocean-covered, and possibly habitable, planets in solar systems unlike our own," Raymond said in a statement.
The team from Colorado, Penn State University and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Maryland ran computer simulations of various types of solar systems forming.
The gas giants may help rocky planets form close to the suns, and may help pull in icy bodies that deliver water to the young planets, they found.
"These gas giants cause quite a ruckus," Raymond said.
Water is key to life as humans define it.
"I think there are definitely habitable planets out there," Raymond said. "But any life on these planets could be very different from ours. There are a lot of evolutionary steps in between the formation of such planets in other systems and the presence of life forms looking back at us."As many as 40 percent of the 200 or so known planets around other stars are Hot Jupiters, the researchers said. (Source)

Green Aurora

Check out this amazing green aurora over Lake Superior: