You heard me. The moon is slowly leaving earth’s orbit and at the same time is slowing down. Not to worry though, it’s only moving away at 3.8 cm per year (about 1.5 inches), or about 0.000,000,01% per year. For the full story and more astronomical tidbits, check out Curious About Astronomy.
So now that I have my brand spanking new PC (and managed to install Vista after several days of torture), I decided to install Windows Live Messenger. Like it or no, you can’t pick what your friends use…
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Mankind is faced with extinction as it sits idly while bears are taking over the world! Soon earth will be the planet of the apes! Err… Planet of the Bears!
A thought occured to me that I might add a plant to my room to ensure I have plenty of oxygen. The door to my room is often closed so I have no doubt that this would help - perhaps a lot, perhaps a little. Since I wanted to find out which plant(s) might be best for such a thing, I figured I’d browse the internet a bit. Perhaps I should have tried Wikipedia first (although, looking at these search results, I might have been there a while), but as an old habit I started my search in Google.
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First of all, here’s what I mean by hive in this document (X is my own interpretation - for this post only):
1. a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
2. the colony of bees inhabiting a hive.
4. a place swarming with busy occupants: a hive of industry.
X. Any group of insects bound together in one ‘pack’, serving under a queen.
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