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    By Posted on 1.21.2009 135 Comments

    Leave a comment (any comment) for a chance to win a pack of Advanced Lithium batteries from Energizer. 20 lucky winners will be chosen randomly on January 31, 2009.

    1.20.2009 at 03:53pm - Comment by sklib

    i like batteries! :P

  • Technology

    Is There Ice On Mars? Apparently So

    By Posted on 6.20.2008 22 Comments

    NASA spent $420 million to send the Phoenix Lander to Mars last year. Festooned with state-of-the-art detection equipment, the rover's task was to scour the red surface in search of elusive Martian ice. And today, the NASA mission finally did uncover some extraterrestrial frost, and it did it with its simplest tool, a shovel.

    6.22.2008 at 02:12pm - Comment by sklib

    Water is the source of life, essentially. The human body is made up of mostly H2O, as are almost all forms of life. If this weren't the case... we'd all pretty much be a pile of dust or a rock :P



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