Five Colorful Beaches from Around the World

clipped from www.funonthenet.in 5 Interestingly Coloured Beaches Punalu'u Beach Papakolea Beach One of only 2 green sand beaches in the world, the truly magnificent sight of Papakolea Beach can be experienced by travelling to Hawaii's Ka'u district. Again, the unique colour of its sand can be attributed to volcanic activity - specifically, the green hue belongs to the abundance of olivine crystals which have been produced as a result of a nearby cinder cone erupting and eroding. Hyams Beach You may need to wear your shades when visiting Hyams Beach in New South Wales, Australia, but not just due to the sun. It's not surprising after looking at photos but this sublime stretch of beach is home to the whitest sand in the world, an honour awarded by the Guinness Book of Records. Pfeiffer Beach Kaihalulu

Meteorite Contains Building Blocks of Life

The Murchison meteorite contains over 100 extraterrestrial amino acids and the nucleotide bases uracil and xanthine--the building blocks of proteins, DNA and RNA.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org The Murchison meteorite is named after Murchison, Victoria, in Australia. It is one of the most studied meteorites due to its large mass (>100 kg), the fact that it was an observed fall, and it belongs to a group of meteorites rich in organic compounds. CM chondrites, together with the CI group, are rich in carbon and are among the most chemically primitive meteorites in our collections. Like other CM chondrites, Murchison contains abundant CAIs. Over 100 amino acids (some of the basic components of life) have been identified in the meteorite.

Car Size Asteroid Crashes to Earth

It was the first time that scientists recovered fragments from an asteroid detected in space

clipped from www.news.com.au 13 hours warning to meteor impact STUNNED astronomers watched a car-sized asteroid explode into a brilliant meteor shower as it crashed into Earth's atmosphere. They then went to a Sudanese desert to pick up the pieces of the asteroid, for which they had only 13 hours warning of impact. It was the first time that scientists recovered fragments from an asteroid detected in space, according to a study published in the British journal Nature on Wednesday. “Any number of meteorites have been observed as fireballs and smoking meteor trails as they come through the atmosphere,” said co-author Douglas Rumble, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution. “But to actually see this object before it gets to the Earth's atmosphere and then follow it in - that's the unique thing.” 2008 TC3 falls into a category of very rare meteorites - accounting for less than one per cent of objects that hit Earth - called ureilites, all of which may have come from the same parent body, Rumble said.

This Moose Has A Problem...

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China Heading to Moon - With or Without NASA

Zhang, a long-time advocate for closer space ties with the ESA and NASA, acknowledged there are "many political and social differences still dividing us that would have to be overcome" before wider cooperation with the United States could occur.

clipped from en.ce.cn The file photo shows Chinese "taikonauts" in training. China's Shenzhou VII clipped from news.nationalgeographic.com China is counting down toward Friday's launch of its most challenging space mission yet, which is set to include the country's first space walk. The mission furthers an ambitious space program that plans to build a base on the moon—in cooperation with NASA or not. "We intend to send astronauts to the moon and ultimately to build a lunar outpost," said Zhang Qingwei, who was until recently a leader of China's manned space program. Zhang now heads a new corporation that aims to become the Chinese equivalent of the U.S. and French companies, respectively, Boeing and Airbus. Zhang said China would be willing to participate in the international lunar outpost designed by NASA. Astronauts are scheduled to begin building that settlement in 2020. Alternatively, China could assemble its own moon base, he said. clipped from spaceports.blogspot.com Zhai Zhigang, 42, a colonel in the People's Liberation Army, will be the first Chinese taikonaut to walk in space.

Create Your Own 3D Objects

clipped from gizmodo.com Shapeways Allows You to Materialize Any 3D Object, Star Trek Style Imagine being able to create any 3D object you want—a World of Warcraft avatar, a chess set, a lamp, a Lego piece you are missing, a house for a train model, or a fully articulated astromech droid—print it remotely, and have it delivered to your house in just 10 days,

Helpful Pop Song Graphs

Are you sometimes confused by the way statistics and analytical information are misrepresented by emotional pop tunes? Take a look at these helpful infographics for a more scientific look at todays lyrics.

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SIGH7TINGS video magazine

SIGH7INGS features full length UFO and Alien documentaries, movies, tv series and games. Visit today for shocking new evidence you won't see on the news.

clipped from www.sigh7ings.com Welcome to the SIGH7INGS video magazine, the definitive source for informative alien and ufo related documentaries, movies, conferences, sightings and tv series on the net. Our discriminating editors select only the highest quality and most revealing UFO and ET videos to provide you a superior indoctrination…I mean…viewing experience.

Hitchhikers Guide Infocom Game 1984

clipped from www.douglasadams.com History There was a time when computer games didn't have graphics. Or at least they couldn't have graphics and sound at the same time. They certainly couldn't have graphics, sound and enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few minutes. So they had text. This was radical - a computer game you could control by typing in commands. The game would then respond to your commands with a breathtakingly prescient understanding of your intent. Or not. Usually not - the early text parsers (circa 1977) weren't that bright. But, as long as you limited yourself to what the game understood and the game designers wrote creatively enough to misunderstand you in a humorous and entertaining fashion, it all worked So it proved - the Hitchhiker's Guide adventure game was one of the best-selling games of its era, selling some 350,000 copies. In 1984.

Douglas Adams: The Atheist interview

clipped from www.americanatheist.org AMERICAN ATHEISTS: Mr. Adams, you have been described as a “radical Atheist.” Is this accurate? I don’t accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me “Well, you haven’t been there, have you? You haven’t seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid” - then I can’t even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we’d got, and we’ve now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don’t think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is

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Hitchhiker's Guide Movie Reviews

I don't base my personal opinions on reviews but it's interesting to read the different ways in which people interpreted this film. Here's a selection from both sides of the Atlantic.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Guardian/Observer

BBCi - Films

San Francisco Examiner [Jeffrey M. Anderson]

eye WEEKLY [Jason Anderson]

Salon.com [Stephanie Zacharek]

San Francisco Chronicle [Mick LaSalle]

The Village Voice [Jessica Winter]

Planet Magrathea

Need more?
Here are some sites with links to dozens more Hitchhikers Guide reviews:

Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB HHGG External Reviews

And the last word goes to the people on the street:

Yahoo Movies User Ratings and Reviews

Hitchhikers Guide Forum at Rotten Tomatoes

IMDB HHGG User Reviews

Hitchhiker's Guide Production Photos

83 Production Photos including some concept art.

All are good quality but not very big.

Hitchhikers Guide Radio Series MP3's

This quality BBC production runs about six hours which shows the difficulty they faced in cutting the movie version down to size. Accordingly, the radio version is more true to the book then the movie so fans will hear all thier favorite lines and scenes. The British cast is a hoot.

Excellent iPod food. Download the 12 part HHGG radio series in MP3.

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