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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

By Jed | Published: February 29, 2012

I was always in awe with spaceflight way back when my brother and I got an old National Geographic magazine featuring Neil Armstrong on the cover. It had all the pictures and diagrams that concerned that particular flight – the rocket, command module, lunar lander, etc. Our parents also got us a set of encyclopedias [...]

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my thoughts about earth hour

By Jed | Published: March 22, 2011

I don’t disagree with the purpose of earth hour — which is essentially to decrease energy consumption for an hour. However, here are things I have some small issues about: It’s not sustainable. If the purpose is to cut consumption of (mostly) fossil fuel based energy, then they’d have to do more than just an [...]

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Philippine Earthquake Updates

By Jed | Published: March 21, 2011

PHIVOCS maintains a list of the most recent earthquakes in the Philippines, it’s magnitude, date/time and coordinates. http://volcano.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/update_SOEPD/EQLatest.html

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