November 2011
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Top 10 misconceptions about Dinosaurs →
1. Dinosaurs represent failure and extinction.
Rather, dinosaurs are the best examples of success and adaptation. They ruled the Earth longer than any other land animals (over 150 million years), and gave rise to birds.
2. Dinosaurs and “humans” coexisted.
The death of the last dinosaur and the appearance of the first “human” (genus Homo) were separated by about 62 million years.
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Mars500 ends today →
science:
For 520 days, since June 2010, six would-be astronauts have been undergoing a simulated mission to Mars at an experimental facility in Russia. The project, which is a collaboration between the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems and the European Space Agency (ESA), aims to study the psychological and physiological effects of isolation beyond the six-month rotation of the...
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