This article expresses outrage against a blatant conflict of interests with regard to expiring domain names. If you build up a web site and don't renew your domain, your registrar has numerous ways to profit off this scenario. This outrageous and possibly illegal behavior is netting these crooks millions per year off of other people's hard work.
With buzz already building for The Road, a post-apocalyptic movie starring Viggo Mortensen in 2009, We decided to take at look at some of our favorite after-the-end-of-the-world scenarios.
Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 kilometres (140 mi) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. In the center of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks.
When a particle accelerator reaches the end of the road, the physicists hold a wake for its death. Then the electromagnets are powered down, cryogenic liquids drained and lights turned off. What happens next is less certain. Some part are reused, other sent to scrapyards, or turned into art.
If you're one of the many people who doubt there's intelligent life anywhere else in the universe, or even someone who thinks there is but that it will take centuries to find it, get ready to be surprised."We'll find E.T. within two dozen years," senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak said Tuesday night at an event held at Yahoo's Brickhouse here.
The northern Martian summer is waning. As predicted, a decline in daylight hours, deteriorating weather, and dust storms are preventing solar arrays on the Phoenix Mars Lander from providing power. Phoenix's last signal was received on November 2, its successful mission ending after more than five months in the arctic region of the Red Planet...