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By DENNIS OVERBYE : In the end, there won’t even be fragments.
If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death. That is the forecast according to new calculations by a pair […]

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by admin
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By WARREN E. LEARY : The International Space Station is finally getting its robot.
Anyone who has followed science fiction knows that a good long-duration spacecraft has to have a robot. The space shuttle Endeavour takes off for the space station on Tuesday with a large, Canadian-made robot named Dextre in its cargo bay. Endeavour’s seven-member […]

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