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Plasma beams to a moon in the rings, a heinous Internet business, and - . -..- - .. -. --.

This is one awesome moon. It orbits through a gap in Saturn's rings!

Also cool: dreams of using a magnetically focused plasma beam for propulsion. I'm curious about how they plan to compensate for the recoil from shooting out that beam.

But first, to get ourselves back up to Low Earth Orbit after we mothball the shuttle fleet, we need a new shuttle. here's Lockheed's proposed design.

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Not so cool is a website that's united hunting groups and animal rights groups: remote "hunting" via the Internet. "Hunting" is in quotes, because they herd the animal in front of the gun for you. Then you aim it through a web interface and fire. !!! There's already a law in the works in California, though the website is run from Texas.

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Finally, to lighten things back up, a 93-year-old telegraph operator was faster than a 13-year-old girl with SMS. The kid was allowed to use shorthand, even (but no predictive text). They had to transmit "Hey, girlfriend, you can text all your best pals to tell them where you are going and what you are wearing." In SMS, that was apparently, "hey gf u can txt ur best pals 2 tel them wot u r doing, where ur going and wot u r wearing." I'm not going to bother writing out what it was in Morse Code. :P

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