HAWTHORNE, Nev. — A Marine commander says an accident that killed seven Marines and injured seven other service members in Nevada happened when a mortar round exploded inside its firing tube during mountain training exercises. Brigadier General Jim Lukeman spoke to reporters Tuesday afternoon from Camp Lejeune, N.C. The Marines are part of the 2nd [...]
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Fantasy football has exploded in recent years but may be pipe dream for CFL
By admin on Saturday, November 24th, 2012 | Comments Off
Fantasy football does wonders for the NFL, but hasn’t caught on north of the border. Some say it’s time for the league to get on the ball globeandmail – Sports
Read More...Asteroid the ‘Size of a Minivan’ Exploded over California
The daytime meteor that careened through the California and Nevada skies on Sunday morning was in fact a small asteroid, approximately the size of a minivan. Discovery News – Top Stories
Read More...SN2011fe – Supernova Caught 11 Hours After It Exploded
By admin on Sunday, December 18th, 2011 | 6 Comments
Type Ia supernovae, the extraordinarily bright “standard candles” astronomers use to measure cosmic growth which led to the theory of dark energy in 1998 and 13 years later to a Nobel Prize “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe” have remained mysterious – how they detonate and what the star systems that [...]
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