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Hey! Want to Send your name and a message to Mars? Anybody on planet Earth is welcome to participate!
From RELEASE: 13-125 --
NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO SEND NAMES AND MESSAGES TO MARS
WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. Scheduled for launch in November, the DVD will be in NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft. The DVD is part of the mission's Going to Mars Campaign coordinated at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
The DVD will carry every name submitted. The public also is encouraged to submit a message in the form of a three-line poem, or haiku. However, only three haikus will be selected. The deadline for all submissions is July 1. An online public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin July 15.
For more information on MAVEN, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/maven
and/or
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-125_MAVEN_Name_to_Mars.html
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Rush Limbaugh had his shorts all in a twist yesterday morning regarding the new judgment that makes it legal for a fifteen-year-old to go into a pharmacy and buy, without prescription, the so-called 'morning after' pill; this being medication to prevent pregnancy when ingested within a specific time after coitus.
And I wondered what business it is of Rush Limbaugh and why he should believe himself to be a a judge of what a fifteen year old girl, unrelated to him, Can or cannot do to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.
It seems to me that Rush Limbaugh is overly concerned with something that is absolutely none of his business. But sticking their noses where they do not belong, of course, is what a great many dedicated Christians do best.
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Photo from: Teach Not Preach
Daniel Dennett's Home Page
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On this day, May 2, in 2011, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, was killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Islamic extremists, had been the target of a nearly decade-long international manhunt.
Anyway, that's what we were told, via the mass media, by U.S. President Barach Obama.
Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. forces
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WORD FOR TODAY
coitus [KO-uh-tus]
noun
Sexual union between a male and a female involving insertion of the penis into the vagina.
coitus is the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey) is a British pop singer, best known for his number one hits "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz", as well as "After the Lovin'" and "A Man Without Love".
Christine Jane Baranski
(born May 2, 1952)
(born May 2, 1952)
Christine Baranski is an American stage and screen actress, and is known for her Emmy Award-winning portrayal as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter (Leonard Hofstadter's mother) in The Big Bang Theory and her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife.
Dr. Benjamin McLane Spock
(May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998)
(May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998)
Benjamin Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Throughout its first 52 years, Baby and Child Care was the second-best-selling book, next to the Bible. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."
Lesley Gore
(born May 2, 1946)
(born May 2, 1946)
Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein) is an American singer. She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party", which she recorded at the age of 16.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
--Noam Chomsky
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