anniversary
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All The Supernovas Ever Photographed By NASA
Image Cache: NASA has revealed spectacular, newly reprocessed images of four of the most amazing supernovas ever captured by a human science instrument — the Crab Nebula (top), Tycho, G292.0+1.8, and 3C58 — to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Chandra observatory. I decided to go one step further and collect them all.
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BASIC, The 50-Year-Old Computer Programming Language For Regular People
Computer coding ability has gotten especially hip recently. People who can’t code revere it as 21st century sorcery, while those who do it professionally are often driven to fits by it. It was 50 years ago today two Dartmouth professors debuted a coding language designed to be easy enough for anyone to use. The language…
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The iTunes Store Is A Decade Old
For better or worse, Apple has been peddling digital wares for 10 years through its iTunes store. What started as a 99-cent, iPod-centric music seller has evolved into the billion-dollar behemoth we know today.
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89-Year-Old Chuck Yeager Breaks Speed Of Sound 65 Years After His Historic Flight
This is unforgivable. With all the hoopla about yesterday’s crazy supersonic space jump, we didn’t celebrate yesterday’s 65th anniversary of the first man to go faster than the speed of sound, a true American hero: the now retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager.