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The Astronomical Toilet Paper (ATP) is a novel tool for popularization of astronomy.

When you look up to the sky, you can feel the expansiveness of the universe. Astronomy is a backyard matter in itself. This close relation, however, sometimes makes you be oblivious to the fascinating aspect of astronomy. With the ATP, we can bring fruits of astronomy in dairy scenes of the public.

The ATP is the first product of the TENPLA Project, a community of students, astronomers, and staffs of science museums and planetariums in Japan for popularization of astronomy.

Sarah the Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake feeds on a feeder mouse. :40 includes only the strike and wrap-up. If live animal feedings bother you, kindly click elsewhere.

A GANG of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the German city of Hamburg.

The gang members seemingly take delight in injecting humour into their raids, which rely on sheer numbers and the confusion caused by their presence. After they plundered Kobe beef fillets, champagne and smoked salmon from a gourmet store on the exclusive Elbastrasse, they presented the cashier with a bouquet of flowers before making their getaway.

The latest robbery is part of a pattern over the past several months, suggesting that the thieves deliberately set out to highlight what they perceive as the inequality inherent in German society.

However, the authorities do not agree. Bodo Franz, a police spokesman, said: “They get off feeling they are just like Robin Hood. There are about 30 in the group. But whatever their motives, they are thieves, plain and simple.”

Carsten Sievers, the manager of a luxury supermarket in the wealthy Blankenese area of Hamburg, recently watched the robbers run off with trolleys full of expensive foodstuffs, including Kobe beef which, at more than £100 a pound, is always on their illicit shopping list.

In another recent swoop, the gang emptied a groaning buffet table in a top restaurant into sacks, while one of their number held up a sign saying. “The fat years are over” – the title of a hit film currently doing the rounds in Germany.

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A FAA Radar track sequence of a bank of FedEx aircraft getting into Memphis as thunderstorms pass over the airport.

A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality images.

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