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Archive for May, 2009

This morning

This morning

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Today

testing the new update of postie

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Bell Mobility buys remaining 50% of Virgin Mobile

When I said we had a problem with mobility in Canada! This does not feel right.

This brand had probably the lowest rate in Canada and was really no gimmic.

I wonder how long it will last.

And what will happen to Solo also a brand owned by Bell. They didn’t know how to make that fly and they’ll do better with Virgin?

If it things to come with the new licences that are to be created? Is it competition and open market?

Fell it’s more like the movie “highlander” at the end there can be only one?

http://www.thestar.com/article/630455

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We need more nuke. Please

Why do I feel we are going backward sometime!

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b5zKGZ73loo/nasa-running-out-of-fuel-for-deep-space-missions-because-nobody-makes-nukes-anymore

Supplies of NASA’s go-to fuel for space exploration , plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA’s Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. The problem? Nobody makes nukes anymore. Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can’t use solar power because they’re too far from the sun. So they rely on a certain type of plutonium, plutonium-238. It powers these spacecraft with the heat of its natural decay. But plutonium-238 isn’t found in nature; it’s a byproduct of nuclear weaponry. So where can NASA turn to in order to get the 11lbs of plutonium it needs each year? Fortunately, the Department of Energy has come to the rescue and decided to spend the $150 million or so it would take to re-start production. Man, it feels like the Cold War all over again. [ Yahoo ]

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