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Friday, November 04, 2005
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Nov 4, 2005 - The European Southern Observatory has released a beautiful high resolution image of Robert's Quartet; a group of 4 very different galaxies located about 160 million light-years from Earth. Its member galaxies are NGC 87, NGC 88, NGC 89 and NGC 92. Robert's Quartet is one of the best examples of a compact group of galaxies, which can contain anywhere from 4 to 8 galaxies, and interact with each other from time to time. One galaxy in the group, NGC 87, has large regions of furious star formation because of its interactions with its neighbours.
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(Via Universe Today.)
6:50:39 PM 
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QUOTE FOR THE DAY: "I think our policies required abuse. There were freaking horrible things people were doing. I saw [detainees] who had feet smashed with hammers. One detainee told me he had been forced by Marines to sit on an exhaust pipe, and he had a softball-sized blister to prove it. The stuff I did was mainly torture lite: sleep deprivation, isolation, stress positions, hypothermia. We used dogs." - army specialist, Anthony Lagouranis, who recently left the military, and served in Iraq.
(Via Daily Dish.)
8:40:52 AM
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Fox News, and their partner in crime, Tom DeLay
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) “filed a report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives indicating he received free travel valued at $13,998.55 from Fox News Sunday for ‘officially connected travel’ on October 1-2, 2005, from Sugarland, TX to Washington, D.C. and back to Sugarland, TX.
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
8:16:46 AM
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Last update: 12/2/2005; 7:08:14 PM.
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