Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend. (AP) -- Summer's annual meteor shower promises to put on a dazzling show when it peaks this weekend - provided you're far from city lights. With no moon in sight to interfere with the Perseid meteor shower, skygazers can expect to spot streaking fireballs late Sunday into dawn Monday regardless of time zone. Astronomers estimate as many as 60 meteors per hour could flit across the sky at the shower's peak. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news]
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Trauma Pod 2009 Robot Medic Will Deploy by 2009: Live from DARPATech. One of the first announcements at this year's conference is going to be hard to top: the first portable, self-contained surgical robot will be deployed in the next two years. The system, called Trauma Pod, has successfully "treated" a mannequin with no complications.
"Every horror you've seen on the screen grows pale beside the horror of The Black Scorpion," claims one of the film's taglines. True, schlock galore, but as a Scorpio, I was astrologically compelled to review this one...