Not So Obvious

	Freitag, 7. Februar 2003

S.F. man's astounding photo / Mysterious purple streak is shown hitting Columbia 7 minutes before it disintegrated. Top investigators of the Columbia space shuttle disaster are analyzing a startling photograph -- snapped by an amateur astronomer from a San Francisco hillside -- that appears to show a purplish electrical bolt striking the craft as it streaked across the California sky. [Daypop Top News Stories]
6:40:57 PM

comment []

BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| First notes for 639-year composition. The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:40:03 PM comment []

Wired News: Nuke Plants Aging Disgracefully. Last February, Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant shut down after workers discovered that boric acid had eaten away at 70 pounds of steel, leaving a 6-by-5-inch hole in its reactor head. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:39:39 PM comment []

New Scientist. Why do we hiccup? It's a question that has vexed great minds for millennia and now, at long last, an international team may have come up with the answer. [Daypop Top News Stories] 6:37:47 PM comment []