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Naples leaders urge Collier commissioners to reject sand-hauling to beaches

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Naples Mayor John Sorey on NewsMakers 11-11-12. NAPLES A dispute over how to renourish Collier Countys beaches later this year ratcheted up Friday with a letter of objection from Naples City Hall. The Naples City Council, through a letter from Mayor John Sorey to county commissioners, called on county leaders to toss out sand haulers proposals to truck sand to the beach and rebid the beach renourishment project for dredging companies only. Continue reading →

Europe Proposes Cheap Quantum Optics Link to the Space Station

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The ability to send entangled photons to the ISS would be a stepping stone to a global quantum internet and could test the link between quantum mechanics and relativity One of the great mysteries of modern physics is the link between quantum mechanics and general relativity or gravity. But quantum phenomena generally occur on the very smallest scales while gravity generally crops on the largest scales. Never the twain shall meet. Continue reading →

SpaceX cargo ship primed for first operational station flight

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After two successful test flights, SpaceX is set to launch an unmanned Dragon cargo ship loaded with a half-ton of the supplies — including ice cream — to the International Space Station. An unmanned cargo capsule built by SpaceX under a $1.6 billion commercial contract with NASA was prepared for launch Sunday on its first operational flight to the International Space Station, a milestone mission intended to restore the agency’s ability to deliver critical components and supplies to the lab complex and to bring hardware and experiment samples back to Earth. Continue reading →

Beaches Reopen Day After Great White Shark Washes Up In Westport

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(Photo Credit: Matt Gill) LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) Beaches in southeastern Rhode Island have reopened to swimmers after a dead great white shark washed ashore just over the Massachusetts line. Continue reading →

RI beaches reopen after dead shark washes ashore

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LITTLE COMPTON, R.I.Beaches in southeastern Rhode Island have reopened to swimmers after a dead great white shark washed ashore just over the Massachusetts line. Officials reopened Goosewing and South Shore Beaches in Little Compton, R.I., on Sunday morning. Continue reading →

The long reach of the Centaur’s dark heart | Bad Astronomy

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Every now again I get surprised by a photo, showing me something I didnt know about. And I love it even more when that surprise is from an object I thought I knew! So check out this incredible image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, a nearby galaxy harboring a whole slew of surprises: [Click to galactinate, or get the 4000 x 4000 pixel version, or, if you're feeling frisky, cram this onto your hard drive: an image that's 8500 x 8400 pixels and 29 Mb in size! And trust me: you want to.] Isnt that stunning? Continue reading →