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"In case you're not in a prime viewing position for tonight's fly-by of Asteroid 2000 EM26, never fear, for the event will be webcast live for all around the world to see. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Slooh Space Camera will be broadcasting the 3-football-field-long asteroid as it zips by us at nearly 27,000 miles per hour. Astronomer Bob Berman will be answering questions during the broadcast, submitted via Twitter with the hashtag #Asteroid."
 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/17/watch-live-asteroid-size-three-football-fields-to-hurtle-past-earth/

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Some say Obama don't care...

"Reporters Without Borders puts out their Press Freedom Index every year, and the 2014 ranking

came out today. It was not a good showing for the USA. Specifically, the U.S. registered one of the steepest falls of all nations, down 13 slots to the #46 position, just above Haiti and just below Romania."

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What happens when 120 tons of landing Boeing 767 encounters severe turbulence just above the runway? You get to see the incredible strength of modern engineering. Watch the wings flex and the landing gear absorb the shock.

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 The original "Robocop," released back in 1987 and directed by

Paul Verhoeven, was not only one of the best science fiction films of the last three decades — or, as Tom Scocca described it on Gawker, "a brilliant comedy operating in the guise of an ultraviolent action movie" — but it was also a Christian allegory.

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What I saw when I sneaked into a Wall Street secret society. I met Ross Wilbur at an event that might single-handedly explain why the rest of the country still hates financial tycoons – the annual black-tie induction ceremony of a secret Wall Street fraternity called Kappa Beta Phi.

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War is hell! American airforce drops 500 pound bomb on Americans. In this day and age of easy video we get to see what happened.  After spotting Taliban forces on a distant ridge line, U.S. Army mortar teams engage with 60mm mortars. A simultaneous airstrike is called in which accidentally drops a 500 pound bomb on a U.S. Army infantry outpost, mistaking the position for Taliban fighters. Thankfully no one was hurt other then a few blown ear drums. (rough language warning)

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