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Comet contains life juice.
Katrina creates health problems. They are pumping out the city, finally.
More natural disasters coming.
GPL 3 to include stipulations on patents. Bye bye GPL.
Comet contains life juice.
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Millions of kilograms of fine dust particles and water and a "surprisingly high" amount of organic molecules sprayed into space when NASA crashed its Deep Impact spacecraft into Comet 9P/Tempel 1 on 4 July 2005, reveal a trio of new studies. The observations bolster theories that comets may have seeded Earth with the raw materials for life and suggest they may be sponge-like - rather than hardened - at their cores.
Katrina creates health problems. They are pumping out the city, finally.
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While some experts believe the risk for mosquito-borne infections such as malaria and West Nile virus has increased due to the flood waters, others believe the floods may wash the insects’ eggs out to sea and that the increasingly salty floodscape will prove unfavourable to them, which may actually lower the risk of these diseases. However, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is starting to carry out mosquito controls in the area and closely monitoring for new outbreaks of West Nile virus. Disaster health experts say some of the public health risks may have been hyped. They point out that many of the health fears after the Asian tsunami never materialised – there were no epidemics, despite isolated outbreaks of dengue fever, malaria and measles. And, they say, outbreaks of diseases like typhoid and cholera are unlikely in Louisiana because the microbes involved are virtually non-existent in the region.
More natural disasters coming.
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The closest thing to a sure-bet U.S. disaster awaits in California, experts agree. A magnitude 7.5 quake under Los Angeles could kill as many as 18,000 and cost $250 billion, according to computer models.
GPL 3 to include stipulations on patents. Bye bye GPL.
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"Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit," Greve said. The idea is that if someone uses software patents against free software, that company or person loses the right to distribute that particular program and use it in their product, he added.