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With Gas Boom, Pennsylvania Fears New Toxic Legacy
npr.org 1 week, 4 days agoIndustry has ruined a lot of Pennsylvania's water. Coal mining companies hammered the state, leaving behind acidic water that turned thousands of miles of streams into dead zones. People in the state are looking for ways to make sure the fracking boom doesn't deal another blow to its water.
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Marooned In Lunar Orbit
wired.com 1 day agoThe Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon on Christmas Eve 1968 decisively demonstrated U.S. superiority in the Moon Race, but it was also one of the riskiest missions NASA ever flew. Just four days after Apollo 8's safe return to Earth, two engineers studied how long the crew might have survived in lunar orbit if their spacecraft's main engine had failed. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this chilling might-have-been.










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