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Month: July 2011

Man shaves for the first time in 41 years

THEY’VE been married for 35 years, but until Friday night, Sue King had never seen her husband Rod’s face.

That’s because the 59-year-old Port Lincoln man hadn’t shaved in 41 years.

After side-stepping his work’s clean-shaven policy for a decade, Mr King finally had to toe the company line to keep his job and shaved off his 20cm-long beard.

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This is Planet Earth’s Impact So Far in the Universe

Mankind has been broadcasting radio waves into deep space for about a hundred years now — since the days of Marconi.

That, of course, means there is an ever-expanding bubble announcing Humanity’s presence to anyone listening in the Milky Way. This bubble is astronomically large (literally), and currently spans approximately 200 light years across.

But how big is this, really, compared to the size of the Galaxy in which we live (which is, itself, just one of countless billions of galaxies in the observable universe)?

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