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Kepler Mission Discovers its First Rocky Planet

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

…and it has potential for alien life.

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“Coming up,” said Beard Number One, nodding to Beard Number Two, never once looking at Tallow. Together, they cut and smashed and wrapped the sandwiches in maybe twenty seconds. They’d gotten faster. Judging by the previous customer, Tallow thought word had really gotten around about the place. He imagined the pair training at night, listening to Animal Collective on repeat as they beat sandwiches into shape, racing against the same stopwatch they used to time their beard trimmings.

from page 155 of Warren Ellis’s brilliant new novel GUN MACHINE which you should already have in your hands reading. If you are too poor to buy one, request one from your local library.

(As an auxillary note, how long does it take for a novel in this day and age to be completely reproduced by people typing in quotes they liked from it? (or didn’t like.) How much of, say, Harry Potter or 50 Shades of Grey has been retyped and is out there, almost query-able and known but not quite and split in a dozen places by a thousand people? Is there that one shit sentence of an inordinatly popular book that has never been retyped?)

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