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[Raptor Engine] Test fire of the Raptor Engine during today's SpaceX presentation

Why does this exist

The Impossible burger has 1 major flaw to overcome: It's nearly triple the price of normal ground beef

Navratri Idols at our house

LPT: When responding to advice, say "You're right" instead of "I know." It shows that you're actually listening to someone, that you care about what they say, and give them credit for trying to help.

Feds say Boeing 737 needs to be better designed for humans

DeAnna Price wins the 2019 IAAF World Championship in Women's Hammer Throw

NY Met Pete Alonso breaks rookie record with 53 home runs in rookie season!

Bills hope the flying sex toy tradition ends tomorrow

TIL that in 2015, the US Air Force bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan for over an hour, and offered $6,000 in condolences to each of the families of the 42 dead.

White House Reportedly Hid Transcripts of Trump Calls With Putin, Saudi Royals

WFIRST's Coronagraph Instrument

A Cloudy Afternoon On Mars Taken By NASA's Insight Lander

My image of a nebula photographed in true color showing you don't need CGI to get pretty pictures of space [OC]

MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

Clemson survives in Chapel Hill 21-20, stuffing a go-ahead two point conversion attempt short of the endzone

TIL A study led by University of Pennsylvania psychologists found that “brain training” apps such as Elevate, Luminosity and Peak have no influence on neural activity or choices during decision making or effects of cognitive training on measures of delay discounting or risk sensitivity

Rudy Giuliani Says He Won't Testify Before House Without Trump's OK. A member of the House Intelligence Committee says Giuliani could be the best witness because he "doesn't know what he shouldn't say."

LPT: Many things in life are actually solved in counterintuitive ways. For example, if you wake up on the weekend and feel tired and run down, it's best to get up and moving. Taking a walk first thing in the morning or starting the day by cleaning can give tons of energy for the rest of the day.

Milky Way shining through an Arch on the Big Sur Coast

Cybernetic cyborg cats are coming

Washing machines shown to be a potential reservoir for disease-causing bacteria. Klebsiella outbreak in a German hospital stopped only after removal of the contaminated machine.

Beto O'Rourke calls for Donald Trump's resignation

ALL HAIL

LPT: Pepper spray needs to be shaken periodically, so if you regularly carry a can of spray with you give it a shake for 30-60 seconds so that it stays effective. Also pepper spray usually lasts about 1.5 years, so replace your old ones.

Rape of 7-year-old in Bengaluru: Top lawyer gets school plumber off the hook. | The defence first suggested that the child – the seven-year-old – was sexually active. When this line was objected to, the defence maintained that she had a vivid imagination.

Telomere length is a marker for the biological age -- in contrast to chronological age. For 2 people of the CG, the person with shorter telomeres has an increased risk of developing age-related diseases. if telomeres change in their length, that change is also reflected in brain structure.

White House restricted access to Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince

'Oumuamua and Borisov Are Just the Beginning of an Interstellar Object Bonanza

Well hello there

In honor and memory of LOOPS.

Give hee your best.

Researchers easily breached voting machines for the 2020 election - The 'ethical hackers' bought a bunch of the machines on eBay and broke into every one.

LPT: If you buy a new blazer, pencil skirt, dress, etc. check for any slits/vents that may be closed with two stitches in an “X” and cut the stitches so the vent is open.

Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich won the women's marathon at the World Championships as 28 of the 68 starters withdrew in grueling conditions in Doha.

To curb lobbying power, Elizabeth Warren wants to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment

TIL a stand up comedian, in a wheelchair, won a treadmill on "The Price is Right"

Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification For Killing Net Neutrality Was False

A NASA astronaut captured a gorgeously surreal image of a rocket launch

Van Attacker Who Allegedly Killed 10 in Toronto Says He Was Radicalized on Reddit and 4Chan

Texas could get more power from wind than coal next year — a new milestone in an energy revolution

LPT: If you're stuck on a problem (school/work), step away for a few moments and come back to it with a refreshed perspective. You will most likely solve it soon after.

A lost continent has been found under Europe. It's the size of Greenland and it broke off from North Africa, only to be buried under Southern Europe about 140 million years ago.

TIL that elevators are held up by 6-8 tension cables, and each individual cable can hold the full load of the elevator by itself.

TIL about John Gurdon, who was ranked last out of 250 boys in his year group in Biology and in a progress report, his teacher said that pursuing Biology for him would be a "waste of time, for him and those who have to teach him". In 2012, John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine

I wrote to ESPN in 1994 in a 7th grade writing class. This was what i got in response.

US immigration uses Google Translate to scan people's social media for bad posts – Er, don't do that, says everyone else

Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion

Apple wins United Nations award for use of 100% renewable energy and more

Google will remove news previews rather than pay publishers in Europe