Posted on behalf of Amber Dance The Phoenix spacecraft, having collected evidence for water and ice on the Red Planet, is going for broke. NASA extended its mission today, allowing it to keep up its experiments until the diminishing sunlight, as Mars heads into winter, doesn’t provide enough power and renders it a mere weather station. But unlike the mythical bird, Phoenix is unlikely to rise again when winter’s over. “The little lander is terminal,” said Doug McCuistion, director of the M

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Although ACORN was cut from the final legislation, it’s important to understand this organization and its long history with, of all people, Barack Obama. And it’s important to see how partisan this emergency legislation has become.

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