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Hurricane Irene Just 955 Miles of North Carolina

NASA satellite image shows Hurricane Irene approaching the Bahamas
With maximum sustained winds of 110 miles (175 kilometers) per hour, hurricane Irene is heading toward the Carolina states in the U.S. and is just 955 miles (1,535 kilometers) of North Carolina.

Mapping Hurricane Irene's Path to the U.S.

Hurricane Irene
Though Hurricane Irene has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane, it is expected to hit along the North Carolina coast, heading north into Virginia and up the Chesapeake Bay by Sunday morning.
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JWST Would Cost $8.7 Billion to Fly in 2018: NASA

At a time when Obama administration has asked federal agencies to plan for budgets that are at least 10 percent below their current appropriation level, NASA has raised the total estimated cost of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to $8.7 billion.
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Earth’s Oldest Fossils Hint at Similar Life on Mars

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Scientists Find World's Oldest Fossils

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NASA Does not Think that Aliens Will Destroy Earth

A study that evaluates sci-fi scenarios for extraterrestrial encounters, published in the journal Acta Astronautica, said that E.T. could decide whether we're a threat to intergalactic order and may try to kill us. At the heart of these scenarios is the possibility that intrinsic value may be more efficiently produced in our absence, the researchers wrote.
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Would ET Come in Peace or to Destroy Humanity? [FULL TEXT]

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