News you may have missed while basking in the summer sun:
Baby giant pandas were born at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. (July 9) and the San Diego Zoo in California (August 2).
Also on July 9, Lizzie turned 14.
On July 26, the space shuttle was launched for the first time since January 2003. The hull was damaged during liftoff, and now astronauts are working to make sure they can land safely.
On July 28, ChinTsu turned 13.
On July 29, three astronomers announced that they had discovered a ball of rock and ice slightly bigger than Pluto, orbiting farther from the sun. Astronomers disagree about whether to call the object a planet, or whether to lump both it and Pluto together with a swarm of thousands of rock-ice chunks found in the same chilly neighborhood.
On August 1, sound recordings from a wildlife refuge in Arkansas gave more evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker was not extinct as scientists had feared for 60 years (see Muse, February 2005).
On August 3, after three years of nonstop work, biologists in South Korea announced that they had cloned an Afghan hound.
Coming up:
August 15: Happy birthday, Morbid! (Were all Musers born in the summer?!)
August 31: Deadline for the Muse contest
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Sorry to sound self-centered, but whatever happened to my birthday, which happened to be on July 9th?
Whoops! Sorry, forgot. I’ve added it for all to see.
–Robert
August 8, Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely.
August 7, Peter Jennings dies.
Oops, check that…. never mind about discovery… i was reading info from a fake site.
I did not miss the ball of ice and rock.
Since it was discovered with the help of a Mauna Kea telescope, it was in the Hawaii Tribune. The HT called it a planet. It’s larger than Pluto, which means it’s the largest space object discovered since Neptune.
-ChinTsu
The MMFP changed its layout!
Ohmigosh! August 3 was my birthday! Gleep!!
As Soon as Phoebe Walks Out The Door: Everything changes and Pheebs the Great has no idea what the heck is going on. Put that down too.
I was born in the fall. Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! You look like a monkey, and you smell like one too!
Also you may wish to add that Juliette learned how to spell apocalypse, flipped a kayak, flipped (period) and…found out I was allergic to a certain type of spider. Said spider had built a colony (this would be cool, but) in my mattress springs.
And how was YOUR summer?
Wow, Queen Julietaini, I cant spell apocalypse. BUT I can spell pnumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (longest word in the english launguage)
I apologise, I like to show off. Anyway, I went to a genetic experimentation lab that had radioacive waste and mutant yeast in it. Way cool!
Summer is over, guys, and I’m the only writer for October. WAHOOO!
Not quite!!!!!!!!!!!