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Kiera Wilmot, Student Accused of Setting Off Bomb In School, Is Headed To Space Camp Thanks to October Sky Astronaut

Back in April, honor student Kiera Wilmot, made some waves when she was arrested for felony charges after she conducted a science experiment where she mixed some toilet bowl cleaner and some tin foil in a bottle and blew the cap off on school grounds. The experiment caused some smoke, but school off ... More >>

LeBron James' Pregame Dunk May Have Altered Reality

The Daily Look At This! is our daily video and/or gif of the day. As he did just a few nights ago, LeBron James decided to fool around during Heat pregame warmups before their game against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, and he threw down another filthy Sledgehammer of the Gods-style dunk. ... More >>

SpaceX: Kiss Florida's Place in the Space Race Good-bye! Spend $16 Million Making the Place a Theme Park.

SpaceX, the California company that plans to help NASA and perhaps become the world leader in space travel, announced yesterday in Washington that it would send a man to space by 2015.The firm will send one of its own employees. Last year, it was the number one private firm to send an unmanned craft ... More >>

International Space Station Visible Over South Florida for Six Minutes Today

Start off the new year right by nerding out and impressing your friends today at 6:03 p.m., when the International Space Station will be visible over South Florida for about six minutes. Yes, the station is visible to the naked eye as it cruises 200 miles above the Earth. NASA says it's the brightes ... More >>

12-12-12 Deals: South Florida Food and Drink Specials

Oh, hey. Did you realize that Wednesday -- 12-12-12 -- is the last repeating date for another hundred years? What's that you say? You've heard that about 12 times already today, just from your cubicle mates? (Of course, if you consider February 2, 2022 to be repetition, the whole point is moot.) We ... More >>

Paul Ryan Says Romney Presidency Will Rebuild NASA Without More Funding

Paul Ryan was in Florida over the weekend and revealed that Obama has ruined space exploration, just like he's ruined everything else. And so Ryan announced bold new changes that he and Mittington will implement to get NASA back on track -- because America is the greatest nation in all of outer spac ... More >>

Sally Ride Dead of Pancreatic Cancer at 61

Former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of cancer today at the age of 61, according to her organization's website, which has since crashed.Born in Los Angeles, Ride earned multiple degrees in physics and English from Stanford in the late '70s, which is also when she repl ... More >>

Sally Ride Dead of Pancreatic Cancer at 61

Former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of cancer today at the age of 61, according to her organization's website, which has since crashed.Born in Los Angeles, Ride earned multiple degrees in physics and English from Stanford in the late '70s, which is also when she repl ... More >>

Leap Second to Be Added Today; Will Florida Resist?

In yet another example of gross government overreach and excessive bureaucratic regulation, officials have announced that today, June 30, will be one second longer than a normal Earth day. At 11:59:59 p.m. tonight, the officially recognized time will receive an extra second before rolling over to mi ... More >>

The List: 10 Summer Beers to Dive Into This Season

Recently, I made mistake of claiming that "summer is here" only to be corrected by my know-it-all well-intentioned co-worker, "Well actually, this year summer doesn't officially begin until June 20th" to which I replied, " Sierra Nevada's Summerfest Ale is out; thus, summer is here".  You see, ... More >>

Joachim Garraud on June 9 at Gryphon

Superheroes Bump Superegos in "The Avengers"

Foodies Needed for Mission to Mars (Sort Of)

​The world is apparently divided into two types of people -- those who wanted to be astronauts when they grew up and everyone else. In case you think your dreams of being part of a rocket to Mars have been dashed by cuts in the space program (and your inability to pass a NASA drug test), think aga ... More >>

Lady Gaga's A Very Gaga Thanksgiving: A Preview

​Here are a list of things we thought would never happen:Wildebeest found on MarsMcDonald's turns all-veganLady Gaga Hosts a Thanksgiving SpecialGuess McDonald's is going veg and NASA's going to find animal tracks any day now, because Lady Gaga's A Very Gaga Thanksgiving is airing tonight (Thanksg ... More >>

Rick Scott Announces Boeing Creating 550 Jobs, Fails to Mention it Depends on NASA Funding

thecomedynews.com​Gov. Rick Scott was happy to announce yesterday that Boeing is creating 550 jobs in Florida by 2015 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.Aside from the fact that 500 jobs in four years doesn't quite offset the few thousand people laid off after the space shuttle progr ... More >>

FYI, Florida Is on Fire

nmsu.eduFire. Everywhere.​If you're standing idly in Florida right now, you have a 1.17 percent chance of being on fire.That would be due to the fact that as of this morning, there are 380 active wildfires across the state, covering 405,461 acres.We've also got a handy map from the Florida Divisio ... More >>

Yuri Gagarin Flew 50 Years Ago: A Melancholy Anniversary

Gagarin in Cairo.​We are fifty years and one day into the era of manned space flight. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin's successful of into Earth's atmosphere and safe landing in the Saratov region of Russia made him a hero the world over, in Communist and capitalist countries alike. Everywhere, pe ... More >>

Cocaine at NASA!

​A week ago Monday, an observant worker at Kennedy Space Center noticed some unusual white powder laying about. (Where, exactly, we haven't been told.) The worker alerted the proper authorities, the substance was tested, and whaddaya know? It was coke! A hefty 4.2 grams of the stuff. I don't know ... More >>

Is Global Warming to Blame for Florida's Cold Weather?

The Juice: Now frozen!​There's a serious disconnect in how we Americans think about weather. On the one hand, we love crazy weather stories and the intense, irrational panic they cause. On the other hand, we're absolutely unwilling to consider that those extreme weather patterns are a result of ou ... More >>

Q&A: Larry "Sprinklesman" Bach of Sprinkles Custom Cakes

Larry Bach ​I recently came across a cupcake that is not eaten in the normal fashion. Instead of peeling off the paper wrapping and getting crumbs all over the place, Larry Bach invented a way to eat cupcakes without all the mess.  Named Cake Shooters, they come packaged inside a ... More >>

Happy Hour at Duffy's Sports Grill in Fort Lauderdale: WarGames

Photo by Pat Rothblatt​The place: Duffy's Sports Grill, 1804 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-713-6363. The hours: 4 p.m. to close every day. The deal: Everything is two-for-one (excluding shots, pitchers, and buckets of beer). The digs: Duffy's is the latest level in the ever-escalatin ... More >>

Four Kids From South Florida Led the World's Biggest Online Identity Heist

Citizens for National Security Finds Islam Propaganda in Florida Textbooks

Dr. William Saxton, saving Florida children's hearts and minds from Islam​Dr. William Saxton is sitting at a Starbucks in West Boca Raton, clutching a bulging black briefcase. But he's having trouble concentrating on our conversation. He keeps looking around for a better table. "I'd prefer to have ... More >>

Rusted Root Hits Revolution for Its Second South Florida Show This Year

GlobeTel Sanswire Will Protect America With Its Luck Dragon

Falcor may soon be the last line of defense in the War Against TerrorGlobeTel is a Pembroke Pines company that first appeared on the local radar a few years ago, when it was promising to fill South Florida airspace with sci-fi machines called "stratellites" -- a clunky combination of a light airship ... More >>

Are Slow Boats Bigger Threat for Grazing Sea Cows?

Guess what, boaters? A researcher at Florida Atlantic University says that motoring slowly through designated manatee protection habitats may put the meandering sea cows at greater risk of getting hacked up by your boat's motor. Says Dr. Edmund Gerstein, the univer ... More >>

Sad Sack Extraordinaire

Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Culture in Spaaaaaace!

Chafing Dishes

And a Flying Car, Too!

Reach, Moonwalker!

Astronauts are just ordinary people with an infinite perspective

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

Between The Lines

Beam Me Up

A Pembroke Pines company wants to flood the country with invisible beams from high-flying blimps. Want to invest?

Rave...

I, Robot

Build it and it will lift and block. Or it will die.

Spike It!

Oh My Stars!

A night for the cosmically challenged

Space Probe Cross

Scientists fear tepid response when aliens encounter Christopher Cross

Whip It On and On

Danish duo the Raveonettes are one with the cosmos

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Baby Elephant Steps

A blithe ignorance of some restaurant-biz basics keeps Galanga from living large

Shutter to Think

María Martínez-Cañas takes a heady, unique approach to photography

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

A Space Oddity

Kyle Barnette's show in Hollywood doesn't compare to the silver screen

The Orb

Cydonia (MCA)

Best Place to Find Support

Relax the Back

Sci-Fi on the Hi-Fi

Night & Day

July 16 - 22, 1998

Chip Off the Old Rock