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... he said of the planets: "We can never know anything of their chemical or mineralogical structure; and... yet it was only broken in 1947. Jules Verne proposed a giant cannon in his novel From ...nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered...to say invisibility is impossible, and recent advances mean certain types of cloaking device are already feasible...

... high-tech voting equipment that's blowing up in their - I mean our - faces. Has democracy ever been so crater-scarred? A ...most grotesque e-voting crater still smoldering since Nov. 7. You know, this is where more than 18,000 voters - fully 15... hmm, voted but didn't get their votes recorded. Republican Vern Buchanan allegedly beat Democrat Christine Jennings, for Katherine Harris' vacated...