Well, not quite, but close enough. While drilling for borate in Serbia, mining giant Rio Tinto discovered a new mineral. When they couldn’t identify the white, powdery rock, they did what everyone else does these days and turned to Google. And what did good ole Google tell them? That the closest representation of the chemical formula of this element is found in the description of Kryptonite in Superman Returns. Flourine and Krypton are the only two differing elements between the two minerals. The chemical formula of Jadarite, as this new mineral will now be known (so named after the Jadar Basin, where it was found), is sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Although the two minerals are not perfectly identical, the similarity between their chemical composition is quite a note-worthy coincidence, or at least I think so. Its kinda cool and somehow a little freaky too.

Read reports by BBC, CBR and The Sydney Morning Herald.

WTF people?! I got this from news.com.au
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So, some astronomical eggheads *grin* over in Chile have discovered a new earth-like exoplanet in the Libra constellation, which is pretty close to our own Milky Way. This has got all the space-heads all excited about it being potentially habitable and finding extraterrestrial life on the planet. Now, IF there is water on the planet I guess they’ve got a fair chance of finding life there too, bacterial if nothing else.
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How can you not like people that do things like this?
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Warning: This is a puppy update post (if you didn’t guess from the title).
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This is just weird. See more fantasy taxidermy at Custom Creature Taxidermy.

I’m in a bit of a blogging funk right now. Eventhough I’ve got little things I can blog about, I don’t really feel terribly interested in blogging. Gotta undate my version of Wordpress too and I can’t seam to get motivated enough to work that out. Ah well, hopefully I’ll snap out of it soon. Meanwhile, I probably will still make Wordless Wednesday and Poetry Thursday or Thursday Thirteen posts, just not much else besides that.

Yay, we pick up Hela after work today. Hehehe Hela, a dog named after an ugly, somewhat evil, hag that rules the Norse Underworld will arrive at her new home, located at 13 “Rav`N-Hoons-Here” Way, on Friday the 13th. Awesome.

The PT challenge for this week is “The One with All the Rules, part II”. Basically, we have to write a poem using a line contributed by a fellow participant from one of their poems. I only found the time to visit PT and find out about this challenge today, so my apologies for not contributing a line myself. I figured it might be a little too late for anyone to be interested in using it. The line I chose to include in my poem is “hide their fangs behind”. This line was provided by Tina from A Fish With Wings.
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