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Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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When Optimus Prime learns that the humans have concealed the discovery of a Cybertronian ship on the moon he and Ratchet investigate. They recover Sentinel Prime, who Optimus returns to life using the Matrix of the Leadership. After Sentinel Prime insists the Earth expel the Autobots the Wreckers prepare the Autobot ship Xantium for flight. The Autobots escape in the first booster stage and return to Earth before Starscream destroys the ship. Optimus kills Megatron and Sentinel at the end of the film, but has his arm chopped off by Sentinel when fighting him. Plot In 1961, a Cybertronian spacecraft crash lands on the far side of the moon. Known as the Ark , it was the last ship to escape a Cybertron devastated by war. Piloted by Sentinel Prime, it carried "the Pillars", technology that could save the Cybertronians once and for all. On Earth, the crash of the Ark is detected by NASA, and President John F. Kennedy authorizes the mission to put a man on the moon as a ...

" Happy B'day Google " (Google's 12th Birthday)

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  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, FWB: GGQ1) is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's stated mission from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is Don't be evil. In 2006, the company moved to their current headquarters in Mountain View, California. [Google's original homepage had a simple des...

Jupiter Closest to Earth Tonight, With Uranus Just Behind

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Gas giant planet will be nearest to us since 1951. A stargazer views Jupiter (brightest dot) from Hungary earlier this month. Jupiter will be making its closest approach to Earth Monday night since 1951, and for about the next four months the giant planet will be teamed up with a distant relative: Uranus . Jupiter will officially be nearest to our planet—368 million miles (592 million kilometers) away—when it reaches opposition, the term for when the sun, Earth, and a given planet are lined up in a row. "Oppositions of the Earth and Jupiter occur roughly every 400 days, due to Earth catching up to Jupiter and lapping it in its race around the sun," said Raminder Singh Samra, resident astronomer at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. "But because the orbits of the planets are slightly elliptical, the distances between oppositions vary, and so the next time [Earth and Jupiter] are this close won't be until 2022." For the...

AIRBUS A380-800

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  Capacity A380-800 - flight crew of two. Standard seating for 555 passengers on two decks in a three class arrangement. A380 has 49% more floor area but only 35% more seats (in 555 seat configuration) than the 747-400, allowing room for passenger amenities such as bars, gymnasiums and duty free shops. Cargo capacity 38 LD3s or 13 pallets. Apart from the prime contractors in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain, components for the A380 airframe are also manufactured by industrial partners in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. A380 final assembly is taking place in Toulouse , France , with interior fitment in Hamburg, Germany . Major A380 assemblies are transported to Toulouse by ship, barge and road . Center fuselage (Below) A380 section arriving in Pauillac from Hamburg (Below) Right Wing (Below) In the Assembly Line (Below) Fatigue ...

Google Chrome Operating System - Chromium OS

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Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system which is designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. The operating system is based on Linux and will run only on specifically designed hardware.The user interface takes a minimalist approach, resembling that of the Chrome web browser. Because the browser will be the only application residing on the device, Google Chrome OS is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Internet. So it is basically going to be targeted to the web users, if I can say that. The lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year Google will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because Google is already talking to partners about the project, and will soon be working with the open source community, they wanted to share the vision now so everyone understands what they are trying to achieve. The ke...