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The China Manned Space Agency (CMSE) last week put out a call for low-cost cargo haulage services to its space station. The announcement said Beijing wants cheap transportation to Tiangong to foster commercial space activity and enhance the space station's activities. The deadline for applications is July 15, so there's not much time left to sketch out the required spacecraft, launch vehicles and launch support. According to an accompanying technical guide, Beijing has set the price it's willing to pay at $17.1 million per metric ton of cargo. That's far less than the commercial services used by NASA to service...

I filled a 20lb LNG tank this afternoon and now with the valve open it won't release the gas. BBQ ruined. The guy where I got the gas says the valve is stuck or broken closed inside. Is there anything I can do?

A SUICIDE car bomber was killed today close to a base for US troops serving with a NATO-led peacekeeping mission in western Afghanistan when his bomb went off too soon, a provincial governor said. The governor of Farah province, Izatullah Wasifi, said the suicide attacker was killed in a car he was driving just a few hundred metres from a base used by US troops serving with the NATO mission. "We do not know the target of the attack, but we can say it was a suicide raid and there were no other casualties apart from the suicide car bomber,"...

lets try to get all consumer fireworks legalised in all 50 states in the USA write to you law makers in you capital in your state tell them whay you want fireworks legalised in your states

Two men are being treated in the burn trauma intensive care unit of Orlando Regional Medical Center with burns on 90 percent of their body. The victims are 23-year-old Artavis Walker and 27-year-old Antonio Robinson. Melbourne police say the men were driving in the area of Carver Street in a Toyota Corolla while lighting fireworks. Detectives believe an ember from a cigarette or a lit firework fell on the back seat and ignited the other fireworks. The car then caught on fire. Robinson was able to get out of the vehicle a few blocks before the car crashed into a...