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Track Organic Nano-Particles Across the Universe

posted by Dopefish on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:00PM   
from the we-are-made-of-star-stuff dept.

AnonTechie writes "Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., today released a significant expansion and upgrade to a public, on-line database that houses a unique and extensive collection of information about a family of complex, carbon-rich molecules that are both widespread and abundant throughout the universe. Scientists believe more than 20 percent of the carbon in the universe is tied up in this extensive family of compounds, collectively know as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or simply PAHs.

• Re:Offtopic- i cannot see some of the posted artic Re:Offtopic- i cannot see some of the posted artic (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:34AM

  by frojack (1554) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @12:34AM (#7031) Journal

  Ah, there it is...

  You are right, that page is a bit of a mess. Conveys no meaning seems like a euphemism for
  deliberately uninformative.
  Non obvious dot dash seems to be binary code, but I still can get past that part where I
  read "Here is where you can choose to ignore subjects you have no interest in"
  and was left wondering if Checking something meant excluding it or including it.

  When I arrived nothing was checked. Yet I seemed to be getting all articles.

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  No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.

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• Re:Offtopic- i cannot see some of the posted artic (Score: 2) by unitron on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:12AM

  by unitron (70) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:12AM (#7210) Journal

  I think I remember something about that on /.

  If you leave all the boxes unchecked, you get everything, but if you check a single one of them, you have to check all the ones you care about in order to see them.

  It's like it's dormant as long as you don't touch it or something.

  But it's something I haven't looked at over there in years.

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  something something Slashcott something something Beta something something

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