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Google has unveiled the Google Video Search.

Our mission is to organize the world’s information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows.

Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in our archive for relevant results. Click on a program title on your results page and you can look through short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. Visit the “About this show” side panel to learn when this show will air next.

Well, it seems sci-fi has been proven true. Thin space suits are possible, and NASA is working on them. Now the trick is, where do we get the samurai armor influenced mobile suits to go with it.

Wow, the past few days has been busy for space news.

Pluto might have been hit long ago by a virtual twin in a collision that created the ninth planet’s moon Charon, according to a new computer simulation.

This is actually quite interesting. When I was a young teenager, I thought maybe this could have happened, because Charon is too big to have been a captured planetoid. Now, all we need to do is build a military weapons testing facility there.

Saturn’s largest moon contains all the ingredients for life, but senior scientists studying data from a European probe ruled out the possibility Titan’s abundant methane stems from living organisms.

This sucks, actually. I was really hoping they would find life. Now, we just have to hope Huygen’s arrival on Titan doesn’t either cause life to arise, or stop it from from happening.

An outburst of energy emanated from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy just 350 years ago Earth-time, astronomers announced Wednesday. Though the eruption was seen only indirectly, a similar one could occur in the future and would be detectable by space-orbiting telescopes. The finding confirms suspicions that the relatively calm black hole is not always quiescent.

We should be lucky such an event isn’t pointed at us. Being in the direct path of the mass/energy streaming out of black hole means instant and total destruction. Though, thankfully, we aren’t close enough for this to happen.