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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Earshot

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 56th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest stars. This episode, written prior to the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, is not the fourth season premiere, but is instead a third season episode aired out of sequence due to some of the eerie similarities between the episode’s plotline and that real world event.

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Galileo Uncrewed Spaceflight

Galileo and the battery acid of Europa

EuropaA long-standing mystery of one of the moons of Jupiter is solved, opening many more questions. Data gathered by the Galileo unmanned orbiter reveals that a previously unidentifiable substance on Europa’s surface is sulfuric acid, a compound used as battery acid on Earth. Scientists quickly split into two camps on the origins of the acid: it may be welling up from inside Europa, or it may be volcanic material ejected from Io and then deposited on Europa as the moons’ orbits occasionally bring them into conjunction. Though the presence of sulfuric acid initially dashes hopes of finding life on Europa, the possibility is not completely ruled out by this finding.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Freshman

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 57th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star. Pedro Pascal (Game Of Thrones, The Mandalorian) guest stars in the fourth season premiere.

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Galileo vs. the Volcano

IoNASA/JPL’s unmanned Galileo space probe buzzes Jupiter’s volcanically active moon Io, zipping directly over one of its most active volcanic regions at an altitude of only 380 miles, Galileo’s closest Io flyby to date. But this close encounter, and the fate of Galileo itself, had been in doubt just hours before the flyby: entering Jupiter’s most intense radiation environment, Galileo had entered a failsafe mode in which the spacecraft shuts down until further commands are received from Earth. Ground controllers, called in to work emergency hours on a Sunday, revive Galileo a mere two hours before its close pass by Io.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Fear Itself

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 60th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star. Aldis Hodge guest stars.

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