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Monster Madness is back, the website's back, we're very excited and hope you enjoy it this whole month but there's a bit of a rocky start. The first episode had a problem with the script. One of our writers had somehow added a portion that was taken from a pre-existing article. That's unacceptable and all of us here apologize for letting that sneak in. We're very sorry and want to tell you how that happened. The short story is somebody fucked up, somebody new but I think you deserve a little bit of a longer story too so if you want to stick around for a bit here you go. – James Rolfe	added by SuperQuotes 1 year ago
The search for potentially habitable or life-bearing worlds in other solar systems depends in part on being able to determine if rocky, Earth-like exoplanets actually have magnetic fields, this research shows not only that this particular rocky exoplanet likely has a magnetic field but provides a promising method to find more. – Joe Pesce	Found on CNN 1 year ago
TOI-5205b’s existence stretches what we know about the disks in which these planets are born, in the beginning, if there isn’t enough rocky material in the disk to form the initial core, then one cannot form a gas giant planet. And at the end, if the disk evaporates away before the massive core is formed, then one cannot form a gas giant planet. And yet TOI-5205b formed despite these guardrails. Based on our nominal current understanding of planet formation, TOI-5205b should not exist; it is a ‘forbidden’ planet. – Shubham Kanodia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These first observational results from an Earth-sized, rocky planet open the door to many future possibilities for studying rocky planet atmospheres with Webb, webb is bringing us closer and closer to a new understanding of Earth-like worlds outside the Solar System, and the mission is only just getting started. – Mark Clampin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The fact that it is also a small, rocky planet is impressive for the observatory. – Kevin Stevenson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
When I finally confronted them [just before ‘Rocky IV’ in 1985], I said, ‘Does it bother you guys that I’ve written every word, I’ve choreographed it, I’ve been loyal to you, I’ve promoted it, directed it and I don’t have 1% that I could leave for my children?’ And the quote was, ‘You got paid.’ And that was the end of the conversation. – Sylvester Stallone	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The way these features look is very different than any volcanoes across the solar system, either icy examples or rocky volcanoes, they formed as mountains, but there is no caldera at the top, and they have large bumps all over them. – Kelsi Singer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There has been no doubt that it has been a rocky start to the year, powell struck a positive note about the strength of the economy and the market's ability to withstand rate hikes. – Angelo Kourkafas	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Chair Powell is steering this ship through very rocky waters and Chair Powell seems very determined to get White House economists to the other side where there is maximum employment, i'm really worried about what happens if Chair Powell gets asked to hand over the wheel right now. – Betsey Stevenson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Marijuana edibles are cannabis-based food products. They come in many forms, but the items in this case were candy, they’re often packaged in wrappers and bags with logos and colors that look similar to traditional candy brands. Rocky Creek Elementary School( Google Maps). – Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Everything from the Rocky Mountain continental divide westward, including Colorado, Utah, Sierra Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico have fire conditions that look really, potentially explosive. The drought is even worse in those places than in Southern California, it looks pretty likely that it will be a severe fire season across most of West Linn. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Asteroid Bennu is rough and rocky, so if you look at it from a different angle or capture it at a time when the sun is not directly overhead, that dramatically changes what the surface looks like, these images were deliberately taken close to noon, with the Sun shining straight down, when there's not as many shadows. – Dathon Golish	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is the fight of a generation, but the fight of a generation is not, say, 1980s, you know capitalism vs. communism, United States vs. Russia, Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago where the lines were clearly drawn. – Dave Rubin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s a little rocky, i don’t think it’s the best it could be, that’s all I could say. – John Wall	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Information about a planet's interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it, though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around our galaxy's oldest stars. – Stephen Kane	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Town of Rocky Mount fully supports all lawful expressions of freedom of speech and assembly by The Town of Rocky Mount employees but does not condone the unlawful acts that occurred that day, based on the available information, The Philadelphia Police Department has notified federal authorities and the individuals that were present at the event are on administrative leave pending review. – The Department	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Justin Turner said. They sure did. Seager homeredagain, Buehler pitched six scoreless innings and The Dodgers beat The Braves 3-1 on Saturday to send the NL Championship Series to a winner-take-all finale. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Los Angeles avoided elimination for the second time in less than 24 hours, staying alive in Los Angeles pursuit of a third pennant in four years. Los Angeles hasnt won a championship since 1988. Im still sort of recovering from this one, but already thinking about Game 7, The Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. Thats what you live for. Justin Turner also homered for Los Angeles, and Kenley Jansen threw a six-pitch ninth for Kenley Jansen 18th career postseason save. The NL West and East champions play again Sunday night, with the potential for two rookie starters in a Game 7 for the first time in big league history. Roberts was keeping his options open for his starting pitcher while The Braves plan to go with rookie right-hander Ian Anderson, who has thrown 15 2/3 scoreless innings in Ian Anderson three postseason starts. Tony Gonsolin and three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw are among the possibilities for Los Angeles. Shoot, well go out there and let er fly. A Game 7 is another baseball game, Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. You have to treat it as such. The Braves were hoping to celebrate Snitkers 65th birthday Saturday with the franchises first World Series berth since 1999. But Max Fried took Max Fried first loss all year, working into the seventh inning after surrendering three runs during a rocky first. Buehler, using Stans Rodeo Ointment to deal with bothersome blisters, threw 65 of his 89 pitches for strikes. He allowed seven hits while striking out six without a walk. After Atlanta loaded the bases with three singles in a row to start the top of second the last hit by his Vanderbilt roommate Dansby Swanson the right-hander really brought the heat, with 10 consecutive fastballs to get out of the jam. Austin Riley struck out on a 98.7 mph pitch before Nick Markakis took a called third strike on 99.7 mph. Cristian Pache, the 21-year-old rookie who had an RBI in each of Cristian Pache first four NLCS starts, was retired on an inning-ending groundout. Cristian Pache mound presence is just unbelievable. – Justin Turner	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Speaker Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service membersreunion with his family, thats her legacy. – The White House	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The provision of supplementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species like the brush-tailed rock-wallaby, initial fire assessments indicate the habitat of several important brush-tailed rock-wallaby populations was burnt in the recent bushfires. The wallabies typically survive the fire itself, but are then left stranded with limited natural food as the fire takes out the vegetation around their rocky habitat. – Matt Kean	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There will be a judgment call as to whether any Rocky Lee investor would want to be associated with such businesses, i believe you will see some' quiet' exiting by Rocky Lee funds and possibly LPs, at least those U.S. investors who feel strongly that owning companies engaging in these activities are either immoral or politically incorrect. – Rocky Lee	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I've never missed a rally for my dad. The notion that I'm not standing next to him in Philadelphia, next to the Rocky statue, it's heartbreaking for me, it's killing me and it's killing him. Dad says, 'Be here.' Mom says, 'Be here.' But at what cost? – Hunter Biden	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have very limited information about the composition of the surface. Rocky terrain, methane lakes, cryovolcanoes - we potentially have all of these, but we don't know for certain, so we thought about how to create a system that is versatile and capable of traversing different types of terrain but also compact enough to launch on a rocket. – Ali Agha	Found on CNN 5 years ago
While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults, what makes us really proud at the aquarium is the success of Sea Life London's Gentoo breeding program and the amazing job of same-sex penguins Rocky and Marama who took the chick under their wing and raised it as their own. – Graham McGrath	Found on CNN 5 years ago

Monster Madness is back, the website's back, we're very excited and hope you enjoy it this whole month but there's a bit of a rocky start. The first episode had a problem with the script. One of our writers had somehow added a portion that was taken from a pre-existing article. That's unacceptable and all of us here apologize for letting that sneak in. We're very sorry and want to tell you how that happened. The short story is somebody fucked up, somebody new but I think you deserve a little bit of a longer story too so if you want to stick around for a bit here you go.

– James Rolfe

added by SuperQuotes
1 year ago

The search for potentially habitable or life-bearing worlds in other solar systems depends in part on being able to determine if rocky, Earth-like exoplanets actually have magnetic fields, this research shows not only that this particular rocky exoplanet likely has a magnetic field but provides a promising method to find more.

– Joe Pesce

Found on CNN
1 year ago

TOI-5205b’s existence stretches what we know about the disks in which these planets are born, in the beginning, if there isn’t enough rocky material in the disk to form the initial core, then one cannot form a gas giant planet. And at the end, if the disk evaporates away before the massive core is formed, then one cannot form a gas giant planet. And yet TOI-5205b formed despite these guardrails. Based on our nominal current understanding of planet formation, TOI-5205b should not exist; it is a ‘forbidden’ planet.

– Shubham Kanodia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These first observational results from an Earth-sized, rocky planet open the door to many future possibilities for studying rocky planet atmospheres with Webb, webb is bringing us closer and closer to a new understanding of Earth-like worlds outside the Solar System, and the mission is only just getting started.

– Mark Clampin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact that it is also a small, rocky planet is impressive for the observatory.

– Kevin Stevenson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

When I finally confronted them [just before ‘Rocky IV’ in 1985], I said, ‘Does it bother you guys that I’ve written every word, I’ve choreographed it, I’ve been loyal to you, I’ve promoted it, directed it and I don’t have 1% that I could leave for my children?’ And the quote was, ‘You got paid.’ And that was the end of the conversation.

– Sylvester Stallone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The way these features look is very different than any volcanoes across the solar system, either icy examples or rocky volcanoes, they formed as mountains, but there is no caldera at the top, and they have large bumps all over them.

– Kelsi Singer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There has been no doubt that it has been a rocky start to the year, powell struck a positive note about the strength of the economy and the market's ability to withstand rate hikes.

– Angelo Kourkafas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Chair Powell is steering this ship through very rocky waters and Chair Powell seems very determined to get White House economists to the other side where there is maximum employment, i'm really worried about what happens if Chair Powell gets asked to hand over the wheel right now.

– Betsey Stevenson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Marijuana edibles are cannabis-based food products. They come in many forms, but the items in this case were candy, they’re often packaged in wrappers and bags with logos and colors that look similar to traditional candy brands. Rocky Creek Elementary School( Google Maps).

– Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Everything from the Rocky Mountain continental divide westward, including Colorado, Utah, Sierra Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico have fire conditions that look really, potentially explosive. The drought is even worse in those places than in Southern California, it looks pretty likely that it will be a severe fire season across most of West Linn.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Asteroid Bennu is rough and rocky, so if you look at it from a different angle or capture it at a time when the sun is not directly overhead, that dramatically changes what the surface looks like, these images were deliberately taken close to noon, with the Sun shining straight down, when there's not as many shadows.

– Dathon Golish

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is the fight of a generation, but the fight of a generation is not, say, 1980s, you know capitalism vs. communism, United States vs. Russia, Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago where the lines were clearly drawn.

– Dave Rubin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It’s a little rocky, i don’t think it’s the best it could be, that’s all I could say.

– John Wall

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Information about a planet's interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it, though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around our galaxy's oldest stars.

– Stephen Kane

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Town of Rocky Mount fully supports all lawful expressions of freedom of speech and assembly by The Town of Rocky Mount employees but does not condone the unlawful acts that occurred that day, based on the available information, The Philadelphia Police Department has notified federal authorities and the individuals that were present at the event are on administrative leave pending review.

– The Department

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Justin Turner said. They sure did. Seager homeredagain, Buehler pitched six scoreless innings and The Dodgers beat The Braves 3-1 on Saturday to send the NL Championship Series to a winner-take-all finale. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Los Angeles avoided elimination for the second time in less than 24 hours, staying alive in Los Angeles pursuit of a third pennant in four years. Los Angeles hasnt won a championship since 1988. Im still sort of recovering from this one, but already thinking about Game 7, The Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. Thats what you live for. Justin Turner also homered for Los Angeles, and Kenley Jansen threw a six-pitch ninth for Kenley Jansen 18th career postseason save. The NL West and East champions play again Sunday night, with the potential for two rookie starters in a Game 7 for the first time in big league history. Roberts was keeping his options open for his starting pitcher while The Braves plan to go with rookie right-hander Ian Anderson, who has thrown 15 2/3 scoreless innings in Ian Anderson three postseason starts. Tony Gonsolin and three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw are among the possibilities for Los Angeles. Shoot, well go out there and let er fly. A Game 7 is another baseball game, Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. You have to treat it as such. The Braves were hoping to celebrate Snitkers 65th birthday Saturday with the franchises first World Series berth since 1999. But Max Fried took Max Fried first loss all year, working into the seventh inning after surrendering three runs during a rocky first. Buehler, using Stans Rodeo Ointment to deal with bothersome blisters, threw 65 of his 89 pitches for strikes. He allowed seven hits while striking out six without a walk. After Atlanta loaded the bases with three singles in a row to start the top of second the last hit by his Vanderbilt roommate Dansby Swanson the right-hander really brought the heat, with 10 consecutive fastballs to get out of the jam. Austin Riley struck out on a 98.7 mph pitch before Nick Markakis took a called third strike on 99.7 mph. Cristian Pache, the 21-year-old rookie who had an RBI in each of Cristian Pache first four NLCS starts, was retired on an inning-ending groundout. Cristian Pache mound presence is just unbelievable.

– Justin Turner

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Speaker Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service membersreunion with his family, thats her legacy.

– The White House

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The provision of supplementary food is one of the key strategies we are deploying to promote the survival and recovery of endangered species like the brush-tailed rock-wallaby, initial fire assessments indicate the habitat of several important brush-tailed rock-wallaby populations was burnt in the recent bushfires. The wallabies typically survive the fire itself, but are then left stranded with limited natural food as the fire takes out the vegetation around their rocky habitat.

– Matt Kean

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There will be a judgment call as to whether any Rocky Lee investor would want to be associated with such businesses, i believe you will see some' quiet' exiting by Rocky Lee funds and possibly LPs, at least those U.S. investors who feel strongly that owning companies engaging in these activities are either immoral or politically incorrect.

– Rocky Lee

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I've never missed a rally for my dad. The notion that I'm not standing next to him in Philadelphia, next to the Rocky statue, it's heartbreaking for me, it's killing me and it's killing him. Dad says, 'Be here.' Mom says, 'Be here.' But at what cost?

– Hunter Biden

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We have very limited information about the composition of the surface. Rocky terrain, methane lakes, cryovolcanoes - we potentially have all of these, but we don't know for certain, so we thought about how to create a system that is versatile and capable of traversing different types of terrain but also compact enough to launch on a rocket.

– Ali Agha

Found on CNN
5 years ago

While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults, what makes us really proud at the aquarium is the success of Sea Life London's Gentoo breeding program and the amazing job of same-sex penguins Rocky and Marama who took the chick under their wing and raised it as their own.

– Graham McGrath

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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