Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of how Stone Age workers, armed only with antler picks and bone shovels, could have created the largest and most impressive prehistoric structure in Western Europe. Silbury Hill is a 120 foot high chalk mound formed in a Wiltshire valley in England around 4,500 years ago, in the middle of what is now crop circle country.
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Alien cultures more advanced than our own have spotted us by now, say astronomers. Within 15 years, our own next-generation telescopes will be searching the skies for the tell-tale rainbows from inhabited planets.
?Our own Earth has been putting out a signal for a billion years,? says astronomer Roger Angel of the University of Arizona in Tucson. ?Any civilization slightly more advanced than our own would know there was life on this planet.?
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As of today, the situation with Dell has gradually improved, apparently without their being aware of anything that has been posted on this website.
They eventually determined that they had lost the computer that was sent in for repair, and have promised to replace it. The replacement is supposed to arrive on Friday.
In the meantime, Dell Financial Services continues to call regularly dunning us over bills that have been paid on time. We received many e-mails from others about this. It appears that dunning people for bills they have paid on time is simply a part of the routine at Dell.
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