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LOTD for May 5

The three Nexus One smartphones that NASA put into orbit sent pictures of Earth back to Earth on a ham radio frequency, with each packet having a small piece of "the big picture."  The PhoneSat Team and ham radio operators put the packets together to creat a high-resolution photo of Earth.  The mission had just been to prove that commercial devices could be used as satellites, but the resulting photo is pretty cool:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/PhoneSat_PHOTO_Feature.html


Israel bombed Syria for the second time in 3 days, with their warplanes hitting areas inside and around the capital of Syria and setting off a series of explosions.  Israel reportedly targeted a shipment of highly accurate guided missiles on their way to Hexbollah in Lebanon.  Syria's government says that was a "declaration of war" by Israel and Syria vowed to retaliate:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/05/israeli-airstrikes-in-syria-for-second.html
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