Beside beefing up the rules to detect explosive methane or coal dust, the proposed law would make it a felony to avert safety standards and to give advance warnings that inspectors were on the premises.

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That will make it easier to convert a collection of vinyl records and cassette tapes currently gathering dust to digital format, suitable for burning to a CD.

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That's why scientists are so interested in water at poles, and the fact Moon dust works well with microwaves and could theoretically be used to make a paved surface if you created roads.

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