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NASA together with the Pentagon wants to draw up plans to get humans to visit other worlds in a hundred years. The project will be called the 100 Year Starship Study.
“On Thursday, an official with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that the agency will award a $500,000 [...]
Space Shuttle OV-105 Endeavour lifted off into space. This is Endeavour’s 25th and final mission, and is the second to last launch of a shuttle. Atlantis to launch in June 2011 will be the last space shuttle launch.
The shuttle reached space in 8.5 minutes from liftoff. It was a smooth launch.
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is over. Humans didn’t find aliens. SETI ran out of funds. The project went on hibernation mode as lack of funds forced it to go offline. The project needs over US$5 million dollars to continue to operate.
The Search for Extra Terrestrial [...]
Ars Technica wrote on two independent studies that show ice from both Antarctica and Greenland are melting faster than previously though.
The researchers compared the same areas over the same periods of time for both ice sheets. The verification test produced results that were within 20 gigatons per year in Greenland [...]
Lee Billings of Boing Boing asked the question.
“What if we are cosmically alone, on a planet as anomalously unlikely and fertile as a fruit tree flourishing in an arid wasteland, or a flower blooming in a desert? What if worlds like ours are common as grains of sand? Does the universe [...]
TacticalNav is already Battle Hardened according to ReadWriteWeb.
Springer, an artillery specialist on his third deployment in Afghanistan, has had an opportunity few app developers can match. He has tested the software in the most rugged and realistic environment possible, the theater of war.
This is genius.
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It kinda sounds like Jurassic Park but Dr. Akira Iritani is going to clone the Woolly Mammoth:
“Now that the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth,” said Iritani in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.
“The success rate [...]
The Huffington Post published:
Up and running in 2020, Tianjin Eco-City is one of these real-life sustainable communities, spanning 30 square kilometers and showcasing the hottest energy-saving technologies. Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, the city will have an advanced light rail transit system and varied eco-landscapes ranging from a sun-powered [...]
AllThingsD reported:
“The British Library today released Treasures, a mobile multimedia look at more than 100 prized items from its collections, including the original version of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the world’s oldest Bible, hand-painted medieval books, Nelson’s battle plan for Trafalgar and doodles [...]
