Since current rocket technologies are not sufficient for the future exploration of Mars and the whole Solar system, and since no alternative energy resources have been found as of now, the only possible way to implement those projects would be by using nuclear energy, Lopota said at an academic conference on aerospace.
Prepare and transmit electronic text - American Institute of Physics - 0 views
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new revTex version available ...
what do they mean by this? how do they use XML and latex to XML? would this also be an option for acta futura?
"While we appreciate the benefits to authors of preparing manuscripts in TeX, especially for math-intensive manuscripts, it is neither a cost-effective composition tool (for the volume of pages AIP currently produces) nor is it a format that can be used effectively for online publishing."
Convert PSD to Wordpress with Divine. Convert Photoshop to Wordpress theme - 2 views
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seems interesting for web design, not for drupal yet though.. (wordpress is similar to drupal, drupal is a bit more powerful for social nets websites)
Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools - 1 views
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new open source tool from google .... Francesco: of any interest to us?
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I don't think so, it is just a code optimizer for JavaScript, unless there are somewhere big JavaScript (web2.0) applications running that is not of much interest for us
Other google labs systems e.g. FriendConnect could be useful for Ariadnet, maybe also the visualization and social graph API
The Space Review: Breaking up may be good to do - 5 views
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I especially like " The program will also create a "developer's kit" of open hardware and software specifications to make it easier for new components to integrate into such fractionated systems."
Joris: wanna take the lead on having a closer look on this, I definitely would like to be part of it and happy to contribute, possibly also Juxi? - first assessment by Christmas realistic? -
I think it a very interesting approach.
If you google "darpa F6", you should see that a lot seems to be on-going. So, should we do something about it before having the conclusions of the Darpa study ? -
wait and see is never a good approach in these cases .... first step has to be anyway to understand what they are up to and then to think about our own ideas on it, own approaches, alternatives and then to see what we can do specifically in the team on it.
David Keith's unusual climate change idea | Video on TED.com - 2 views
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must view video from Nina ...
Aerosols make methane more potent - 1 views
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"climate policy-makers need to pay much more attention to restricting short-lived pollutants, such as methane, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and aerosols. This could create significant changes in the local and global climate quite quickly, whereas the effects of efforts to reduce emissions of long-lived carbon dioxide will not be seen for many years."
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interesting indeed ... but coming at the right time before copenhagn?
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These conclusions come too late to have a real impact on decisions that will be taken in Copenhagen, I assume. But I think it is a hot topic as climate change 'solutions' that work QUICKLY are more and more needed!!
Martian Projects Shall Use Nuclear Energy - 0 views
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blablabla
Real-Life Cyborg Astrobiologists to Search for Signs of Life on Future Mars Missions - 0 views
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EuroGeo team developed a wearable-computer platform for testing computer-vision exploration algorithms in real-time at geological or astrobiological field sites, focusing on the concept of "uncommon mapping" in order to identify contrasting areas in an image of a planetary surface. Recently, the system was made more ergonomic and easy to use by porting the system into a phone-cam platform connected to a remote server.
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a second computer-vision exploration algorithm using a neural network in order to remember aspects of previous images and to perform novelty detection
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well a bit misleading title...
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Scientists bring snow to Beijing - 2 views
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Did you know about this Weather Modification Office? Promising or dodgy?
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Yes. In China it happens apparently quite often that weather is regionally modified, e.g. in order to have good weather conditions during certain events (like olympics in Beijing). But also in other countries weather modification is applied, for reasons of agriculture, pollution, skiing, etc. Obviously, one wonders on the environmental impact of such an artificial cloud feeding process with silver iodide. I just googled, stumbling upon this report http://www.weathermodification.org/AGI_toxicity.pdf which published the result: no environmentally harmful effects...
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and w.r.t. ur question: I mean different weather conditions which we experience locally (like droughts or other extreme weather events) are (often) due to large-scale/global climatic changes. Hence, cloud seeding just describes a local, short-term mitigation of these events.
However, there is a geoengineering proposal (so climate modification) which also suggests to seed clouds above the sea (i.e. increase cloud coverage, e.g. by using seaspray as cloud condesation nuclei), thereby increasing the planetary albedo (Earth reflectance) and reducing the energy reaching the Earth surface. If this idea is promising or not, I couldn't judge upon, but for sure it is worthwhile to take a closer look at.
Wave Disc Engines - 0 views
Rocketeers take lead in $1 million race - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com - 1 views
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The judges will weigh all this over the next few days, in advance of an awards ceremony scheduled Thursday in Washington.
Global Innovation Commons - 3 views
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nice initiative!
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btw: did not know the anarchist penchant of Marek :-)
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Well, not going into the discussion about GPL/BSD, the viral license in this particular case in my view simply undermines the "clean and clear" motivations of the initiative authors - why should *they* be credited for using something they have no rights for?
And I don't like viral licences because they prevent using things released under this licence to all those people who want to release their stuff under a different licence, thus limiting the usefulness of the stuff released on that licence :)
BSD is not a perfect license too, it also had major flaws
And I'm not an anarchist, lol
Google Wave Preview - 2 views
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Looks really cool! And it's open source :)
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Don't know if you've noticed, but the current version is becoming more and more usable... did you try it already in your collaborative work?
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We've used it a bit with Juxi and Leopold for the work on the new issue of acta futura, and I think it is quite nice. The problem right now is that only a few people in the team have an account (and I have exhausted my invitations). Maybe you have one or two you are willing to share? :)
Qian Xuesen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views
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what a live, what an interesting person!
Think Leo will like...