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jmlloren

Public Service Broadcasting: 'The Other Side,' - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by jmlloren on 25 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • jmlloren on 25 Aug 15
     
    The sound track of Apolo mission. They have a full album devoted to the space race.
Juxi Leitner

'Doomsday Ark' to be Housed on the Moon -A Remote Access Toolkit to Rebuild the Human Race - 5 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...to-rebuild-the-human-race.html

space science moon base technology bio vault

shared by Juxi Leitner on 04 Jul 10 - Cached
  • our future may reside on the Moon if plans.being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon by the European Space Agency are carried through.
  • whether living organisms could survive, European Space Agency scientists are hoping to experiment with growing tulips on the moon within the next decade.
  • would initially be run by robots
  • Juxi Leitner on 04 Jul 10
     
    did not know ESA was doing that!
  • andreiaries on 05 Jul 10
     
    too late, the world will in end in 2012 ......... I fail to see in which scenario this would be better than a couple of vaults on Earth (since there would be no humans on the moon). But if tulips on the moon can convince politicians, I'm all for it.
  • LeopoldS on 05 Jul 10
     
    "The first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in 2012 or 2015 according to Bernard Foing, chief scientist at the agency's research department." - Bernhard strikes again :-)
pacome delva

Background checking at LHC - 1 views

physics.aps.org/...PhysRevLett.105.022002

phy lhc particles

shared by pacome delva on 12 Jul 10 - Cached
  • pacome delva on 12 Jul 10
     
    and the race begins !
  • Ma Ru on 12 Jul 10
     
    "more than 2000 authors from 166 institutions in 38 countries"... I want to see their papers :-)
Joris _

Why space shuttle exhaust races to the poles - space - 30 March 2010 - New Scientist - 6 views

www.newscientist.com/...xhaust-races-to-the-poles.html

weather nasa

shared by Joris _ on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 31 Mar 10
     
    the new scientist article does not say much but maybe the paper could be of interest to our models - Nina and Friederike, please have a look at it - hope that you can get hold of it ...
Luís F. Simões

USSR Wins Space Race As U.S. Shuts Down Shuttle Program | The Onion - America's Finest ... - 4 views

www.theonion.com/...-shuts-down-shuttle-prog,21007

fun Space shuttle Soviet Russia

shared by Luís F. Simões on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • The termination of NASA's space shuttle program marks the end of a nearly 54-year rivalry between the USSR and the United States to achieve superiority in space exploration.
  • Sources confirmed that in commemoration of the capitalist defeat, extra bread and corn rations had been approved in all major cities, and factory workers were given time off their nine-hour work shifts to join in the festivities.
  • LeopoldS on 29 Jul 11
     
    we can't access it from within the firewall I fear ...
Christophe Praz

The New Space Race: Bringing Internet to the Other 4 Billion | WIRED - 2 views

www.wired.com/...the-new-space-race-internet

space internet WiFi

shared by Christophe Praz on 04 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Christophe Praz on 04 Feb 15
     
    nice overview of the 3 main space related projects attempting to bring internet access to the world, namely SpaceX+Google micro-satellites network, OneWeb+Virgin Galactic OneWeb and Project Loon by Google. not a lot of technical details though...
Marcus Maertens

The Race to Save the Axolotl | JSTOR Daily - 2 views

daily.jstor.org/the-race-to-save-the-axolotl

BIO

shared by Marcus Maertens on 26 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 26 Apr 18
     
    A white creature with regeneration.
pandomilla

Outgrow and outcompete strategies work in both nature and business - 4 views

corporatenature.blogspot.co.uk/...caterpillars-and-milkweed.html

BIO fun

shared by pandomilla on 21 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • pandomilla on 21 Feb 13
     
    Nice point of view on the evolutionary arms race
Athanasia Nikolaou

Giant tsunamis washed over ancient Mars. - 0 views

www.nature.com/...shed-over-ancient-mars-1.19916

Mars geoengineering terraforming fun

shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 20 May 16 - No Cached
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 20 May 16
     
    An hypothesis for explaining missing shoreline traces of ancient water ocean on mars: Some 3.4 billion years ago, giant meteoroids slammed into a frigid ocean covering Mars's northern hemisphere. The impacts kicked up enormous waves that raced across the water and swamped the shoreline, research suggests. On the scale of planetary catastrophes, such tsunamis would have dwarfed most Earthly ones.
Lionel Jacques

Russian Craft Fails to Head to Mars Moon - 1 views

www.thestar.com/...t-toxic-falling-satellite-ever

space technology science

shared by Lionel Jacques on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Lionel Jacques on 09 Nov 11
     
    Out-of-control Russian space probe may be 'most toxic falling satellite ever: A Russian space probe aiming to land on a Mars moon was stuck circling the Earth after equipment failure Wednesday, and scientists raced to fire up its engines before the whole thing came crashing down.
  • Ma Ru on 09 Nov 11
     
    Is it just me, or is uncontrolled space junk re-entry becoming trendy?
  • LeopoldS on 12 Nov 11
     
    this was a fantastic mission - ... what a pity!
LeopoldS

Space News - September 9, 2013 - 4 views

bt.e-ditionsbyfry.com/...article.php

cubesat

shared by LeopoldS on 12 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 12 Sep 13
     
    why are we not getting these type of startups in Europe .... btw: Will is british
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  • dejanpetkow on 12 Sep 13
     
    Nobody in Europe would invest 13Mio $ (or the equivalent in €) venture capital for this idea, it's just a different mentality. In Europe, VCs start to get interested when the investment risk is significantly lower.
  • Juxi Leitner on 13 Sep 13
     
    I agree, the mentality is different, it's hard to find VC funding for hardware stuff, even more so if you wanna shoot your HW into space. but there is movement, e.g. pioneers.io, they are in vienna and are actively trying to get more VC funding (in europe) for HW and other engineering startups
  • LeopoldS on 13 Sep 13
     
    thanks for the link ... just read this blog ... http://pioneers.io/blog/space-race-2-0-putting-satellites-into-the-hands-of-everyone a lot of selling talk but fundamentally I agree that they have a point ... and as ACT we will face the criticism in not so long that we have not managed (nor tried hard enough) to convince ESA about the need to embrace this "new space"
johannessimon81

Weather patterns on Exoplanet detected - 1 views

news.discovery.com/...chance-of-maelstrom-131001.htm

space science

shared by johannessimon81 on 02 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 Oct 13
     
    so it took us 70% of the time Earth is in the habitable zone to develop, would this be normal or could it be much faster? In other words, would all forms of life that started on a planet that originated at a 'similar' point in time like us, be equally far developed?
  • Paul N on 24 Oct 13
     
    That is actually quite tricky to estimate rly. If for no other reason than the fact that all of the mass extinctions we had over the Earth's history basically reset the evolutionary clock. Assuming 2 Earths identical in every way but one did not have the dinosaur wipe-out impact, that would've given non-impact Earth 60million years to evolve a potential dinosaur intelligent super race.
  • johannessimon81 on 25 Oct 13
     
    The opposite might be true - or might not be ;-). Since usually the rate of evolution increases after major extinction events the chance is higher to produce 'intelligent' organisms if these events happen quite frequently. Usually the time of rapid evolution is only a few million years - so Earth is going quite slow. Certainly extinction events don't reset the evolutionary clock - if they would never have happened Earth gene pool would probably be quite primitive. By the way: dinosaurs were a quite diverse group and large dinosaurs might well have had cognitive abilities that come close to whales or primates - the difference to us might be that we have hands to manipulate our environment and vocal cords to communicate in very diverse ways. Modern dinosaur (descendents), i.e. birds, contain some very intelligent species - especially with respect to their body size and weight.
Alexander Wittig

SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html

technology space

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  • Alexander Wittig on 11 Jun 15
     
    Elon Musk is moving forward with space based internet service...
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  • LeopoldS on 11 Jun 15
     
    reading the qz article, it is not clear to me that google dropped out as one of the main investors in SpaceX? did I miss something?
  • jcunha on 12 Jun 15
     
    I attended a presentation by H. Hemmati, formerly at NASA's JPL, now at Facebook working to "connect the unconnected" during a panel session of the Workshop "Shining light on future space optical communications". I gather that they are targeting a combined strategy of HAP (with solar powered planes at 20-25 km), balloons and satellites. The rationale behind is that each solution is best suited for different population density zones, i.e. satellites while expensive (total cost of 100MUSD after Hemmati) are the only way to provide internet in remote zones, while balloons seem to be one inexpensive solution for densely populated areas. Funfact: he mentioned that the main drawback will be some crashes of HAP elements...
  • jcunha on 31 Jul 15
     
    Facebook announced they are ready to test of of their High Altitude Platform element, a drone of the size of a Boeing 737. See the new here http://phys.org/news/2015-07-facebook-ready-giant-drone-internet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter. It seemed interesting for me that they are developing also a reliable optical communication between this element and scattered ground stations.
  • Thijs Versloot on 31 Jul 15
     
    Nice link, that thing is huge and I would love to see a drone that size fly. Also, Facebook's Aerospace Team? :)
pacome delva

Enter the 'thermopower wave' - 0 views

physicsworld.com/...41978

carbon_nanotubes nan power_sources nrg

shared by pacome delva on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Researchers in the US and Korea have discovered that igniting a carbon nanotube, coated in chemically flammable material, can trigger a high-speed wave to race along the tube at 10,000× the speed of the spreading chemical reaction. The new phenomenon, dubbed a "thermopower wave", could lead to a new way of generating electricity and may enable micro power sources to drive nanoscale devices.
Juxi Leitner

A Cyborg Space Race - 1 views

www.spacedaily.com/...A_Cyborg_Space_Race_999.html

exploration robot human tech

shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 May 10 - Cached
  • There is more discussion in the space community on how to alter entire planets to suit humans - a process called "terraforming" - than there is on changing man to suit space.
  • making the machines our "avatars" for space exploration
  • Perhaps a brain implant linking us to our robots would be the next step in space exploration, greatly reducing communication time across the vast expanse of space
LeopoldS

European Commission - Culture - Archive - Echoes of 1957 - The Space race: Life on Mars - 0 views

www.europe.org.uk/268

history Mars exploration Russia Soviet Union

shared by LeopoldS on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 07 Sep 09
     
    nice article on Russian Mars exploration pioneers ...
ESA ACT

Russia Pours Billions in Oil Profits Into Nanotech Race - 0 views

www.wired.com/...russian_nano

NAN technology StrategicPlanning

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    José - I think that we might have a look and find out where are the exactly investing and how they spend the money ....
Juxi Leitner

Rocketeers take lead in $1 million race - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com - 1 views

cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/...2111070.aspx

prizes lunar lander technology

shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The judges will weigh all this over the next few days, in advance of an awards ceremony scheduled Thursday in Washington.
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