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Terraforming wiki - 7 views

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    probably already known ...
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Observatory - Cassini Data Solves Mystery of Iapetus's Two-Tone Surface - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • dust, most likely from another of Saturn’s moons, falls on the leading side of Iapetus as it orbits the planet
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Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists - 3 views

  • From that we now know that the volcanic gases could not have contributed in any significant way to the Earth's atmosphere
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Why Computers Can't Mimic The Brain - Forbes.com - 3 views

  • engineers seem to have a diminished ability to understand biology
  • Remember them the next time you read a story claiming some brain-like accomplishment of a computer. The only really human thing these programs are doing is attracting attention to themselves
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In Pictures: 10 Of Science's Biggest And Costliest Experiments - 2 views

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    Half of them are space related!
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Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video) - 1 views

  • Rather than building a single model and seeing how well it could recognize visual objects, the team constructed thousands of candidate models, and screened for those that performed best on an object recognition task
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Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel - 2 views

  • a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel
  • an efficiency of a few percent
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NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest - 2 views

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    Isn't it the one we could have used for the debris thing ?
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The Space Review: Breaking up may be good to do - 6 views

shared by Joris _ on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
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    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 ?
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DailyTech - NASA Releases iPhone App - 2 views

  • The U.S. space agency has worked more diligently the past few years to better interact with the public.
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    what about ESA?
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$21 Billion Orbiting Solar Array will Beam Electricity to Earth - 0 views

  • The project, to be undertaken by a research group from 16 companies including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, aims to spend the next four years developing the technology needed to beam the electricity produced to earth
  • not be commercially viable at today's prices
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Space travel without fuel is no pipe dream - World News, Frontpage - Independent.ie - 0 views

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    super-highways: an old stuff, but still very fascinating ...
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