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Google Lat Long: Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater imagery in ... - 0 views

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scibyte65 GoogleMap

shared by Mars Base on 27 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • experience six of the ocean’s most incredible living coral reefs
  • sea turtle swimming among a school of fish
  • follow a manta ray
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  • experience the reef at sunset
  • see an ancient boulder coral, which may be several hundred years old
  • drift over the vast coral reef at Maui's Molokini crater
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Ex-Google VIP Joins Private Moon Race Team | Space.com - 0 views

www.space.com/ize-moon-express-crawford.html

scibyte54 LunarXPrize

shared by Mars Base on 13 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Jimi Crawford, who had been engineering director for the Google Books project since 2009, has signed on with Moon Express
  • will serve as chief technology officer and software architect for the Silicon Valley firm, which is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million private race to the moon.
  • 25 teams participating in the Google Lunar X Prize, an international challenge to land a robot on the lunar surface, have it travel at least 1,650 feet (500 meters) and send data and images back to Earth.
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  • first privately funded team to do all of this will receive the $20 million grand prize
  • additional $10 million is set aside for second place and various special accomplishments, such as detecting water, bringing the prize's total purse to $30 million.
  • wraps up whenever all prizes are claimed — or, failing that, at the end of 2015
  • Moon Express officials say they're on target to beat the deadline.
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Google Maps Adds Views From Mt. Everest, Kilimanjaro, And More Famous Peaks | Popular S... - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 20 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Google Maps Adds Views From Mt. Everest, Kilimanjaro, And More Famous Peaks
  • You can now scale Mt. Everest, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Russia's Mt. Elbrus and Argentina's Aconcagua
  • Unlike the Grand Canyon views, shot with Google's new Trekker backpack camera
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  • mountain views were shot with a tripod and a digital camera with a fisheye lens
  • photos from the summits and some surrounding attractions and read more about the team behind the Everest trip on the Google Maps blog.
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Google Maps climbs Everest - Telegraph - 0 views

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scibyte87 GoogleMap

shared by Mars Base on 22 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Google did not get to Everest's peak, which is at an altitude of 29,035 feet, or 8,850 meters, but the maps now include 360-degree views of four of the seven summits
  • highest peaks on all seven continents
  • lightweight camera and tripod with a fish-eye lens and in 2011, the spent 12 days
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Google's self-driving car takes blind man on errands - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • A self-driving car being developed by Google Inc. took a blind man for a ride this week, driving him to a Taco Bell and then to a dry cleaner in San Jose, Calif.
  • Google posted a video of a modified Toyota Prius driving Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, saying it shows one of the possibilities and benefits that could come from the technology.
  • The self-driving car took Mahan to Taco Bell for a quick meal and a dry cleaner to pick up his clothes.
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  • the drive took place on a carefully programmed route in San Jose and showed one of the possibilities that self-driving cars could offer.
  • we've now safely completed more than 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, gathering great experiences and an overwhelming number of enthusiastic supporters
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Google Lat Long: Notes from the top of the world: A behind-the-scenes look at our lates... - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 22 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • highest altitude
  • reached was 18,192 feet
  • higher than anywhere in the contiguous U.S
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  • hiked more than 70 miles (or 50 hours) during the trip
  • captured a collection of panoramas at key camps and other interesting stops along the way
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Tour Kennedy Space Center On Google Street View: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 14 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • More than 6,000 new images of Kennedy Space Center have recently been added to Google Street View
  • a huge portion of the NASA Kennedy Space Center facility
  • In honor of the center’s 50th anniversary, Street View is adding more than 6,000 images of the Space Center
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  • you can go into the facility, you can go into some of the large areas there, like the Vehicle Assembly Building. You can go down to the launch pad and actually go up several floors of the launch pad and see where the astronauts would walk and where they would go as they were boarding the shuttle
  • actually got to take a snapshot of these structures and these systems in place before all those transitions happened
  • Many of those facilities are going to be decommissioned or converted to different uses
  • So the opportunity to kind of capture that moment in Street View and preserve it, and make it accessible to people around the world, is I think really valuable and important
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Google sets out to save dying languages - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • In an alliance with scholars and linguists, the Internet powerhouse on Wednesday introduced an Endangered Languages Project website where people can find, share, and store information about dialects in danger of disappearing.
  • diverse group of collaborators have already begun to contribute content ranging from 18th-century manuscripts to modern teaching tools like video and audio language samples and knowledge-sharing articles
  • endangeredlanguages.com is designed to let users upload video, audio, or text files and encourages them to memorialize recordings of rare dialects.
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  • Only half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today are expected to survive past the end of this century
  • Technology can strengthen these efforts, by helping people create high-quality recordings of their elders (often the last speakers of a language),
  • Google's philanthropic arm seeded the project, leadership of which will be ceded in coming months to the First People's Cultural Council and the Institute for Language Information and Technology at Eastern Michigan University.
  • Endangered Languages Catalog (ELCat), sponsored by the University of Hawaii, will also be contributing to the project.
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Spray-on antenna gets great reception at Google event - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 17 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • A Utah startup has introduced a spray-on signal booster in a can that promises an improved signal
  • tested the spray on a tree, among other tests, and the team was able to send a VHF signal up to 14 miles away using only the treated tree
  • promoting it as a multi-purpose antenna, simple and quick to assemble, mountable on almost any surface, for use in any environment. "Any" bears quite a range of possible end uses.
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  • upbeat over successful tests that were run to examine the spray's signal performance underwater
  • is not to say the idea of a spray-on antenna on surfaces does not have a history
  • February 14, 2012
  • could be used by weather and oceanographic researchers and underwater welders.
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Growing bones with Lego - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 28 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • A video produced for Google Science Fair shows how researchers at Cambridge making synthetic bone have turned to legendary children’s toy Lego for a helping hand.
  • The video, which has already had over 100,000 views, goes behind the scenes at the lab to show how the team develop the bone samples.
  • Bone has excellent mechanical properties for its weight
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  • synthetic bone has a range of revolutionary applications; from the obvious, such as medical implants, to the almost science fiction, such as a material in building construction
  • the process involved in producing samples of bone is tedious and time consuming.
  • To make the bone-like substance you take a sample, then you dip it into one beaker of calcium and protein, then rinse it in some water and dip in into another beaker of phosphate and protein – you have to do it over and over and over again to build up the compound
  • team started to think about ways of automating the arduous process – the ideal being a robot of some kind that they could set up and run in the background
  • One way would be to buy very expensive kit off the shelf
  • Lego just seemed like the simplest, and cheapest, way to go about things
  • researchers decided to build cranes from a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit
  • contains microprocessors, motors, and sensors that can be programmed to perform basic tasks on repeat
  • sample is tied to string at the end of the crane which then dips it in the different solutions
  • Research is a funny thing because you might think that we order everything up from scientific catalogues – but actually a lot of the things we use around the lab are household items, things that we picked up at the local home goods store – so our Lego robots just fit in with that mind-set
  • The team at Cambridge are working on hydroxyapatite–gelatin composites to create synthetic bone, and the work is generating considerable interest due to the low energy costs and improved similarity to the tissues they are intended to replace.
  • video was made in the lab at the Department of Engineering by Google to help promote their online Science Fair
  • international competition run by the company to encourage teenagers to engage with science
  • Anybody and everybody between 13 and 18 can enter
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