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Thompson Files: To save humanity
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 25, 2007 I know how the world ends, and it isn't with a whimper. You can see humanity's epitaph etched in advance by simply gazing up at the moon on any evening and observing the vast craters created by ancient asteroids hitting the lunar surface. Earth has suffered many such impacts over its 4.5 billion year history. An extrapolation of lunar data suggests that there have been up to 22,000 ast ... more Opportunity Reaches First Target Inside Crater 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 27, 2007Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached its science team's first destination for the rover inside Victoria Crater, information received from Mars late Tuesday confirms. Opportunity has descended the inner slope of the 800-meter-wide crater (half a mile wide) to a band of relatively bright bedrock exposed partway down. The rover is in position to touch a selected slab of rock with to ... more Collaboration Shines Possible Light On Objects Weirder Than Black Holes 
Durham NC (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what physicists term a singularity "would shock the foundation of general relativity," said Arlie Petters, a Duke professor of mathematics and physics who worked with Marcus Werner, Cambridge graduate student in astro ... more China aims for lunar base after 2020 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 26, 2007China plans to set up a lunar base after 2020, capping a series of preparatory robotic missions and a human landing on the moon, a Chinese space official said here Wednesday. The Chang'e 1 lunar probe is now at the launch site and undergoing final tests ahead of its scheduled launch before the end of 2007, said Ji Wu, director of China's Centre for Space Science and Applied Research. Chi ... more Arianespace to market Indian space rockets 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 26, 2007Arianespace plans to market two Indian space rockets, the chief executive said Wednesday, in a potential boost to the South Asian nation offering commercial satellite launch services. India has developed two launch systems -- the PSLV capable of putting satellites of up to 1.6 tonnes in orbit and the GSLV that can launch payloads weighing between two tonnes and three tonnes. "Now that th ... more |
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Marietta GA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Lockheed Martin celebrated 40 years of aircraft testing in its Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT). On this date in 1967, the first aircraft test, a crew egress trial for the C-5A Galaxy, was conducted. As one of a handful of large subsonic wind tunnels in the country, the Marietta wind tunnel has logged 104,800 hours of testing large scale aircraft models, full-scale automobiles, race cars and structu ... more Life-Giving Rocks From A Depth Of 250 km 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 27, 2007If our planet did not have the ability to store oxygen in the deep reaches of its mantle there would probably be no life on its surface. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at the University of Bonn who have subjected the mineral majorite to close laboratory examination. Majorite normally occurs only at a depth of several hundred kilometres under very high pressures and temperatures. Th ... more Food crisis could loom after Africa floods: Red Cross 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 26, 2007The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that a food crisis could be looming across east and west Africa due to the massive damage wrought on crops by ongoing flooding. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies highlighted the situation in Ghana, Sudan and Uganda, which are among the largest nations out of the 22 struck by floods that have affected an estimated 1.5 millio ... more Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Climate Change Researchers 
Kingston, Canada (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen's University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts. "Everything has changed dramatically in the watershed we observed," reports Geography professor Scott Lamoureux, the leader of an International Polar Year project announced yesterday in Nunavut by Indian and ... more Cyclones: Nature's Fury Or Nature's Friend 
Cairns, Australia (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Tropical cyclones can cause terrible damage to anyone and anything caught in their path, but scientists are also interested in the natural role cyclones play in shaping our environment. Over the next two days, CSIRO scientists will present the results of environmental research undertaken in the aftermath of Cyclone Larry, which hit north Queensland in March 2006, and Cyclone Monica, which swept ... more |
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Alamosa, CO (SPX) Sept 25, 2007SunEdison has announced that the Alamosa Photovoltaic Solar Plant in Alamosa, Colo., began generating 44 percent of its capacity, about 3.6 megawatts (MW) direct current (DC) on August 31, 2007 for Xcel Energy. The first phase of the project broke ground in April 2007. When completed by December 31, 2007, the Alamosa Photovoltaic Solar Plant, one of the largest photovoltaic installations in the ... more Analysis: Exxon in oil row with Venezuela 
Miami (UPI) Sep 25, 2007 ExxonMobil is still seeking arbitration over its long-running dispute with Venezuela months after pulling out of the country in the wake of the nationalization of its oil and gas industries. Though Exxon decided to pull up stakes in June, the U.S. petroleum giant is keen on being compensated for its multimillion-dollar investment in South America's largest oil producer. The com ... more New Delft Material Concept For Aircraft Wings Could Save Billions 
Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Building aircraft wings with a special aluminium fibre combination makes them nearly immune to metal fatigue. The application of this technology, partly developed at Delft University of Technology, will lead to substantial savings. The unusual qualities of this special material (called CentrAl, an abbreviation of Central Reinforced Aluminium) can make a significant contribution to the developmen ... more Boeing Projects 120 Billion Dollar Latin America Market For New Commercial Airplanes 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Boeing forecasts that Latin American airlines will need 1,730 airplanes worth $120 billion over the next 20 years, according to an analysis presented Monday at the Latin America Airfinance Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Air travel within Latin America will grow 6.6 percent during this period, well above the world average growth of 5 percent -- second only to China's 8.8 percent forecasted growth ... more Akeena Solar Approved For NASDAQ Listing 
Los Gatos (SPX) Sept 25, 2007Akeena Solar announced the NASDAQ Stock market has approved its application for listing of the company's common stock under the symbol "AKNS." Trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market begins today, Monday, September 24, 2007. NASDAQ's rigorous review and high corporate governance standards have resulted in it becoming the largest electronic stock market in the United States, and home to category-def ... more
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