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The Tunguska Meteorite As A Warning From Outer Space
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008Almost a century ago, on June 17 (30), 1908, a massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, in what is now Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, Central Siberia. The residents of the Vanavara trading post, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of the blast site, later claimed that the ground trembled violently when attacked by a huge ball of fire, followed by a terrible storm that ... more Europe Launches Jules Verne Robot Space Freighter 
Kourou (AFP) Mar 09, 2008The European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station. The Automated Transfer Vehicle, a nearly 20-tonne payload the size of a London double-decker bus, blasted into the skies aboard a beefed-up Ariane 5 launcher, an AFP reporter saw. After being placed in orbit ... more Seeing Through The Dark 
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Mar 09, 2008Astronomers have measured the distribution of mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of detail and to great depth. The measurement is based on a new method that looks at the scattered near-infrared light or 'cloudshine' and was made with ESO's New Technology Telescope. Associated with the forthcoming VISTA telescope, this new technique will allow astronomers ... more China To Launch Second Olympic Satellite In May 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008China will launch in May a second meteo satellite to ensure more precise weather forecasts during the Beijing Olympic Games set to open on August 8, the Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The new satellite, Fengyun-3, has a bigger payload than its predecessors and will provide medium-range weather forecasts for up to 10 to 15 days. It will replace the FY-1D weather satellite launched ... more Shuttle Crew Arrives As Endeavour Countdown Gets Under Way 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2008The space shuttle Endeavour astronauts are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final launch preparations for their STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. The crew arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft at 1:21 a.m. EST Saturday, March 8. After arriving in a driving rainstorm, Endeavour Commander Dominic Gorie made a few comments ... more |
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Burbank CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Media One Direct will produce a promotional video and user tutorials for the new V7 line of GPS portable navigation devices, the exclusive house brand for Ingram Micro. The promo and tutorials are for the V7 NAV 730 and the V7 NAV 740, a new line of GPS portable navigation devices. The promo will play on the V7 at major retail stores to allow consumers to watch the features of the device at the ... more Solar Corona Is Both Hot And Kinky 
Warwick UK (SPX) Mar 09, 2008Astrophysicists are having a heated debate over the wave structure of the Sun's Corona - a debate which may one day influence solar weather forecasting and the theory behind fusion reactors. The Sun's core is about 6000 degrees C, but its outer layer, the Corona, which is filled with a strong magnetic field, is 200 to 300 times hotter. Last year American scientists thought they had c ... more News Service Utilises On Call Communications' QuickSPOT Automated SNG System 
Irvine CA (SPX) Mar 10, 20087NEWS is a fast-paced news organization in Boston that often travels around the country covering big news stories. At the Super Bowl, in Arizona, WHDH used an exciting new piece of technology that allowed them to be live not only from the stadium where they had positioned their satellite truck but also from celebrity parties and team practice facilities that were miles away. ... more TECO Peoples Gas Implements Trimble's UtilityCenter Enterprise GIS Solution Across Florida 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Trimble has announced that it has completed the implementation of its Geographic Information Systems-based UtilityCenter uaFM information technology module for TECO Peoples Gas. Peoples Gas is Florida's leading natural gas provider, with offices in major metropolitan areas serving more than 320,000 commercial, industrial and residential customers. Peoples Gas previously selected the ... more Mapcom Systems And Centina Systems Announce Strategic Alliance 
Richmond VA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008In a move designed to enable telecommunications providers to significantly enhance their ability to prevent and respond to network disruptions, Mapcom Systems and Centina Systems announced today the integration of their respective software solution suites and the signing of a joint marketing agreement. Mapcom Systems, based in Richmond, Virginia, is the developer of the M4 Geographical ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2008The rapid development of the BrahMos joint Indian-Russian supersonic cruise missile project documents important and usually overlooked truths about the triangular Russian-U.S.-Indian strategic relationship. First - despite all the optimism of the Bush administration and all its efforts over the past seven years - India remains fundamentally allied to Russia rather than the United States ... more China's military officials urge combat readiness: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2008Chinese military officials have urged combat readiness in efforts to reunify Taiwan, just days after the government announced a 17.6 percent rise in defence spending, state press said Friday. "Preparations for military struggle shall be continued, which is now the most important, practical and imperative task", Xinhua news agency quoted Jing Zhiyuan, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) artillery ... more Scientists Solve 50-Year-Old Mystey Of Oceans' Seismic Buzz 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2008The latest buzz in Earth science literally comes from out of the blue-the deep blue seas. For the first time, scientists have pinpointed a specific area in the North Atlantic where microseisms, small Earth tremors created when ocean waves traveling in opposite directions merge together, are emitted from the depths of the ocean. Scientists have long known about microseisms, but no one could ... more Climate change a new factor in global tensions: EU 
Brussels (AFP) March 7, 2008The risks of climate change have turned from a threat to reality impacting the conflict in Darfur, migration from flood-prone Bangladesh and hopes for stability in the Middle East, according to a new EU report. From Africa to Asia, and from pole to pole, climate change has become "a threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability," warns the seven-page report on ... more Move Over Galileo, Its Time for Science 2.0 
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2008In a provocative article in this week's Science Magazine, the University of Maryland's Ben Shneiderman, one of the world's leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it's time for the laboratory research that has defined science for the last 400 years to make room for a revolutionary new method of scientific discovery. He calls it Science 2.0., and it combines ... more
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