Tags Results for 'space'

Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? (Thursday 02nd of October 2008 04:30:01 AM)

Khemisty writes "Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly
void of matter. Scientists say this spot could account for the apparent acceleration of the
universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading ... (more)

"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe (Wednesday 24th of September 2008 09:15:02 PM)

DynaSoar writes "NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is individual outside the
observable universe exerting an effect on the observable. The matter is pulling clusters of
galaxies towards a region of space known not to contain sufficient ... (more)

Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator (Monday 22nd of September 2008 08:00:01 PM)

Thebryce writes "From cyborg housemaids and waterpowered cars to dog translators and rocket
boots, steam room boffins have racked up plenty of near-misses in the quest to turn science
fiction into reality. Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are ... (more)

Re-purposing a Student Tech Service Group? (Sunday 21st of September 2008 07:45:01 PM)

Discards writes "I help run a student group at a Canadian University. For almost 15 years we've
supposing students with government-provided services such as web space, email, wireless
telephone world wide web on campus, cvs/svn, database access, mailing ... (more)

Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth (Saturday 06th of September 2008 02:00:01 AM)

Matt Amato writes "With the recent expostulation of the ISS having to dodge some space junk,
many people's regardfulness has once again focused on the amount of stuff in orbit around our
planet. What many people don't know is that USSTRATCOM tracks and ... (more)

SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket fails to reach orbit... again (Sunday 03rd of August 2008 11:06:00 PM)

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, TransportationAw man, and we had such high hopes that the third
time really would be a charm. SpaceX's third attempt to launch a payload rocket into outer
space failed this weekend, with launch control confirming an "anomaly" ... (more)

Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)

Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called
'EVE.' It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents
another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the ... (more)

Intelligent space robots to dig around, throw raves on their own by 2020 (Monday 28th of July 2008 12:38:00 AM)

Filed under: Robotsdigg_url =
'http://digg.com/space/Intelligent_space_robots_to_dig_around_on_their_own_by_2020';Let's face
it -- we owe a great deal of gratitude to the robots that get up each and every morning to
explore far reaches of the universe ... (more)

NASA Contractor Needs Urine (Thursday 17th of July 2008 05:35:32 PM)

Apparently, NASA sent a memo to its employees at the Johnson Space Center asking for their
urine so they, NASA, could use it to test the Orion space capsule. How much urine? 30 liters
per day, including weekends. Disposal of urine for up to six ... (more)

David Falk’s Executive Production Of “Space Jam II : The Fucking ... (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:07:10 AM)

Once Mike Dunleavy pushed past David Falk and reached out to Elton Brand, appealed to his
star’s sensibilities and sentimentality for his Clippers’ home, the belief was that
the most cunning and cutthroat agent of them all decided to SportsByBrooks ... (more)

Safe and Secure Storage and Management of Legal Documents (Sunday 06th of July 2008 07:10:03 PM)

A new business, Space Vac, is os of your choicewww.cifnet.comcopyrights:cite this source
roget's ii: the new thesaurus to solving the problems of the long term safe and secure storage
and government of legal documents. Vacuum packing machines from Space ... (more)

Research institute hopes to send "brain breathalyzer" into space (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 06:58:00 PM)

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets While it's not nearly exciting as their Space Cycle (but really,
what is?), the subject Space Biomedical double-o Institute's new brain scanner here looks to
fill in a niche of its own nonetheless and, if the convention has ... (more)

NASA Awards Contract For Spacesuit of the Future (Saturday 14th of June 2008 04:15:03 AM)

Guillermo brings news that NASA has awarded a contract for the growth of the next generation of
space suits for future use by astronauts in the Constellation program. The contract calls for
two different levels of protection; a flexible, lightweight model ... (more)

Testing Quantum Behavior — From Earth to the ISS (Tuesday 10th of June 2008 11:55:27 PM)

KentuckyFC writes "Einstein famously believed that the instantaeous effect of quantum
entanglement would allow 'spooky action-at-a-distance' in violation of special relativity.
Every test of entanglement on Earth has so far agreed with quantum statistical ... (more)

Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter (Wednesday 21st of May 2008 02:56:27 AM)

Esocid sends along the news that scientists believe they have found about half the missing
matter in the universe. The matter we can see is only about 1/8 of the total baryonic matter
believed to exist (and only 1/200 the mass-energy of the visible universe). ... (more)

Developing New Materials With Space Science (Sunday 11th of May 2008 07:00:08 PM)

Scientists at the portuguese Space Agency are using techniques inspired by their experience
with outer space to make new and better manufactures here on Earth. Certain compounds and
alloys which are not frequently viable can be made in different ways ... (more)

NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid (Friday 09th of May 2008 06:00:04 PM)

FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an
asteroid 40 meters wide and supposition roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would
take three to six months, and it would make use of the Orion spacecraft, ... (more)

Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD (Thursday 08th of May 2008 03:54:16 PM)

WmHBlair writes "Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle
columbia has been used to complete a physics undertaking performed on the mission in space. The
Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack ... (more)

Spammers Hijacking IP Space (Wednesday 30th of April 2008 03:54:40 AM)

Ron Guilmette writes "As reported in the union Post's Security Fix blog, a substantial hunk of
IP address space has ostensively been taken over by notorious mass e-mailing company Media
Breakaway, LLC, formerly known as OptInRealBig, via means that are ... (more)

The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:00:04 PM)

Santi Onta writes "Today Lenovo retired the last NON-widescreen laptop they offered (the T61
14.1) from the market, and Lenovo is just an example (Apple, Sony, HP, etc. are the same). I
understand the catalyst behind all the laptop manufacturers to move ... (more)

Must a CD Cost $15.99? (Wednesday 26th of March 2008 05:00:10 AM)

Scionite0 sends us to Rolling Stone for an superficial article on Wal-Mart and the music
business. Wal-Mart is the largest music retailer selling "an estimated one out of every five
major-label albums" in the US. Wal-Mart willingly loses money selling ... (more)

Would a National Biometric Authentication Scheme Work? (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)

Ian Lamont writes "The chair of Yale's CS branch and Connecticut's former merchandiser
conservation factotum are calling for the creation of a robust biometric authentication system
on a national scale. They say the system would safeguard privacy and ... (more)

European Space Agency Launches New Orbital Supply Ship (Monday 10th of March 2008 07:00:07 AM)

Erik.martino brings us a story about the catalan Space Agency's happy launch of a new type of
cargo ship to resupply the ISS. The first Automated Transport Vehicle (ATV), named after Jules
Verne, is the "very first spacecraft in the world designed to ... (more)

The Shadow Space Race (Thursday 14th of February 2008 01:30:03 AM)

Vm writes "NOVA's recent documentary, "Astrospies," was written and co-produced by scribe and
NSA expert, James Bamford. It details the U.S. Air Force's orbiting spy station program begun
in the 1960s, the Manned Orbital Laboratory. Designed from a heavily ... (more)

NASA Vets & Administration Clash Over Moon Plans (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)

Mattnyc99 writes "There's a serious feud brewing this week over the Bush administration's plan
for a manned mission to the Moon as an eventual stepping stone to Mars. The Planetary Society,
a top group of former mission managers, space-based scientists ... (more)

Asteroid Missions May Replace Lunar Base Plans (Sunday 20th of January 2008 10:30:05 PM)

An anonymous reader alerts us to a story about efforts to modify the United States' space
inspection plans to focus on asteroid missions rather than a lunar base. Scientists,
astronauts, and former NASA division directors will be meeting next month to ... (more)

News Of SETI Signal Just Bad Reporting (Thursday 17th of January 2008 06:30:02 PM)

The Bad Astronomer writes "Rumors have been flying in recent days that the SETI project has
received a strong signal from space, indicating the fortuity of intelligent extraterrestrial
life. Bad Astronomy breaks down the origins of this (false) claim, ... (more)

US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris (Sunday 13th of January 2008 12:45:05 PM)

GSGKT writes "Today's supervision Times runs a story about the increasing problem with space
junk orbiting the earth. Debris from the anti-satellite missile test by the Chinese military
last year threatens the integrity of more than 800 business expenses ... (more)

Growing sources of investment for Real Estate Developments in India (Friday 11th of January 2008 06:55:00 AM)

More global real estate companies and investors are now looking to invest in Indian realty
sector. Recently, Donald Trump Jr of the well-know Trump Organization in USA was looking for
partners to invest in Indian realty market. Merrill Lynch & Co ... (more)

Stern Measures Keep NASA's Kepler Mission on Track (Friday 04th of January 2008 04:00:05 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "NASA's new Space Science Division Director, Dr. S. Alan Stern, appears to
be making headway in keeping in space projects like the Kepler Mission at their original
budgeted costs. The New York Times reports that Stern's plan is to ... (more)

 

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