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Kepler seeks out Class-M planets

Kepler seeks out Class-M planets3-1/2 year mission (six months longer than Enterprise?s)The Enterprise's was a 5 year mission... you must have been referring to it's original TV run, no?Yeah, I mean really...It's in the opening narrative of show... [i]"Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new...

Tags: Class-M, KEPLER

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Kepler seeks out Class-M planets

NASA spaceship Kepler, equipped with a powerful telescope, will try to identify Earth-like programs in the galaxy's habitable zone. by Richard Koman

Tags: Earth, Planet, Kepler, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Additional Resources

NASA News Reader 1.6.2 (Mobile)

NASA News Reader grabs the top stories from the NASA and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers breaking news, image of the day, twitter updates, shuttle and station news, earth news, universe news, Hubble news, Kepler mission, Chandra X-Ray observatory images, constellation program news, and...

Tags: NASA, Mobile, News, Splaysoft, NASA News Reader, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-21

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1Great for science usebut no good as an internet street map.Never intended to be a Google killerIt was never meant to be a Google killer - and only foolish media that depicted it as one. Clearly it is not a search engine, but what it...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Alpha, ongoing impression, Look-Up, search engine

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

News to know: Google; iBotnet; Cisco; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google earnings deliver; Sales growth slows; Economy still in 'uncharted territory' Statement: GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, IBM Corp., Desktops, Strategy, Open Source, Hardware, Management

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Images: Kepler catches first planet-hunting territory sightings

The mission to find Earth-like planets is off and running and NASA has made the first set of images of the field of sky available to the public. by CNET News.com

Tags: CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-04-16

Images: NASA's Kepler to seek Earth-like planets

A Friday evening launch will send the Kepler spacecraft out into the Milky Way on a mission to discover places that might support life as we know it. by CNET News.com

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-03-05

UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be fired

UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be firedConsidering that.......most people consider themselves to be religious, why is it necessary for science classes to take an atheistic approach to presenting the subject? By doing so, you are not only alienating a good portion of your students, but you...

Tags: Reiss, creationism

Discussion threads 2008-09-14

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)kids?Not sure at what age group you are referring to when you say kids.Basic computer skills are all that are necessary for middle and high school. If a student would like to explore advanced uses of a computer they...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Enabling Web Service Extensions for Scientific Workflows

Web Services have become an integral part of workflow orchestration in scientific applications and many tools used by scientists including Kepler, Taverna and Triana incorporate Web Services. However orchestration of complex workflows that involve services that exploit standards like WS-Addressing or WS-Security are not easily managed by these tools. Most...

Tags: Web, Use Case, Web Service, Web Services Security, Workflow, Indiana University, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Security, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-01-01

The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)

The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)A *cheap* Apple? BuwahahahaAre you trying to give Steve Jobs a heart attack?RE: The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)hi, im frm india. i read ur cheapest laptop details. when i...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project, Apple Inc., computer

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

Physics Formulas and Tables - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures chapters in the trial (Mobile)

An essential reference guide for Physics and Engineering students. You will use it from college to graduate school and beyond. FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Includes: Laws...

Tags: Optics, Mobile, Biology, Thermodynamics, Physics Formula, Law

Software downloads 2007-06-20

Physics Quick Study Guide - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version. (Mobile)

Boost Your grades with this illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it from college to graduate school and beyond. FREE two chapters in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat, Gas, and...

Tags: Optics, Mobile, Biology, Thermodynamics, Law

Software downloads 2007-05-31

Photos: Searching for Earth-size planets

At an open meeting at the SETI Institute, scientists discuss NASA's plans to use the new Kepler spacecraft to search for Earth-size planets orbiting stars.

Tags: photograph, Earth-size, spacecraft, NASA, scientist

Image galleries 2007-04-13

NASA wants to find another Earth

On the hunt for unknown planetsNASA held a press conference on April 12 to discuss its plans for using its new spacecraft, called Kepler, to search for planets that may have extraterrestrial life. CNET News.com's Zamir Haider reports.

Tags: NASA

Videos 2007-04-13

Now public: newspapers are dead

How much do we really want the average person to contribute to the newsgathering process, to politics and to the culture itself?" Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch asks. I met La Bambi this week at the iHollywoodForums Digital Media Summit in Hollywoods grand old Roosevelt hotel. She was on Michael Strouds...

Tags: Blogging, La Bambi, Pluto, Brody-Trotsky

Blog posts 2007-03-17

100 Most Influential People of All Times - from Buddha and Hammurabi to Thomas Edison (Mobile)

Learn more about 100 Most Influential People of all times - from Buddha and Hammurabi to Thomas Edison and Brothers Wright. Their lifes, views, and careers illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps.Features Fully illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or...

Tags: India, Theory, Mobile, Founder, Mathematician, BC, Vespucci

Software downloads 2007-02-13

Demo 07: Wireless control of your car

Inilex launched Kepler Advantage, which a GPS-enabled wireless device for security and monitoring that plugs into a car’s data bus. From a phone, PDA or other device, you can set alarms, start the engine, unlock doors and receive messages, such as "your vehicle has been stolen." The QuickFence service locates...

Tags: General, Demo

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Flexible transistors for your clothes

Physicists from Austria and the U.S. have built ultra-thin pressure sensors which can be woven into sensitive textiles. In "Haute couture from the experimental physics lab," they say that their new thin-film transistors TFTs can switch back and forth in reaction to pressure. To achieve this effect, they coupled TFTs...

Tags: transistor

Blog posts 2006-10-01

Yunus 3.0 (Windows)

Aim: To produce an object oriented visual language by using : Delphi 6. Source: www.delphiturk.com, DelphiTurk KodBank, Delphi 3 Marco Cantu, www.greatis.com, my students (Ilyas Vanlýoðlu, Mehmet S sl ), Kepler Script Engine Version 1.0 Coded by Cosseno. State: All the programming commands are not finished. There are just some...

Tags: Window, Borland Delphi, Programming, EV, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Construction, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2005-09-06