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- UK plans lunar phone network
- The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...
- Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-05
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy research
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy researchCongrats JDEM.........but if you don't terraform Mars soon, none of this new information is going to do anyone much good, now is it?Seems like a stupid response? Not so....1. We breed too much and we grow too little food and we use the...
- Tags: team, human race, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-27
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy research
- NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy DoE have teamed up to operate the future Joint Dark Energy Mission JDEM. As you probably know, recent astronomical measurements have showed that about 72% of the total energy in the universe is dark energy, even if scientists don't know much about it,...
- Tags: Team, Universe, NASA, Energy, WMAP, WMAP Data, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Web Site Development, Team Management, Network Technology, Finance, Internet, Management, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids
- A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroidsWhat a waste of an awesome digital cameraThink of the PORN you could produce with this thing. Of course, to display it, you'd need a native resolution monitor... 30 feet tall?Can we get any more childish Jason?ntOH boyhere comes the big 1.. what ya gonna...
- Tags: asteroid, Followed, camera
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- (Inside the SF Green Festival)
- Inside the SF Green FestivalPatheticThe fads of the 1970s and they were legion were relatively benign next to this nonsense. I'm going to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century by anti-humanists who would condemn their fellow humans to a subservient role to an infested ball of rock....
- Tags: SF Green Festival
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Swarms of small satellites coming soon
- The first satellites were launched about 50 years ago as a way to conquer space. Now, satellites are essential for our civilian and military communications. But they remain large and expensive, some of them costing several hundreds of millions of dollars. This is why researchers from the University of Florida...
- Tags: Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, Fitz-Coy
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The Belt (zip)
- Guide your ship through the asteroid belt that surrounds the earth. Can you take on the alien invasion fleet, and save the earth? Featuring 5 levels of 3d modeled spaceships, special weapons, upgrades and asteroids. Full screen 16-bit color graphics and sound effects. Languages English and German. This version is...
- Tags: Belt, Earth
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Robotic sensors on Mount St. Helens
- U.S. researchers are developing a new robust wireless communication systems for Mount St. Helens. With the help of a $1.63 million NASA grant, they've developed a dozen of smart robotic sensors which talk to each other and send information to a central information hub, the Johnston Ridge Observatory located atop...
- Tags: Wireless Communication, Sensor, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille, NASA
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prison
- Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prisonJustice system problemsThe civilized world considers the US justice system to be extremely harsh. The US has a higher percentage of people in prison than ANY other nation. We have Guantonimo, we have waterboarding, we have unlimited detainment without...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Asperger, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prison
- "NASA hacker" Gary McKinnon's recent diagnosis of Asperger syndrome – a kind of autism with a high incidence among computer programmers – may yet keep him out of American prisons. Several members of Parliament have signed onto a motion calling for McKinnon not to be extradited to the U.S. because...
- Tags: NASA, Diagnosis, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman, U.S., Computer, Productivity
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors
- Windows 7 to scale to 256 processorsMassively parallel architectures...There are more problems to solve besides dispatching. With a large number of processors, you will run into latency problems accessing memory as physical memory gets further away from a particular processor. Multiple queues and thread affinity to processors will...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, processor, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- easyBloom plant sensor
- EasyBloom is a digital babysitting system for a garden. It consists of a flower-shaped, USB-enabled plant sensor gizmo, and an online plant-matchmaking database. People with green thumbs might not need it, but this product could be attractive if you'd like some high-tech help to keep your plants alive and thriving....
- Tags: sensor, easyBloom Web page
- Product reviews 2008-10-26
- Does space really stink?
- Does space really stink?Space doesn't smell at allOdors cannot travel through vacuum.What the astronauts are smelling is machinery, ozone, the outgassing of their suit material, etc.I'll go with the ISS office.What with the universe supposedly made up of so much metallic matter, some of it VERY hot, is it any...
- Tags: shuttle, smell, particle, vacuum
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Does space really stink?
- According to several NASA astronauts, space smells like fried steak or hot metal. In order to prepare future missions, NASA decided to hire a UK chemist to create these space smells in his lab. According to The Press Association article, the scientist has already worked for an art exhibition to...
- Tags: NASA, Smell, Roland Piquepaille, Steak, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- The invisible frontier of our solar system
- On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager spacecraft experienced in 2004 when 'an invisible shock formed as the solar wind piles up against the gas in interstellar...
- Tags: Earth, Spacecraft, NASA, Orbit, Solar System, IBEX, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open sourcethe government should get involvedand pay more OSS developers so people can benefit more from government backed funding.This is the right policy since M$ is already in line for a taxpayer bailout.Which came first?Quoting the Comment:Core contributors are desirable employees....
- Tags: Government, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Army conference shows off modern marvels for modern menaces
- Army conference shows off modern marvels for modern menacesThe other tech sourceThe military is the source for a lot of our technology but there is another source that has produced it's share - the space program. Over the years the space program has created many of the technologies that we...
- Tags: Document management, Taxes, HEALTHCARE, space program, modern marvel, marvel
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
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