Chile: A Lesson in Courage, Faith and Patriotism

The capsule the Chilean Navy constructed traveled up and down through the earth a distance of 33 miles in total to save 33 trapped Chilean miners. The courage, faith and patriotism of the nation, the rescuers and the miners have now traveled across the globe to touch every...

All 33 Trapped Miners rescued and All Rescuers Out of the Mine

"Chile's president has said his country will never be the same again after the extraordinary rescue of the 33 miners trapped deep underground for 69 days.Sebastian Pinera said he thought Chile was "more united and stronger than ever", and "more valued" worldwide.There were...

Philips develops " intelligent pill"

" Dutch group Philips has developed an "intelligent pill" that contains a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a drug reservoir to release medication in a specific area in the body. Philips, one of the world's biggest hospital equipment makers, said on Tuesday...

Skydiver's world record attempt foiled as balloon floats away without him

Speculation has it that maybe the attempt of a world record jump over Saskatchewan was really not meant to be.  This morning's unsuccesful launch would sound the same as throwing your anchor overboard and...

Skydiver's world record attempt postponed

Fournier's project manager would not give the media any specific reason(s) why the jump was postponed. " The capsule was taken back into a hangar late Monday morning after the attempt was called off, The...

Crashed probe yields Sun secrets

" Scientists have measured the composition of oxygen at the birth of the Solar System. The discovery is a vital piece of data for reconstructing the evolution of our cosmic neighbourhood. Nasa's Genesis...

BC Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess Shale

Certainly a major importance how British Columbia and vertabrates evolved over 530 million years ago." Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess ShaleRandy Boswell, Canwest News...

OS X Leopard update to grant current AirPort Extreme owners networked backups

"So when Time Capsule was announced it was understandable that there were a good number of people that were AirPort Extreme owners wondering if they’d be able to do something similar with their AirPort Extreme’s and an external hard drive. Well, it appears as though...

live for ever in space

    Our mission is to help disperse human genes and memes throughout outer space, to other galaxies, thereby giving them much longer life spans than they have here on earth. Outer space is far...

live for ever in space

         Our mission is to help disperse human genes and memes throughout outer space, to other galaxies, thereby giving them much longer life spans than they have here on earth. Outer space is far less dense than earth, and the...

Russian ships reach North Pole

"Russian ships reach North Pole 8/1/2007, 12:24 p.m. EDT By DOUGLAS BIRCH The Associated Press (AP) — V MOSCOW — An expedition aimed at strengthening Russia's claim to much of oil and gas wealth beneath the...

FDA Approves Patch to Treat Dementia

"The first skin patch to treat the dementia that can plague Alzheimer's patients gained federal approval, a drug company said Monday. The drug in the patch, called Exelon or rivastigmine, is the same as that now available in capsule form but provides a regular and continuous...

Punk'd by the 1970's: Time Capsule Contains Porn

A time capsule was embedded a wall in the University of Washington's Dept. of Communications in the early 1950's, to be opened one hundred years later. Then, in the far-flung future of the late 1970's, pranksters opened the time capsule and inserted artifacts of their own,...

Billionaire Space Tourist Returns to Earth

"So... uh, what did I miss?""The capsule arrived after a more than three-hour return trip from the orbital station, carrying space tourist Charles Simonyi, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, and American astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, according to a spokesman at Mission...

Question in a bottle finally answered

"A message in a bottle found after being hidden in a wall at Quonset Naval Air Station for more than 60 years came with a question its authors knew couldn't be answered unless their makeshift time capsule was...

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