The new missile launch site enables N Korea to threaten Japan, Taiwan, Alaska At the same time N Korea continuing to prepare for Nuke breeding in Reactor Tim Brown, an imagery analyst who has tracked the satellite...
created by SOLARLIFE | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 573 views | 14 recommendations | 6 comments
"The satellites would electromagnetically beam gigawatts of solar energy back to ground-based receivers, where it would then be converted to electricity and transferred to power grids. And because in high Earth...
"A privately funded rocket was lost on its way to space Saturday night, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire’s effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery business. The failure occurred a little more than two minutes after...
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Yet Mehta has another solution for India's chronic electricity shortage -- one that does not involve power plants on the ground but instead massive sun-gathering satellites in geosynchronous orbits 22,000...
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Japanese MPs have backed plans to scrap rules restricting the use of military technology in space.While I think Japan's desire to go Star Wars is largely defensive (China's been pretty active on this front as...
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And what if NASA is wrong...and the asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and destruction, will not "agree" with the NASA calculations and collide with Earth? Look at the new...
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It seems that we are going to experince increased geomagnetic activity for the next 11 years, which could provide us with some stunning aurora Borealis in the northern hemisphere and in areas where those...
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Now this is cool -- new data from NASA's five-satellite Themis mission reportedly shows that the Northern Lights are powered by a stream of charged particles flowing through magnetic fields and... ah, just read...
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The White world has learned nothing from the Nazis, have they? An already despised and marginalised people, the Roma are now the subjects of yet another genocide programme aimed at "cleaning up"...
created by angryindian | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 480 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
"In a “complex technology made simple” scenario, one does not need specialized GPS Satellites and the systems that pick up their signals in order to determine a specific location in most cities in the United...
Jim Gray took his sail boat and left alone to spread his mother remains in the San Francisco Bay Area a few days ago. He has not been seen or heard ever since. The Coast Guard started a search and came out empty handed, had to give up. Then a few friends and colleagues of...
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German online IT newspage Heise.de reports in its Tuesday edition that the German legislator drafts a law that would forbid the dissemination of precise geodata. Some remark, it is a shift into full gear, back into communist era censorship.
According to the report, the German...
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"Here's something that might appeal to your fretful or data-loving side: a service that alerts you if your car is stolen — or being driven too fast by the teenager who borrowed the keys.
Among the nearly 70 emerging technologies on display this week at the DEMO conference...
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The startling disclosure that China successfully launched a long-range
precision missile strike that obliterated one of its own satellites has
definitely spooked defense analysts in Washington, Taipei, and Tokyo
who are worried about the mainland's push to develop...