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First we were surprised to hear that the train going from San Fransisco to Los Angeles will be traveling 220MPH, but then Navigant Consulting announced that the bullet train can run with zero greenhouse gas emissions.
“According to the energy consulting firm, the train’s expected usage of 3,350 GWh each year can easily be […]
While doing research for my next “How To” clip on composting methods, I found this website on vermi-composting.
Vermi-composting is simply composting with worms! A method that even city dwellers can use.
If you want to learn more or find out how to start you own continue reading here.
Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth’s superheated mantle. This is the heat that helps cause volcanoes, geysers and hot springs. And it is the heat that powers a modest number of electricity generators around […]
As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights. Psychologists outlined these mental health challenges recently at the American Psychological Association’s 116th Annual Convention, and introduced a […]
More than 30 sources of radiation were buried by debris after the magnitude 8 earthquake struck central China last week, state media reported today, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000.A French nuclear expert said the radioactive sources likely came from materials used in hospitals, factories, or in research—not for weapons.
The Chinese […]
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Posted By: ashley | May 21st
Interesting:
In October 1963, two cartographers with the Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center saw a strange glow on the moon. Using the 24-inch refractor telescope at Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, James Greenacre and Edward Barr saw a deep, ruby-red glow coming from the crater Aristarchus. The sighting might have been glowing gas from […]
MERRITT ISLAND, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — April 30, 2007 — KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Italy’s SPACELAND group, which organized the world’s first non-governmental zero gravity research flight in 2005, broke its own record for the oldest microgravity test subject when it flew 93-year-old Cesare Massano aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s (ZERO-G) G-FORCE ONE on April […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — April 26, 2007 — Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G®), and its sponsors, Space Florida and The Sharper Image, successfully flew world-renowned physicist, cosmologist, and best-selling author Professor Stephen Hawking into weightlessness today, performing eight parabolas, even though he only planned for one. It was the first time Professor Hawking, […]
This is an interesting read from the guys at NASA. Cross your fingers for Warp Speed!
Read it HERE.
POWAY, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — April 23, 2007 — SpaceDev, Inc., as a member of Boeing’s Orbital Express team, would like to join Boeing’s announcement that the two satellites on DARPA’s Orbital Express Mission successfully separated and the first in a series of capture tests was […]