Tag: asteroids
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Defcon 6/9: Wikileaked, Registered & Artificials
State Dept anxious about diplomatic secrets Bradley Manning allegedly downloaded // DHS would be cyber power center under Lieberman/Collins proposal // Wireless signals to be jammed in Canada for G8 summit // Calls increase for govt to regulate net journalists & bloggers // More active sun means nasty solar storms ahead
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Stephen Hawking Warns Over Making Contact With Aliens
Aliens almost certainly exist but humans should avoid making contact, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned. In a series for the Discovery Channel the renowned astrophysicist said it was “perfectly rational” to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere.
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dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near earth
from new scientist: An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth’s orbit. Their obscurity and tilted orbits have kept them hidden from surveys designed to detect things that might hit our planet. Called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the new NASA telescope launched on 14…
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russians plan to save earth from asteroid in 2036
from allgov: Sounding like a character from the film Armageddon, Russia’s leading space official, Anatoly Perminov, warned this week that action must be taken to keep an asteroid from striking the earth in 2036. Perminov said “lives are at stake” unless Russia and other nations band together to destroy the asteroid Apophis which will pass…
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defcon 10/29: smart grid, nsa supercenters & surveillance
obama announces stimulus funding for the ‘smart grid’*obama invests $3.4b in US electricity grid*feds’ smart grid race leaves cybersecurity in the dust*flashback: corbett report: episode103 – the smart grid cometh*cyberattacks: espionage now, sabotage soon*nsa supercenters to store americans’ private data permanently*government to build $1.5b cybersecurity data center*dhs to announce cyber merger*scan of internet uncovers 1000s…
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small asteroid flew past earth on 10/16
from space.com: A small asteroid will buzz the Earth late Friday EDT, flying just inside the orbit of the moon. It should pass safely by our home planet, according to a crack team of NASA space rock trackers. The space rock, named 2009 TM8, was just discovered Thursday by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.…