Tag: exploration
-
NASA’s Science Missions Bring the Universe Into Sharper Focus
But even as NASA goes through this awkward transition in human space flight, the agency has one bright spot: science. NASA’s scientific missions — robotic probes, telescopes, satellites — are bringing Earth, the sun, the solar system and the universe into sharper focus.
-
russians at lake vostok not lost
US News reports failure to respond doesn’t mean Russians lost or even in trouble. Russians are working around clock to reach goal to drill into ancient Lake Vostok before winter closes down operation, believes American explorer John Priscu. A perturbed Priscu discounts recent Fox report Russians at Lake Vostok lost, because of no reported contact…
-
12/2 Defcon: Fingerprints, Arsenic & Oxygen
Feds warrantlessly tracking credit cards in real time // Google admits Street View trespassing, hit with crippling $1 fine // Most popular Yahoo search in 2010 was ‘BP oil spill’; First time for a news story
-
nasa may have found remnants of black hole at galactic center
from technoccult: NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50k lightyears and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized blackhole at the center of our galaxy… One possibility includes a particle jet from the supermassive black hole at the galactic…