Tag: mars
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Epiphany Series: Mars Curiosity Rover Searches For Life
Universe Today reports on “…new video series called EPIPHANY, Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, NASA’s Deputy Project Scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory shares how the Mars Curiosity rover is going to shed new light on the ancient history of Mars and whether life could have ever existed there.”
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Will.i.am’s New Single Debuts On #Mars
Establishment Shill Rewarded for #Obamessiah, #ClimateControl Work* from latimesblogs.latimes.com: For will.i.am, what started as a fascination with space turned into a history-making song that was transmitted earlier this week from the Mars rover Curiosity… Times Science Writer Amina Khan discussed how will.i.am came to write the song and how NASA came to use the music…
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#DataDump: Airspace, Appeals, Algorithms and More
Unblinking surveillance stare: Army’s 7-story flying football field-sized blimp // FAA Documents Raise Questions About Safety of Drones in U.S. Airspace // Google Pays Record $22.5 Million Fine for Privacy Violations // George Soros ‘likes’ Facebook with $10m investment
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Constellation: Manned Mission to Mars
It’s a trip to Mars in less than nine minutes! You Tube video provides animation how Project Constellation would have taken Man to Mars by the 2030s! Obama may have effectively killed funding in 2010 for the project, but video still relates concepts universal to any trip! Please enjoy a free trip to Mars, tonight!
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Fifties Retrovision: Mars and Beyond
Mars and Beyond is an hour program by Walt Disney aired originally in 1957. There’s technical reporting in these early television programs that don’t seem to make it into programs from subsequent decades! The program provides overview of space- ship and trip to Mars, would look like: “…a trip to Mars would entail for a…
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#DataDump: #Mars, Meteorite, Mystery and more
Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars – “most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built sent a signal to Earth”* Man will walk on Mars within a generation, says Astronomer Royal* 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite* Opening the X-Files in Australia* Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data* Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping* Flame…
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Curiosity Landing Coverage at Google+Hangout
On August 5, 2012 at 10:31 PM PDT, the SUV-sized Mars Rover Curiosity AKA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) lands on Mars! A spectacular feat because of special maneuvers to land such a large object successfully on Mars. You may get play-by-play of planetary exploration “Super Bowl” below the fold. Please join Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait,…
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#DataDump: Dossiers, Dismissed and More
Despite i9/11 Threat, Lawmakers Punt Cyber Security Bill // NSA Chief Tells Hackers His Agency Doesn’t Create Dossiers on All Americans // Feds: We Can Freeze Megaupload Assets Even if Case Dismissed // All systems go for Curiosity rover landing Monday morning // #Audio #Satire: New Hubble Peephole Can See Into Women’s Showers
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The Grand Entrance Narrated by William Shatner
Actor William Shatner narrates excellent four minute video, describes crucial seven minute descent by newest Mars rover Curiosity to surface of Mars. Curiosity, AKA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), launched November 26, 2011 from Cape Canaveral and will set down August 6, 2012 at Gale Crater. NASA endured criticism over landing site as not best selection…
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#DataDump: Cops, Robots, Minerals and More
Uncle Sam Wants You! to Combat Online Piracy* DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snooping Feds* How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down* Military Judge Orders Obama Admin to Turn over Proof that WikiLeaks Documents Damaged National Security* ‘Big Brother’? No, It’s Parents: Software Helps Parents Monitor Their Children Online*…
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#DataDump: Megagovernment, Microbes and More
Wyden Protects Privacy, Blocks FISA Surveillance Law // Sen. Detours Obama Drive to Retain Controversial Wiretap Powers // Assange to Be Extradited to Sweden, Court Refuses Final Appeal // Feds Tell Megaupload Users to Forget About Their Data // Ret. Judge Against Outrageous Seizures in Megaupload Case // Microbes Capable Of Surviving On Mars Found
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Sci-Fi Cult Classic: ‘Robinson Crusoe on Mars’
Robin Crusoe On Mars is a 1964 science fiction cult classic directed by Byron Haskin, who also directed War Of The Worlds. The plot revolves around Commander Christopher ‘Kit’ Draper (Paul Mantee), who must learn to survive on Mars after his ship, Mars Gravity Probe 1, is forced down in a near miss with a…
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Chocolate Titans in fresh Antitrust Lawsuit for Alleged US Price Fixing
from confectionerynews.com: The Associated Wholesale Grocer (AWG), a retailer-owned cooperative that supplies retail member stores, brought the action in the District Court in Kansas through law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson LPP. Hershey et al. are already defendants in an on-going class action law suit in Pennsylvania Federal Court, which consolidates around 80 separate cases alleging…
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George Zimmerman rendered in Skittles;
Denver artist makes his points (in candy pointillism)from denverpost.com: The most crucial facts remain in dispute about what happened on February 26, the night George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. But one detail is clear: Martin had been on a trip to the store to buy Skittles when the incident took place… And they make an appropriate medium for…
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Cloud Spotted on Mars by Amateur Astronomer
Amateur rocks world of astronomy with image of cloud (picture, right) on terminator of Mars. “Wayne Jaeschke, from West Chester, Pennsylvania, noticed the formations which can be seen rising up from the edge of the Martian disk after he took the pictures on March 20,” reports Mail Online. Jaseschke’s find sent astronomers off to investigate…