Tag: nasa
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defcon 10/22: obama’s cyberthreats, telecoms & crypto
nasa: lunar pole-shot plume shows up in pictures*nsa director tapped for cyber command*nsa director to be new cyber commander*the growing cyberthreat*ucla study: the internet is altering our brains*former fbi agent slams defence tactics in mckinnon case*time-warner cable exposes 65k customer routers to remote hacks*crypto spares man who secretly video taped flatmates*free download turns blackberry into…
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NASA/Pentagon Scientist, Stewart D. Nozette, Arrested for Attempted Israeli Spying
Stewart D. Nozette, 52, from Chevy Chase, Maryland in the United States, was arrested Monday on charges of espionage and is being held until a court hearing on Tuesday. He is accused of spying for Israel.
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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.…
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nasa says 2012 is viral marketing not the end of the world
…nasa condemned film producers over a viral marketing campaign that suggests the world will come to and end in 2012…from telegraph: Sony Pictures set up a website for an organisation called the Institute for Human Continuity which predicts a cataclysmic denouement for Earth three years from now. It suggests that “after two decades of rigorous…
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moon crash to create 6-mile plume as nasa searches for water
update: watch nasa bomb the moon @ 7:30a et/4:30a pt on 10/9 from times online: A NASA spacecraft will deliberately crash into the Moon next week on a mission that could enhance the prospects of establishing a manned lunar base. Only two weeks after three probes discovered water on the Moon, the Lunar Crater Observation…
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defcon 9/30: asteroid attack, doomsday, the moon & 2012
asteroid attack!: putting earth’s defences to the test* dhs report: US at risk of cyber attack*confessions of a cyber czarist*new nsa center unveiled in budget documents* senate kills accountability for cyber-security ‘czar’*russia’s doomsday device supposedly still active & being upgraded* cyber control: white house or dhs?*halfpasthuman.com: ‘web-bot project’ makes prophecy of 2012 apocalypse*nasa retargets moon-attack…
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william safire, columnist & nixon speechwriter, dies at 79
from ap: William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday. He was 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, family friend Martin Tolchin said. Safire spent more than 30 years writing…
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scientists confirm water on the moon
from theregister.co.uk: Analysis of the lunar surface by three different spacecraft has provided “unambiguous evidence” of water on the Moon, Space.com reports. India’s Chandrayaan-1, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and the agency’s Deep Impact probe have all detected the presence of either water or hydroxyl – one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom linked by a single…
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building block of life found on comet
from reuters: The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday. Microscopic traces of glycine were discovered in a sample of particles retrieved from the tail…
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8/13 newspurge: bio/cyber, econo/health & hitler history
biowars/swine flu: number of people seeking vaccination exemptions rising*fox news cites infowars.com in flu pandemic report*biological warfare & the national security state: a chronology*are new vaccines laced with birth-control drugs?*state asks volunteers to aid flu vaccinations* chief medical officer reveals swine flu vaccination plans*natl guard takes over school in swine flu ‘vaccine riot’ drill*cdc/h1n1 ‘community…
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7/23 newspurge: 9/11, bio, cyber, drug, econo, enviro & geopolitiks
9/11 updates: 9/11 families endorse nyc can petition* nyc can breaks 70k signatures*ny district judge alvin k hellerstein – the 9/11 judge* buffer grows around shanksville memorial*was delta flight #1989 part of a live-fly hijacking exercise on 9/11?* hillary says 9/11 ringleaders are in pakistan* biowars/swine flu: clyde lewis: kool-aid 666, the injection infection*eu666 biodefense…
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spacewalk #2 unfolds on 40th moon anniversary
from ap: The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are celebrating the 40th anniversary of man’s first moon landing with their own spacewalk. Late Monday morning, David Wolf and Thomas Marshburn ventured out to hook spare parts to the international space station. It is the second spacewalk in three days, and it’s taking place 40 years…
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cyber/spacewar: attacks & anniversaries
world wide wiretap: cyber attacks traced to the uk & USfrom threat level: International fingerpointing in the recent cyberattacks against U.S. and South Korean web sites has widened to include the UK and U.S., as researchers examining the attacks trace them to a server in the United Kingdom. But the UK company that owns the…
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cyber/spacewar: well-timed attacks, nasa, nsa & saic
US suspects north korea was behind cyber attacks from dpa: The United States believes North Korea was responsible for a massive cyber attack on government and other websites during the past week, Fox News reported Wednesday. An unnamed US defence official told Fox the attack targeted dozens of websites, including the ones for the US…