Tag: nasa
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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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Rare snowfall stuns much of South Africa
from ap.org: JOHANNESBURG (AP) — People slowly came outside despite the cold wind Tuesday across South Africa, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country. The snow began Tuesday morning, part of an extreme cold snap now biting into…
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Communion On The Moon: The Religious Experience In Space
from theatlantic.com: Before the launch this weekend of three human beings into the ether of space around the Earth, before they boarded their Soyuz spacecraft, and before the rockets were fired, precautions were taken. Not the humdrum checklists and redundancies of space exploration — assessing the weather, the equipment, the math — but a preparation…
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Corbett Report: Episode233 – The Kubrick Question
Listen to @CorbettReport on @RBNlive Weeknights at Midnight from corbett report: His films have birthed some of the most iconic images in the history of cinema, yet still remarkably little is known about Stanley Kubrick’s life…or death. Today on the podcast we examine the works of the world-famous director for clues as to what he…
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#DataDump: #Flame, Blame, Hall of Fame and more
Massive Spy Malware ‘Flame’ Infiltrating Iranian Computers // SKorea teens flock online to snitch on pro-North posts // 33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame // SpaceX’s mission ends with a splashdown in the Pacific // NASA Shuttle Bus Delayed
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#DataDump: Electronic Curtains, Conflict Minerals and more
NSA Chief Denies, Denies, Denies Wired’s Domestic Spying Story: ‘NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)’ // U.S. dangles secret data for Russia missile shield approval // Teenager arrested for comments made on Facebook page //
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1984 Cold War Incident: Soviet Laser Fired Upon Shuttle Challenger
The Soviet Defense Minister concerned about American spying, ordered Terra-3 laser fired upon the Shuttle! The laser beam caused malfunctions on shuttle and sickened crew members, and resulted, in a formal diplomatic protest.
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#DataDump: Homeless Hotspots, Phonehacking, Hollywood
Turning the Homeless Into 4G Hotspots at SXSW // FBI says paying cash for coffee is a sign of terrorist intent // DARPA’s Director Quits to Take Executive Slot at Google // Google Exec Joins Microsoft, Trashes Google // Supercomputer models atomic bomb saving Earth from massive asteroid
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#DataDump: Clash, Collusion, Christina and more
Obama, NSA ‘Clash’ Over Spying on Private Company Nets* Collusion for Firefox Shows You Who’s Tracking You on the Web In Real Time* Collusion :: Add-ons for Firefox* Google Caught Violating Browser Privacy Settings to Track Users* Google Once Considered Issuing Digital Currency* Hackers penetrated NASA computers 13 times last year* Moon acts as mirror,…
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NASA Seeks Amateur Astronauts to Study Space Food
Dream Job: Go to Hawaii and Eat Astronaut Food in the ‘Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue and Simulation’, or HI-SEAS from pcmag.com: In the film Mission To Mars, astronauts find a stranded and presumed dead Don Cheadle happily living on the planet’s surface, surviving on food grown in a makeshift greenhouse. Now NASA is looking to…
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50th Anniversary: John Glenn and Friendship 7 Flight
Astronaut John Glenn is the first American to orbit Earth in the Mercury 6 capsule on February 20, 1962. NASA makes available a video to celebrate the occasion of the 50th anniversary.
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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.
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Roger Boisjoly, Whistleblower Warned of Challenger Disaster, Dies 73
from nytimes.com: Six months before the space shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida on Jan. 28, 1986, Roger Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo. He warned that if the weather was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s huge rocket boosters could fail. “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human…
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John Whiteside Parsons & the Occult Origins of NASA
Parsons died attempting to call forth the goddess Babalon incarnate (a.k.a. The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, or the Mother of Abominations), but not before he co-founded JPL or Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is now NASA.