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Submission + - Why Silicon-Based Aliens Would Rather Eat our Citi (universetoday.com)

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Nancy_A
Nancy_A writes: "While the world as we know it runs on Carbon, science fiction’s long flirtation with Silicon-based life — “It’s life, but not as we know it” — has become a familiar catchphrase.

Although non-Carbon based life is a very long shot, this Q&A with one of the US's top astrochemists — Max Bernstein, the Research Lead of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington,D.C. discusses what silicon life might be like."

Comment Good-bye sprint? (Score 1) 325

by f1vlad (#37814328) Attached to: Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans
Well some of us have what they call grandfathered data plans. I have $59 per month unlimited plan on my data card which I signed up for about 4 years ago. They stopped offering that 2 years ago but my plan keeps going despite contract being ended a while ago. If this limit applies to the likes of me, it will be good-bye sprint.
IT

Submission + - A first look at Cisco's Cius tablet (techtarget.com)

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v3rgEz
v3rgEz writes: "It's not a tablet, Cisco executives keep insisting, but what's left isn't much: The Cius pricey, buggy device that doesn't live up to the key features Cisco promised, and key flaws don't have a specific time table for when they'll be fixed."
NASA

Submission + - STS-135 ET to Transmit Video During Re-Entry

Submitted by k6mfw
k6mfw writes: STS-135 External Tank to Transmit Video During Re-Entry

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?303039-Space-Shuttle-s-ET138-Video-downlink
M0ODV on QRZ.com writes:
âNASA engineers have installed a camera on the external fuel tank (ET) which will transmit live pictures of its destructive burn up on re-entry. The live FM transmitted signal will be on 2272.5 MHz at 10 watts. The camera captures images at (NTSC) frame rate of 30 frames per second and will burn up over the Pacifc Ocean over the east coast of New Zealand, entry interface (EI) will begin at 400,000 ft over southern Australia and can be seen with the naked eye.”

STS-135: External Tank death camera ready
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/06/sts-135-atlantis-tcdt-external-tank-death-camera-ready/

“We have not yet been able to analytically confirm if a plasma blackout condition will present a TV reception problem prior to breakup.”

STS-135: Tank Camera modification aimed at filming footage of ET-138’s death
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/06/sts-135-camera-modification-aimed-filming-footage-et-138s-death/

“The prospect of footage from the tank itself — as it vents and starts to disintegrate — on the final ever shuttle mission, may not be up to the high standards of the Soyuz ‘Flyabout’ footage of Endeavour and the ISS, but it would provide a potentially stunning viewpoint of the final Shuttle ET, prior to its demise.”
AI

Submission + - Japan's Newest Pop Star Revealed to Be Computer-Ge (gawker.com)

Submitted by f1vlad
f1vlad writes: A bunch of fans of Aimi Eguchi, the newest member of the Japanese idol group AKB 48, were shocked to discover that she was actually a computer generated composite of the "best features" of other members of the group.
Idle

Submission + - Man robs bank of $1 to get health care in jail (go.com) 3

Submitted by f1vlad
f1vlad writes: A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report.
NASA

Submission + - Two iPhones join astronauts on the last mission (cnet.com)

Submitted by f1vlad
f1vlad writes: Two iPhones will join astronauts on the last shuttle mission to space. After docking astronauts will undertake a number of experiments with little tourists involving gyroscope, accelerometer, and camera. For example, one of the experiments will show whether it's possible to determine shuttle position in the space.

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