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Submission + - Space elevators are lethal

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Maggie McKee

on Monday November 13, 2006 @02:26PM

Maggie McKee writes: "A new study reports that passengers could be killed by radiation on space elevators. Even travelling at 200 kilometres per hour, passengers would spend several days in the Van Allen radiation belts, long enough to kill them."

Submission + - Upgrading to Ajax apps increases productivity

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Jane Walker

on Monday November 13, 2006 @02:22PM

Jane Walker writes: "Find out why internal apps are ripe for replacement with Ajax-based apps and where you can find helpful toolkits for simplifying Ajax development."

Feed Hubble Rehab Gets Green Light (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @04:12PM

NASA decides there's life in the old telescope yet, reverses itself, and will dispatch a crew to perform repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, probably in 2008.

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