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Comment No Mention of the GLXP (Score 1) 128

by anzha on Friday September 23, 2011 @04:04PM (#37495734) Attached to: NASA Rolls Out Space Exploration Roadmap

It's interesting that NASA doesn't mention the GLXP at all in there, not even in passing (or so shows my very fast scan of the document). That contrasts quite a bit with the fact that they generated the NASA Heritage Site rules and what they briefed and said to the GLXP teams in July.

Submission + - 2nd Nanosat Launcher Challenge Seminar (teamphoenicia.org)

Submitted by

anzha

on Monday September 19, 2011 @03:42PM

anzha writes: "Team Phoenicia and Techshop — Menlo Park are hosting the Second Nanosat Launcher Challenge Seminar on Nov 12/13 in Menlo Park, CA. The Nanosat Launcher Challenge where teams must place two separate 1U cubesats into a verified orbit on two separate launches in one week with a first place prize of $2 million. The seminar will cover the draft rules, test/launch sites, how teams can raise the funds, introduce suppliers for the teams, and allow the teams themselves to present. While the seminar itself is not free, there will be a free lecture at Techshop by NASA about the Centennial Challenges at 5 PM on Nov 12. The draft agenda is here."

Submission + - Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Monday September 19, 2011 @01:08PM

sciencehabit writes: This past year, a Berlin man, Timothy Brown, became world famous as the first—and thus far only—person to apparently have been cured of his HIV infection. Brown's HIV disappeared after he developed leukemia and doctors gave him repeated blood transfusions from a donor who harbored a mutated version of a receptor the virus uses to enter cells. Now, researchers report promising results from two small gene-therapy studies that mimic this strategy, hinting that the field may be moving closer to a cure that works for the masses.

Submission + - The Search for Apollo 10's 'Snoopy' (discovery.com)

Submitted by

astroengine

on Monday September 19, 2011 @11:17AM

astroengine writes: "A UK-led team of astronomers are going to use their comet and asteroid-hunting skills to track down a piece of Apollo history. In 1969, Apollo 10 did everything the first moon landing (Apollo 11) did, except land on the lunar surface. During the Apollo 10 mission, the lunar module, nicknamed "Snoopy," was jettisoned and sent into a solar orbit — it is still believed to be out there, 42 years later. "We're expecting a search arc up to 135 million kilometers in size which is a huge amount of space to look at," British amateur astronomer Nick Howes told Discovery News. "We're aware of the scale and magnitude of this challenge but to have the twin Faulkes scopes assist the hunt, along with schools, plus the fact that we'll doubtless turn up many new finds such as comets and asteroids makes this a great science project too.""

Comment Re:Only $30 million? (Score 1) 189

by anzha on Thursday February 17, 2011 @08:12PM (#35239264) Attached to: X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On

And for the tech we get to develop and have developed. O:) The IP that is being generated out of the Prize is worth more than the Prize itself.

Comment Dr Felisa Wolfe-Simon's work. (Score 4, Informative) 286

by anzha on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @05:09PM (#34394948) Attached to: Curious NASA Pre-Announcement

One of the individuals in the scheduled press announcement has a website and based on her work my bet is that they may have found some indications that there is life on earth that uses arsenic instead of phosphorus.

Submission + - Nanosatellite Launcher Challenge Seminar (blogspot.com)

Submitted by codejoy on Thursday October 14, 2010 @07:12PM

codejoy writes: Team Phoenicia and TechShop, are going to host a Nanosatellite Launcher Challenge Seminar on November 6th, 2010 at TechShop, Menlo Park at 1 PM. Organizations that will be presenting include NASA Centennial Challenge Program, FAA, New Mexico Spaceport Authority, Team Phoenicia, Friends of Amateur Rocketry, and some of the SF Bay Area teams. The draft rules for the Challenge are planned to be presented and feedback is expected. The scope of this seminar is to promote the challenge in the the SF Bay Area, explore how the different organizations, including Team Phoenicia, can help teams, and will be a working session.

Submission + - First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Discovered (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:07PM

Zothecula writes: If you’re looking to get away from it all then Gliese 581g might just fit the bill. But be prepared to pack enough for the trip that, even on a rocket traveling 30,000 km per second (18,640 miles per second), would take 200 years. Gliese 581g is the first exoplanet discovered that sits in an area where water could exist on the planet’s surface. If confirmed, this would make it the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a “potentially habitable” one.

Submission + - Nanosatellite Launcher Challenge Seminar

Submitted by anzha on Friday October 01, 2010 @11:22AM

anzha writes: Team Phoenicia and Techshop are cosponsoring a seminar on NASA's Nanosatellite Launcher Challenge on November 6th, 2010 at 1 PM. The Nanosat Launcher Challenge is a competition to redo Sputnik with a single kilogram payload by private entities within the US. Presenting at the seminar will be NASA and its allied organization, FAA, California Space Authority, Spaceport America, Friends of Amateur Rocketry, Vog Rockets, and Team Phoenicia. The seminar is meant to be a combination of challenge promotion, networking, scoping the difficulty and requirements, and options for help for those teams. The draft rules will be presented for feedback at the seminar by the allied organization. The seminar is open to the public.

Submission + - Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered (scienceblogs.com) 1

Submitted by anzha on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:41PM

anzha writes: Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!

Comment Re:Older fathers have more autistic children (Score 1) 1056

by anzha on Thursday February 12, 2009 @04:03PM (#26832399) Attached to: Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine

There was a book a few years ago about this subject for women...it didn't sell well. 35 is really the magic number. Down Syndrome potential ratchets up massively after that, frex.

Men are not immune from it either. schizophrenia and other issues seem to correlate to older paternal age too.

The effects of older parents having kids are something that almost everyone wants to avoid talking about. Postponing having kids until after you are 30 has dangers and as more and more of us do it...

Submission + - Sun and Microsoft sign strategic announcement (sun.com)

Submitted by kildurin on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @03:32PM

kildurin writes: Sun and Microsoft are announcing a mutual agreement to allow Sun to OEM Windows on its servers. The odd thing to me is this: "Solaris and Windows Virtualization — Sun and Microsoft will work together to ensure that Solaris runs well as a guest on Microsoft virtualization technologies and that Windows Server runs well as a guest on Sun's virtualization technologies." So Sun is running Windows in virtual and Microsoft will run Solaris in virtual. Its also interesting to note that Sun is being deployed by AT&T to run Windows for IPTV.

Submission + - Sun Acquires CFS

Submitted by

anzha

on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @01:33PM

anzha writes: "Sun Microsystems announced today that they are acquiring Cluster File Systems Inc. CFS owns the intellectual property related to and develops the open source file system known as Lustre. The question now is whether or not Sun will keep Lustre an open source file system or not. Will they also be able to grow it successfully to take on their chief rival's product in the cluster file system arena? Or will it languish?"

Space Station Leak Found, Fixed 225

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:18PM from the no-more-whooshing dept.

Rommel writes "NewScientist.com is reporting that the cause of the leak in the International Space Station has been found and fixed. The leak was found in a hose in the Destiny lab module. The hose was used to equalize pressure and eliminate fog between two panes of a window. While the leak was so slow it was unlikely to pose a direct threat to the crew for months to come, some equipment on the ISS is only certified to operate above a certain air pressure. The leak was originally mentioned on Slashdot a few days back."

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