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

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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 + - 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!

Submission + - 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced

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anzha

on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @04:14PM

anzha writes: "The X Prize Foundation announced on Monday the competing teams for the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. This year there are ten teams competing for the two prizes. The XPF has a nice matchup utility to compare the different teams' rockets. The one downside to this year though is that the competition will not have an accompanying X Prize Cup. It will be webcast though. Full disclosure: I am on a team."

Submission + - Hans Reiser Offers Up Nina's Body

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anzha

on Friday June 06, 2008 @06:39PM

anzha writes: "Wired's Threat Level reports that Hans Reiser has offered up Nina's body in exchange for a reduced sentence. The deal is at the very preliminary stage. However, it should be quite the message to those that doubt Hans offed Nina: it's a little hard to offer up something that you don't have."

Submission + - Google Lunar X Prize Team Drops Out

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anzha

on Thursday May 29, 2008 @01:53PM

anzha writes: "On Saturday, after the vaunted First Team Summit was completed in Strasbourg, The Southern California Selene Group announced publicly that they are dropping out of the Google Lunar X Prize. Citing very strong differences in opinions over how the X Prize was being run, the team felt they could no longer participate. On the flip side, the X Prize Foundation announced at the team summit that there are four new teams. With the drop out, there are now thirteen official competitive teams. Assuredly, there are more to come."

Submission + - Freeman Dyson Gets Roasted By Climate Scientists

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anzha

on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @07:06PM

anzha writes: "Freeman Dyson recently wrote a review of two books on global warming. In a reaction to the review a group of climate scientists, that run the blog entitled Real Climate, responded on multiple points. In fact, their response, on the points they covered, was rather scorching and stated that his review was 'mostly shaped by his own rather selective vision.' Ouch."

Submission + - SGI Acquires Linux Networx Assets, LNXI Dead? 2

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anzha

on Thursday February 14, 2008 @05:48PM

anzha writes: "Rumors are floating around online that Linux Networx, the Utah Linux supercomputing company, has gone belly up. SGI announced that it has bought the core assets of LNXI. Furthermore, the rumors are that the doors were locked and employees were just given their paychecks. What does this mean for Linux supercomputing?"

Submission + - Sun Acquires CFS

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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?"

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