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Submission + - Lava Tube Found Maybe Ideal Spot for Lunar Base (cnn.com)

Submitted by Camel Pilot on Friday January 01, 2010 @06:12PM

Camel Pilot writes: A Lava Tube has been found on the moon that could serve as an ideal structure to host a lunar base or colony. The tube is estimated by a paper in the American Geophysical Union as being over 200 feet wide and close to 300 feet deep. Such a tube provides protection from the severe lunar temperature swings, solar radiation and other hazards of space. What are we waiting for?

Submission + - SPAM: NASA Mars rover Spirit has survivability option?

Submitted by coondoggie on Friday January 01, 2010 @10:55AM

coondoggie writes: As NASA celebrates its Mars rover Spirit’s sixth anniversary exploring the red planet it is hunting for a way to keep the machine, which is mired in a sand trap, alive to see a seventh year. On its Web site, the space agency this week noted there may indeed be such an option. That option would be spinning the wheels on the north side of Spirit, letting it dig in deeper in the Martian sand but at the same time improving the tilt of the rover’s solar panels toward the Sun.
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Comment Re:couple more options and the obligatory (Score 1) 3

by Draele on Thursday December 31, 2009 @07:36PM (#30610966) Attached to: How many /. polls did you respond to in 2009?

Yeah. Perhaps a "None" and a "More than 12". Also, would that be counting this poll or not?

Comment Not Anymore (Score 1) 1

by Draele on Thursday December 31, 2009 @07:21PM (#30610874) Attached to: Google - I'm Feeling Lucky : secretly wishing Happ

It looks like it's a countdown to the New Year now.

Comment Re:Newgrounds... (Score 2, Interesting) 36

by Draele on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @08:34PM (#30589140) Attached to: Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube

I was just thinking that. Being something of a regular Newgrounds user, I kinda felt my heart sink when I saw that. It doesn't look like it's quite the same, but it still bothers me that this is happening. All I can hope is that it's different enough to leave Newgrounds some space, or, failing that, its expanded fanbase will keep it alive. If it doesn't, Google is officially one small step closer to total domination of the internet.

Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube 36

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @07:17PM from the chrome-console dept.

bizwriter writes "A recent patent application from Google describes a way to provide 'the collaborative generation of interactive features for digital videos, and in particular to interactive video annotations enabling control of video playback locations and creation of interactive games.' Get into the description and you find it's about building games on top of video submissions, making it sound that Google plans to extend its YouTube site into an associated gaming site."

Comment Won't help much. (Score 1) 3

by Draele on Friday December 18, 2009 @03:20AM (#30484350) Attached to: US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free in January

It might just be me, but if I have go to McDonalds, I want to eat, then get the hell out of there. I don't want that plastic statue of Ronald McDonald watching me check my email. Making it free isn't going to change my mind about that.

PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @03:18PM from the load-photon-torpedoes dept.

darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like. The author brings up several theories on propulsion (and orbits), weapons (explosives, kinetic and laser), and design. Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie."

Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Releases Beta 2 113

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 11, 2009 @02:50AM from the now-with-bloodier-frontiers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The open source FPS Blood Frontier has now made their beta2 release. From the article: 'After many months of development, and massive amounts of input from the public, we are proud to present you with the new release of Blood Frontier, v0.85 (Beta 2). This new version totally redefines and improves the game in many ways, creating a whole new style that makes it almost nothing like its predecessor.'"

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