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Spaceport America Gets FAA License 61

Posted by kdawson from the fly-the-friendly-spaces dept.
DynaSoar writes "Spaceport America received an early and double holiday gift this week: first, the expected (positive) FAA environmental impact report, and second, the hoped-for but not immediately expected 'launch site operator's license.' With this license, and with the previously accomplished creation of a tax district, two of three pieces are in place as required by the New Mexico legislature to receive its funding package. The third, a lease with a space services tenant to use the facility, may come this week also, in the form of a contract with Virgin Galactic. While timing is impossible to predict, the contract is a virtual certainty. The New Mexico Spaceport Authority fully expects it, and so has projected late 2010 for completion of hangar and terminal facilities. Virgin Galactic also seems confident, as they have already screened and submitted their first 100 customers (called the Virgin Galactic Founders) to their contracted medical and training supervisor. They are busy screening their second 100 'spaceflight participants' (NASA and RKA having decided that only those who can tack 'career' on the front of it deserve to be called 'astronauts')."
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The Best Burglar Alarm In History 137

Posted by samzenpus from the suck-it-Edison dept.
Sportsqs writes "When Nikola Tesla got creative with transformers and driver circuits at the turn of the 20th century he probably had no idea that others would have so much fun with his concepts over a hundred years later. One such guy is an Australian named Peter who runs a website called TeslaDownUnder, which showcases all his wacky Tesla ways, or rather electrickery, as Peter calls it." Very cool stuff, I wish I would have had something like this to protect my comic books from my little brother when I was a kid.

Comment It involved a freazer and my coffee (Score 1) 393

by Timberwolf0122 (#26039407) Attached to: I Backup My Personal Data..
In my youthfull quest for super l33t drive speed I assembled a lovely 4 disk stripped RAID and for the first 60 days all was good, till one day the RAID controller informed me that not 1, not 2 but 3 of my disks had SMART issues.

I reached over to touch.mind meld the drive and it was then I noticed the drive cooling system was not cooling at all and all the drives were very hot, sadly the damage was done and to back them up I had to chill the drives in the freazer so they would remain cold enough (they would now fail at about 45c) to pull the data (my MST3K archive).
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Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record 271

Posted by Soulskill from the green-apple-get-it dept.
nandemoari writes "According to a recent advertisement airing on American TV, Apple's new Macbooks (well-received by most technology critics) are 'the world's greenest family of notebooks.' It seems an indication that the Cupertino-based company is increasingly aware of a consumer base that demands green electronics. However, Greenpeace is less than enthused with Apple's overall green performance. In their report (PDF), the environmentalists argue that Apple 'needs to commit to phasing out additional substances with timelines, improve its policy on chemicals and its reporting on chemicals management.'" Ars Technica points out that Greenpeace's research isn't quite up-to-snuff, and it's also worth noting that Greenpeace admitted to targeting Apple for the publicity in the past.

Comment Re:Wrong again (Score 1) 388

by Timberwolf0122 (#25901199) Attached to: Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid
You want people to share a transport! More over you probably want discount/free transit for the elderly and the disabled too, don't you!

In order words you want Solicialized Transit!! and as we all know all socialism is communism, just look and Socialist London, England the buses are red, RED!!!

In short thats the problem,, IMHO.

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