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The New City: Short Doc on Cities of the Future-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Tuesday February 01 2011, @12:56PM

MMBK writes "For the first time in history, more than half the world's population lives in cities. Physical space and modes of transportation will be some of the biggest issues impacting our culture. In the first of a four part series, "The New City" explores this new urban future and its relationship with mobility."
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Happy 42nd Birthday, the Mother of All Demos!-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Thursday December 09 2010, @11:47AM

MMBK writes "Forty two years ago, Douglas Engelbart presented a working demonstration of the NLS), or the oN Line System, under the title, A research center for augmenting human intellect. It was the first comprehensive look at an interactive computer for a world used to punch-card systems.

With his terminal projected onto a 22-foot-high screen with video insets, Englebart demonstrated hypertext, the computer mouse, raster-scan video monitors, information organized by relevance, screen windowing, presentation programs, and, mind bogglingly, video conferencing."
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The Term 'World Wide Web' is 20 Years Old Today-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Friday November 12 2010, @04:43PM

MMBK writes "Before November 12, 1990, there was no WWW. But as fate would have it, on this date twenty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau published a document called WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project coining the term and basic operations of the Web as we know it today."
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53 Years Ago, Laika Was Earth's 1st Space Traveler-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Thursday November 04 2010, @01:29PM

MMBK writes "On November 3rd 1957, the Soviet government launched Sputnik 2, the first spacecraft built to contain a living being, into low earth orbit. Aboard was Laika, the first being in history to voyage beyond our planet’s protective embrace. With no method of planetary reentry currently known to human science, Laika was launched into orbit on November 3rd; a doomed voyage for Earth’s first living space traveler. After roughly 7 hours of monitored suffering, Laika’s vital signs were lost."
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58th Anniversary of Detonation of H-Bomb "Mike"-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Monday November 01 2010, @05:52PM

MMBK writes "Fifty eight years ago this morning, at 7:15 AM MHT on November 1, 1952, the United States ushered the world into the thermonuclear era when it detonated “Mike,” the most powerful weapon in history, on Elugelab Island in the Pacific Ocean.

When all was said and blown up, the bomb’s 10.4 megaton yield – almost 500 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki seven years prior – left behind an underwater crater 6,240 ft (1.9 km) wide and 164 ft (50 m) deep. The island had been wiped off the face of the Earth."
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NASA Parodies Reach New Level of Awkwardness-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Monday October 25 2010, @02:05PM

MMBK writes "NASA TV recently produced six movie-trailer parodies about current projects for a “themed exhibit at an international conference.” But for the most part, the attempt remains pretty corny, far, far away from the imaginative, inspiring work of space artists like Bruce McCall."
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Build a Telegraph Using only Stone Age Materials-> 0

Submitted by MMBK on Wednesday October 20 2010, @01:20PM

MMBK writes "It’s the ultimate salvagepunk experiment, a DIY exploration of what makes innovation possible, and an attempt to prove that the future could happen at any time (even if the world isn’t always ready for it)."
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Today's the 63rd Anniversary of Supersonic Flight!-> 1

Submitted by MMBK on Thursday October 14 2010, @03:19PM

MMBK writes "On October 14, 1947, Pilot Chuck Yeager was on board the Bell X-1, the first manned aircraft to break the sound barrier. The plane nicknamed Glamorous Glennis (after Yeager’s wife) rocketed up to 40,000 feet traveling 662 milers per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude)."
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The Very 1st American Newsreel of Sputnik Launch-> 1

Submitted by MMBK on Friday October 08 2010, @05:34PM

MMBK writes "Fifty three years ago this week, the Russians won the space race – or one of it’s laps – by successfully launching the Sputnik satellite into orbit. This newsreel, the first to report on the launch, recycles older animation about geosynchronic orbits, since all film footage was kept secret (note the very un-Soviet IBM logo on one of the massive computers)."
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Comment: So long, old friend... (Score 1) 2

by MMBK on Thursday October 07 2010, @01:04PM (#33826484) Attached to: The Final Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank

Beautiful yet sad. I think today's kids don't understand just how much the Shuttle did for space exploration.