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Comment: Re:Energy Space (Score 1) 304

by Mondoz (#28921719) Attached to: Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts

It seems that if you keep reading the link, there's a lot more than just "THOUGHT"...

"The Moon's surface contains helium-3 at concentrations on the order of 0.01 ppm."

"each year three space shuttle missions could bring enough fuel for all human beings across the world." - Chinese Lunar Exploration Program

"In January 2006, the Russian space company RKK Energiya announced that it considers lunar helium-3 a potential economic resource to be mined by 2020,[43] if funding can be found."

Medicine

Scientists Turn Used LCDs Into Medicine 30

Posted by timothy
from the waste-not-want-not dept.
schliz writes "Scientists from the University of York have come up with a new recycling technique that extracts PVA from used LCD panels to create a 'a bioactive sponge.' The technique could allow recovered PVA to be used in pills, wound dressings and tissue scaffolds that aid human tissue regeneration. It could also keep waste LCD screens from incineration or landfill altogether."

Comment: Re:Dispute resolution? (Score 1) 343

by Mondoz (#27924179) Attached to: French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill

Is there a dispute resolution mechanism if I happen to be a Frenchman who's been falsely accused three times (I'm not French, and I haven't been accused of filesharing, I'm just curious).

But have you ever been accused of being French?

If someone accuses you of being French three times, you get to pass unfair laws that no one wants.

Microsoft

Microsoft admits "incentives" for pro OOXM->

Submitted by jcatcw
jcatcw writes "According to Computerworld, Microsoft admits that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML (OOXML) document format's approval as an ISO standard. Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft, says it had no affect on the final outcome of the voting."
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Space

How can 200,000 galaxies point the same way?-> 1

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KentuckyFC
KentuckyFC writes "Does the universe have a preferred direction — an axis of evil as some astrophyscists have called it? It certainly looks that way with the publication today of a survey of 200,000 elliptical galaxies that indicates they are all aligned in the same direction. What's more, this axis is the same as the controversial alignment found in the cosmic microwave background by the WMAP spacecraft"
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Mars

Massive Cave on Mars Revisited

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Do you remember the massive cave found on Mars by the NASA's MRO? They have taken another picture looking from the west, with the sun also shinning from the west, so part of the eastern wall is visible now. The HiRISE team confirms that this pit is essentially a vertical shaft cut through the lava flows on the flank of the volcano."

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France

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