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CR0WTR0B0T writes:
Micron CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash around 9AM on Friday, February 3rd. He was flying an experimental fixed wing single engine Lancair which crashed in between two runways at the Boise airport.
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CR0WTR0B0T writes:
Richard Garriott, AKA Lord British, will be part of three experiments on the International Space Station. "Garriott has a ticket to the space station because he is an orbital spaceflight client of Space Adventures, the only company that provides commercial human space missions...Garriott will be the first person in space who has had photorefractive keratectomy eye surgery. NASA has approved the PRK procedure for astronauts but has not yet been able to test its effects. Garriott will help scientists figure out if visual acuity of a PRK patient changes in orbit as inner eye pressure increases by up to 50% during space flights." Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry.
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CR0WTR0B0T writes:
The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story on viruses loaded into digital picture frames. "The authors of the new Trojan Horse are well-funded professionals whose malware has 'specific designs to capture something and not leave traces,' Grayek said. 'This would be a nuclear bomb" of malware.' Apparently, a number of regular folks have hooked them up to their home computer and loaded the virus. And if you think you're too smart to be fooled, apparently the Anti-Virus software makers have not caught up to the threat quite yet.
