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Lunar Dustbusters 129

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @01:13AM from the wipe-your-feet dept.

Maggie McKee writes "Moon dust could be a source of oxygen and metals. But moon dust could also lodge in astronauts' lungs, possibly triggering long-term health effects. During the relatively short Apollo Moon landing missions nearly 40 years ago, astronauts reported difficulty breathing. So now, before astronauts return to the moon in 2020, NASA is working on a number of ways to reduce the amount of lunar dust astronauts are exposed to — from simple grates on the floor to magnetic wands and giant lint rollers."

Comment I'd rather have a standard key pitch (Score 1) 255

by WmFA on Tuesday May 06, 2003 @08:49AM (#5889846) Attached to: Why is Everyone Still Stuck in QWERTY?

My speed on QWERTY is limited primarily by vendors' differing key pitches.

At one point I purchased three loud old IBM keyboards with identical key-spacings. I installed them on my home machine and two work machines. This worked great, and for two years I was in heaven. I could bang out code and letters faster than ever before.

Then, I got assigned part-time admin duty, and had to work on about 20 different machines. At the end of the day, I'd go back to my home machine, and my fingers had been retrained to whatever idiot's keybaord I'd been working on that day.

Since then, I've just given up. But what I really would like from a keyboard is an ISO standard key size and pitch, and laws forcing compliance. :)

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