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Submission + - Obama Axes NASA Moon Missions (orlandosentinel.com)

Submitted by bonch on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @01:10PM

bonch writes: Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'

Submission + - SPAM: Lithium air batteries get big boost from IBM, DOE

Submitted by coondoggie on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @12:10PM

coondoggie writes: The Department of Energy and IBM are serious about developing controversial lithium air batteries capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge – a huge increase over current plug-in batteries that have a range of about 40 to 100 miles, the DOE said. The agency said 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories will be used by IBM and a team of researchers from those labs and Vanderbilt University to design new materials required for a lithium air battery.
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Comment Seriously.. has no one read Atlas Shrugged (Score -1, Flamebait) 272

by Woolf on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @01:51PM (#27314867) Attached to: Toward the Open Company

Taking socialism to its extreme. I can't believe we have really come to this.. Does no one read the history books. Hello.

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