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Submission + - Shuttle Endeavour blasts off for space station

Gwmaw writes: The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad on Monday on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station. The 4:14 a.m. EST (0914 GMT) blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center shattered the predawn tranquility with a deafening roar and a brilliant tower of flames that momentarily turned the dark Florida sky as bright as day.

Comment Re:TFA is full of flaws itself (Score 1) 275

I do agree with Mr. Copernicus when he mentioned that stable planets can form in binary star systems such as Alpha Centauri . And not just stable but perhaps even habitable in human terms. The movie is good science fiction but has good science as well (better than most) just like Copernicus said. That being said, Pandora may have a significant amount of oxygen to cause combustion but not enough atmospheric pressure to help the humans breath (might explain why the Na'vi are taller and why the setting is a perhaps a low grav exo-moon, but not entirely sure on that one). About the floating mountains, you did see that the flora kept them from hovering away right?

Comment Re:nothing new here (Score 1) 107

If you RTFA there is nothing new here. In fact this is more of an advertisement for some wackjob organization called Goldilocks Mission. "The Goldilocks Mission is sending an open invitation to men and women around the globe between 18 and 34 years of age, healthy in every way and in top physical and psychological condition, and who have read the book, GOLDILOCKS MISSION: Man’s Next Migration." They are looking for "Skydets" who will live in a "Space Center" "in a corner of Southwestern New Mexico" to research humanities next migration to the stars. It has the feel of a new cult.

It's not cult. The organization is in its early stages. They are quite serious about it. In fact, the goal is to do it within the next three decades. Emerging technologies today will continue to develop quite rapidly as we have seen in the past 60 years alone. I would highly recommend reading the book Man's Next Migration http://www.goldilocksmission.com/mans-next-migration-book.html.

Submission + - A Waterworld Goldilocks Planet (goldilocksmission.com)

goldilocksmission writes: News spread recently about a super-earth sized planet that has been recently discovered to contain one of the most essential compounds for life to exist in the universe, water. GJ1214b, a massive planet that can house about six earths and is about forty light years away from us. The significant discovery leap of detecting Gliese 581 d to the more goldilocks planet oriented GJ1214b is a testament to the advances in the technology of detecting earth-like exoplanets.

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