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How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History 108

Posted by Soulskill from the disposable-camera-off-the-shelf dept.
The Bad Astronomer writes "On December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts saw the Earth rising over the limb of the Moon. The photo they took of this moment — dubbed Earthrise — has become an icon of our need to explore, and to protect our home world. NASA has just released a video explaining how the astronauts were able to capture this unique moment, which included a dash of both coincidence and fast teamwork."
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How China Will Get To the Moon Before a Google Lunar XPrize Winner 173

Posted by samzenpus from the third-is-better-than-last dept.
An anonymous reader writes in with this link about the advances in China's lunar program. "A $30 million Google-backed competition to land a spacecraft on the moon may be about to be scooped. China's Chang'e 3 probe successfully put itself into lunar orbit on Friday in preparation for an attempted touchdown around Dec. 14. China won't be winning the prize money, which is reserved for privately funded, previously enrolled teams, not government agencies."

Comment Re:Study and practice this in private. (Score 1) 90

by poppingtonic (#45570521) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience?
Even easier would be the case where someone touches his nose. Tactile information travels from the tip of the finger, along the arm, all the way to the brain. Information also travels from the tip of the nose to the brain. Two wildly different distances, yet we experience the same event. Clearly, there's some buffering going on here. The mechanism by which that happens is interesting enough to warrant its own research, don't you think?

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