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Submission + - Who Wants to be a Hectomillionaire?

Submitted by theodp on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @11:14PM

theodp writes: Valleywag is stupefied that 'an annoying, unprofitable social network like Foursquare would turn down $100 million', a move inspired in part by Twitter's 2008 rejection of a $500 million offer from Facebook, which in turn once rejected a $900 million bid from Yahoo. Time will tell whether the move by Foursquare was a prescient one, but it's certainly gutsy. After all, today's $850 million company can prove to be tomorrow's worthless one, right AOL?

Submission + - Bullet-proof sheets of carbon nanotubes (cnn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 17, 2009 @07:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: FTA: "Lashmore's company, Nanocomp Technologies, is the first in the world to make sheets of carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes stronger than steel but lighter than plastic.(...) In April, Lashmore had a mechanical multicaliber gun shoot bullets at different versions of his sheet, each less than a fifth of an inch thick, at a speed of 1,400 feet per second. Four sheets were breached, but three showed no damage."

Other possible uses: Shark suit? Bullet-proof Faraday cage?

Submission + - 1st Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced by IoS (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Miroslav Ambrus-Kis

on Monday September 14, 2009 @04:40AM

Miroslav Ambrus-Kis writes: "Two members if the Google Lunar X Prize Synergy Moon Nebojsa Stanojevic and Miroslav Ambrus-Kis announced to be the first private astronaouts aboard the first completely private orbital fligt, Interorbital Systems announced on Friday. Interplanetary Ventures, Interorbital Systems and Human Synergy Project make a Team Lunar Synergy, a contender in Google Lunar X Prize. You can easily google that to have a big picture before other media start to make it for you, and find traces of persons involved on Facebook and Twitter. http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2009/09/interorbital-systems-has-crewed-capsule.html"

Pics of the Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century 97

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 23, 2009 @09:45AM from the dark-day dept.

Vinod writes "Yesterday thousands of people around Asia witnessed the longest solar eclipse of the century. Although it was not clearly visible in some parts due to overcast weather, thousands of people gathered to view this spectacular event. Yesterday's solar eclipse lasted for 6 to 7 minutes, making it the longest solar eclipse of the century. Here is a collection of 33 beautiful images of the solar eclipse from around the world."

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