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Taking Out the Space Trash

By Posted on 6.30.2008 9 Comments
Along with satellites and space stations, Earth is surrounded by tens of millions of pieces of floating space debris. Like any landfill, the trash is diverse, ranging from dead satellites to castaway rocket parts to flecks of paint. On average, over the past 40 years, one piece of space junk has fallen to Earth every day.

7.1.2008 at 06:08am - Comment by gaetanomarano

post edit: in this article, I also suggest... HOW ...to do a better COTS program .
Technology

Taking Out the Space Trash

By Posted on 6.30.2008 9 Comments
Along with satellites and space stations, Earth is surrounded by tens of millions of pieces of floating space debris. Like any landfill, the trash is diverse, ranging from dead satellites to castaway rocket parts to flecks of paint. On average, over the past 40 years, one piece of space junk has fallen to Earth every day.

7.1.2008 at 06:07am - Comment by gaetanomarano

. CLEAN space from DANGEROUS debris and trash could be one of the BEST goals for a good COTS program... unfortunately, the real (NASA funded) COTS are just a DUPLICATION of other (existing and future) ISS cargo and crew services, as explained in my "What's wrong in COTS" article: http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/020wrongcots.html in this article, I also suggest of to do a better COTS program .
Technology

Red Planet; Blue Planet?

By Posted on 6.26.2008 11 Comments
A couple of days ago, it was big news when ice was found on Mars. Now, an upcoming study in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta claims that the Martian environment was once wet enough to produce morning dew. This finding runs counter to the more widely accepted view that liquid water on Mars seeped up from the ground, rather than falling from the sky as precipitation.

6.27.2008 at 03:12am - Comment by gaetanomarano

. a good thing that should be funded by Congress and NASA to SAVE very much TIME and MONEY and launch GIANT probes/rovers to Mars and beyond: First Look at the 10 m. fairing + 3 standard SRBs Ares 5+ http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/032ares5srb3.html .
Technology

The Search For Extraterrestrial Life: A Brief History

By Posted on 6.17.2008 22 Comments
For as long as humans have looked to the night sky to divine meaning and a place in the universe, we have let our minds wander to thoughts of distant worlds populated by beings unlike ourselves. The ancient Greeks were the first Western thinkers to consider formally the possibility of an infinite universe housing an infinite number of civilizations.

6.18.2008 at 07:37am - Comment by gaetanomarano

. assuming the extraterrestrials really exist (and I believe they exist) assuming they are living now on their planets, assuming they have an (Earth-like or better) advanced technology, assuming they WANT to communicate with other species (that may be dangerous for them, like we could be...) assuming they use radio and/or light wavelenghts (rather than zero mass neutrinos or other, unknown, ways) to send their messages everywhere in our galaxy, assuming their planets are close enough to Earth to receive their signals, etc. etc. etc. the ONLY way to find them is to put one or more 10-100 times bigger than Earth's surface (or Hubble) optical and radio telescopes on the FAR side of the Moon that's possible (and may give BIG scientific results) thanks to the ZERO atmosphere and ZERO radiowaves' pollution of the Moon's far side unfortunately, a Lunar Telescope will remain just a DREAM for (at least) the next 100 years !!! that, since, with the current (planned) ESAS vehicles and rockets, we'll have an INCREDIBLY POOR LUNAR CARGO: the equivalent TOTAL mass of just ONE Space Shuttle by the end of 2080 !!! everything is explained in this article: http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/031poorcargo.html .
Gadgets

The iPhone 3G is Official

By Posted on 6.9.2008 4 Comments
It's official. The iPhone has gotten a birthday facelift, and the juicy details are all in line with the rumors we've been hearing all month—3G, GPS, an integrated app store, and a glossy new plastic back in black or old-school Apple white. Perhaps most surprising is a substantial price drop—down to $199 for the 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB (price drops were hinted at, but no amounts). Here's what else Apple campers will be dreaming about when they pitch their tents prior to the July 11 launch date.

6.9.2008 at 05:39pm - Comment by gaetanomarano

. happy to see the new, better and cheaper iPhone 3G, but, unhappy to know that Apple has not introduced yet an EEE-like MacBook Air with HALF the size, HALF the weight and HALF the price of the standard (13.3" display) Air however, I think that an Apple "eeeAir" could be announced soon, since, the new subnotebooks market may worth over 100 million unit per year then, in this May, 24 article I suggest the possible specs (and show the possible look) of the an Apple "eeeAir": http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/036appleee.html .
Science

A Homebuilt Tumor-Killer

By Posted on 5.13.2008 16 Comments
The Kanzius RF Field Generator Cost to Develop: $1 million+Time: 5 yearsPrototype | | | | | Product When a man with no medical degree and a diagnosis of fatal leukemia builds a cancer-curing machine in his garage, you might think it merely the desperate attempt of a dying man to escape his fate. And youd be right. The weird thing is, it just might work.

5.14.2008 at 01:46pm - Comment by gaetanomarano

. seven months ago, John Kanzius who claimed "he'd ignited salt water with the radio-frequency generator he'd invented" at a temperature of 3,000 °F (1650 °C) that, if true, could be used (also) for a new "SALT propellent solid rocket": http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/007saltrocket.html unfortunately, I've not found any further news about its discovery in latest months... do you know something more about it? ...or, can you ask him to give us more info and data? .
Technology

Who Birthed the Electric Plane?

By Posted on 5.6.2008 7 Comments
The small airplane is too dirty for an environmentally threatened world. Thats not the view from eco-activists, but from some of the leading lights in general aviation—the category encompassing small planes such as Cessnas flown by citizen pilots. At some point, some environmental group is going to figure out that small aircraft fly leaded fuel, said Mark Moore, NASAs personal air vehicle program manager, to a meeting of engineers, aviation advocates and a billionaire corporate titan with his own private jet. Their goal, however, is not to bury private aviation, but to remake it as the greenest form of personal transit.

5.8.2008 at 05:39am - Comment by gaetanomarano

. little and light electric-powered propellers could be used also on the Orion to perform a precision LAKE landing at KSC: http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/030orionlakelanding.html >>> hope that POPSCI.COM will publish a full article about this new, original and very useful concept <<< .
Technology

Rough Ride for Space Station Crew

By Posted on 4.21.2008 1 Comments
The three members of the 16th International Space Station crew experienced a "ballistic trajectory" while returning from the station to the steppes of Kazakhstan in their Soyuz capsule on Saturday. Translation: Their spacecraft fell to earth like a lead weight, subjecting them to double the g-forces expected.

4.22.2008 at 06:32am - Comment by gaetanomarano

. the same could happen with the Orion, so, I think that it MUST have (also) the LAND landing option built-in (but made with a design that doesn't add too much weight nor needs a dangerous jettisonable TPS) just imagine that Orion will have ONLY the sea landing option... and that one of them is planned to land in the Atlantic ocean near the KSC ...but have a Soyuz-TMA11-like delay/slippage... so, it goes to land near Orlando... that's why I suggest to adopt MY (safer and lightr) Orion's LAND landing concept: http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/028orionlanding.html of course, this LAND landing system doesn't exclude the (standard or emergency) SEA landing option . from latest NASA drawings of the Launch Abort System (LAS) it seems that the Orion's tower-LAS is going to be very BIG and HEAVY... like the Tour Eiffel... :) http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/029eiffeltowerlas.html .
The Environment

Scientists Weigh in on Biofuels vs. Food Debate

By Posted on 4.16.2008 15 Comments
The first annual BioMass conference, attended by biofuels researchers, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and farmers, is underway here at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Prime on the agenda in the opening session this morning was a question lately blaring from headlines, for instance in a story in today's New York Times: can we grow crops for converting into fuel without catastrophically upsetting the world's food supply?

4.16.2008 at 07:33pm - Comment by gaetanomarano

. the problems (and the debate) about Biofuels vs. Food comes ONLY from the fact that all countries and companies choices always are for the simplest and most profitable way to solve the problems then, they try to change the FUEL rather than change the CARS we know that EACH DAY our Sun send us an incredible amount of FREE energy and that LESS than 1% of that daily energy is enough to cover ALL the world daily energy needs now we have the technology to capture the solar energy (as light and wind) and the good news is that it's also a CHEAP technology, so, if politics and industries WANT, we can use agricolture for FOOD and the SUN for energy maybe... using some SMARTER, cheaper and MORE "energy dense" power plants like MY "Wind Energy Skyscrapers Power Plants": http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/028energy.html if many science magazines and websites like POPSCI.COM will talk and write articles on them, maybe, somebody will develop and build this new kind of energy source... :) .
Technology

XCOR Unveils Suborbital Space Vehicle

By Posted on 4.23.2008 5 Comments
Today in Los Angeles, a private space company unveiled the latest entrant in the race to send paying passengers into suborbital space. The Lynx, in development by XCOR Aerospace, is envisioned as a two-seat vehicle that will allow a paying passenger to ride up front with the pilot to experience weightlessness and see the Earth from space.

3.27.2008 at 11:52am - Comment by gaetanomarano

. probably (but not 100% sure) the Virgin's SpaceShipTwo will fly first, but the single-vehicle suborbital planes, like the EADS-Astrium and Xcor Lynx, will be ways BETTER since they costs less to build, need less maintenance time and costs, may take off from hundreds airports around the world, have no "exotic" solid+liquid hypergolics propellents and are (both EADS and Xcor) VERY MUCH SAFER since they have jet or rocket engine(s) for several landing's attempts/changes/abort while the SS2 will fall like a meteorite cut the flights' altitude to 60 km. and the tickets' price to $100,000 is a great idea since each flight woill go the "enough Space" with less risks and a price that can be affordable for a larger market more info and opinions about Space and Spacecrafts on http://www.ghostnasa.com/ .