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Fermi Space Telescope Captures Glimpse of Space-Time
NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope spent a year collecting data from a thousand gamma ray sources and came up with this, the best map to date of the extreme universe. It also gave Einstein a shot in the arm by confirming the scientist's theories of space-time.
11.6.2009 at 09:38am - Comment by AvengingRelicI would not be so quick to dismiss the value of Astronomy or the belief that Jesus was real and that the ancient witnesses all attesting to what he said and did all bearing witness to an amazing man. He knew all the answers to the universe but chose love as the most important of all the questions. Respond first with love to those who would oppose you. Science is awesome but it shouldn't be your god. I believe God reveals through brilliant men in his time, things that continue to amaze us. All the ancient scientists and even today they walk amoungst us. People with deep intellect fathoming things I can only meagerly attempt to understand. God is at work in all things, even the brilliant scientist who may or may not accept his existance. To God be the glory for all that there is. Even the neigh-sayer that only believes what he can see. Love is the answer to solving the world's problems but not the questions of science. So Love and Science need to work together to conquer ignorance and hatred. I for one stand up for God and the value of scientific discover and will not be ashamed of it. So keep pressing forward for answers to the many questions we have but through all things put on love and be patient with one another. We can't all be as brilliant as you...
- Science
Hyping The Next Big Missing Link
The term "missing link" first appearing in its modern connotation in 1863, and unfortunately, 146 years later, it hasn't lost any of its power. Yesterday, amid massive media coverage, the American Museum of Natural History, a team of European paleontologists, and the History Channel unveiled a spectacularly preserved primate fossil that they dubbed "the eighth wonder of the world."
5.22.2009 at 11:59am - Comment by AvengingRelicFrom what I've read about this find. It sounds like they found an old dead monkey. I don't see how they can say it's a missing link. It's not like it shares characteristics of two distinct species. It's just a really old and complete monkey. I'm not convinced. It seems Scientists resent the idea that God created everything and want to disprove the existance of God by demonstrating evolution. As though this somehow will prove anything. The bible never said evolution doesn't exist, only that God created everything. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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JAXA Kizuna Broadband Satellite
Kizuna, launched by the Japanese space agency JAXA in February, will deliver to remote areas of Japan and Southeast Asia the fastest satellite Internet connections ever—up to 1.2 gigabits per second, or 500 times the average American consumer connection. Unlike previous satellites, Kizuna is powerful enough to supply industrial-speed signals to small, inexpensive antennas on the ground. Another first: It tracks the weather and adjusts signal strength for specific regions accordingly; for example, it will send a stronger signal to an area where it’s raining in order to penetrate the storm.
11.21.2008 at 10:36am - Comment by AvengingRelicWhat about upload speed? Does the client get his own transmitter to send information back to the satellite?
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Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo
With the wingspan of a B-29 bomber, the WhiteKnightTwo is the largest all-carbon-fiber aircraft ever built. Its mission is to carry a smaller craft, SpaceShipTwo, and drop it at 48,000 feet, where it will blast off into suborbital space with paying passengers—in 2010, if all goes well. Virgin Galactic’s CEO, Richard Branson, also wants to use WhiteKnightTwo as a low-cost way to launch satellites into orbit. Scaled Composites engineers had to overcome numerous setbacks, including a fatal explosion at the company’s headquarters, to finish the craft.
11.21.2008 at 10:33am - Comment by AvengingRelicIs it made strictly to lift the suborbitor or can it be used to do more for passenger travel? Can the suborbiter be used to travel more quickly to distant lands than conventional jetliners? I see it has to cockpits on the outside fuselages. Does the pilot sit in the right or the left and who then sits in the other cockpit? How many regular passengers can ride along in the twin fuselages? What's the overall flying distance of the Whiteknight2?
- The Environment
How America's Greenest Cities Got Green
3.31.2008 at 02:53pm - Comment by AvengingRelicHow can homeowners tap into this same resource for their homes? I'd love to have some efficient solar panels on my roof especially if it'll pay for itself over time.
- Cars
Tesla Roadster Electric Supercar Begins Production
Today the Tesla Motor Company announced that they had begun regular production of the Roadster, the all-electric supercar that does zero-to-60 in less than four seconds.
3.27.2008 at 10:59am - Comment by AvengingRelicCan't they create a network of tesla coils like phone cell sites so we can run electric cars without batteries?
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