• Technology

    Could the Hubble Space Telescope Photograph Lunar Footprints?

    By Posted on 7.11.2008 17 Comments

    Snug in Earth’s orbit, Hubble is free from the background glare that earthly telescopes must fight to see the stars. This allows its supersensitive camera to take better photos of galaxies farther away—and thus much dimmer—than any optical telescope on the ground can. But despite being closer to the moon than any other telescope, there’s no way the scope could snap a photo of that one small step man took 40 years ago.

    7.11.2008 at 02:40pm - Comment by daedalus1185

    NASA does have plans to return, as do many other nations. NASA's Constellation program is meant to replace the shuttle program within the next 3-5 years. I believe they will be running test launches of the new Ares rocket next year. The new program uses a capsule similar but larger than the older models we are familiar with. The plan is ot return to the moon within the next decade and then move on to Mars before 2030. Digmeh, as for funding, I may be wrong, but it seems like with such low interest in space travel/exploration (this is truly sad), funding is actually not as great as you think. Thus the aged shuttle program and systems such as Hubble are preferred to be repaired rather than replaced.

  • The Environment

    Britain Finally Sees the Light, Admits Biofuels Are Bad News

    By Posted on 7.7.2008 17 Comments

    It’s common sense—people need food first, fuel second. But today, Britain became the first Western nation to announce that its biofuel production will be curbed, since it’s likely causing rising food prices and rainforest destruction.

    7.7.2008 at 05:06pm - Comment by daedalus1185

    Era, what Tundra is saying is that Gore, through scare tactics, provoked people into actions that dont necessarily solve the problem. Whether or not global warming is a real threat or not, creating a combustable fuel is no better than drilling for it. For some reason people have limited themselves to 2 choices: 1. We are drilling and exhausting what fossil fuel is left. This fuel, as we all know, pollutes the atmosphere. 2.We plow down what forests remain to grow the necessary crops for bio-fuels. These aren't clean in any way and take up massive space for little return. the only benifit over oil, is that it is renewable, in a destrucive way(why destroy land, to create fuel?) The third option that few look at... 3.We stop funding the fuel giants, and start putting our money towards alternate and more importantly, RENEWABLE and CLEANER, sources of energy.



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