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    Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's High-Speed Data Connection Beams 461 Gigabytes Per Day

    By Clay Dillow Posted on 8.20.2009 8 Comments

    And you thought your connection was fast. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is currently scanning the moon with powerful sensory equipment, gathering the most detailed data to date from the lunar surface. But to transmit all those images and data across the 238,800-mile void separating the moon from Earth, the LRO relies on a super-charged wireless connection that beams 461 gigabytes per day back to the blue planet. And the instrument that makes it all possible is a mere 13 inches long.

    8.20.2009 at 09:26pm - Comment by stringzar

    meh.... The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's' "Kizuna" transfers at 1.2 Gigabytes per second, which is about 220 times faster than this.

  • Science

    Pointing the Way to Success

    By Catherine Schwanke Posted on 1.16.2009 9 Comments

    What does it take to be a successful financial trader? Education, experience, and, according to new research at the University of Cambridge, a long ring finger.

    1.18.2009 at 01:59pm - Comment by stringzar

    >Whiskeymay If your two fingers are the same size you are most likely a woman. http://www.viewzone.com/fingers.html

  • Science

    Foreskin for Clear Skin?

    By Julia Wallace Posted on 11.21.2008 18 Comments

    It sounds like just another uber-meltable cheese product, but Vavelta is actually miles away from anything you'd want to put in your mouth. It's a radical new treatment for facial pitting, scarring, and wrinkles made out of—what else?—newborns' foreskins. Foreskins have long been treasured by cosmetic dermatologists because they are rich in fibroblasts, tiny cells that play a crucial role in healing wounds and generating collagen and connective tissue.

    11.21.2008 at 07:24pm - Comment by stringzar

    Hopefully this will make it easier for STD's to appear on peoples faces...I know I'll LMAO when i see someone with genital warts on their face. I love science!



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