Building Our Space Infrastructure A Project to Change the World The construction of the Interstate Highway System, spanning from 1956 to 1974 and costing $114 billion dollars (1) (or $522 billion in 2011 dollars) was initially hatched as a national defense project. T …
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Last week, a friend of mine Michael (Astronomy.FM) asked people to convince him that we should abandon nuclear power in the wake of the Japan crisis in the discussion of this opinion article:
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I remember when I was 4. The one person in the world that I knew would always love me, would always be my best friend was there. We were playing a silly game that consisted of me trying to run away, only to be snatched back up by the back of my shirt, held down and tickled.
"If I say the word patent troll, does any company or any entity come to mind in particular?" Laura Sydell asked Pete Peter Detkin — the former tech company lawyer who coined the term — in "When Patents Attack!" an episode of "This American Life" which aired over the …
NASA's $2.5 billion, car-sized rover is ready for an epic Mars mission. Are you? Here's how to get connected with Curiosity. The one-ton Curiosity rover is the central payload for the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is due for launch at 10:02 a.m.
NASA has announced that Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the change on Nov.
As a child of the 1980s, I cannot help but be aghast that some of the iconic movies I grew up with have of late been dominating the Hollywood remake list. Is it so complicated or difficult to find new screenplays?
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