Wednesday 24 April 2013

Ask the wonks: On asteroid mining, concealed-carry laws, and Lawrence Lessig

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Topics include Lawrence Lessig, asteroid mining, the future religious make-up of the United States, and the effects of concealed-carry laws. question-mark Feel free to submit more questions in comments — we'll try to do a post like this once a week or so.

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Curiosity Sees Martian Mountain in 3D

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... can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. Because why not: Here's a very cool 3D picture from the Mars rover Curiosity, showing the nearby landscape and the distant peak of Mt. Sharp: 3D anaglyph from ...

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Sarah Brightman Chases Dream of Recording a Song in Space -- INTERVIEW

And while she's prepping for the trip, which Brightman and private space tourism company Space Adventures officially announced last October, she found time to record her 11th studio record, Dreamchaser, released on April 16. The eight-day space journey ...

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Proba-V - From CERN to space

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As ESA's Proba-V minisatellite monitors terrestrial vegetation, it will also survey the space surrounding itself. A new detector chip based on technology first developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider is carried on the satellite's exterior to measure ...

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BRIEF-Advanced Oncotherapy buys CERN spin-off

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Quotes. LONDON, April 24 | Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:32am BST. LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - Advanced Oncotherapy PLC : * Proposed acquisition of Adam S.a., a cern spin off company. M&A. Tweet this; Link this · Share this · Digg this · Email · Reprints ...

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New CERN LHC Experiment --"Clues to the Dominance of Matter Over ...

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The Bullet Cluster shown above, located about 3.8 billion light years from Earth, has been used to search for the presence of antimatter leftover from the very early Universe. Antimatter is made up of elementary particles that have the same masses as ...

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UK firm buys cancer-zapping spin-off from CERN collider

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LONDON (Reuters) – The giant particle-smashing machine run by CERN outside Geneva is not only unravelling the mysteries of the universe, it may also be opening up new avenues to treat cancer. Now a small British company, Advanced Oncotherapy ...

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CERN scientists find asymmetry in particle decay | Fox News

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Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have found further reasons for the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe.

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Ask the wonks On asteroid mining concealedcarry laws and Lawrence ...

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Fox News Channel tops cable network · The TV Column | Lisa de Moraes .... Q Could the economics of mining asteroids ever work Or would a successful mining ...

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NASA red-faced after Curiosity Rover 'draws image of penis' on Mars

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NASA space boffins have been caught drawing a comedy manhood - on the surface of MARS. The rude drawing has emerged in a series of images taken by one of its rover machines. The £1.6billion Curiosity rover robot probe landed on Mars in August last ...

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NASA Mars Rover Draws Penis: Curiosity's Dingle Doodle Discovered By Reddit ...

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It's becoming more and more evident that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has the mind of a teenager. After it took some time in October to check-in on Foursquare, it apparently took some time recently to make an inappropriate doodle on the surface of Mars.

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Using Graphene to Grow Nanowires Yields Unexpected and Useful Structure

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Now, the group has grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, a 1-atom-thick sheet of carbon with exceptional physical and conductive properties. Thanks to its thinness, graphene is flexible, while silicon ...

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University of Exeter researchers develop graphene photoelectric device

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The photoelectric device converts light into electrical signals by exploiting the unique properties of graphene and the more recently discovered GraphExeter material - a room temperature transparent conductor. The photoelectric device is just a few ...

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Tesla, Graphene, and the 1000 Mile EV

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But thanks to a new development in supercapacitor technology, the next generation of electric cars could be equipped with graphene supercapacitors that'll allow you to charge an electric car in just minutes instead of hours. My friends, that's the kind ...

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Cern physicists observe new difference between matter and antimatter

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2004 CERN. A subtle difference between matter and antimatter has been observed for the first time by the Large Hadron Collider in an experiment at Cern. Wired.co.uk talks to physicist Professor Tara Shears. Even if the charismatic Professor Tara Shears ...

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Virgin Galactic About to “Light the Candle” of Space Tourism ...

The dawn of space tourism may now be only days away. A crucial threshold is about to be crossed by Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

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Where has all the anti-matter gone?

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A new discovery at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern means scientists are furthering our understanding of the differences in behaviour between matter and anti-matter. Chris Parkes, professor of physics at the University of Manchester and spokesman for ...

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CP Violation In D Mesons: New Physics Or Standard Physics ? - Science 2.0

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I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at CERN. In my spare time I play chess, abuse the piano, and aim my dobson... View Tommaso's Profile. User pic. Tommaso Dorigo. One of the most intriguing effects in subatomic ...

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Asteroid mining: an economic means to our future. - Page 5 ...

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I believe that Asteroid mining is the reason we WILL soon be opening up space to more and more of humanity as it becomes a commercially viable enterprise.

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Asteroid Mining? Local Middle School Students Already Have a Plan

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Ring Mountain Day School students imagine and build devices for mining asteroids.,

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Exo mining not far away

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Two major companies are looking at it very seriously and are on the verge of mining in space, in particular mining asteroids. The plan would see tiny space craft deployed to watch out for passing asteroids and ultimately extract materials from them ...

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Human Mars Mission, 'Super Earth' Discovery, SpaceX Reusable Rocket: Space ...






Billionaire Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001 and space tourism may someday become the norm. Just as people plan vacations to various destinations around the world, space exploration advancements may have people planning trips outside ...

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Will.i.am is Going Back to School This Fall to Study Quantum Physics!

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Will.i.am is officially going back to school in September to study quantum physics! The singer is also encouraging others to attend college. "You'll change not just your family and your neighborhood, you'll change your whole city. Music is great ...

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Volunteers sought for one-way trip to Mars

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This NASA image taken on February 3, 2013 shows a self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity created by a combination of dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), on the surface of Mars, February 20, 2013. UPI/NASA ...

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Space Station Communications Test Bed Checks Out; Experiments Begin

NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station.

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NASA Opens Media Accreditation for California Solar Mission Launch

News media planning to cover the launch of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission on June 26 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California should apply for accreditation by June 18.

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