"Britain could soon have its first operating commercial geothermal plant after exploratory drilling was authorized in Cornwall, officials said.Engineers will begin drilling a 2.8-mile-deep borehole early next year at a site near Redruth, England, The Guardian reported this week.It is the first project in an emerging geothermal power sector in the United Kingdom, where the government hopes the technology could provide between 1 and 5 gigawatts of renewable electricity by 2030, the British newspaper said."http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/20/UK-begins-geothermal-effort/UPI-15321282351280/
"Britain could soon have its first operating commercial geothermal plant after exploratory drilling was authorized in Cornwall, officials said.
Engineers will begin drilling a 2.8-mile-deep borehole early next year at a site near Redruth, England, The Guardian reported this week.
It is the first project in an emerging geothermal power sector in the United Kingdom, where the government hopes the technology could provide between 1 and 5 gigawatts of renewable electricity by 2030, the British newspaper said."
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/20/UK-begins-geothermal-effort/UPI-15321282351280/
"A flagship European Earth observation satellite has been struck by a second computer glitch and cannot send its scientific data down to the ground.The Goce spacecraft is on a mission to make the most precise maps yet of how gravity varies across the globe.In February, a processor fault forced operators to switch the satellite over to its back-up computer system.This too has now developed a problem and engineers are toiling to make the spacecraft fully functional again.The European Space Agency (Esa) remains confident the situation can be recovered, however."http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11044470
"A flagship European Earth observation satellite has been struck by a second computer glitch and cannot send its scientific data down to the ground.
The Goce spacecraft is on a mission to make the most precise maps yet of how gravity varies across the globe.
In February, a processor fault forced operators to switch the satellite over to its back-up computer system.
This too has now developed a problem and engineers are toiling to make the spacecraft fully functional again.
The European Space Agency (Esa) remains confident the situation can be recovered, however."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11044470
"Iran has unveiled what it says is its first domestically built unmanned - or drone - bomber.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the plane could serve as a "messenger of death", but that its key message was one of friendship.Iranian state TV later showed the "Karrar" aircraft in flight.It said it had a range of 1,000km (620 miles) and could carry two 250-pound (115kg) bombs, or a precision bomb of 500 pounds."http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11052023
"Iran has unveiled what it says is its first domestically built unmanned - or drone - bomber.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the plane could serve as a "messenger of death", but that its key message was one of friendship.
Iranian state TV later showed the "Karrar" aircraft in flight.
It said it had a range of 1,000km (620 miles) and could carry two 250-pound (115kg) bombs, or a precision bomb of 500 pounds."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11052023
looks more like the V1 rocket to me, and a pretty bad imitation of the USAF Predator drone too
Wasn't V1 more like a flying bomb than the later V2 that was more of a rocket than a flying bomb?
"The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a module that will go into space to conduct particle physics experiments, is set to leave CERN for the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday. The AMS module is being prepared for its transportation to the space center in Florida on board a U.S. Air Force Galaxy transport aircraft, CERN--the European Organization for Nuclear Research--said in a statement Wednesday. Once launched, AMS-02 will operate as an external module on the International Space Station (ISS). It will look for antimatter and dark matter while measuring cosmic ray composition, in a series of experiments designed to complement the particle physics work being undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider." http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20014349-76.html
"The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a module that will go into space to conduct particle physics experiments, is set to leave CERN for the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday.
The AMS module is being prepared for its transportation to the space center in Florida on board a U.S. Air Force Galaxy transport aircraft, CERN--the European Organization for Nuclear Research--said in a statement Wednesday. Once launched, AMS-02 will operate as an external module on the International Space Station (ISS). It will look for antimatter and dark matter while measuring cosmic ray composition, in a series of experiments designed to complement the particle physics work being undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20014349-76.html
"Our friends over at the always excellent Notcot were recently playing around with a microscope and noticed what certainly appears to be a typo on the US visa and border crossing card. The back of the card has very tiny etchings of every US president and every state flag -- but the etching of 6th US president John Quincy Adams appears to have a typo, calling him John Quincy Adames with an "e" added into the last name."http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100819/22215710696.shtml
"Our friends over at the always excellent Notcot were recently playing around with a microscope and noticed what certainly appears to be a typo on the US visa and border crossing card. The back of the card has very tiny etchings of every US president and every state flag -- but the etching of 6th US president John Quincy Adams appears to have a typo, calling him John Quincy Adames with an "e" added into the last name."
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100819/22215710696.shtml
"PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said they arrested a banana-suited man who allegedly exposed himself in a Wendy's before brandishing a shotgun near a golf course."""We believe he was yelling something or other about white supremacy," Pieper said."http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/08/19/Police-arrest-man-in-banana-suit/UPI-35711282239378/
"PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said they arrested a banana-suited man who allegedly exposed himself in a Wendy's before brandishing a shotgun near a golf course."
""We believe he was yelling something or other about white supremacy," Pieper said."
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/08/19/Police-arrest-man-in-banana-suit/UPI-35711282239378/
PEANUT BUTTER AND SHOTGUN TIME!PEANUT BUTTER AND SHOTGUN TIME!PEANUT BUTTER AND SHOTGUN TIME!PEANUT BUTTER AND SHOTGUN TIME!
"A suspected US drone missile strike in Pakistan has killed at least 12 militants in a tribal area near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials say.The strike hit a compound used by militants in Issori village in North Waziristan, the officials said."http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10977400
"A suspected US drone missile strike in Pakistan has killed at least 12 militants in a tribal area near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials say.
The strike hit a compound used by militants in Issori village in North Waziristan, the officials said."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10977400
It's wonderful that the the war of Bush has ended already.
>>5573What, No "Gazpromistan"?
"Japan will send another satellite on a mission to capture material from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth for study, scientists say.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says a successor to the troubled Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, which managed to return a capsule to Earth this year, could launch as early as 2104, NewScientist.com reported Wednesday." http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/19/Japan-plans-second-asteroid-sample-grab/UPI-29411282262253/
"Japan will send another satellite on a mission to capture material from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth for study, scientists say.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says a successor to the troubled Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, which managed to return a capsule to Earth this year, could launch as early as 2104, NewScientist.com reported Wednesday."
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/19/Japan-plans-second-asteroid-sample-grab/UPI-29411282262253/
the story of Hayabusa, singed by Hatsune Mikuhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28iBZx-W_E
the story of Hayabusa, singed by Hatsune Miku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28iBZx-W_E
>2104You meant 2014, right?
>2104
You meant 2014, right?
>>5577Ah! True.It looks like they corrected the error afterward.
"U.S. scientists examining new images of the moon say the Earth's partner shrank in the geologically recent past and may be shrinking still.Images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft show cliffs in the lunar crust that researchers say is evidence of cooling and contractions of the lunar interior, a NASA release reported Thursday.The moon formed in a chaotic environment of intense bombardment by asteroids and meteors and of decay of its radioactive elements that made it hot. Scientists have long believed the moon has shrunk over time as it cooled, and say the shrinking caused the newly discovered cliffs."We estimate these cliffs, called lobate scarps, formed less than a billion years ago, and they could be as young as a hundred million years," Thomas Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies in Washington said."http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/19/Moon-has-shrunk-scientists-say/UPI-91871282254638/
"U.S. scientists examining new images of the moon say the Earth's partner shrank in the geologically recent past and may be shrinking still.
Images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft show cliffs in the lunar crust that researchers say is evidence of cooling and contractions of the lunar interior, a NASA release reported Thursday.
The moon formed in a chaotic environment of intense bombardment by asteroids and meteors and of decay of its radioactive elements that made it hot. Scientists have long believed the moon has shrunk over time as it cooled, and say the shrinking caused the newly discovered cliffs.
"We estimate these cliffs, called lobate scarps, formed less than a billion years ago, and they could be as young as a hundred million years," Thomas Watters of the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies in Washington said."
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/19/Moon-has-shrunk-scientists-say/UPI-91871282254638/
"A giant floating patch of plastic debris has been identified in the North Atlantic, and U.S. marine biologists studying the phenomenon say it has them worried.The extent of the affected area rivals the "great Pacific garbage patch" in the world's other great ocean, which generated an outcry over the effects of plastic waste on marine wildlife, Britain's The Independent reported Thursday.The plastic waste, discovered east of Bermuda, is made up mostly of fragments less than a few millimeters wide, but its concentration and location has biologists concerned about its effect on marine life."http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/19/Atlantic-garbage-patch-discovered/UPI-68931282265842/
"A giant floating patch of plastic debris has been identified in the North Atlantic, and U.S. marine biologists studying the phenomenon say it has them worried.
The extent of the affected area rivals the "great Pacific garbage patch" in the world's other great ocean, which generated an outcry over the effects of plastic waste on marine wildlife, Britain's The Independent reported Thursday.
The plastic waste, discovered east of Bermuda, is made up mostly of fragments less than a few millimeters wide, but its concentration and location has biologists concerned about its effect on marine life."
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/19/Atlantic-garbage-patch-discovered/UPI-68931282265842/
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