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Opinion: Central Valley leaders hatch plan for 'baby bullet' rail line

29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST

Written by tbizjak@sacbee.com (Tony Bizjak)
The group, headed by the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission, would build the line to ensure compatibility with state high speed rail standards, and it would look to the California High Speed Rail Authority for some of the funding.

Original story at Sacramento Bee .

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Opinion: Going In Circles Again: America Will Abandon Human Lunar Exploration - And Much More

27 Jan 2010 21:29:28 PST

Written by Keith Cowing
Report: Obama Budget to Scrub Moon Mission, CBS News "Instead of blasting off to the moon, NASA's hopes for a manned mission there have been blasted to pieces, sources in the White House, Congress and NASA tell the Orlando Sentinel."... Report: Obama Budget to Scrub Moon Mission, CBS News

Original story at NASA Watch .

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14 Jan 2010 19:39:50 PST

Written by JR(jonjayray@gmail.com)
In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina...

Original story at antigreen (Blogspot) .

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Opinion: Complex Nanotube Circuits

26 Dec 2009 17:47:39 PST

Written by Chris Phoenix
1) Grow the nanotubes on a separate substrate, then stamp them onto the circuit. This lets the circuit stay at low temperatures. By contrast, nanotubes are single, precise molecules being assembled to build up useful larger systems. This is a lot closer to the original meaning of the word.

Original story at Responsible Nanotechnology .

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Opinion: Titanic Thirty-Meter Telescope 12 x's Hubble To Probe Dark Matter & First Stars

20 Nov 2009 04:58:53 PST

Written by Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
We're building a billion dollar telescope and it isn't just aimed at the stars: it's looking for the first ones. The new Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) proves that sometimes bigger really is better and will be elements in the optics... We're building a billion dollar telescope and it isn't just...

Original story at TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond (Feedburner) .

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Opinion: Augustine's questionable adjective

09 Nov 2009 08:47:40 PST

SpaceX, which is by far the best positioned of these new firms, has so far only launched two of its Falcon 1 rockets. This is impressive, but it is not ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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Opinion: Darpa Spy Cams to Find Threats in ‘Weak Evidence’

24 Sep 2009 07:51:11 PDT

Written by Katie Drummond
How will the user know that those two vehicles highlighted were the probable attack vehicles in the suicide vehicle bombing? How will the user understand the significance of a highlighted facility which may represent a new meeting location for a terrorist group? Users should have full...

Original story at Wired .

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Opinion: Zero Gravity for Zero Dollars: Best Student Discount Ever

14 Sep 2009 15:44:36 PDT

Written by Alexis Madrigal
While the super-rich can pay millions to experience weightlessness at the International Space Station, some college kids have figured out how to experience the thrill of zero gravity for the student-friendly price of $0. “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” Niusma said.

Original story at Wired .

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Opinion: Realistic Rail Options for Louisiana

09 Aug 2009 19:00:38 PDT

Written by Drew Ward
Option 2 – High Speed Freight High Speed Freight service is one option that Louisiana should not ignore. On a long distance approach, high speed freight still doesn’t work out too economically beneficial. The reason really comes in the efficiency of our existing nationwide cargo rail s...

Original story at cenlamar.com .

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Opinion: Eisenhower 2.0

26 Jun 2009 18:08:09 PDT

Written by nards
A recent New York Times Magazine article described the difficulty of piecing together the ballot-initiated California High Speed Rail, which will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco in 2 hours and 40 minutes (with eventual spurs to Sacramento, north, and San Diego, south) at top spee...

Original story at strawville (WordPress) .

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Opinion: NASA and its crews still have the power to inspire

19 May 2009 21:16:17 PDT

An aging space shuttle sidled up to an aging Hubble Space Telescope — both past their presumed expiration dates when they were designed — and gave each other a boost. The Hubble telescope has given the world incredible photographs of outer space, ...

Original story at Youngstown Vindicator .

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Opinion: Cheap access to space: lessons from past breakthroughs

11 May 2009 08:45:36 PDT

MD Even the recent success of SpaceX has only replicated the state-of-the-art orbit-capable rocket. This lack of progress certainly does not appear to be due to lack of funds. Many billions of dollars have been spent on research and development of new ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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Opinion: NASA Approves Partial Privatization of the Space Program

09 May 2009 08:33:52 PDT

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX for short, founded by PayPal entrepreneur Elon Musk, was already hard at work on its Falcon series of rockets. It also had done preliminary design work on a multipurpose capsule called the Dragon, ... all 601 news articles

Original story at FOX News .

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Opinion: NASA Giving Photosynth Tours of International Space Station

07 May 2009 14:52:48 PDT

Xinhua Australia Check out NASA's brand-new ISS Photosynth virtual tour (requires Silverlight). [NASA Photosynth Collection] There are currently no AU comments for this post. Gizmodo Australia moderates comments to avoid spam and abuse. We're looking for comments that ...

Original story at Gizmodo Australia .

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Opinion: Space Station Prepped for Six Crew Members

06 May 2009 14:20:47 PDT

Increasing the crew capacity of the space station is a major advance for space-science research and for travel beyond low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars. "It opens up more possibilities, such as scheduling more science, because we don't have to use ...

Original story at MIT Technology Review .

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Opinion: earth — see the big picture

22 Apr 2009 12:19:03 PDT

If you like the TV series Planet Earth and the Discovery Channel nature programs, you'll love earth, Disney's big-screen documentary that travels from the North Pole to the South Pole to the African desert to the Himalayas to check out the lives of ... Film Review: Earth Film Journal

Original story at Providence Journal .

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Opinion: Astronomers Find Hidden Exoplanet in Hubble's Dustbin

01 Apr 2009 00:52:34 PDT

Written by Alexis Madrigal
Now that we've shown that it works, we can use it on a whole set of observations from the archive to see if a planet is hidden in the images," said astronomer David Lafreniere of the University of Toronto, a member of the team that made the find.

Original story at Wired News .

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Opinion: NASAs Kepler mission to search for Earth-sized planets

04 Mar 2009 01:56:19 PST

Transits are better suited to finding something more like Earth in size and orbit. So far, 58 transiting planets have been found. The COROT satellite, launched by the French space agency CNES in 2006, has found seven of those transiting planets, ... NASA’S Kepler mission Houston Chronicle

Original story at Thaindian.com .

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Opinion: NASA’S Kepler mission

01 Mar 2009 20:30:37 PST

The planet was discovered by the Corot, an Earth-orbiting telescope that France launched six years ago. NASA’s larger Kepler spacecraft promises to do better. The telescope has a field of view 20 times larger than Corot’s, and it’s designed to circle ...

Original story at Houston Chronicle .

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Opinion: WMHT, UAlbany NanoCollege Partner to Feature Nanotechnology on Statewide ‘New York Now’ PBS Program

26 Jan 2009 14:02:49 PST

Report from the NanoDesk," which is produced and hosted by WMHT's Susan Arbetter and debuts on Friday, January 30, will examine the public policy implications of the technology advances being enabled by nanotechnology - described by the National Nanotechnology Initiative as "leadi...

Original story at Nanovip.com .

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Opinion: Nanotech bill introduced

17 Jan 2009 05:15:39 PST

Honda's bill, the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board Act of 2002, would establish a nongovernmental advisory board to monitor and influence the National Nanotechnology Initiative and government agencies doing nanotechnology research. Honda is currently looking to na...

Original story at Nanovip.com .

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Opinion: EVA-2 marks 10th birthday for ISS - STS-126 passing midway point

20 Nov 2008 16:38:57 PST

Written by Chris Bergin
On the tenth anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS), Astronauts Shane Kimbrough (EV3) and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (EV1) have conducted the second of four EVAs during STS-126. As with EVA-1, the spacewalk concentrated on the starboard SARJ (Solar Alpha Rotary Joi...

Original story at NASASpaceflight.com .

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Book Review: Marsbound by Joe Haldeman

03 Nov 2008 10:56:09 PST

Written by tcgames
And thus her journey takes her up the Space Elevator on Earth, to the spaceship in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, and then to Mars itself. There, she finds that even millions of miles from home, people are still the same as always, ...

Original story at TC Games And More .

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Opinion: Cold Fusion - Fire from Water (4 of 4)

28 Sep 2008 07:21:52 PDT

Written by rss@youtube.com (Chrisky81)
What is "cold fusion?" Is it real? What promises for humanity does it hold? What would happen if a free, non-polluting energy source was released into the world? How would our lives be different? What would be the reaction of the oil and nuclear industry infrastructure? Would it meekly st...

Original story at YouTube .

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DVD Review: 10 MPH

22 May 2007 19:33:37 PDT

Written by Damian Penny
The real stars of 10 MPH are the friendly and interesting people they met along the way, especially in the sparsely populated Western states. Things get more hectic after Chicago, as the roads become more crowded, the weather takes a turn for the worse, and some promised sponsorship money...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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