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Archive for May 2008
Historic pictures sent from Mars
May 26, 2008 by alikat.
The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet, after a 680 million-km (423 million-mile) journey from Earth. The probe is equipped with a robotic arm to dig for water-ice thought to be buried beneath the surface. read more
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Virtual telescope opens night sky
May 17, 2008 by alikat.
“Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.
Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, and trace their locations in the night sky.” read the article from the BBC
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Highlights from Pangea Day
May 13, 2008 by alikat.
The first ever Pangea Day was held on May 10, 2008. check out the highlights here.
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Support disaster relief in Myanmar (Burma)
May 8, 2008 by alikat.
Join the recovery efforts mobilizing around the world to assist cyclone victims in Myanmar. Your donation to either of these organizations (UNICEF and “Direct Relief International”) will help survivors of the cyclone and other natural disasters rebuild their communities, and their lives:
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Olympic flame lit at Everest peak
May 8, 2008 by alikat.
Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame have reached the summit of Everest, the world’s highest mountain.
Chinese television showed the team of climbers, carrying special high-altitude torches, reaching the summit at 0920 local time (0120 GMT).
Huddled in the snow they unfurled flags and cheered for the cameras.
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The 100 top Web apps for 2008
May 8, 2008 by alikat.
These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners: see the list
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The Big Q
May 3, 2008 by alikat.
After pondering the weighty question of the mass of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have come up with an answer: 42.
That is, our galaxy weighs three times 10 to the power of 42kg - a number written as 3 followed by 42 zeroes, which has echoes of author Douglas Adams’s fictional answer to the question of life, the universe and everything in his series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. more
Don’t believe the answer to everything is 42? Just google
“the answer to life, the universe and everything” and you’ll see!
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BBC exposes Facebook flaw
May 2, 2008 by alikat.
The BBC’s technology program Click has exposed a security flaw in the social networking site Facebook which could compromise privacy.
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