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SpaceX, Rocketplane win NASA support

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:53:51 GMT

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SpaceX's Dragon capsule is also configured to carry loads of cargo into orbit.

NASA tries to get the private section into the rocket-launching business by awarding a total of about $500 million to two companies to develop low-cost flights to the International Space Station.

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SpaceX plans to carry as many as seven passengers aboard its Dragon capsule. The company will use Dragon as a vehicle for space tourists.

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While the immediate goal of the COTS program is to resupply the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle is officially scrubbed, the long-term goal is to commercialize space travel. Project's like Bigelow Aerospace's space hotel will need launch vehicles to ferry passengers to and from the space complex.

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An artist's drawing of Rocketplane's cargo capsule preparing to dock with the space station.

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Rocketplane Kistler's goal--the International Space Station.

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SpaceX also has big plans to rendevous with the International Space Station.

Virgin Galactic unveiled designs for SpaceShipTwo

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:56:00 GMT

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Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson and Scaled Composites president launched their latest effort in personal space travel and showed off the designs and models for SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo

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a model of WhiteKnightTwo, the launch craft for SpaceShipTwo. The plane is designed to be used multiple times

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A model of the Pratt & Whitney engine that will power WhiteKnightTwo.

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An animation of what WhiteKnightTwo will look like in flight.

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WhiteKnightTwo will carry SpaceShipTwo so it can launch into space.

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model of SpaceShipTwo shown at the press conference

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The SpaceShipTwo cabin has multiple windows for the pleasure of space tourists.

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A look at SpaceShipTwo under construction.

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Once SpaceShipTwo is done it will ideally look like this.

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The flight profile for SpaceShipTwo.

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Virgin Galactic's "Galactic Girl" will be carried on the spaceline's crafts. The logo is modeled after Branson's mother in her younger days.

Ancient Escape in Israel

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:34:21 GMT

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end.

The Second Temple was the center of Jewish worship during the second Jewish Commonwealth, which spanned the six centuries preceding the Roman conquest of Jerusalem. Its expansion was the most famous construction project of Herod, the Jewish proxy ruler of the Holy Land under imperial Roman occupation from 37 B.C.

Tens of thousands of people lived in Jerusalem at the time, but it is not clear how many used the channel to escape, he said.

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Jakarta

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:28:20 GMT

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sunda kelapa, jakarta / chillntravel

bleeding the ozone / javajive

2 Minutes To Midnight / Suharwan

wealth without money / javajive

of the same blood / javajive

jakarta sunset / chillntravel

At Kota Tua, Jakarta / *Gabisa Motonia

let there be lights - jakarta / chillntravel

bleeding the ozone 3rd / javajive

'Round and 'Round / javajive

the bright future of Indonesia / thebigdurian

Curious Contraptions / javajive

children in jakarta floods / satya.w

Oh Jakarta / jetblasts2k

Hawker / ykf

Monas / javajive

JKT July05-BundaranHI / ~Kenny

golden / sherIZAN

Bajaj Baby! / javajive

Riverside (B&W) / indcoup

unnamed / kayodic

shipS galoRe / spuNkymoNky

geisha2 / adelle jakarta

Bus Stop / moriza

Indonesia 06 - Jakarta / yves [kk]

Sunset .Ancol .Jakarta / simon_long

You can't buy happiness / zuki12

persija fans / thebigdurian

Jakarta..banjir.. / indahs

Resting Soul / moriza

Gated prospect / moriza

Three Wheeled Motion / javajive

I think of heaven / sektordua

Behind the City / simon_long

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lunar eclipse in jakarta

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:27:00 GMT

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A lunar eclipse is seen over Monas, Indonesia' national monument, in Jakarta August 28, 2007. You Witness News/Martin Jenkins

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Petra

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:15:13 GMT

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A view of the Garden Temple Complex in the ancient city of Petra August 30, 2007. The Temple includes a small shrine and a large plastered cistern, enabling water to reach the city center from the temple through a distribution system of channels and ceramic pipes.

A horse-drawn carriage travels through the 1.2 km-long passageway known as the Siq in the ancient city of Petra August 29, 2007.

Salem Hammed, 23, a Bedouin guide, climbs to the top of ad Dayr (The Monastery) in the ancient city of Petra August 31, 2007. Ad Dayr has the largest facade (45 by 50 metres, or 130 by 164 ft) in Petra, Jordan.

A flock of crows circle above the Royal Tombs in the ancient city of Petra August 31, 2007. The Royal Tombs were thought to have held the remains of Nabataean Kings, who were the Arab inhabitants who carved the monuments into the soft sandstone 2,000 years ago.

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Paris by Night

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:16:48 GMT

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Paris By Night

Contemplation at the "cour d'honneur" HDR

Notre Dame by a cloudy night of december

Reviewing future memories of Paris HDR*

La Conciergerie By Night HDR

Quai de l'Horloge By Night HDR

Dramatic Sky On Avenue de Rivoli

Notre-Dâme-De-Paris By Night

Sacré Coeur By a Rainy Night

Blue hour on the Pont de la Tournelle HDR*

The lost bunny of the Ponts des Arts

Le Pont des Arts at dusk HDR

The Path to Knowledge HDR

The lost traveller stuck in time HDR

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Amazing Money Origami

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:38:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Like the first pic of the dollar taking the form of a battleship.... quiet defines their current economic structure...

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Amazing Money Origami

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fun in space

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:36:40 GMT

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high frontier 2

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:16:27 GMT

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Once the first colony is in place, the initial investment in equipment and materials from earth will not need to be repeated; consequently, the cost of colony construction will drop drastically. The cylindrical design, considered the most efficient, will then be as easy to build as the torus

Each colony would consist of a pair of cylinders

the cylinder walls would be made of aluminum and glass

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The space colony would have separate residential, agricultural, and industrial areas, each with its optimal gravity, temperature, climate, sunlight, and atmosphere. Intensive agriculture would be possible, since the day-length and seasonal cycle would be controllable independently for each crop and care would be taken not to introduce into the agricultural areas the insect pests which hamper earth agriculture

Non-polluting light industry would probably be carried on within the living-habitat

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living conditions in the colonies should be much more pleasant than in most places on Earth

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high frontier - Gerard O'Neill

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:34:49 GMT

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space shuttle and a chemical space tug would be used to transport basic construction equipment, supplies, and 2,000 workmen to a point in space called L5

200 people would establish a lunar outpost which would provide 98% of the raw materials needed for the construction of Island One

aluminum would be the primary building material

first space colony will probably be a torus

would house 10,000 people; 4,000 would be employed building additional colonies, while 6,000 would be producing satellite solar power stations

Island One will pay for itself mainly by manufacturing satellite solar power stations which would supply the earth with an inexhaustible energy

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The energy required to bring materials from the moon to free space is only one twentieth as much as from the earth

Lunar surface materials are poor in carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen

every ton of hydrogen brought from earth, nine tons of water could be made at the colony site, using oxygen from the processing of lunar oxides

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Make your subject pop out of a photo

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:58:46 GMT

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GIMP trick: make your subject pop out of a photo

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Follow those steps:

Add a transparent layer on top of your image and if you want a background another layer at the bottom:

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Make a rectangular selection on the transparent layer about the size of the desired frame and fill it with white:

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Shrink the selection (Select - Shrink, I used 15 pixels):

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And clear the content (Edit - Cut):

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Make a rectangular selection around the frame and use the perspective tool (Shift+P). Deform it as you like:
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Delete the parts of the frame which cover your subject, the result should be like this:

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Erase the background of the photo (use what you like: mask, eraser, lasso, magic wand, just make sure the photo layer has an alpha channel):

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And we are done!

Optionally you can add more steps to impress people with your GIMP skills:

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PC Mag Top Web Sites 2007: Learn

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:03:37 GMT

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Learn how the world around you works and look up fun facts on these information and reference sites.

Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org

the go-to online resource for global knowledge, with nearly eight million articles written in 253 languages.

Urban Dictionary
www.urbandictionary.com

slang dictionary doesn't just teach you new ways to swear; it can actually expand our common vernacular.

The Straight Dope
www.straightdope.com

ask all the dumb questions you were dying to ask but felt too embarrassed to utter out loud.

The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov

rolodex of the Library of Congress, this site houses numerous reference materials, digitized collections, films

Nolo

online law resource center for non-lawyers

Snopes

index of urban legends, common fallacies, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, trashy gossip

How Stuff Works

find out how everything really works

Merriam-Webster

teaches you your own mother tongue with fun stuff

About.

guidance on subjects such as careers, child-raising, and technology

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Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:13:40 GMT

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AfterVote

Footnote

Hard to Find 800 Numbers

Ninjawords

Uncyclopedia

Wikisky.org

Wink

Cork'd

ExtraTasty

Lumosity

Menupages

Top Secret Recipes

Who Is Sick?

The World's Healthiest Foods

Dethroner

EXPN

FirstShowing.net

Going.com

I Can Has Cheezburger?

iminlikewithyou

I Watch Stuff

MeeVee

MyPunchbowl

Skeptic

BullPoo

Indeed

Kiva

Rentometer

Trulia

AllHipHop.com

Amie Street

Beethere.net

Imeem

Musicovery

SingShot

Slacker

Guerrilla News Network

MediaStorm

Tech President

Topix

Act-I-Vate

copyblogger

Goodreads

Ironic Sans

Librivox

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

Verbotomy

xkcd

The Bargainist

Do My Stuff

EuroCheapo

Roadside America

TheThingsIWant.com

Ugallery.com

Wikitravel

Yapta

afreeDLL

DaFont

DZone

Infected or Not

InviteShare

MajorGeeks.com

OldVersion.com

ProgrammableWeb

Website Grader

Armor Games

K2xl

Kongregate

LikeBetter

Line Rider

Shacknews

All Things Digital

Anything But iPod

Everything USB

GoodCleanTech

iLounge

Phone Scoop

TechMeme

AppScout

Download Squad

eHub

MakeUseOf.com

Mashable

Uncov

Dabble

PrezVid

ScienceHack

Ustream.tv

uLinkx

VideoJug

Bubbl.us

Eyejot

MediaFire

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Garlic attacks brain cancer

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:19:59 GMT

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Garlic can kill cells that cause glioblastoma, a brain cancer that is usually fatal, researchers in South Carolina have found.

Swapan Ray and Narendra Banik, neurosciences professors at the Medical University of South Carolina, said their discovery came during a search for a way to kill the cancer without harming healthy cells, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier reported.

"In the disease, you want to kill the cells, but you want to protect others," Banik told the newspaper. "Our tests were to see how effective the compounds were."

Banik, Ray and post-doctoral fellow Arabinda Das tested several organic compounds on cancerous cells. They included garlic in the test program because of its reputation for having healing powers.

Three organo-sulfur compounds they tested effectively stopped the cancerous cells, Ray said.

"This research highlights the great promise of plant-originated compounds as natural medicine for controlling the malignant growth of human brain tumor cells," Ray said.

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