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Tornado in Outer Space Sighted

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:02:42 GMT

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Tornado in Outer Space Sighted

Physicist Giovanni Fazio and astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have spotted what appear to be tornadoes in space. Fazio believes the spirals may be the first step in the formation of a new star. The structure, observed with NASA's Spitzer infrared telescope developed by Fazio, is a shock wave created by a jet of material slamming on a cloud of interstellar gas and dust at more than 100 miles per second, heating the cloud and causing it to glow. Physicists say the jet may have been generated by magnetic field.

"When stars form, they form from the collapse of a cloud of gas and dust. And in the process of the gas and dust falling in, it doesn't fall directly in -- it sort of spirals in slowly," Fazio says.

"I think there will be more surprises to come from IRAC," said Fazio. "I predict that the most exciting things we'll see are the unpredicted - things we never would have expected."

Solar Eclipse at the Antarctic

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:56:23 GMT

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Solar Eclipse at the Antarctic

Photographed in 2003

US TO DEPLOY "DROID ARMY" SOON

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:52:46 GMT

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Real-Life Droid Army of Robotic Spiders to Be Deployed 'By End of the Year'

In another creepy case of life mimicking fiction, BAE Systems is creating an army of robotic spiders that they will be selling to the US Army to use in warfare.

Dr. Joseph Mait of the US Army Research Lab explains, “Robotic platforms extend the warfighter's senses and reach, providing operational capabilities that would otherwise be costly, impossible, or deadly to achieve."

"The idea is to get a number of these working together – some tiny, some maybe up to a foot in length, and all going into a building together carrying out different tasks. Eventually we hope to have animals flying and slithering.

In other words, having robotic spiders scout ahead to find and lead you to whoever it is that you want to blow up could make the job a whole lot easier.

Defense giant BAE Systems is currently developing electronic spiders, flying insects, and snakes