“It’s the most powerful plasma rocket ( Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket )in the world right now,” says Franklin Chang-Diaz, former NASA astronaut and CEO of Ad Astra. The company has signed an agreement with NASA to test a 200-kilowatt VASIMR engine on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013. The engine could provide periodic boosts to [...]
39-days to Mars.. is it possible? A voyage from Earth to Mars could soon take merely 39 days, reducing present travel time nearly six times, a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US space agency NASA has stated. Former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says reaching the [...]
Tsunami hit Hawaii but the news is good so far. A 1 ft to 3 ft rise in sea level is being reported and the rise in sea level has been so and then falls back. One report says a small Island at Hilo Bay has gone under water but it is not being reported [...]
Just for the fun of it! It’s not Tsumaui Warning Hawaii, it’s Tsunami Warming Hawaii. The reason I posted this is because I just made the same mistake and noticed I was not the only one. So if you end up here don’t feel bad your not in the boat all by yourself. But while [...]
The Glenn Beck Quiz ! Do you know what you are. The Glenn Beck quiz was introduced today on his Fox TV show to help Americans understand where their political persuasions are. The categories are: Libertarian, Liberal, Conservative, and Progressive. It may surprised you to find out what you political persuasion actually believe. The Glenn [...]
I noticed that CR Johnson has died in a skiing accident at Squaw Valley Find the story below. I did not have time to do this story so here is the CR Johnson story from http://thegoat.backcountry.com CR Johnson Dead Details are sketchy at this point, but The Ski Channel is reporting that Skier CR Johnson [...]
The Bloom Box launch was today and was praised by representatives from major companies and officials. The much awaited Bloom Box Energy system launch included details about the Bloom Box, essentially a power plant inside a box. The California start-up claims it is a significant innovative in clean energy technology. Schwarzenegger said at the Bloom [...]
$1 B Brit Embassy Planned By Obama The United States has unveiled plans for its new $1 billion high-security embassy in London — the most expensive it has ever built. Technorati Tags: new us embassy, us budget, US embassy
The reason that the top NATO commander in Afghanistan publicly apologized to the most recent civilian deaths in the war, one of his former advisers said Tuesday the Afghan people have “crystallized their frustration” over the issue of civilian casualties. “It’s crystallized a disappointment with the actual international intervention that’s been growing since about 2003,” [...]
The Bloom Energy Fuel Cell Boxes are the device for the future being designed to help provide a clean energy source. Bloom Energy Fuel Cell Boxes will be debuted in two days according to their website. With all the clean energy global initiative being probably the most centered on in the world, these boxes are [...]
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