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Rusty Schweickart, a former U.S. Astronaut, is leading a campaign that aims to convince the United Nations to pay serious attention and dedicate proper resources to the development of an accurate plan of detecting and dealing with potentially hazardous asteroids close to the Earth. In his opinion, the measures would ... |
26 November 2008
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Neo Ellipse is the name of a brand new mobile phone that will soon hit the market to show other handset manufacturers what a truly fresh-looking device should be like. Designed and built by Neo DWC-LLC, a mixed company with headquarters in the UK and Dubai (UAE), the handset comes with a form factor that goes pe... |
5 September 2008
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Many people don't know this but there are about 5,000 Near Earth Objects at least 10 kilometers wide that may one day decide to come crashing down on the surface without us even knowing. The consequences of an impact with such a large object are now known, but considering that an object that size may have been r... |
6 May 2008
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Neo FreeRunner, the open source smartphone developed by OpenMoko, will be commercially available for $399 (around 250 Euros) per unit, probably less than most of the users who are expecting it would have believed.Following the successful Neo 1973 (well, a moderate success, because there weren't too many Neo 197... |
15 April 2008
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The incident in which the spacecraft Rosetta was mistaken last week-end with a Near Earth Object, that had an incoming trajectory which missed the Earth, determined the astronomers to defend the system that failed to make the difference between a rock and an artificial spacecraft. The fact that the Distant Artificial... |
14 November 2007
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Several movies have been made during the years depicting the potential catastrophic consequences of an asteroid or a comet intersecting Earth's orbit, and smashing onto its surface, or potential deflection strategies to avoid such a scenario.There are a lot of NEOs or Near Earth Objects, in the planet's orb... |
13 November 2007
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Remember the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and almost wiped all life from the face of the Earth? NASA says there is no immediate risk of that happening in the near future, although there might be a lot of such objects in the near vicinity of our planet that could intersect Earth's orbit and cause havoc, wh... |
9 November 2007
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Do you know NEO? It's the name of the main character from the Matrix series and also the name of a company that's famous for its gaming flash drives. NEO has created an accessory for the famous Playstation Portable console that adds a little bit of motion sensing to the gaming experience. Now, the portable... |
19 September 2007
02:59 GMT |
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